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Printing on Canvas
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rushworks graphics
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we often print on canvas with our vp540i....they always turn out great! you'll have no problems.
Creative Ink
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Would canvas printing also work with the Roland versacamm VS 300? or would i need a higher grade machine?
Cilya
Cilya
Creative Ink
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Great!!!
That was one thing that i was regretting about the versacamm but you just made my day. Can anyone point me in the direction to learn about howto finish my canvas after printing? I've never framed for stretched canvas
Cilya
:U Rock:
That was one thing that i was regretting about the versacamm but you just made my day. Can anyone point me in the direction to learn about howto finish my canvas after printing? I've never framed for stretched canvas
Cilya
:U Rock:
TyrantDesigner
Art! Hot and fresh.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=stretching+a+canvas+print&aq=f
for stretching a canvas.
you really won't have any problems for canvas prints and solvent based inks as long as you don't sell it as an art reproduction (glicee print) or forget to clear coat it for cleaning longevity.
clear coating isn't even needed for 50% of solvent based canvas prints ... just make sure who ever uses it doesn't use a solvent based cleaner on it (windex or equivalents are fine ... might yellow the canvas ... but that is it.
for stretching a canvas.
you really won't have any problems for canvas prints and solvent based inks as long as you don't sell it as an art reproduction (glicee print) or forget to clear coat it for cleaning longevity.
clear coating isn't even needed for 50% of solvent based canvas prints ... just make sure who ever uses it doesn't use a solvent based cleaner on it (windex or equivalents are fine ... might yellow the canvas ... but that is it.
Creative Ink
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thanks
If i do need to coat the canvas what would u recommend?
Cilya
If i do need to coat the canvas what would u recommend?
Cilya
CentralSigns
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Roland DGA Store sells Roland brand canvas matte and gloss.
bob
It's better to have two hands than one glove.
First off it's 'giclee' not 'glicee'. Even at that it's merely a euphemistic transubstantiation for 'spray' that's affected by people who should know better that's meant to sound far more arty and obscure.
If it's a reproduction of some sort of art then inarguably it's an art reproduction. Sell it as whatever pleases you. The giclee snobs don't have any black helicopters with thuggish enforcers rappelling down ropes to grab you and clap you in irons.
Be sure and do the clear coat and, when you stretch the print, do it in on a blanket or you'll wear the ink off the edges and corners just moving it about while you stretch the thing. Even if it's clear coated. When you're done, put it in a plastic trash bag to protect it.
Colin
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I got all excited about this about 10 months ago after getting my new SP540i, and bought a 54" roll of Neschen Monet canvas. The print results are great, but lamentably I've found that the "giclée" print gig is saturated (no pun intended). I've even seen the stuff literally given away (including shipping) on Groupon etc. I attempted to get the word out to my local art and photography communities, with no success. And now with a gloomy economic environment/forecast, it doesn't look too promising.
The giclée/canvas thing has been discussed here before. I'd suggest doing a search.
rushworks graphics
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yeah, colin is correct.......people are giving away canvas prints nowadays! we do sell canvas prints every now and again, but we don't sell to the art community.....thats a different kettle of fish right there!
bob
It's better to have two hands than one glove.
You were told wrong.
The ink, be it solvent, aqueous, or a finger dipped in mayonnaise [no, gag, Miracle Whip please], is only on a coating that's on the canvas. This coating has about zero abrasion resistance.
That's the reason you always, as in always, want to coat a print on canvas. Not to preserve the over all quality of the print but to prevent inadvertently grinding off the printable coating and hence the printing itself should the print rub up against something.
If you do a gallery wrap, which is almost always in this shop, the edges and particularly the corners of the print where it is wrapped around the stretchers are incredibly delicate and will completely wear away with the slightest contact with anything more abrasive than itself. Which is to say almost anything, especially a cutting mat.