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Special paper? I have special papers made of Belgium linen and canvas. Very expensive stuff like $23 for 25 sheets, but you can print photographs and images onto them from your ink jet printer.... I'm wondering if the process they used wasn't the same or something similar.

It's actually a canvas, made by Fredrix. On the back, it says: Artists Canvas Panel (it's about 1/8" thick) Acrylic Primed for use with all mediums. Upon closer inspection with it out of the frame, it appears to be a piece of paper glued to the canvas, but the pic itself has the same texture as the canvas.

(I think) there have been a couple ways of doing this over the years, ranging from a "spray-on" emulsion to floating the emulsion off of a large format polaroid print and sticking it to something. There are several options available for inkjet printers: http://www.dickblick.com/zz089/17/products.asp?param=0&ig_id=3511 http://www.epson.com.au/products/consumables/inkjet_canvas_cloth.asp

Wow! I've never seen those kinds of papers, that might be kind of what they used, then glued it to a real canvas. Thanks for the info.

Simple. Large format printers have a canvav media available to them. The HP1055c prints very well to this media. the trick is to account for ink spread when creating the printer profile. I had access to these printers and media at a former job and I redid alot of my photos on the canvas. One that came out very well was a sunset I took in the Floria Keys. There is also a silk canvas that gives amazing results. I have quite a few images on that as well. Ahh... The good old days when I had unlimited acces to large format printers (most not released to the public yet) and all the media I could use.