dampeoples opened this issue on Feb 29, 2004 ยท 6 posts
dampeoples posted Sun, 29 February 2004 at 11:22 AM
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About 5 years ago, we had a portrait of my little girl done, we got back an 8x10 that was printed on a canvas. From a distance it looks like a matte photo, up close it's evident that it's a canvas. I was wondering how this was done.
Michelle A. posted Sun, 29 February 2004 at 11:31 AM
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.
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dampeoples posted Sun, 29 February 2004 at 11:38 AM
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.
Misha883 posted Sun, 29 February 2004 at 1:08 PM
(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
dampeoples posted Sun, 29 February 2004 at 9:25 PM
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.
zhounder posted Sun, 29 February 2004 at 10:14 PM
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.