markwilliam1

Recently saw photographs printed on canvas. They were Great! Any suggestions on who can do this? Would like Actual user experience! My Epson Wide Format printer recently died. Thanks

Sidwalkastronomy Loc: New Jersey Shore

There ha been past post here. Remember insearch check box for recent

tgreenhaw

I used easycanvasprints dot com a few years ago. Price and quality was good. Personally I don't do these often as IMHO they only look good for "painterly" kinds of images, but photographs end up looking a bit blurry because of the canvas texture. I mostly use aluminyze dot com for prints on metal.

Sidwalkastronomy Loc: New Jersey Shore

I use a metallic paper, endura?endurance?, from Merriman lab

yssirk123 Loc: New Jersey

CG Pro Prints - great quality and they often run sales.

elliott937 Loc: St. Louis

I've done many wrapped canvas prints, all the way up to 4' tall, 6' wide. For the smaller ones I've used several on-line companies, but I have to admit, my best results were from a company in St. Louis called NovaColor. They are great.
Bill

cdayton

I’ve used easycanvasprints for several images and they do a nice job. I use their thicker stretchers and continue the image over the edge because I hang them unframed.

AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

I normally get mine from Costco. But I have also used ProPrints. I like the thicker stretcher bars, and most galleries require a 1.5" depth. Costco only does 1.25. I think it looks better to have the sides continue the image instead of being painted black. Costco extends the image around the sides that means you lose considerable amount of your image off the front. Fine Art America actually makes an edge copying that section of the image so that the entire original image is on the front, and the sides look like extensions of the image. That's better. I actually did that for a a print I was having done by Costco. It turned out perfect.

Actually my favorite thing to do is to have it printed on standard image paper, then MOUNTED on canvas. Not many places do this any more, but there's a lab in Texas that has done that for me and did a very good job. They actually lift the emulsion layer off the paper and mount it to canvas. That way you have the texture of the canvas, but the luminosity of the paper.

Bridges Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA

I have used both Canvasdiscount and Easycanvasprints and both do a nice job. I have had prints as large as 16x20 and found that the product is nice and clear. Recently I ordered 20 flower shots in 8x8 inch canvas for 4.25 each and got free shipping since the order was for over 70.00. 17 of the 20 were really good and the three that I wasn't happy with all had intense red. Red is always problematic and will tend to flare out a bit when printed. I should have known that and not tried to oversaturate the roses! Recently though I have discovered a new lab that I really like. Photo Canvas Land does canvases as well as mounted prints. I haven't tried their canvas products yet but I ordered a half dozen mounted prints and those products were excellent. They offer several finishes and I ordered a couple of each finish to see what their quality was like. Their prices are outstanding too. I had 8x12 prints mounted on black foam-core boards in metallic finish for 5.99. An 8x10 glossy or matte finish mounted on black (or white) foam-core is only 4.99. Right now another lab (which I haven't tried) called canvasCHAMP is offering a buy two, get one free deal. They have a 12x18 print for 19.49, so that means three 12x18 prints for 39.00. Not bad. Anything in your shopping cart, no matter if you have only one item or 30, all ships for 9.99. I'm going to look through my library of images and see if I can find three images to try this lab with.

bobbyjohn Loc: Dallas, TX

I have a whole wall with images from "Canvas On Demand." They were excellent and not expensive. They send out promotional emails weekly, but the prices given in the emails match the prices on their website. They give an option for black or white or stretch sides. I always choose black sides...looks much better. Last time used them, shipping was $17.00 for one or multiples.

For ANY company doing enlargements (canvas or print) send them the highest resolution possible.

Here's the current promo email & picture wall from "Canvas On Demand," https://www.canvasondemand.com/

DWU2 Loc: Phoenix Arizona area

You can print them yourself on canvas from Red River.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Any good pro lab with Epson or Canon pigment inkjet printers is a good bet. For example:

MPIX https://www.mpix.com/products/homedecor/gallerywraps

If you see the term, 'giclee' used, that's marketing speak for high-end, archival quality inkjet printing. 'Giclee' was used to hide the fact that it's a digital print process, back when digital was a dirty word in art circles. There's still some stigma to digital imaging and inkjet printing among the uninformed.

Nash Editions is probably the oldest super high-end printmaker I know of. It's owned by Graham Nash, the musician of Hollies, CSN, and CSNY fame.

https://www.nasheditions.com/index.html

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

I'll add that the once-popular technique of making a silver halide print on resin-coated paper, then stripping off the emulsion and dry mounting it onto canvas, has fallen out of fashion. The lab I used to work for did it that way, until I showed them what an Epson 9600 could do, back in 2003. Today's Epson P-Series professional photo printers are even better.

Canvas with a special inkjet-receptive coating is available in both sheet and roll form for wide format printers from many suppliers.

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

Excellent

markwilliam1

Thanks Everyone for your responses and recommendations! I just ordered a Canon Pro 200. Finally in stock! Limited size for a wide format printer so we’ll see.