Blue Horizon Printing for quality Canvas Prints.

This article will outline ways that a canvas print should and also shouldn’t be made, there are a great numbers of ways that corners can be cut which will lower the price. When buying a canvas print or printing your photo on canvas you should ask the company doing the printing some of these questions.

A canvas print, also known as a stretched canvas or canvas art, is the result of an image being printed onto a canvas. Wikipedia does a good job explaining a few more details, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_print .

As you can see the term leaves a fair degree of flexibility, there variables are the printer used, the type of ink used, the canvas quality then right through to the wood used to stretch the canvas onto.

The Printing Machine
As is often the way, the tools of the trade are vitally important, in this case it is the printer used for the canvas prints. There are a number of types of printer then also a wide variety of brands, some have a reputation for quality and others don’t. A canvas print is best printed with an Inkjet printer, this method involves spraying the inks onto the canvas and allows for a deep penetration of the inks into the canvas creating a quality look along with durability. The poorer quality canvas print companies will often use flat bed printers; these printers are the domain of commercial printing houses and are not specifically designed for printing on canvas.

Printing with a flatbed printer as opposed to an Ink jet printer may not always be immediately be apparent unless you are an expert however after a relatively short time the different can be very clearly seen. A giclee print (printed using the Ink Jet process) will outlast a canvas print using flatbed technology by up to 60 years or more. The canvas will be less likely to fade, its colours will remain more vibrant and the ink will stay on the canvas for much longer without any flaking. Blue horizon Printing uses Wide format Epson Printers, these are Ink jet printers and are recognized as being the market leader in quality for printing canvas prints.

The Inks
Most inks used in the canvas printing process have a light-fast guarantee. This rating specifies a time frame during which there should be no visible fading of colours. A poor quality canvas print will use inks that have a limited light-fast rating. Over-time you will begin to notice a drop in quality. At Blue horizon Printing we Epson Ultrachrome K3 pigment based inks that are light-fast for 75 years.

Blue Horizon Printing is a premium quality Canvas prints, specialist company with a strong focus on customer service and affordable prices. Logon to the website today for more details, or to view the range of Canvas printing on sale in the gallery.