Photos On Canvas
Photo Enhancements offers a high quality canvas printing & mounting service.
We can make any sized canvas print up to A0 size or bigger, colour or pure black and white.
Scanned from original photo, slide, negative, artwork, or
digital image, your photo is turned into a long life, quality gallery wrapped
canvas print, or giclee reproduction. Whether it's a snap shot, event or wedding photo, printed onto canvas, your image
or artwork will look wonderful.
This is a great way to transform your images into unique effective art pieces that will become
a focal point at your home or office.
FOR CURRENT CANVAS PRINTING SPECIALS CLICK HERE
For examples of recently printed works please see our Examples/Blog section.
HP Z3100 Canvas and Photo Printer
All canvas prints are created using a Hewlett Packard Z3100 large format printer. Utilizing
Hewlett Packard's Vivera pigment inks, this ensures a very long display life,
resistant to light and atmosphere under standard display conditions.
Virtually any sized canvas print can be made. Here is a very happy couple
with their favourite wedding photo printed and mounted onto a 2m wide canvas frame.
For more information on the
PRINTING AND MOUNTING PROCESS CLICK HERE
Canvas Photo/Giclee Printing and Mounting Summary
We use Breathing Color's high quality 20.5 mil Brilliance Chromata White 450gms canvas. Coated with Breathing Color Glamour II sealant this high quality heavy duty canvas
provides a complete resistance to cracking when stretched.
It is acid and lignum free so is perfect for archiving.
The coating gives a UV blocking, scratch resistant protective finish.
All our canvas prints can be wiped with a damp cloth removing
dust and fly marks without damaging the print. Every canvas printer should be able to guarantee this!
Be aware of other printers offering cheap canvas prints with weights like 250gms - this is lighter than our photo paper!
Canvas print photo
Chromata White canvas is so good it has been awarded an archival quality certificate from the Fine Art Trade Guild (Click image for 150KB PDF in new window).
This means it has passed their Blue Wool Test for light fastness and durability of 100 years minimum display life under standard conditions.
Don't ask for anything less!
Mounting - Your giclee or canvas prints can be mounted onto a locally sourced, kiln dried, 40mm deep x 23mm thick
Poplar timber frame. Underneath, the canvas and frame is supported and strengthened by a 3mm
MDF backing producing a total depth of 43mm. All frames are custom hand made at the time your canvas print is
ordered, so sizes can be tailor made.
The canvas is then edge glued, stretched and wrapped around the frame, with the corners carefully trimmed. This
produces a very strong, sturdy canvas frame, with a smooth finish,
leaving no folds, staples or tape covering.
File and Image Preparation
Please ensure you take into account 45mm of image on each side will be used in the wrap around process. An
extra width of plain white canvas is added to give a full wrap on the rear of the frame
giving a nice tidy finish. See Pricing Page
for further details. If your photo is limited in print area, for a small extra charge, the sides can be extended so you don't
lose any part of your original photo.
In this example, to make an A3 (297mm x 420mm) sized canvas framed print with a black border, a file image with print area measuring
387mm x 510mm (45mm each side) would be required to wrap the image to the rear edge. Please ensure you take this into account as it
can be easy to lose a special part of your photo. We will endeavour to point this out at time of consultation.
