Printing on canvas

#1

Has anyone had expirience with printing their digital art on canvas?
I am mostly working 2d art - Painter and Photoshop, and have printed my work on paper mostly, but now am looking for some other media. Canvas seems to be a good solution, or maybe something else?
If you know something about it, I’m listening…

#2

I know that you can pay other people to do it for you. I think you have to adapt most printers to make it possible.

Personally though, I don’t see the point in printing digital work onto canvas. The main reason why canvas is used for painting is that it is lighter and cheaper than the wooden boards that people used to use (in the olden days). Also, it is good for making the paint hold to the canvas.

I regard printing onto canvas as an equivilent to using a filter to make a photo look arty… it doesn’t actually help you produce a better image but it makes the image look more like “art”.

Good luck anyway

#3

I don’t know about printing directly on to raw canvas, but our large format printer (HP 5500ps uv) can print on a studio canvas “paper” that has an inkjet coating but is pretty much canvas throughout.

A place like Kinkos might be able to do this for you, but I’m not certain.

good luck! :beer:

#4

Permajet. Do a range of art sub-straight print media. Including primed linen canvas, for use in inkjet printers:

http://mediadepot.mtechdirect.co.uk/acatalog/The_Permajet_Range.html

#5

Thank you very much. Your replies have been very helpful, I will look further into the subject…

#6

One thing about printing on canvas (especially if you are using archival inks) is that your print will be archival and will last for a very long time. However, the downside to printing on Canvas is that it has a very rough texture and you need RIP software (unless you have a profile) to create a profile to enable your printer to print effectively on it.

I personally wouldn’t use canvas unless you are reproducing a scan of a painting. Try out these links for paper:

http://www.digitalartsupplies.com/h2.html

The Hahnemuhle papers rock!

-jon

#7

One cool thing about printing onto canvas is that you can then use traditional media, paint, etc over it. I’ve got some ideas for some artworks where I would start with traditional paints, photograph the painting, do some interesting stuff to it digitally, print back to canvas, then keep on painting over the top. I work in quite an abstract sense so the more complex and the more interesting the layered elements become the better :slight_smile:

This would make a very interesting study of the ‘process’ of painting. You would have all these different stages of the artwork, some in the real world, some digitally that all exist and reference the ‘finished’ work.

#8

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