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Everything You Need to Know About Our Canvas prints
Our custom canvas prints are produced using a 12-colour Giclée print process for a museum-quality finish, before being hand-stretched over a wooden frame, which is milled with a curved profile to help minimise contact with the face of the canvas, preventing impression marks and surface cracking.
Each corner is then folded tightly over each edge and fixed with staples to the frame. We use finger-jointed canvas frames to create corner tension and help resist warping. For larger sizes, we add wooden wedges to each corner, ensuring the canvas surface remains taut and allowing for easy re-stretching in future.
Image wrapping – involves wrapping the edge of a printed image around the side of a canvas print, allowing the canvas to be displayed without a frame.
For example, a 12×16” canvas is actually printed onto a 16×20” canvas, allowing 2” on all sides of the image to wrap around the frame. 1.5” covers the sides of the frame, while 0.5” is on the back.
Our canvas substrates are made of 100% polyester, with the stretched eco canvas, framed eco canvas and rolled eco canvas all using polyester sourced from recycled plastic bottles.
We use stretcher bars made from 100% recycled materials. All of the picture frames used for our framed canvas prints are made from sustainably sourced wood.
We use only neo pigment inks or eco solvent inks, with neo pigment inks being the most widely used. We use original and official UV (neo pigment) inks to ensure that each print faithfully reproduces the tone, temperature and colour of the original image. These water-based inks contain enhanced light stabilisers, offering far more durability than dye-based inks and protecting the vibrancy of your prints for over 100 years in ideal conditions.
The archival nature of the print varies according to the type of ink used as well as the archival properties of your chosen paper and the conditions in which the print is displayed or stored.
Please note that any print located in direct sunlight is still likely to fade over time.
Canvas prints are usually made using 38mm canvas stretcher bars. In some products we also use 19mm canvas stretcher bars.