Canvas Printmaker produce stunning canvas prints from your photos. Our non-fading canvas prints mounted on high quality stretcher bars with a protective anti-scratch varnish ensure your canvas prints will last a lifetime.
Canvas Printmaker specialise in canvas printing your original photos on canvas and mounting them onto quality stretcher bars, making unique canvas prints for homes and offices throughout the U.K. With our bespoke canvas printing service we can easily turn your treasured memories into stretched canvas prints guaranteed to delight all your loved ones.
Printing photos onto canvas is easy - order your photos on canvas prints
We literally print dozens of canvas prints each day, creating unique canvases for all our customers, and judging by the feedback we get, we consistently exceed expectations.
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Photos on Canvas Print*Your own photos on canvas print is a fantastic way to brighten up your home and office. They are extremely long lasting and will give you a life time of fond memories. You can have your colour photographs turned into sepia or black and white very easily, or you can even selectively mask certain areas of a picture off leaving it still colour while the rest is black and white. This technique is proving very popular with the wedding photographers. |
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Panoramic Canvas Printing*Panoramic prints really stand out and can be both horizontal and vertical.They are becoming more in demand with many joined up pictures being used to make one giant picture. We can even help you stitch the pictures together providing they overlap. Traditional photographers will be pleased to know that we can scan their 120 panoramic negatives or transparencies. |
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Montage and Collage Canvas Printing*Montage and collage prints are an easy way to display many of your favourite pictures on the one canvas print. The design and sizes are really only restricted by your own imagination! Office leaving presents, 18th birthdays and wedding gifts always go down well with montage canvases. |
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Triptych Canvas PrintingTriptych and pentych prints are very trendy now. If you have been on holiday somewhere and have some stunning photos we can split one image over many canvases to give a very pleasing effect on your walls. You can have different size canvases or same size canvases, same height canvases or different heights. Triptych canvases tend to work best with pictures of places. |
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| *Any additional artwork is charged at an hourly rate and will be quoted for prior to commencing any work. | |
Canvas printing is more popular in recent years than ever before and there are many companies now on the market offering canvas photographic printing. We have been doing canvas prints for well over ten years now and most of our business is through word of mouth and repeat orders.
At Canvas Printmaker we use the most up to date printing methods with your photographic canvas prints to ensure your stretched canvas prints last a lifetime which many of our competitors don't do!
Quite often we hear of people telling us figures for how light-fast the inks are and they range from 75 years to 200 years! Apart from the fact that the people making these statements will be long dead before any of these claims can be ratified, nobody can guarantee for sure that these figures are accurate. What can be said accurately is that in tests HP's Vivera dye inks perform well under artificial ageing techniques and will be extremely light-fade resistant.
Another popular claim with canvas photographic prints is the use of solvent inks or pigmented inks. We hear bold claims that these are the best inks available as they are water proof and extremely long lasting. This is true, but, and it's a BIG BUT, the colour range available on solvent inks or pigmented inks is much less than HP's Vivera dye inks. So you really have to ask yourself: Do I want okay canvas photo prints that will last a long time or do I want fantastic photographic canvases that will last just as long once a varnish has been applied, but with much better colours?
Canvas Varnish is essential for canvas photo printing as it not only protects the photo canvases from abrasions and scratches but more importantly protects the stretched canvas from harmful U.V. rays. It also acts as a barrier which is moisture resistant allowing you to wipe your canvas print clean when they get dusty!
Perhaps one of the most useful features of the varnish is when printing onto canvas the varnish enriches the colours. It deepens the colour depth giving lovely rich colours, enhances the blacks and makes your canvas photograph prints come alive! Quite often we come across many high street shops doing photographs onto canvas, stretching them and then handing them out to the customer as a finished product without varnishing it. And they will look okay for perhaps maybe a couple of months up until you decide to try and clean them and then you realise the importance of the varnish..... Suddenly the claim of "same day photographic canvas printing" doesn't sound as appealing as it did when you bought it!
It is also essential to use high quality stretcher bars to prevent warping over the years - don't settle for "Green Wood" forced dried in kilns which is rough to the touch. These stretcher bars bend and warp over time as moisture is released from them and by the time this has happened it is too late to get your money back.
Although these stretcher bars are cheap to produce they most likely come from sources which are ecologically damaging to the environment. All of our stretcher bars are sourced from FSC certified suppliers which means the wood used in our stretcher bars to produce your photo canvas prints is replaced by planting new trees. Do you really want to save a few quid just to end up with an inferior photographic canvas that also damages the environment?
As you have probably guessed by now, we are experts at stretched canvas printing and we like to offer a bespoke service. We don't churn your prints onto canvas and bung them out the door. We take time and effort to check your images properly for resolution, colour and layout. If we feel we can do your canvas photograph printing better by suggesting a better fit with the stretcher bars or by enhancing the colours then we will offer this to you. After all, it makes sense to us that many of our customers recommend our photo canvas printing to their friends and family.
Ordering your photo onto canvas should involve you, the customer, as much as possible and we keep you informed as to what is going on as much as possible. We take time to make sure you are happy with your photograph canvas prints by sending proofs to you of how they will look prior to printing them. We make sure we complete your order as quickly as possible and we notify you when your order has been despatched so you know when to expect it, and if you are nearby to Bathgate, Livingston, Edinburgh and the Lothians then we may even be able to deliver your canvas prints personally to you.
Now you know why our photograph canvas printing is better than "the rest"!
Alan Robertson,
Canvas Printmaker
