giclée printing on canvas

Colourgenics’ excellence in fine art reproductions and printing extends to our giclée prints on canvas. Our giclee printing on canvas is popular with artists who are looking for prints that are lightweight and easy to display without a frame, or who are simply looking for the timeless, elegant aesthetic that art on canvas provides.

Colourgenics’ fine art giclée printing is done with our state-of the-art Epson line of printers and the Epson UltraChrome PRO pigmented ink set. Our sophisticated workflow includes in-house colour & printer profiles and calibration to maintain control and consistency across all media, and we offer multiple proofing options - including test strips to show detail-at-size for large prints - to ensure you receive exceptional, gallery-quality prints every time.

Our canvas prints are done on Breathing Colour premium canvas which provides excellent whiteness and colour rendition with the classic look and feel of a natural artist’s canvas. Prints can be purchased with and without mounting onto stretcher bars.

Pricing is determined by print size and quantity. Quantity discounts are available when printing multiple copies of the same image, and project pricing and bundling with other services is available with a quote.

Highlights of Our canvas giclée printing

  • Print sizes range from 12”x18” up to 64” wide

  • 3” gallery wrap borders included to accommodate stretching

  • Breathing Colour premium Lyve canvas provides excellent whiteness and colour rendition

  • Prints can be purchased with or without mounting onto stretcher bars

  • Multiple proofing options available to ensure you get the print you want every time

  • Various edge treatment options to mimic the look of a stretched artist’s canvas including mirrored, overflow, natural, and more

  • Lamination available to protect prints against fading, moisture, scratches, and other damage, and/or to give prints a professional, finished look

CANVAS GICLéE PRINTING FAQ

  • In general, we recommend submitting your image files as they were edited, typically in the native resolution of your camera. However, some customers prefer to upsize to the output resolution of the printers. In that case, 300 pixels per inch at final size is a common resolution most of our printers can work with. Other attributes include: RGB colour space, 8-bit uncompressed, flattened tif or jpg.

  • We recommend editing in and embedding the Adobe RGB space for all our colour managed workflows.

  • From experience, editing in high bit definitely yields smoother results, but we do not see an advantage in receiving 16-bit files for printing, especially when unwieldy file sizes slow down file transfer.

  • Canvas prints are typically stretched, with part of the canvas visible as it wraps around the stretcher bars. Edge treatments give artists the option of having an image or visual element printed on the portion of canvas that wraps around, mimicking the look of a stretched artist’s canvas.