Anyone Have Experience Working With A Printer That Prints On Canvas?

Don't we print on canvas in this store?

----Mike Savad

Do you mean a physical printer that you use, or a printer that is a company?

I've had a lot of experience with both.

FAA prints on canvas. We aren't allowed to discuss other companies here.

Almost all printers print on canvas these days.

As far as being expensive, compared to what?

It is what the market is... they are all pretty much in the same ballpark. What makes some look less expensive than others is the quality or the canvas, stretcher bars, inks, etc., etc.

The best price for high-quality prints on canvas is through FAA's site https://pxcanvasprints.com/products-and-prices

I mean an actual physical printer sitting at my home that you would feed canvas and not paper. The lower end printers that print on smaller canvases are somewhat affordable, but the price of some of the larger printers can reach into the $1000’s.

I have some digital art that I’d like to be printed, but I want to be able to make adjustments / enhancements with a brush using oil paint.

Chuck, do you have any recommendations?

I thought about this at some point but printers that do a good job of it are expensive. You could just order your prints on canvas here. Order them rolled in a tube.

If you want to print off some of your own stuff, it can be done at fairly low cost via pxcanvasprints.com. Probably cheaper than you buying ink, even if you did have a printer that could do that. It's somehow related to FAA, but the pricing seems to be lower vs. what you pay to buy your own stuff here.

You have to sell enough pieces to justify the cost of buying and maintaining a large format Giclee printer.

Considering the savings when printing your own larger canvases, they are not expensive at all. But they are not designed for people to print one or two a month, or a week and maybe not even one or two a day unless you are getting significant money for each canvas.

These printers are designed for publishers that can sell at some sort of volume.

The real savings is when you sell enough pieces to justify bung the ink and the canvas in larger quantities. That brings the cost of the product down and the profit up significantly.

If you do not have that sort of volume, then you need to use a wholesale-to-the-trade supplier. Fine Art America's PXCanvasPrints is just that.

Sergio Cannella, I have one that I no longer use. Email or DM for more info. I have printed over 100 13x19 canvas prints with this printer.

Sergio, hope you find a solution
Maybe in the meantime fix your bio, it doesn't look professional, you might have used some symbols so it comes out jumbled

https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/sergio-cannella?tab=about

My major concern with ordering prints from a supplier is that my modifications to the work won’t look seamless. I can imagine the printed color black for example will be lighter or darker than my brush strokes.

(Thanks Nina, fixed!)

The only good printer is the one you use. That means if you are not ready to use it often due to ink cost, it is more economical to go to a professional printer and have it printed for you. If a large format printer costs too much, don't look at the cost of its ink. It will easily be as much. Most all-new printers can print on canvas. You can look under the paper specs for each printer. If you are worried about seamless reproductions find a local printer and work with them directly.

I had an HP medium format printer years ago, with the 9 color inks (or was it 12, I don't remember). I put specialty metal "paper" (when Fine Art America did not have metal prints) in it, checking carefully to make sure the material was not too thick. It was half the thickness of the maximum. Away I went, using the specialty flat pass through slot, and the print heads on my brand new printer got caught on the printing surface. Ruined a very expensive printer. HP engineering couldn't figure it out, so they sent me a (refurbished) replacement with expired ink, which never got used again.

Unless you're going to run your own print shop, its probably better to have someone else print it. Like FAA/Pixels!

I'm not sure as to your intent, but I can tell you that you can paint on top of a print on canvas from FAA/Pixels (did it with my own painting).

Edit: HP also spent a lot of time with me before admitting they couldn't figure out how I could use two HP printers that used the same driver on the same computer either. Install printer A. Install printer B. Printer B uninstalled printer A. Reinstalled printer A, which uninstalled printer B. The solution: 2 different computers for the two different printers.

Thanks guys. I didn’t realize most printers print on canvas. I’ll give that a go with my own printer. If that doesn’t work I’ll order the prints. That seems to be the most affordable solution.