How are your canvas prints made?
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.
Our custom framed canvas prints are made following the same process as above but with the additional option of adding a frame.
All of our canvas wall art comes delivered to hang with a 100+ year colour guarantee.
Watch our video on how to make a canvas for a more detailed look at the production process.
What is gallery wrapping?
Gallery wrapping – or 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 12x16” canvas is actually printed onto a 16x20” 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.
What is museum wrapping?
Museum wrapping is a technique used to stretch a canvas print, ensuring the image remains on the front surface of the stretcher frame while a solid colour wraps around the frame’s edge.
We provide a choice of black or white edges for our museum-wrapped canvas prints.
What is mirror wrapping?
Mirror wrapping refers to the method of reflecting the edges of an image onto the sides of a canvas print so that the entire image appears on the front of the canvas.
What materials are your canvas prints made from?
Our standard canvas and metallic canvas (UK only) materials are made from a blend of cotton and polyester. Our eco 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 durable European knotless pine, with the exception of our stretched eco canvas and framed eco canvas, which are stretched over a lightweight frame made from 100% recycled materials.
All of the picture frames used for our framed canvas prints are made from sustainably sourced wood.
At Prodigi, 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. Current scientific reports suggest that our recommended papers and Giclée printing process will produce a print that lasts between 100-200 years in optimal conditions.
Please note that any print located in direct sunlight is still likely to fade over time.
How thick are the stretcher frames used for your stretched canvas prints?
Both our global and non-global canvas prints are made using 38mm canvas stretcher bars. However, stretcher bars for our globally fulfilled canvases may vary by a few millimetres in thickness in one or two territories.
For bespoke canvas prints produced in the UK, we offer two different canvas depths:
- 19mm
- 38mm