Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Breathing Color's Foam Padded Canvas Cores a Big Win for Printers



Anybody that's in the print industry doing giclée printing knows that  as you get towards the end  of the roll of paper or canvas, you start to see a ripple  in the  paper each time it wraps  around the core. Canvas has a more pronounced issue with this than does paper, although some of our rag papers have this issue as well.

For a printer this can be maddening, because if you're doing high-end work, there's really nothing you can do with that last few feet except use it for  samples, small prints, or proofing. Some canvas rolls  we've seen have these ripples for up to the last  10  feet. It's a huge,  costly problem.

Recently we've seen canvas from Breathing Color (www.breathingcolor.com) that uses padded  cores to resolve this issue (They announced this innovation  last year)

Today we were coming up to the end  of a roll of Breathing Color Lyve canvas, and we were doing a  large canvas print, about 44"x60". We hadn't paid attention, and we realized as the printer stopped that we were at the very end of the roll. There was only two inches left on the roll.

I pulled the print  out of the printer (Epson 9900) and examined  the canvas. I looked on the back side to be sure, but there wasn't a single ripple. We got perfect prints clear to the end. 

This is a great innovation for printers, and Breathing Color has obviously been listing  to their customers. Considering the cost savings from not throwing away end of roll canvas,  the Breathing  Color Lyve is a bargain even if it's  priced  higher  than  other  brands.

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