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.
