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Fabric for Ink Jet Printing of Artwork

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From peter

The Medium?

Printing with a large format printer onto a canvas.

The Problem?

I have some art works that I want to print via large format printer for indoor decoration, which will be framed. Please I want to know the type of fabric to use, apart from flex and venyl. Anything that is as good as canvas.

Advice

  • I want to know the type of fabric to use, apart from flex and venyl. Anything that is as good as canvas.

Marion Boddy-Evans, Painting Guide, says:

Golden produce digital grounds that you paint onto any fabric to turn it into something you can print onto with an inkjet printer. To get the fabric to feed through the printer, you will probably need to tape it to a piece of thin card or acetate, so it feeds through and stays flat while printing.

You can buy canvas on a roll, to whatever length you need, so why not use that? Or look in a fabric shop for heavyweight white cotton fabric with a finer weave than canvas.

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