Order Now: All the Canvas Options You’re Looking For

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Download The Colorful World of Canvas to discover LexJet’s full line of canvas options to kick off your new year with everything you need to ramp up your canvas printing business.

In our portfolio of LexJet Sunset and Sunset by Fredrix canvases, you’ll find a variety of finishes and textures that are in stock and ready to ship. LexJet is also the exclusive source for Fredrix canvases within the United States.

Our canvas choices include many archival-quality options that include features like: OBA-free, acid-free and pH-neutral. Here are just a few of the canvases you’ll find for high-volume, reliable production of fine art, photographic and commercial graphics:

We have even more canvas options for aqueous, latex, solvent or UV ink, and you’ll find a canvas that’s right for your next gallery wrap, framed or mounted canvas project. Call LexJet today at 800-453-9538 to learn more about our complete line of canvas media.

Fine Art & Photo Repro Pros Prefer Sunset by Fredrix Matte Canvas

Printers who specialize in producing fine art and photo reproduction have their own set of requirements that canvas must deliver, such as high white levels, ease of use and excellent image and color quality. That’s why many providers who offer high-end gallery wraps, for example, rely on LexJet Sunset by Fredrix Matte Canvas.

“We’ve been using the Sunset by Fredrix canvas for about four months now,” says Chris Capel from The UPS Store, Aurora, OH, who uses the canvas on his new Epson SureColor P9000 printer. “The image quality is outstanding, and flesh tones are beautiful.”

Vote for Your Top Wide Format Imaging Products in the Readers’ Choice Awards

Readers’ Choice Top Product AwardsVoting starts today for Wide-Format Imaging magazine’s Readers’ Choice Top Product Awards. Click here to vote for the products that have “caused the most excitement in the industry and have been a valuable asset to wide-format print service providers’ (PSPs) businesses over the last year.”

In other words, LexJet and Sunset products, which were nominated in the following categories…

Wide-Format Imaging’s Top Products Awards will recognize the products that are doing the most for a PSP’s bottom line, including: wide-format printers, wide-format media, laminating equipment, inks, RIP software and scanners. Voting ends on Feb. 13.

Don’t forget to vote! Go to https://2015wfitopproducts.questionpro.com/

Winners will be announced at the International Sign Expo in Las Vegas, April 8-11, and featured in the April issue of Wide-Format Imaging magazine.

Setting a Canvas Printing Standard at FinerWorks

FinerWorks Sunset by Fredrix Matte Canvas
Close-up of a fine-art reproduction by FinerWorks on the company’s new standard canvas: Sunset by Fredrix Matte Canvas.

As the name implies, FinerWorks, based in San Antonio, is dedicated to reproducing finer works of art on a variety of printable materials. FinerWorks serves mainly artists and photographers, with a focus on high-quality output.

Fine Art Canvas Reproductions
A combination of canvas gallery wraps and canvas mounted to PVC board printed by FinerWorks on Sunset by Fredrix Matte Canvas.

Toward that end, FinerWorks recently set Sunset by Fredrix Matte Canvas as the standard for its canvas reproduction printing. Moreover, founder and COO James M. Theopistos has leveraged the Sunset and Fredrix brand names in marketing to his customer base.

“We’ve been excited about it, and the feedback from our customers has been very positive as well. I attribute a lot of the success with the new canvas to the Fredrix name. Since most of our customers are artists they’re familiar with the Fredrix name, especially if they do oil or acrylic paintings. They’re used to buying Fredrix canvas for their work,” says Theopistos. Given that, it was a no-brainer from a marketing standpoint. The cost of the canvas is the same, we can push the name brand, and customers appreciate the history and quality behind the Fredrix name.”

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Close-up of Sunset by Fredrix mounted to PVC board using LexJet RubberMount Adhesive.

Moreover, says Theopistos, though Sunset by Fredrix Matte Canvas is OBA-free, it retains a very high bright point and faithfully reproduces the artwork of a given client on the company’s Canon iPF8300 and iPF8400 inkjet printers.

Perhaps most importantly, Theopistos reports that the canvas provides consistency through a print run and from project to project.

As Theopistos put it at a recent blog post at finerworks.com: “Sunset by Fredrix Matte Canvas brings the expertise of LexJet and Fredrix together for a breakthrough in canvas, featuring one of the highest white levels available for an OBA-free canvas. It’s easy to work with for stretching, mounting and framing, and is ideal for fine art and photographic reproductions on canvas. The acid-free, pH neutral, poly-cotton base provides consistency throughout the print run.”

Click here to read the rest of the story at the FinerWorks blog.

Canvas and Blockout Fabric Sale Ends Saturday

Big Sale Canvas and Fabric at LexJet

Three of the industry’s top canvas products – plus a lay-flat, easy-to-use blockout fabric perfect for banner stands – are all on sale at unheard of prices, but only until Saturday, October 4

LexJet Poly Select Blockout Fabric, which gives you 100% opacity and exceptional photo image quality on a smooth fabric surface, is on sale at 35% off the regular price.

Sunset by Fredrix Matte Canvas: On sale now for $0.78 per sq. ft., you get the brightest white point available in an OBA-free canvas with consistent print quality and high-performance finishing.

Sunset by Fredrix Gloss Canvas SUV: On sale now for $0.70 per sq. ft., this canvas maximizes quality and production for solvent, low-solvent, latex and UV-curable printers: print, stretch or frame, and go.

Sunset by Fredrix Satin Canvas SUV: On sale now for $0.70 per sq. ft., Zach Gardynski of New Era Portfolio in Austin, Texas, had this to say about the satin-finish version: “Best canvas to date. Our color came out perfect; we have never seen a truer white hue before.”

To take advantage of these savings before they end on October 4, give a LexJet printing specialist a call at 800-453-9538. You can also order these products at the sale price online; just click on the product links above.

The next big sale of The 5 starts on Sunday, so check back here or at www.lexjet.com to find out what’s coming down the pike on October 5.

Printing and Framing Notre Dame

Notre Dame Print by Sharpeye Framing

It’s estimated that there are more than 100,000 Notre Dame Fighting Irish alumni out there. They live among us and they likely wear their alma mater on their sleeve, both literally and figuratively.

Now, those alumni can wear their alma mater on their walls with limited edition Notre Dame panoramic specialty prints produced by Sharpeye Framing, Michigan City, Ind.

Notre Dame’s marketing communications department first contacted Sharpeye Framing for its print fulfilment services. Then, Sharpeye Framing was commissioned to produce the limited edition prints based on the quality, efficiency and detail of its work the company provides.

Prints by Sharpeye FramingThe prints are created from photos of Notre Dame’s campus today and one of the original structures from the school’s founding in 1849 taken at sunset.

Sharpeye Framing chose the matting and frames to border the prints and will also produce limited edition canvas gallery wraps. The photos are reproduced on Sunset Photo eSatin Paper 300g for the framed pieces and Sunset by Fredrix Matte Canvas for the gallery wraps on a Canon iPF8400.

“The Sunset Photo eSatin is our standard photo paper that we use for all of our photography reproduction. It’s a great heavyweight and durable product we’ve used for years,” says Ryan Wanke, president of Sharpeye Framing. “Fredrix has the best canvas weave out there, so the new Sunset by Fredrix canvas has become our stock canvas. It’s great for stretching because there are no issues with cracking.”