All,

Further to my last post please all refer to the product specifications for gallery wraps of GF Pro 6.

They have listened well to the canvas printing community and have provided 100% of the required function.

Since V6 has been available for a while it is a surprise that the requested function is'nt already in Qimage.

We know of several companies that have swapped becuase of this function and some others.

And no - I am not a GF user.

Bruce

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All,

Lets get a few issues down first:

A professional Giclee print has no STANDARD stretcher bar. The frame is made to mm accuracy and no original painting image is lost - none.

The bar depths are chosen to match the image anywhere from 12 to 100mm, thats 4 inches to you guys in the USA.

No PS automation is possible due to the variable nature of the dimension.

The current method is a simple mirror of each side, other blurred are stretched forms are not acceptable in art some ok for normal photography.

QIMAGE has a large base with the Giclee community but it is loosing it as there have been no functions targetting that industry added for many years.

Canvas printing is the largest user of water based product by area in the world today.

Signage RIPS are not used much for canvas printing, they are not needed.

Add these things up and its something that needs to be done but for more general usage several other forms of imaged borders should be considered.

 

 

All,

It is vital to future of QIMAGE that this function becomes part of its base, it is a print time option and cannot be automated by PS actions as the bar size is fixed and the image changes to the mm.

As for the "lick and stick" quickie canvas systems no fine art printer would use them. They have many issues including the lack of a warp at the back making a sharp white edge that is'nt always straight, a too sharp fold that cracks non laminated canvas and a tendancy to open the corners as the rear pins slide out.

The people who use these probably have smaller 13 inch printers and there you can only print small images as you loose too much image "around the corner". You also cannot use them for paper prints.

Ray, I considered all this years ago and we sell a better way of doing this for photo stores.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJF0A0V4eg0

Mike,

In all the years of QIMAGE and all the millions of Canvas prints it must have made for people around the world I still have'nt seen the option to make the borders mirrored images of the image ends for stretched canvas usage.

Since canvas needs the mirror edge and then more white border for stretching we need much more than just two colors.

You cannot automate this in PS as the stretcher bars are a fixed size yet the images vary. Its very time consuming by hand in PS.

Mike??? Has'nt this been requested before???

Bruce