Australia - Printing to Canvas

[mb3448]

Hi

For all Australian members, I need some contact details on Professional Printing Businesses who can print images to Canvas.

Or if you have any experiences or feedback you would like to share would be welcome.

Thanks

[blackviolet]

there are three places that i know of - one that i highly recommend is Icon image centre in St. Leonards (http://www.iconimagecentre.com.au).

there is also Vision Graphics (http://www.visiongraphics.com.au/) and DigitalMasters (http://www.digitalmasters.com.au/)

[la1982]

I have used http://www.allyharrison.com.au/ recently, great pricing and quality, helpful staff and very quick turnaround and delivery
Highly recommend these guys

- Lianna

[mb3448]

Thanks for that.

Through my own internet searching, I eventually found this site

http://www.2ndskin.com.au/printing/index.html

Interestingly they also compare their competitors service & price to their own.

[wocka]

Gidday,

While I haven't used these guys, I have heard good things about them.
http://www.bigprints.com.au/bigprints_homepage.asp

[tim]

Consider http://www.nulab.com.au/

[JasonW]

I'm not sure if you are looking outside Sydney but there are a number of places in Adelaide that can do this. Black and White Photographics (http://www.blackandwhitephoto.com.au/) is a good one.

[mb3448]

Having now tried the services of http://www.2ndskin.com.au/printing/ I can say that value for money, they do outrank their competitors quite easily.

With the demand of having a lot of images printed to canvas, I needed to find a business based on I. Service 2. Quality & 3. Price My first batch of prints had all three points covered successfully. I would gladly recommend this business.

[scouser525]

You could also try http://art-on-canvas.com.au, as I know they offer discount for multiple canvases.

[Welby]

I have actually used snapfish awhile ago for a couple of canvas prints and was very happy with them. Not so much there photo printing though.

[genius]

The Second Skin site (www.2ndskin.com.au) that you mention is now called Genius Printing

You may want to check it out http://www.geniusprinting.com.au

I work for them so I should say that up front but I know our prices are lower than the ones mentioned in this thread and we don't skimp on quality.

If hunting around the first question is 'Do you print on a pigment ink printer'. Harvey Norman, Big W, Snapfish, etc don't and their quality just doesn't stack up. Ad for the 'art on canvas' crowd, there's no information about the materials they use and their prices are very low so I would GUESS that they're not using a pigment ink printer.

A thick, archival canvas would be the next thing I'd look at and then bars - kiln dried bars won't warp over time. Again, any price lower than ours will use a thin canvas and / or low density bars. At least, I can't find anyone lower than us that uses the good materials.

Then of course there's customer service, how quickly they can do the printing, etc but from a purely materials point of view, check the ink, canvas and bars.