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New Eco Canvas Coating Now Available Via Fujifilm
To compliment its existing range of canvas products, Fujifilm is marketing PremierArt Eco Print Shield, a new water based protective coating designed specifically for water resistant inkjet media. Easily applied by brush, roller or spray gun, Eco Print Shield protects canvas prints from moisture, light, abrasions and even fingerprints. Eco Print Shield is available in Gloss, Satin or Matt and comes in either quart or gallon containers.
Fujifilm Press Release
New eco canvas coating now available via Fujifilm
To compliment its existing range of canvas products, Fujifilm is marketing PremierArt Eco Print Shield, a revolutionary new water based protective coating designed specifically for water resistant inkjet media.
As Eco Print Shield is water based there are no toxic or hazardous solvents to worry about and it is environmentally friendly. The coating utilizes a unique combination of acrylic resins with a new cross-linking technology.
Easily applied by brush, roller or spray gun, Eco Print Shield protects canvas prints from moisture, light, abrasions and even fingerprints. It is quick-drying and its advanced polymer technology will not yellow, crack or go brittle under stretching so canvases will remain protected.
Print Shield and Eco Print Shield are the only coatings to be awarded a Wilhelm Certified Seal by the world famous Wilhelm Institute.
Eco Print Shield is available in Gloss, Satin or Matt and comes in either quart or gallon containers. A sampler kit is also available that includes everything you need to get started.
Peter Hayward, commercial manager from Fujifilm made this comment: “We are delighted to be able to offer an environmentally friendly coating solution to our customers. Eco Print Shield will enable photographers and framers from the hobbyist right up to the production canvas framer to produce long-lasting, high quality canvas wraps time after time.”
Combined with Fujifilm’s selection of canvas media, the Wunderbars framing system and the wide range Epson printers, the addition of Eco Print Shield means Fujifilm now provides the complete canvas stretching solution - from printing, to coating, to stretching.
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#1 Kristin Maling
This stuff is great, but it's a pain to apply — but, it's worth it!
4:31 pm - Wednesday, February 10, 2010
#2 Ken
Kristin... could you be more specific about "a pain to apply"?
5:03 pm - Wednesday, February 10, 2010
#3 Kristin Maling
Sure! Basically, unless you spend the $$ on the setup to be able to apply this stuff via the spray-gun setup, you have to apply via manually rolling it onto your canvas. They say you can use a brush, but I've never been able to do this successfully (as, no matter how soft the brush is, you see the streaks from the brush hairs in the coating when dry).
Manually rolling it on takes a lot of patience — I remember the first time I started using this stuff, I ruined a lot of prints (so anyone trying it out — test on bad prints, etc. first to get the hang of it!). First, you have to apply just the right amount of pressure so you don't "smudge" the ink. Second, you have to apply as an even coat — depending on your prints, this can be difficult — my work is typically 12"-15"+ high x 30"-40" wide (panoramic prints of landscapes mainly) so applying even coats at just the right amount of pressure can really rack the nerves!
Second, you have to make sure you're working in a very clean environment (this would go for the spray-gun method as well). And you have to make sure the roller and other equipment is also extremely clean as well! The smallest speck of dust, hair or fibre that gets into it while wet is impossible to get out when dry — I spent a lot of time with a needle, plucking out a fibre here and a dust speck there while the piece was still wet — and even then, you have to be very careful not to damage the print or "coating" when doing this. I know this seems really anal, but even a small speck or fibre in the wrong spot on a print will stand out like a sore thumb! On top of this, the room also needs to be well ventilated and the whole "keeping it clean" is "difficult" to say the least. And you have to worry about these specks and fibres etc. getting into the coating while it's drying as well (not just while applying) — so you have to keep an eye on it throughout the whole process.
And to top it off, you have to apply multiple coatings. On a typical print, I found it took, on average, 3 coats was enough. So, add 3x the above per print and "easily applied by roller" is a bit of an overstatement. <G>
That said, the results of this coating are fantastic! The protection you get is amazing and it being eco-friendly is a very very welcome bonus (a must for me). It's a lot of work, but well worth it for the results!
If you were doing large-quantities, I'd definitely say a clean-room and spray gun would be the way to go. But, for those working with smaller quantities/budget, a little hard work and some nail biting still yield excellent results!
Thanks,
Kristin.
5:58 pm - Wednesday, February 10, 2010