At long last Canvas site is live

03/07/2008 by conrad.

Finally, it took a long time but we got there in the end. CanvasDezign have launched their new site for ordering canvas prints online. The new site sports a completely new look and is probably one of the best I have seen. Canvas prints are not something new and what you have to do with a product like that is to never try and re invent it. CanvasDezign have not done that.

What they have done is come up with a brand new interface for ordering canvas prints. The online ordering system is unique and makes ordering  canvas prints very easy.

For more canvas prints information visit Canvasdezign

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Canvas Prints sister site

19/06/2008 by conrad.

Canvas Prints

Yesterday CanvasDezign launched its new site for ordering your Canvas Prints. The site was live all day and was proving very popular amongst the audience.

The site was taken down this morning at 12.40 am to iron out all the bugs that we found in the Canvas Prints ordering system. These are tiny bugs that we do not see when we are testing the site.

Stay tuned to CanvasDezign for all your Canvas Prints.

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Wallpaper Borders

21/05/2008 by conrad.

Wallpaper borders are the easiest way to liven up your house while showing  your fashion style in the process. With a vast variety of styles and colors available in the market place, Wallpaper borders have become one of the most fun parts of the wallpaper industry.

“Wallpaper borders are truly the phenomenon of the ’90s, so hot that they have become not only the catalyst for sidewall sales but a separate merchandise category,” said Duncan Campbell of Sunworthy Wallcoverings.

Wallpaper borders now serve as a main focal point in the room and can often be used to brighten up a dull, painted room

Some of the most popular Wallpaper borders are scenic, nostalgic and antique-looking, as well as children themed Wallpaper borders still proving quite popular.

Other wallpaper experts say bright, fun borders with clean, fresh colors are the trend and will become once again popular this year. And licensed properties definitely are successful. Disney’s cars has proved to be a very popular choice.

And Wallpaper borders aren’t just for kids or women, nor are they banished to the bedrooms, baths or kitchens. Hunting scene Wallpaper borders can also prove quite popular as well as sporting Wallpaper borders. And many people are experimenting with Wallpaper borders in the living room, dining room, laundry room and kids’ play areas. With the variety of Wallpaper border styles available, there is a Wallpaper border for every room in the house.

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The process of photos onto canvas

14/05/2008 by conrad.

You have a nice picture and you want to print it on a canvas and blow it to a large size and would like to hang it on the wall of your living room. But wondering what to do?!Then look up for companies where they do this process for you. The complete canvas prints  process is quite simple and reliable. You have to choose the picture first and be careful while choosing the canvas picture. You will have one image in your mind but later the outcome will be another that is if the picture is not good enough to edit. You need not worry about the format in which the picture you have. One can carry on the process of printing the photo on the canvas even if it’s in one digital picture, negative format, in the film or even in PowerPoint slides. When they are done with the canvas printing then they will return the original picture also back to you. All they do is just scan the picture and then edit the scanned copy. Then you have to decide upon the size of the picture you want. There are many sizes available, ranging from size of a small paperback novel size to a large image, which could be as massive as 45 x 30″ or even more. Then the canvas picture will be customized according to your specifications. You can choose from the range of effects that can be applied to your canvas picture. It could be either the black and white effect canvas picture or sepia effect canvas picture or even the new floating effect canvas picture. Floating effect canvas picture is one of the most stylish effects that one can ever see. The canvas picture seems to float between the front and back of the chosen frame. The photo is printed on the art paper which is of a very high quality. And then mounted on the frame which you have to choose. Even the range of frames available is quite wide. The frame depends upon the shape of your canvas as well. Whether it’s Square, rectangle or panoramic shape. The company even offers you choices and suggestions, when it comes to the frames. Since the decision of frames is purely based on the effects done on the picture. For example, the black frame suits the black and white effect picture or a dark brown frame will suit the picture in which sepia effect is applied. Then the designers working on the concept will create an image. The image will consists of your picture, the effects applied on it, the size, the shape and as well as the frame that you have chosen. Then they will send the image to you for the preview. You can go through the image and the details and could even inform them if you are not satisfied with the complete outcome. If you want to make any changes, such as changes in the effect, or changing the frame size, then you can tell them and then they will do the corrections. Then the canvas will be delivered to you at your doorstep, whenever you want. As simple as it sounds!!

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York Racecourse Wall Murals

25/04/2008 by conrad.

We are currently producing 4 very large wall murals for York Racecourse.  We were selected out of the many printer because of the knowledge we have of the decorative industry.

Full pictures of the wall murals in place will be posted soon.

We are also working with a big UK wallpaper company , trying to secure their business on the digital printing side.  More details when the deals are done.

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Wallpaper and Canvas Pictures

17/04/2008 by conrad.

Canvas Dezign posted a really good article recently about canvas pictures and wallpaper.  The basic idea is that you combine the two printed mediums to give an on the wall, off the wall feel.

On the one hand you have wallpaper, pasted to the wall and flat. On the other you have the canvas pictures that follows the pattern of the wallpaper. In many cases the canvas pictures change colour to give an extraordinary effect.

See the canvas pictures website, Canvas dezign for details

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Digital Printing on Canvas

05/04/2008 by conrad.

Digital printing technology has revolutionized the way printing is done and uncovered a whole new world for everyone in general. Digital photography has been very convenient for photographers in order to enable them to not only take astounding photographs but also delete the unnecessary ones and take as many photos as wished with no extra cost added and also to edit the photos in order to add some special effects to make the photographs more presentable.
Digital prints can be made on canvas in order to make them livelier. By printing digital photos on canvas, memories can be made into wonderful pieces of art that have longer life and have special impact as well. Digital prints on canvas have become a good potion for interior decoration of offices, residence, restaurants and many other places. . There are numerous standard digital canvas photo printing companies that offer state of the art digital canvas photo printing services.
Digital photos are printed extensively on high quality exhibition grade cotton using full color inkjet printers and long-lasting UV proof pigment inks. Canvas fabric made of 100% pure cotton is prototypical for producing realistic images. Digital printing is done on canvas sizes ranging from 32 cm x 25 cm to 117 cm x 90 cm. The canvases are usually coated with latex in order to provide utmost durability and the canvas is laminated to ensure print permanency.
The quality of the print on canvas ultimately depends on the quality of the actual photograph, therefore in order to get a realistic print on your canvas it is advised to ser your camera at its highest resolution and opt for an appropriate canvas size for the image.
Artist’s original artwork has been emulated for a long time on to canvas using offset printing. Canvas printing since the 1990s has been associated with either dye sublimation or inkjet printers. With the help of these printers photographers and artist can transfer their work on to canvas quite easily.
Once the required image is printed on the canvas, it is trimmed to the actual size and stretched on bars or wooden panel and displayed. It is either displayed in a frame or a gallery wrap depending on how it is printed. Certain artists prefer to paint on the printed images so as to get a more individual image.
With the advancement in science and technology, printers can produce many meters of canvas every hour enabling suppliers to provide many frames per day. These advancements have not only made making of the frames faster but also quality of the output has also increased by leaps and bounds.
Extensive research has been done on the ink being used in order to make them more durable and more effective, as a result high quality inks have come into market providing a longer life for the prints on the canvas. varnishing of the canvas is of vital importance in order to make them resistant to UV rays, as years have gone by better varnishing methods are formulated to further more protect the canvas from UV rays which causes yellowing or fading of the canvas print.

Digital printing gets away from the need of a rotary screen engraver 

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Wallpaper making in Darwen

22/03/2008 by conrad.

There have been Paper Mills in Darwen since the 1820s. This began at Darwen Old Paper Mill in around 1826 as a small-scale, family-run concern. Richard Hilton began making paper as an expansion of his bleaching business. He and his sons later diversified into making different types of paper including tissue and wallpaper lining papers in the 1830s. Papermaking required huge amounts of water and was usually supplied by local rivers and reservoirs. Darwen’s location and climate made it ideal territory for making paper, just as it was ideal for the textile industry. In the case of Darwen Old Paper Mill for example, the River Darwen and Jack’s Key Reservoir would have supplied water.

Papermaking is a fairly labour intensive process with many different processes. Associated trades sprang up in Darwen including bleaching and dyeing works and wallpaper making. There were mills in Darwen that made wallpaper, indeed there still are but the mills in Darwen also made other types of paper. Mills produced paper such as newsprint, tissue, coloured and enamel papers, linings, brown paper and wallpaper base paper. The raw materials required for papermaking were originally rags and esparto (a rough grass from Spain and North Africa needed to make fine quality paper). Today papers are mostly made from either wood pulp or synthetic pulp. Only very fine ‘hand-made’ papers are today made from rags. Collins Paper Mill in Darwen mainly produced brown paper made from rags whilst Grimshaw Bridge Paper Mill produced cap and biscuit papers. Mills then were powered mainly by water wheels and horizontal engines.

Many people were employed in the paper making industry. Hollins Paper Mill employed over 250 people. It was considered to be one of Darwen’s staple trades and even today people in Darwen are still employed to make paper and wallcoverings for the rest of the world.

However, this article is slightly out of date as there are now houses were the great wallpaper mill once stood.

The image/text was provided by Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council for use in the Cotton Town digitisation project: www.cottontown.org.

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Paint Making in Darwen

22/03/2008 by conrad.

Charles and Harold Potter took over Hilton’s Paper Mills, the largest paper making works in the world, in 1844. In 1864 James Huntington, a designer for paper stainers and calico printers, joined the company at the Belgrave Mills. In 1853 Belgrave Mill was burnt out and a few years later the Hollins Paper Mill was rebuilt and enlarged. It was there that a laboratory was set up to try and make a reliable water paint.Paint manufacture commenced in August 1906 and ‘Hollins Distemper’ was transferred twice daily by horse-drawn wagon to Darwen Station. By 1910 the company was employing six men to travel the country exclusively selling paint. By now it was know as WalPaMur after the initials of ‘The Wall Paper Manufacturers’ Company. In the same year depots were set up in other parts of the country to ease the pressure on the Darwen factory and speed up distribution. In the same year too the manufacture of oil based paint commenced.

In 1929 the Company took over the paint-making plant of Arthur Sanderson & Sons in London. This was developed into a branch factory to serve the South of England. Expansion in Darwen was achieved when Peel Mill and Cobden Mill were acquired. In 1933 the Walpamur Company (Ireland) was formed in Dublin.

During World War Two Walpamur was engaged on war work producing special paints and dope for aircraft. They were asked to produce 90,000 gallons of white paint for the D-Day landings of 1944. All Allied aircraft had to be painted with white stripes. 30,000 gallons were produced in a week and transported from the factory in a fleet of US Army lorries.

This was how the Walpamur Club got its name on the Anchor Estate!!!

The image/text was provided by Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council for use in the Cotton Town digitisation project: www.cottontown.org.

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Canvas Prints new look website

19/03/2008 by conrad.

Canvas Dezign are about to launch their new canvas prints at the end of this month. Some of the newer features being offered on the canvas prints website will be :-

1. canvas prints featured designers
2. canvas prints blogs
3. canvas prints user groups
4. canvas prints stats on best selling designs and designers
5. canvas prints new preview section after upload
6. canvas prints customisable sizes and all new bespoke ordering section
7. canvas prints new shopping cart
8. canvas prints new checkout procedure, plus much more

Please visit our canvas prints website in the next month and see the changes yourself.  They are going to be awesome

Visit www.canvasdezign.co.uk for your canvas prints

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Rotary Screen Engraving

15/03/2008 by conrad.

Rotary Screen Engraving

In an engraving world driven by yesteryear, are the tables/times finally changing???

Rotary Screen Engraving has been around in the UK for many a century now, but there are very few people left who know about Rotary Screen Engraving.

One of the biggest problems in the decorative/Rotary Screen Engraving industry is the amount of people that shy away from change.  The biggest problem with change in the Rotary Screen Engraving industry, is that people fear it.

If you feel like a change today and want your Rotary Screen Engraving doing by a reputable UK Rotary Screen Engraving company, contact Planbseparations today.

Rotary Screen Engraving by Plan B

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Wallpaper Borders

09/03/2008 by conrad.

Wallpaper borders are a well-kept secret used by many interior decorators that I know. These simple and affordable narrow strips of wallpaper can add color and a theme to an otherwise plain-vanilla room.

Wallpaper borders are a true wallpaper product, but they differ from regular wallpaper in the manner in which they are installed and their relative size. Traditional wallpaper is hung vertically from the ceiling to the floor Wallpaper borders are hung horizontally.

Traditional rolls of wallpaper might be 21 inches wide and 20-30 feet long. A wallpaper border might be 20 or 30 feet wide but only 6 to 9 inches high. But this is perfect sizing since you want the border to dress up your wall surface in the same way as a ribbon adorns a gift box.

A wallpaper border is commonly applied to a wall surface where the wall meets the ceiling. However, I have routinely installed a border about 36 inches high off the floor. Wallpaper borders can also be used to separate two different wallpapers in a room.

For example, my basement bathroom has a tropical-themed border that separates a bamboo wallpaper from a light-colored wallpaper that has tropical plant leaves in its background. The border brings together two vastly different wallpapers making the three wallpaper products look like they were made for one another.

It is very easy to install wallpaper border material. The biggest reason, in my opinion, is that you are working with less material than a large sheet of traditional wallpaper. Furthermore, when you do have to match the pattern, you are working with a strip of paper often less than a foot tall. This makes matching a breeze.

To install a wallpaper border, you do need all of the same tools one uses for traditional wallpaper. My wallpaper toolbox has a special wallpaper razor knife I use to trim paper, a smoothing brush that flattens the border once it is applied to the wall and a broad knife that you may use to help trim the border material if the ceiling line is not consistent. You will also discover quickly that you will need a measuring tape, a stepladder, a sponge and numerous buckets of water. You might also need a 4-inch-wide paintbrush to apply a paste activator.

It helps to have a large pasting table that serves as a work platform in the event you need to apply a special adhesive or a clear paste activator gel to the back of the border.

If you want the border to stay attached to the wall for many years, you must pay very close attention to the type of adhesive you will be using. Some borders come pre-pasted from the factory, but that adhesive may not be suitable if you are installing the border on top of a vinyl-coated wallpaper. In these cases, you often must use a special adhesive that bonds borders to other wallpaper products. Be sure to follow the manufacturer’s written instructions, and use the correct adhesive for your situation.

Since you are applying your border to a painted wall, and you will probably buy a pre-pasted border material, the factory-applied glue will be fine. You can apply water to the border to activate the paste, but I have had far better luck with clear paste-activating gels. These gels are quickly brushed onto the back of the border.

Hanging borders requires the same techniques one would use to hang wallpaper. The biggest mistake often made by rookies is the failure to book the border. Booking is a process where you activate the paste and fold the border so the pasted surface folds back on itself. This process allows the border paper to relax. As the paper relaxes, it swells in size.

You want this swelling to happen on the pasting table while you are working with another piece of the border. If you activate the border paste, and then immediately try to hang the border, you will undoubtedly get all sorts of bubbles and blisters on the border as the border swells on the wall. This swelling action pushes the paper off the wall with each new bubble.

Avoid the temptation to wrap the border around inside corners where one wall meets another. The border may look good as you install it, but hours later the border may pull away from the corner as the adhesive dries. Run one piece of wallpaper border around the corner and trim it so there is just 3/16ths inch of border on the next wall. Then match up the pattern and start a new stip of border exactly in the corner. The second piece of border overlaps the small tab of border from the previous strip on the adjacent wall.

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What is Metamerism

05/03/2008 by conrad.

Metamerism is a psychophysical phenomenon commonly defined incorrectly as “two samples which match when illuminated by a particular light source and then do not match when illuminated by a different light source.”

In actuality there are several types of Metamerism, of which the first two described below are most commonly referred to and also most commonly confused:

Sample metamerism: When two color samples appear to match under a particular light source, and then do not match under a different light source this is “sample metamerism.” One can conclude that the spectral reflectance distributions of the 2 samples differ slightly, and their plotted reflectance curves cross in at least 2 regions. By illuminating them with lights with consideralby differing spectral power distributions you can witness and even exaggerate the visual differences between the 2 samples. The example below is how most remember this is the most commonly experienced form of metamerism.

Example: most people have experienced sample metamerism when putting on two socks that appeared to be black while in the bedroom (which may have incandescent lights), but later finding that one is black and the other is blue upon stepping into the kitchen (which may have fluorescent lights). The differences in the wavelength distribution between the incandescent and fluorescent lights interact with the differences in the spectral reflectance curves of the socks to make them appear the same in one light source and different in another.

Explanation: Incandescent light bulbs contain relatively little light in shorter (blue) wavelengths, and thus it would be more difficult to distinguish blue colors in such lighting conditions. The fluorescent illumination in the kitchen emits more short-wavelength light, and thus the dark blue can be more easily distinguished from black. In incandescent light, the socks are a “metameric match”; in fluorescent light, they do not match.

Illuminant metamerism: Illuminant metamerism is witnessed when you have a number of spectrally matched (exactly the same) samples, but when each is independently, yet simultaneously illuminated and viewed under lights whose spectral power distributions differ. You can perceive significant variations of the color.This phenomenon is rarely witnessed, unless you have a light box that allows you to see both lights separated by a divider, and your 2 identical samples illuminated by the different light sources.

Example: When you visit a lighting department of a major home improvement store they will have a bank of lights with dividers in between. Grab a number of identical sample swatches from the paint chip department and place one identical sample under each light. Stand back to winess how each illuminant affects the sample.

Observer metamerism: Every individual perceives color slightly differently. (Assuming the individuals posess adequate color matching aptitude.) This can be demonstrated in many ways, but suffice it to say, observer metamerism is the reason there were 31 individuals tested to derive the 1931 “standard observer” values adopted by the ISO and are still used as the basis for the majority of color science study today.

Geometric metamerism: Identical colors appear different when viewed at different angles, distances, light positions, etc. It can be argued that one reason men and women often perceive color differently is that the distance between woman’s eyes is, on average, slightly less than a man’s, and that slightly different angle of stereoscopic viewpoint also falls under the category of geometric metamerism.

Graphic arts and color reproduction considerations: In the printing industry, metamerism is the source of great frustration. It is perceived as a negative characteristic of color, and if it did not exist, color reproduction problems would be eliminated . In actuality, it is this phenomenon of metamerism that allows for mass color reproduction of an artwork.

Explanation: Artists paint with oils, pastels, crayons, and various dyes and pigments, and each medium has unique spectral reflectance curves. The majority of color reproductions utilize cyan, magenta, yellow, and black inks or colorants. In some cases printers incorporate a few additional colors to expand their gamut. But none of these inks are exact spectral matches to the media originally used to produce the original art. Therefore, a printed reproduction of an original artwork reproduction is a metameric match to the original. Inks used to create a color reproduction can be combined to simulate an artwork, but can only be made to accurately match the reproduction under only one (D50 or D65) light source. Because of metamerism it is impossible to generate a color reproduction that can match under every light source. But without the phenomenon of metamerism, mass color reproductions would not be possible and the color reproduction industry as we know it simply would not exist.

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Athelhampton House & Gardens

26/02/2008 by conrad.

Today we completed a wallpaper restoration project for Athelhampton House & Gardens.  The 15th century estate required 2 rolls of vintage wallpaper.  We were contacted regarding reproducing the vintage wallpaper by the customer and we got the order.

This is were digitally printed wallpaper wins over conventional wallpaper because if you were going to do this project using a rotary screen engraver in the UK, they would sting you for a bill for a few grand .

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Photos onto canvas new site

20/02/2008 by conrad.

Our sister site Canvas Dezign is launching its new site in the next few weeks.  Initial design ideas can be seen, but the main focus will be on the ordering system for your photos onto canvas.

In the meantime if you need your photos onto canvas visit  http://www.canvasdezign.co.uk

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Flexography or Surface Printing

20/02/2008 by conrad.

 

Flexography (also known as surface printing), and often abbreviated to flexo, is a method of printing. Flexo or surface printing is  most commonly used for packaging (Labels, Tape, Bags, Boxes, Banners, Etc). Over the last few years surface printing has become very popular as a “high end” wallpaper printing method

A flexo or surface print is achieved by creating a mirrored image of the required image as a 3D relief in a rubber or polymer material. The required amount of ink is deposited upon the surface of the surface printing plate (or printing cylinder) using an anilox roll. An anilox is the same as a Gravure roller but has a much finer screen ruling.The surface print roller then rotates, contacting the print material which transfers the ink.

Originally flexo /  surface printing was extremely basic in quality and setup. Labels requiring high quality have generally been printed Offset until recently. In the last few years great advances have been made to the quality of flexo printing presses. Finer screens have been used for flexo engraving and developments in software have meant that the “Dots” are barely visible now.

A great method for removing dot structure from a halftone screened flexo roller is to apply what is called a mezzo dither dot.  Mezzo’s have no mechanical structure to them and use clever software techniques to apply the patterns to the artworks.  (A full demonstration and instruction manual on this will be published shortly and can be achieved using only Photoshop)

The greatest advances though have been in the area of PhotoPolymer Printing Plates, including improvements to the plate material and the method of plate creation. This is achieved using photographic exposure and some chemical etching technoques. Direct laser engraving is also used.

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Canvas Prints at Canvas Dezign

12/02/2008 by conrad.

Canvas Prints price cut

Canvas Dezign have reduced the prices on quite a lot of the canvas prints they produce. Canvas prints now start at £10 and the most expensive canvas prints are £99.

For more detailed information on the canvas prints price reductions, see here http://www.canvasdezign.co.uk

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125 jobs are gone as Keating Group closes

03/02/2008 by conrad.

Engraver Closes

The UK’s “largest” gravure cylinders engraving facility has closed, with “around 125″ jobs across the country left hanging in the balance.

Staff at Keating Group, which also specialises in repro and cylinder production and is headquartered in Mold, Flintshire, were told on Friday morning that they were redundant and would not be paid for the last four weeks.

Ex-owner Mike Keating, who sold the business to Mike Samuel and Paul Musto in July last year, called the collapse “disgraceful”.

He claimed Ernst & Young had been appointed administrators this afternoon, “nearly a week” since the directors “pulled the plug”.

A source at one site said there had been “absolutely no expectation” of the shutdown, which the directors blamed on a bank changing its mind about releasing money for the company.

Keating Group’s sites include a cylinder engraving facility in Bradley Fold, Lancashire, a printer inplant facility in Livingston, Scotland, a repro site in Letchworth, Hertfordshire and a site in Dublin.

According to Keating, he was working with Ernst & Young to “trying to arrange something at Bradley Fold”.

“I’m just looking to see if any jobs can be saved,” he said, but admitted that he had “no power or control” to save “people he’d worked with for 20 years.”

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KEATING FACTFILE
Sites
• Mold, Flintshire repro, gravure cylinder engraving and production
• Bradley Fold engraving
• Letchworth design and repro
• Livingston engraving
• Dublin design, repro, engraving

Staff
• 125

Established
• 1987

Customers
• Amcor
• Alcan
• British American Tobacco

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Comments

When will the Printing Industry open up there eyes to the real world?

All print companies should take on board the `right` business people and business models to be successful in the 21st century.

There will be more companies going `bust` due to closing there eyes to the 21st century requirements.

Colin Thompson

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Our Wallpaper goes to Greece

31/01/2008 by conrad.

We have recently completed some wallpaper for a client that is going  to be hung in a Pharmacy in Greece. It goes to show that even in Greece we are being found and wallpaper is still fashionable all over Europe.Please see example below of the wall covering we did.

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A Gift That’s Personal

30/01/2008 by conrad.

It’s not always easy finding the perfect gift that is also personal. Well it’s just become a bit easier. There is a great way for you to combine personal and stylish to your gift giving list whether it is for a birthday, house warming gift or anniversary it’s called a photo canvas.

You can easily make a picture into canvas, or you can have a company do it for you. I suggest that you make a picture into canvas on your own because it is going to save you a great deal of money doing so and it is much more personal as well. Let’s look at how you can accomplish this.

The first and most important thing that you are going to need is a high quality digital picture. This is important for the quality of the picture. You don’t want to use a photo that has very low quality because it is going to show when you print it onto the canvas.

Now choosing the photo that you plan on making into a canvas is just as important as well. This is going to be displayed on the wall of their home, and you want it to brighten up the room. You are creating a piece of wall art.

Alright now that you have found or taken the high quality digital picture that you are going to use now you will need to learn how you are going to get this photo from your computer onto the canvas. It’s much easier than it sounds so don’t worry.

You are going to need to purchase a few things, and you will need to know what size canvas you plan on putting your photo on. Unless you know the exact spot that your gift receiver is going to put your wall art  I suggest that you don’t make this photo canvas that large.

Here is a small list of the things that you are going to need to buy to complete your picture onto canvas for one of the most personal gifts that you can give.

Fabric that you will use to cover the canvas. Make sure that you get enough, you can determine how much you will need when you know how big the canvas is going to be.

One box of canvas and a staple gun and staples.

Alright now that you have your items let’s begin to make a picture into canvas.

There are a few things that you will need to do in order to ensure that everything works perfect, and the first thing is to ensure that the fabric is wrinkle free. So you will need to iron the fabric before you cut it to size for the canvas. Before you cut it it’s important that you cut it to size but leave extra to cover the sides.
When you are putting the fabric on the front of the box canvas you want to be sure that the fabric is tight before you begin stapling it. You don’t want to have any wrinkles on your wall art. If you are making a big picture on canvas you might want to ask someone to help you put the fabric on the box. It will make it much easier, and ensure that there are no wrinkles.

As you can see it is fairly easy for you to make a picture into canvas. If you don’t think that you can handle this on your own there are many websites that you can use that will charge you a fee to make your picture into canvas. The websites are very easy to use.

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DVB Wallpaper

07/01/2008 by conrad.

Last year we completed a project for the celebrity management company 19 entertainment.

Amongst other celebrities, they manage the Beckham’s. We printed a few rolls of bespoke wallpaper for them as a pilot project for a store in London. The wallpaper looked fantastic and was a repeated tile of the Beckham logo as seen below. All this was found from our search engine positions and we completed the wallpaper order within two weeks of receiving. The customer was very pleased with the results as were we!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Lack of wallpaper posts

21/12/2007 by conrad.

Firstly, let me apologise for not writing any wallpaper for the last 2 weeks.  It is silly season at this time of year and everyone wants a piece of you.  No real exciting things to report on the wallpaper scene only that we installed a new large format thermal transfer printer last week.  We had previously been using the Mimaki, but the quality was poor to say the least as the machine was one of the older models.

Now we have an Epson 9600 using 3rd party inks and paper.  The results are unreal. Photo realistic images onto any substrate as long as it has a special carrier on it.  The printer is only in its early stages at the moment but looks very promising.

So what for 2008? Will wallpaper continue to make in roads to the paint industry as paint did in the late 80’s?  I think so!!!

People are using wallpaper more and more to make statements on one walls and feature walls.  I know what your thinking. One walls are so old hat. That is just the point, they are not.  And the best thing about digital wallpaper is that you never have to engrave a single printing roller.

Digital wallpaper is now becoming more and more feasible and I have mentioned it before, but will the tides ever change from traditionally engraved wallpapers to digitally printed wallpapers?  I can only hope the answer to that is yes and that the newer generation of wallpaper manufacturers are given the chance.  The trouble with the wallpaper industry is people are terrified of change.

The greatest place I ever worked was Crown Wallcoverings. Over 10 years ago we were attempting to be the first digital wallpaper border printer.  Back then we used a Xeikon print machine.  Looking back it was a great task as consumables were so expensive.  Things have not changed that much now. Consumables are still very expensive and printing times are very slow.  With time things in the digital wallpaper market can only get better.

Those that are in the digital wallpaper market now are very well placed to be established as leaders in it at some point in the future.

At Concept Coverings, we want to change the face of wallpaper and be able to offer every consumer the chance to have a piece of bespoke wallpaper on their wall without being ripped off by some fat cat engraver.

If you would like any more details on any of the wallpaper products on sale, be it wallpapers or wall murals, please call Conrad and he is always happy to have a chat with you.

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Wallcoverings Success in Third Quarter

18/12/2007 by conrad.

Latest industry statistics, compiled by Whittle Industry Data, and presented at the British Coatings Federation Wallcovering Sector Council meeting at Graham & Brown’s India Mill factory, show wallcoverings continuing to thrive as 2007 draws to a close, with the fourth quarterly market increase in a row.

The UK market for wallcoverings is up by 15% compared to the same period last year. A strong showing by any means, but also reflecting the generally unpredicable UK economy and upbeat consumer sectors. This is still despite signs of possible slow times ahead in the property market
DIY sales have also grown with strong sales to superstores in sector 3, supported by improved consumer sentiment on the use of wallcoverings, which has been demonstrated by the fact that wallcovering sales are currently growing faster than those of paint.

There is more work for the industry to do, however, with the export recovery still having some way to go, and a sustained competitive presence of European wallcoverings making inroads into the UK market.

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Photo on Canvas announce Gift Voucher Launch

05/12/2007 by conrad.

Yesterday saw the long awaited release of Gift Vouchers from Canvas Dezign.  The new service offered by the company allows users to buy a voucher and have it sent to an address of their choice.

It was also said that as an extra little touch, all gift vouchers are being sent out on a peice of A5 envelope size canvas to add to that personalised effect.

For more information of canvas print gift vouchers or having your photo on canvas,  visit http://www.canvasdezign.co.uk/canvas-print-vouchers.html

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New Wall Mural and Wallcovering media

28/11/2007 by conrad.

We have recently been testing a very impressive new wallcovering / wall mural media.  The paper is a self adhesive paper backed vinyl and allows the user to stick the paper to the wall and you then have approx. 30 mins to move the image around before it sticks permanently.
Removal of the wallpaper is also very easy and leaves no marks on the wall, only the lining paper back.

More details will be released soon.

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