keeping your work surface clean is a good idea to start, prints can become contaminated with anything from dust, ink, glue or a whole host of stuff lying around the art studio. Store them in a safe place and keep them neat on a purpose built prints bench. When your ready to wrap the canvas around the stretcher bars layout your canvas first onto a soft cloth and then measure the frame neatly onto the canvas.
Using a staple gun start in the middle of one stretcher bar and work your way around clockwise stapling the middle of the other sides and remember to pull the canvas taught while stapling. work your way out to the corners of the canvas and then fold the corners using the gallery wrap method so that your finished print looks neat and tidy.
Making a canvas print
Some tips to make a great lasting canvas print.
making a great canvas print depends on how neat and tidy you are as much as how great your set up or studio is. You can have the best giclee printers and mac in the world, but unless you have the right method to make a print then your stunning images that have been printed out are worthless.
the gallery wrap method is the most common way of wrapping a canvas over wooden stretcher bars. There are hundreds of canvas products out there that you could potentially print onto. The thickness of the canvas is very important as you dont want the canvas to warp or fade over time.
