Archive for February, 2009

Hahnemuhle USA, North American distributor of high-quality digital art media from Hahnemuhle FineArt GmbH, has just unveiled a premium quality, canvas print wrapping system called Gallerie Wrap. Gallerie Wrap is a complete system of easy-to-use fastening components and stretching frames to accommodate most popular imaging formats. It requires no special tools and, with a little practice, allows artists and photographers to produce professional quality gallery wraps in minutes.

Gallery wraps are images printed on a quality canvas digital medium, such as Hahnemuhle Daguerre Canvas 400gsm or Monet Canvas 410gsm, then stretched and mounted to a frame with the image wrapped around the edges. In recent years, this type of presentation has become extremely popular because of the artistic look it lends to almost any image.

Booksmart Studio currently offers BF Inkjet Canvas, Magiclee by Intelicoat, Canson Infinity, Fredrix, & Hahnemuhle canvas in our on-line store.

Traditionally, to obtain the gallery wrap look you would have had to outsource this work to your local frame shop. With the new Hahnemuhle Gallerie Wrap System, however, you can make the canvas print, stretch and fasten it to the frame yourself, at home, in about 5 minutes!
Hahnemuhle Gallerie Wrap stretching frames are available in two sizes. The Standard Stretching Bars offer a frame depth of 1 ¼” tall, and the depth of the PRO Stretcher Bars is 1 ¾”. There will be a total of 17 bar lengths that produce all common size frames and more; so that you can tailor the frame size to suit your requirements.

The Standard version is offered in the following lengths: 8”, 10”, 11”, 12”, 14”, 16”, 18”, 20” and 24”.

The Pro version offers the following lengths: 20”, 24”, 30”, 32”, 36”, 40”, 48” and 60”.

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

Kayell Australia, in association with Booksmart Studio, is pleased to announce the addition of Booksmart Studio inkjet printable Fine Art Metals series into our line of fine art digital imaging materials. These Fine Art Metals are comprised of aluminum and gold coated with a inkjet receptive coating and provide clear, crisp images with a beautifully luminous background. The Fine Art Metals provide digital artists with a unique substrate allowing them to incorporate new and exciting elements into their work.



The Fine Art Metals series is available in thicknesses of 0.30mm, 0.40mm, and 0.51mm and sheet sizes of A4, A3, A3+, 17" x 22", 20" x 24", and 20" x 36". Additional sheet sizes of 20" x 40", 20" x 60" and 20" x 80" are available as special order items. Adhesive backing is included to simplify the mounting process and is optional on certain sizes. 



The Fine Art Metals are available in aluminum, with Brushed Silver, Matte Silver, Satin Silver, and Satin White finishes and in gold, with a Satin Gold Finish. A Fine Art Metals sampler set is available containing five sheets of 1.3mm thick material in Matte Silver, Satin Silver, Satin Gold, Satin White and Brushed Silver, all with adhesive backing. After printing, the Fine Art Metals require top coating with a inkjet varnish to protect the inkjet receptive coating.


Printers having a "straight through" substrate path can be used with the 1.3mm, 3.0mm, and 4.0mm thicknesses ( All Epson Wide Format Printers ). Printers incorporating a "J-curve" substrate path are limited to the 0.30mm thick material. Before printing, check to ensure that the metal will feed through the printer by loading a sheet.



About Booksmart Studio Founder Eric Kunsman has a background in Book Arts & Printmaking having received his MFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. This training serves as Eric’s basis for the tradition of the book as an artform while having a passion for digital technology. Eric’s passion in digital technology stems from his time spent at RIT where he received an MS in Electronic Publishing from the School of Print Media Sciences, in which he concentrated on inkjet printing technology. He also received degrees in Biomedical Photography and Fine Art Photography from RIT’s School of Photographic Sciences. Eric is a practicing photographer and book artist having shown his work Internationally and continually working to push his work further.

About Kayell Australia
For nearly forty years Kayell has been a success story in the extremely competitive Imaging industry. Kayell has maintained this success through times which have seen many of the industry’s respected names disappear. It has managed to do this by not just keeping up with the industry but evolving ahead of the market, recognizing openings or gaps within the imaging business that required solutions and providing the answers in combination with some of the best suppliers of products, whether they be hardware or software, to be found anywhere in the world.
 


For more information please contact

Robert Gatto

Sales & Marketing Director
Kayell Australia
Ph: 02 94399377
robert@kayell.com.au

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!