First attempt at a mural...help with paper selection

[mark707]

Hi all,

I have been using my Canon iPF8300 mainly for canvas printing, however I am looking at branching out into murals.  Does anyone have any recommendations for paper selection??

Many thanks
Mark

[Sven W]

Mark,
You're about to leave the safety of the Fine Art Printing World!
With "murals", do you mean wallpapers, tiles of wallpaper?
I just finished printed images for four hotel rooms, each with three panels. With a total printed area of 730 sqf,
34 tiles, each 90" high at different widths. I used a non-woven wallpaper, 170gms, 36" wide. PVC-free and no glass fibre.
There's two major techniques with wallpapers; edge-to-edge or overlay. The most precise is the edge-to-edge, but also the most
difficult to print, or more; to prepare the files in the right way. You do the overlay-method when printing on thin, 90gms Billboard Blueback paper.
Edge-to-edge should work to print borderless tiles, but with lengths at 90-100 " it works sometimes. If the printer skew the paper just a hair thin,
it goes in the garbage 
I send  my tiles to a mounting studio and let them cut through two tiles together, because the prints are 1 inch wider then the final tile.
Good Luck !
/Sven

[mark707]

Sven,

Many thanks for the reply.  I am looking at offering custom wallpapers similar to what these guys are doing:

http://www.wallfactor.co.uk/index.php?route=common/home

I am planning to try edge-to-edge first, using the tiling function in Perfect Resize...I am anticipating a fair amount of trial and error!! 

Thanks for the information about your choice of paper!

Regards
Mark

[dgberg]

Hi all,

I have been using my Canon iPF8300 mainly for canvas printing, however I am looking at branching out into murals.  Does anyone have any recommendations for paper selection??

Many thanks
Mark

Phototex.
For murals,posters and wallpaper.
Repositionable backed fabric and very economical as well.

[mark707]

Great, thanks Dan!

[Sven W]

Borderless or cutting afterwards?

/Sven

Sven,

Many thanks for the reply.  I am looking at offering custom wallpapers similar to what these guys are doing:

http://www.wallfactor.co.uk/index.php?route=common/home

I am planning to try edge-to-edge first, using the tiling function in Perfect Resize...I am anticipating a fair amount of trial and error!! 

Thanks for the information about your choice of paper!

Regards
Mark

[Sven W]

One more...Can you re-print just a single tile in Perfect Resize? Or do you have to print all tiles from an image?

/Sven

[mark707]

Sven,

I was going to try borderless, as I said with probably a fair amount of trial an error making sure the tile edges join cleanly.

The tile creator in Perfect Resize saves each tile as a different file.

Many thanks
Mark

[Sven W]

Sven,

I was going to try borderless, as I said with probably a fair amount of trial an error making sure the tile edges join cleanly.

The tile creator in Perfect Resize saves each tile as a different file.

Many thanks
Mark

Cross my fingers ....../Sven

[mstevensphoto]

at that size I'm not sure I'd even consider borderless - printing the image with a bleed and trimming means that you shouldn't have to reprint much of anything and you can add printers marks for whomever does the trimming to line everything up just right.

[mark707]

at that size I'm not sure I'd even consider borderless - printing the image with a bleed and trimming means that you shouldn't have to reprint much of anything and you can add printers marks for whomever does the trimming to line everything up just right.

OK many thanks for the advice

[dgberg]

Have requested a sample roll of Phototex today but it is a tad expensive (approx £10 psm) It looks an amazing product for particular applications that require its flexibility but I was wondering if anyone had recommendations for a supplier of wet strength wallpaper for normal application with paste?  I'm looking at offering both options!

Many thanks for any info.

regards
Mark

Phototex is cheaper then almost every photo paper and canvas on the market at under a $1.00 a square foot.
Where the big savings with this product comes in is when hanging. Peel the back off and apply to the wall effortlessly.
If you compare paying someone to apply standard wallpaper with glue to a Phototex application the glued paper project is "Twice" as expensive.
As always materials are fairly cheap, its the labor thats the killer.