Paper and canvas giclées can be dry mounted with a hot press or glued to the substrate.
Can you frame a canvas giclee.
And there are a bazillion choices.
By using your print as a guide measure the conservation board and border mat the same size as the print.
Definitely use a frame style that will accent the appearance.
A stretcher bar is used to build a frame which the printed canvas wrapped around.
This is a 1 5in gallery beveled canvas stretcher frame.
Yes if you can.
We also use high quality stretcher bars for our wrapped canvas prints.
Whether any of these frame less solutions are more cost effective depends on what you spend on a frame.
The standard frame sizes are 8 10 11 14 16 20 18 24 20 24 24 30 and 30 40 but some stores will have other sizes like 10 20.
The stretcher frames underlying those canvases are budget quality and not built to stand the test of time.
Now that you have the canvas s measurements and know what style of frame you want you can shop for a frame.
You will need to make sure that mounted materials are archival quality to ensure preserving your new print.
There are plently of cheap frames available online and some of them are great values.
You can choose a wood picture frame metal frame or floater frame for stretched canvas artwork the latter of which is made especially for canvases.
Any framing expert would likely be able to point to dozens of additional things to do but these should go a long way in helping you if you are framing your giclee prints online.
You can frame giclée yourself and get museum quality prints by following these steps.
Should you frame the work to match it s environment.
At royalcanvas we use archival inks with epson giclee printers to turn our customers photos into beautiful canvas prints.