813-251-9334 • 2105 S Dale Mabry, Tampa, FL
We use 4 mediums
for our art prints
Matte Poster Paper
Poster Paper Matte is a low cost, uncharacteristically high quality paper tailor-made for fine art poster reproduction and proofing. This paper has 100% opacity (blockout) and highly advanced coating technology that surpasses the color production capabilities of most matte papers on the market today. Poster Paper Matte produces incredible detail.
Elegance™ Textured Fine Art Paper
Elegance™ Velvet Platinum Edition is a vellum surface (lightly textured) Fine Art Paper ideally suited for luxurious fine art and photographic reproduction, portraits, greeting cards, post cards, and presentational art graphics for printed displays.
We guarantee that no 100% cotton rag fine art paper on the market today can compete with the color gamut and Dmax that this fine art paper delivers. Elegance™ Velvet Platinum Edition is truly ahead of its time.
This 310g, Bright White, water-resistant Fine Art Paper is made from 100% cotton fiber and is acid and lignin free. Elegance™ Velvet Platinum Edition is a proprietary mouldmade fine art paper that is stronger and more dimensionally stable than other velvet inkjet papers currently available today. It has a high white point, and a remarkable ink load capacity that can be pushed beyond the standard thought of limitation.
Optica One™ Smooth Fine Art Paper
Optica One™, is the latest innovation tailor-made for the demanding and discerning photographer who values superiority in print quality performance. With a proprietary inkjet receptive coating that delivers off-the-chart dmax and color gamut numerical readings, Optica One™ represents the new age of fine art papers from Breathing Color™ and is unmistakably in a league of its own.
Optica One™ is a 300gsm bright white, matte fine art paper with a luxuriously smooth surface ideal for high resolution photographic imagery. It is able to produce extremely crisp and accurate detail as a result of its leadership (when measured against other fine art papers on the market today) in tonal range value, line quality, line contrast, and raggedness.
Optica One Passes Blue Wool Test
Extensive independent testing by a UKAS accredited laboratory has concluded that the Optica One 300gsm Fine Art Paper meets and exceeds the standards set forth by the Fine Art Trade Guild for pH and lightfastness. The Fine Art Trade Guild has established these standards in order to protect the interests of consumers. Consumers who follow the Blue Wool Testing and the Fine Art Trade Guild standards can be confident that the art and framing supplies they use are archival.
Brilliance Chromata WhiteTM
Chromata White™ Canvas is a textured 20.5 mil Bright White, consistent Poly Cotton Blend Matte Canvas using an acid-free, neutral pH coating. Unlike 99.9% of available inkjet canvas products on the market today, this canvas utilizes our "Chromata White" optical brightener additive-free and Fluorescent Whitening agent-free breakthrough technology.
"Chromata White" gives the end-user the most stable platform on which to print photographs and fine art works without the metamerism issues or color shift issues inherent on other canvases. Optical Brighteners compromise the attainment of true color, they complicate profiling accuracy, and they inevitably deteriorate and yellow over time.
Chromata White™ Canvas is the most archival canvas available. In addition, its breakthrough technology results in a canvas that is whiter than traditional canvas manufactured with OBA's. Chromata White™ Canvas utilizes our most advanced inkjet canvas coating technology that is a far industry leader in Dmax and Color Gamut.
The water resistant surface works exceptionally well with Glamour™ II Veneer, our proprietary water-based top coat coating designed specifically for our line of inkjet canvas. If coated with Glamour II, this canvas will not crack even under extremely rigorous stretching conditions.
Brilliance Chromata White Passes Blue Wool Test
Extensive independent testing by a UKAS accredited laboratory has concluded that the Chromata White Canvas meets and exceeds the standards set forth by the Fine Art Trade Guild for pH and lightfastness. The Fine Art Trade Guild has established these standards in order to protect the interests of consumers. Consumers who follow the Blue Wool Testing and the Fine Art Trade Guild standards can be confident that the art and framing supplies they use are archival.
Blue Wool Testing
The Fine Art Trade Guild has established these standards in order to protect the interests of consumers. Consumers who follow the Blue Wool Testing and the Fine Art Trade Guild standards can be confident that the art and framing supplies they use are archival.
Key Requirements of the Blue Wool Test
· Lightfastness of finished print - results of 6 or more on the Blue Wool Scale in all areas of the print - or its equivalent under empirical test conditions.
· Guild standard pH for substrate of 7-9, amended September 2002 to pH 7-10
· Minimum weight of substrate of 250gsm.
Blue Wool Testing Standards
Standards for blue wool testing are defined by: ASTM D5383-97 Standard Practice for Visual Determination of the Lightfastness of Art Materials by Art TechnologistsResults Blue Wool 6 = 100 years display life
Blue Wool Scale
Measures and calibrates the permanence of prints. Two identical test prints are created. A calibrated blue wool test strip is masked (1/2). The strip and one test print are placed under xenon lamps in accordance with the test standards. The other print is stored in the dark as a control. At various times, the test print is compared to the control print. When visible fading is evident the wool test strip is examined. The amount of fading is then measured by comparison to the original color and a rating between 0 and 8 is awarded. Zero denotes extremely poor colour fastness while an Eight rating is deemed not to have altered from the original and thus credited as being lightfast and permanent. Blue Wool 6 is the excepted standard for limited edition prints.