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.

LYVE Canvas^TM

Unleashed in May 2009 under the bold mantra "Go Live with Lyve", the award-winning Lyve™ Canvas is poised to take the printing industry by storm. With eye-popping color gamut and dmax, coupled with critical archival certification and the ability to apply a laminate hassle-free, it sets a new standard of exceptionalism in fine art and photographic printmaking. Internally, we refer to this masterful blend of artistry and engineering as "the game changer" that will capture every nuance in your images. The Lyve™ Canvas is a 20.5 mil bright white, consistent poly-cotton blend matte canvas using an acid-free, neutral pH coating. Unlike 99% of available inkjet canvas products on the market today (for giclee printing), this canvas utilizes our "Chromata White" optical brightener additive-free (i.e No OBA's are used in this product) and fluorescent whitening agent-free breakthrough technology.

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.

Lyve Canvas 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.