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Melinda Tennis

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The local boutique hotel purchased 6 large, stretched digital prints on canvas. They are float framed. The canvas is far too light weight for the size, 45 x 55. They are only a few months old and they are all rippling. Some worse than others. Sorry didn't take pics. Should I drymount them, build a 1x1 cradle, to make it like it's stretched, to re-use the float frames? I spoke to the artist, who has no knowledge of what they are printed on, or of what the solution would be. They're sold and no longer his concern. I'd appreciate any opinions from those who may have drymounted such carpy things. Send them somewhere else is a pleasing thought. Thank you. My cost estimate is $1300. each.
 
Depending on the depth of the floaters, one pretty simple solution would be to outsource the mounting and have the pieces cold mounted in a roller press to gator board and adhere the existing strainers to the back of the gator and re-install into the floaters.
 
Are they on stretchers with keyed corners? I suspect not..... You will have to get keyed bars and
re-stretch them. That should fix the ripples, but the problem is that they probably won't fit back in
the floaters. :confused:
 
Sounds like they are printed on that "fake canvas" that often ripples. If so, even restretching them may not be a permanent solution.
:coffeedrinker:2: Rick
 
Thanks y'all. I am giving them a high quote to take one apart and see if it's a stretcher or a strainer. Then I can know what's what. Any company you've worked with that does the cold roller mounting, or just Google?
 
Looking at the replies, the first two are the choices, to me at least.

Walk away. Which to me depends on the customer and if I would like any future business from them.

Outsource the mounting, especially on something this crappy.
I would stress the fact that you cannot guarantee the outcome as you don't have full control over the quality of the materials that were used.
 
Thanks Ylva. The hotel manager is clueless as to the problems I'll encounter. I'll try to put it in writing for him and the corporate stiffs. I doubt a coherent response. Hope springs eternal.
 
Fixing a problem someone else created seems to be a recurring role for custom framers.
You absolutely should be well compensated if you decide to take on this responsibility.

And yes, definitely write up a detailed breakdown of what will be required to "rescue" these items.
They should understand the extra work involved for you that exceeds the amount of work if it had been done well in the first place.
They really should go after whoever produced these poor-quality items for compensation. But that will likely be pointless.

I had a largish "cheap" digital canvas a few years ago that was printed on fairly thin material.
It was almost more like banner vinyl than actual canvas.
I ended up mounting it on Mountcor with a fairly shallow frame around it.
 
Melinda Tennis said:
Thanks Ylva. The hotel manager is clueless as to the problems I'll encounter. I'll try to put it in writing for him and the corporate stiffs. I doubt a coherent response. Hope springs eternal.
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Most non framing people are clueless to what we need to do in order to make it look good. I wouldn't give too many details on that. I would however explain that a large part of the problem might not go away as the materials used to create this 'art' 'print', is the main reason it is now rippling.

Maybe wet mounting is another option, but again, I don't think I would want to be part of this problem. It might not hang in the best environment either?
 
We've had this problem and solved it by mounting the canvas to Gatorfoam with Lamin-all and reattaching to the bars. The only hook in the process is if the Gatorfoam makes the whole package too thick to fit the floater. If so, you'll need to build a set of thinner bars. Using keyed bars usually means periodic adjustments. The thinner printable canvas seems to be capable of expanding indefinitely.
 
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