Your Digital Artwork Giclée Printed on a Custom Wall Scroll
So, you have your own graphic art and you want it mounted as a traditional Asian wall scroll.
I have a great fine art giclée printer that can create a beautiful version of your artwork on Japanese kozo paper or Chinese xuan paper. That giclée print can be built into a beautiful silk brocade wall scroll at my workshop in Beijing.
The technical details...
For best results, I need a TIFF file at 300dpi at the desired output size.
Example: If you want the paper panel to be 33cm / 13" wide, it's best to have a TIFF file with a width of 3900 pixeals (1950px would be the bare minimum).
If you have a Photoshop PSD file or Adobe Illustrator AI file, I can work with that too - but just do a save-as TIFF.
JPEG images are not the best, as the compression often creates artifacts or "jaggies" in the image. If you are stuck with JPEG, email me the file, and I'll let you know if it will work well.
I have a Canon ProGraf Pro-2000 printer featuring 12 tanks of virtually UV-proof ink. This printer series is arguably the best fine art giclée printer currently available. It's also one of very few that can handle handmade papers like kozo or xuan (rice paper) without jamming.
A photographer that I admire, Jeremy Cowart, and his Canon imagePROGRAF PRO Series printer.
It took me a few years to find just the right fine art giclée printer.
The first printer handled the handmade papers from Japan and China really well, but the dye-based ink could fade in direct sunlight (dye-based inks are not good for long-lasting art).
The next printer was a huge HP DesignJet. I spent almost $7000 on the used printer, new heads, and new ink tanks just get it going. However, it constantly jammed when trying to feed these fine papers. I sold it for $1200 - ouch!
I finally bought a wonderful Canon imagePROGRAF PRO Series. A big investment (printer and initial ink, about $6000) but this time it was a good investment.
This Canon printer has 18,432 nozzles and can fire more than 32 Million precision droplets of ink per second. Your home inkjet printer cannot compete with that.
There are 12 ink tanks, and with so many ink colors, the gamut is excellent.
This printer can reproduce any color the human eye can perceive, and the gradients and tones are smooth and, well, perfect.
I use only authentic Canon Lucia Pro pigment-based inks. This ink is archival and UV-resistant. In independent laboratory testing, giclée prints created with this ink are rated to last 95 years without fading (but still don't hang this in direct sunlight). I figure you'll get a lifetime of enjoyment if you take good care of this artwork.