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Quality / About our products
Quality is very important to us as Perfect Picture
Company. We only use the highest quality materials, printers and
inks for our photo to canvas, gallery canvases, Image Bloc box
frames and poster prints. This gives you the best quality products
at exceptional value for money.
We manufacturer all our products, by hand, in-house
and in the UK, except for our superb range of ready made wood and
aluminium frames, which we source direct from Nielsen – one of the
world’s largest names for frames and mouldings. This allows us to
have complete control over the sourcing, manufacturing and
construction of our canvases, Image Blocs and poster prints. The
difference is quality. Something tangible that you can see and feel
when you receive your order.
Canvas – Your photo to canvas and our range of Gallery canvas art. |
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We use industry
leading Epson wide format printers and genuine pigment based 8
colour UltraChrome inks, for superb detail, vivid colour, tonality
and light fastness. UltraChrome inks have an increased lightfast
ness and durability of over 75 years if displayed in the right
environment. Allowing you to get many years’ pleasure and enjoyment
from your images and artwork that will remain vibrant and bright.
UltraChrome inks
are pigment based, inkjet printing, sometimes referred to as Giclée
(The
word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur"
meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt,
spurt, or spray". It was coined by Jack Duggane, a
printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based
digital print used as fine art.) This method of printing produces
the best canvas art printing available today.
An
additional benefit of the 8 colour UltraChrome inks is its three
different blacks (K3). Black, light black and light light black;
allow stunning reproduction of shadow detail, depth and tonality in
black & white printing. Ink jet, giclée, printing can now rival
traditional ‘wet’, silver halide, dark room printing.
Our
canvas is an ultra white, heavyweight 415gsm cotton weave matte
canvas giving amazing colour reproduction, print detail and
vibrancy. Woven in India and coated in the USA, we have yet to find
a superior canvas on the market – at any price.
Beautiful print is only part of the equation. Our frames are another
intrinsic reason for choosing a canvas from Perfect Picture Company.
Sourced from Europe and made from the best winter cut laminated
pine. Our traditional stretcher frames are precision machined and
finger-jointed; meaning that longer stretcher bars are made from
several lengths of wood that are spliced together. This results in
exceptionally straight lengths that resist warping and sit flat
against the wall. Our stretcher bar lengths are machined with a
precise curved lip that angles away from the print when stretched,
so no unsightly frame imprint shows through the finished canvas and
there is no edge cracking.
Our
bigger canvas sizes also come crossed and braced, for even more
strength and stability – an example of our pursuit for excellence
and attention to detail. We are that confident about our stretcher
frame construction that we offer a lifetime guarantee against
manufacturing defect.
An
important part of using traditional stretcher frames is the
inclusion of wedges. Our wedges are made from the same high quality
pine that our stretcher frames lengths use and are an essential part
of any canvas. Not only do wedges help the stretch of the canvas,
giving it additional tension, with no sagging, they can be used to
re-tension the print if necessary. Because canvas is a natural,
breathing product; changes in humidity and environment may cause the
canvas to loosen over the years. This is normal for a natural
product such as canvas. The wedges allow you to tap them with a
light hammer to re-stretch the canvas.
Image Bloc |
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Image
Blocs are a contemporary way of displaying your images and artwork.
Constructed from a solid wood frame that is 50mm deep, the image is
printed on heavyweight 275gsm photographic self-adhesive media using
our Epson UltraChrome 8 colour inks. This is then over laminated
with 125 micron crystal clear laminate and secured to a 5mm thick
foam core board. The image board is then recessed into the wood box
frame, giving a nice inset shadow depth to your artwork. Image Bloc
has the appearance of a solid, deep box frame when hanging on your
wall.
The
solid wood mouldings are sourced from a supplier who adheres to FSC
standards and renewable sources. The frame moulding is precision
mitered and glued together. Additional ‘V’ wedges are used front and
back for extreme strength and durability and each Image Bloc is
supplied with an innovative hanging bracket – ready to hang on your
wall.
Printed Posters |
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Using the same 8 Colour UltraChrome inks and
Epson printers as our canvas printing and Image Blocs, we can
produce stunning photo enlargements at poster print size from your
photographs. Using professional
Adobe Photoshop
interpolation / enlargement or
Genuine Fractals
software, we can enlarge your photos to huge sizes, with no loss of
quality.
Printed
on a heavyweight 285gsm Gloss photo paper for beautiful, vivid
colours and superb detail.
Readymade frames with wood & aluminium mouldings |
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Our
large range of ready made frames come direct from Nielsen – superior
mouldings, glass windows and aperture mounts from one of the world’s
leading brands in picture framing. Available in a wide variety of
finishes and sizes – A4, A3, A2 up to a large 70-100cm in wood and
aluminum. All our frames come with glass, not plastic and we offer a
range of aperture mounts, picture hooks and hanging accessories to
complete the range.
If you
require any further information regarding the quality of our
products, please contact us at: 01733 393383 or e-mail us at:
info@perfectpicturecompany.com
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