Blanco Matte Canvas is a fine woven canvas specially coated for inkjet printing. The results are simply stunning with rich colors and deep blacks. Discover a new way to share your photos and art from your desktop or wide format printer today. Blanco features an elegant double weave surface texture that offers great balance between image clarity and the visual appeal of the canvas look. Color saturation is excellent and black density is deep and bold with both dye and pigment inks. Blanco Matte Canvas is made using 65% polyester and 35% cotton content. Make sure to download the Canvas Handling Guide.
Blanco Matte Canvas is a fine woven canvas specially coated for inkjet printing. The results are simply stunning with rich colors and deep blacks. Discover a new way to share your photos and art from your desktop or wide format printer today. Blanco features an elegant double weave surface texture that offers great balance between image clarity and the visual appeal of the canvas look. Color saturation is excellent and black density is deep and bold with both dye and pigment inks. Blanco Matte Canvas is made using 65% polyester and 35% cotton content. Make sure to download the Canvas Handling Guide.
Both products are made 65/35 2:1 woven canvas. The coating of Satin Canvas has a slight reflective sheen. The Matte Canvas surface has no reflection or sheen. Satin Canvas uses Photo Black inks and Matte Canvas uses Matte Black ink.
Blanco Canvas vs. Palo Duro Canvas
The primary reason we introduced Palo Duro Canvas is supplier redundancy. These days, having more than one source for important product and supplies is critical. If you notice a Blanco product is out of stock, check the Palo Duro Matte Canvas inventory, and vice versa. Both are professional quality products with similar surface texture and tone. Palo Duro is offered in rolls only at this time.
Ideal For:
Transforming photos into art on real canvas
Gallery wraps and flat mounts
Images with deep blacks and rich color
Good To Know:
Real cotton/poly woven canvas
Superb saturation and black density
Matte (non-reflective) finish
Double weave pattern
Natural white shade
Water based coating compatible
Do not use canvas with desktop printers that only feed from a front tray
Pigment Ink Users: This media requires Matte Black ink.
Blanco Matte Canvas Display Info
This product can be displayed under glass in a frame, mounted to board and displayed in the open, or stretched and mounted on a gallery wrap. If your canvas print will be displayed in the open, we highly recommend coating it with a water based protective sealant.
To Prepare for Coating:
Let print Dry 24 hours after printing.
Print must me on a flat, smooth surface.
At 50% RH (± 10%) and 70° F (+/- 10° F), roll or spray a water based coating. For best results, use a water based spray certified by Wilhelm Imaging Research.
Print must be completely dry before stretching. Usually at least 6 hours.
Mounting
Use only archival acid-free products for finishing & mounting.
Use cold mounting materials. Heat mounting is NOT recommended.
Use pressure sensitive lamination. Heat lamination is not recommended.
I am just starting to print and sell some of my digital art, and have found Blanco Matte Canvas prints to sell the best. The easy of printing is wonderful.
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Blanco Matte Canvas
Diane Aiena
05/17/2022
I print client's art work on the Blanco Matte Canvas. The client either sells the framed, finished product, hangs them in their house or gives them as gifts. I and my clients are very happy with the finished product.
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Blanco Matte Canvas Trial
Joe Hensley
04/09/2022
I have only recently set up for this medium and printed several trial projects to show customers. I think the results are beautiful results, but the customers will have the final word.
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Blanco Matte Canvas | My Go To House Matte Canvas
Steve Bunce
01/07/2022
Verified Buyer
I've been using RR Blanco Matte Canvas for several years now for the many gallery wraps and canvas prints I create for some very demanding artists and photographers around the world. It's an affordable solution, easy to stretch and wrap, and make for a stunning print. My customers love this canvas, and so do i!
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The #1 canvas at our fine art printing shop
BSLprints
11/23/2021
Verified Buyer
Excellent quality at a great price. We carry multiple types of canvas from different brands at my fine art printing shop, and Blanco Matte Canvas from Red River is consistently the top seller by quite a lot.
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Blanco canvas is great... But
Tony U
10/05/2021
Verified Buyer
It's a pretty stiff medium which makes it a breeze to stretch. I override the default feed and it works like a charm thru the regular sheet feeder on the Epson p800.
My only beef is that the stiffness makes stretching small canvases (9x12)more difficult than necessary.
Color is great - quality terrific. Good product!
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Wonderful Media to Showcase Digital Drawings
Barry Goldstein
03/13/2020
Verified Buyer
I normally use one of Red River's 100% cotton papers for printing. But the canvas adds a nice softness and a different texture to many of my pieces. Highly, highly recommend it.
I was reluctant to use Epson P800's front Fine Art Media loading, but for the 13" x 19" sheets, there really is no option. Once you get over the fear of doing it this way, and setting the "skewed paper" alert to off, this works perfectly fine. (Also should open the printer's top to make sure the paper is properly fed into the printer.)
Using a frame to stretch the canvas does not work for me. Frames require something close to 3" margins on all sides. This means we lose 13" - 6" in the width - and the print is down to 7" wide. It's better to just print as wide as you want, and then purchase a mat and frame.
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A revelation with Blanco Matte Canvas and my Canon printer
Cindy Hamilton
10/24/2019
Lately, I've been having problems getting my prints to look like my computer screen. A friend asked me to do a job for her, copy a painted portrait of her granddaughter, and print it for her. I photographed it outside, with diffused light, propped on a music stand and my camera on a tripod. I then "played" with it in Photoshop bumping up contrast, doing a curve adjustment, brightening it just a smidge. Then I printed, carefully copying the profile from Red River and installing it in the library of my computer. My first print was a bust and looked awful. THEN I realized I had one more step that I'd ignored, changing the paper type (*not profile) within my printer's settings to* fine art canvas*. What an incredible difference, and the print was zingy and nearly looked like I had painted directly on it. I LOVE this paper canvas. I bought the 24 inch roll, and would do it again in a heartbeat. My prints were the best ever! Thank you Red River. It's silly to be so excited but I am.
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Beautiful paper
Gary Brown
10/05/2019
As an inkjet artist, I purchased this to make copies of my wife's original water color paintings. The quality is superb and unmatched! The copies I've made have been exhibition quality. My wife's artist community of friends are so impressed they have asked to make copies of their work. I would say: "Impress You Friends, Family and Community with this fine art reproduction".
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Feed Issues
I too am having feed issues with Blanco Matte even after setting my printer to the thick paper setting and, as recommended ,using a thin cardboard backer for support. After several mis-feeds it usually feeds. Print quality is excellent after the effort.
Ellis C Baldwin - 04/20/2013
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Archival Grade Paper
Papers with the Archival designtation can take many forms. They can be glossy, matte, canvas, or an artistic product. These papers are acid free, lignin free and can be made of virgin tree fiber (alpha cellulose) or 25-100% cotton rag. They are likely to have optical or fluorescent brightening agents (OBAs) - chemicals that make the paper appear brighter white. Presence of OBAs does not indicate your image will fade faster. It does predict a slow change in the white point of your paper, especially if it is displayed without UV filter glass or acrylic.
Archival Grade Summary
Numerous papers - made from tree or cotton content
Acid and lignin free base stock
Inkjet coating layer acid free
Can have OBAs in the base or the coating
Photobase Coating Acidity
Photobase resin coated (RC) inkjet papers always have a slightly acidic coating. The acid content (pH 6.8) makes instant ink drying possible. The level of acid content is not high enough to affect print stability over time.
The base stock of all Red River inkjet papers are acid free.