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Do you want to decorate your house with paintings and photographs of your loved ones or memorable moments? Want to make something that is creative as well as easy? Then canvas printing is an ideal way to show off your creativity in decorating your house walls without much investment of labor and money. Canvas printing is a modern way to exhibit your artistic streak. It is simply about printing images onto the canvas which is gallery wrapped or stretched over a frame and can be put to display.

Now you can print your favorite pictures of your pets or magnificent landscapes or produce your own artwork on the canvas which will add a creative touch to your work. Moreover, using digital images on your computer to print on canvas can be an added bonus since it is lucrative and a pretty simple task.

Here are certain pre-requisite tools and equipments that you will need to make your own prints on canvas.

• You will require an ink jet printer with about 1200 dots per inch resolution which will be sufficient for home application.
• You will require ink cartridges to have proper print. But before starting to print check whether the ink inside the gauge and printer are enough for the printing.
• You need to cut your canvas sheet in a prefect size to fit the printer tray. You can even purchase the canvas sheets and cut them accordingly to fit the roller.
• The photo you want to print should be taken with good resolution. A 5 megapixel camera can print clearly up to A4 size on the canvas sheet.

After you have gathered the above stated equipments and material there are some easy steps that you need to follow for canvas printing.

• First open your digital file or scanned photo with a photo viewer. You can use Windows photo or Adobe Photoshop if you want to do post production.
• Then open the page setup Menu to customize the size of the print to want on the canvas. The program usually has a pre set format in the menu which you can easily select.
• Once you are ready open to print menu and select the quality of the print you want to use. If it is a photo print then use the best quality print to avoid dot matrix effect on your print. Then click the print button to start the process.
• After the print is done allow the cloth to absorb the ink and do not touch the canvas till it is completely dry. However inks with oil components take a longer time to dry.
• You can even place the canvas on a piece of paper to absorb the extra ink and dry faster.
• You can frame the canvas after it dries to give an elegant touch to the print.