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Recently, I was commissioned to make a custom canvas print of this painting. It was an interesting process that I want to share.

The original acrylic (in my hands) is only 14″ x 20″, and thankfully I still owned it. This would not have been as easy if I had to ship it back from an owner in, say, Florida. I scanned it in four pieces at 350% and high resolution on my flatbed scanner, pieced it back together in Photoshop, and then carefully cleaned it up at great magnification. It finished out at over 800mbs uncompressed, or MORE than an entire CD’s worth of data in one file. How much is all that? It would mean each person in the country could have about 2.5 pieces of this image with some left over.

My printer-guy, ColorOne in Seattle, said: “just send it over via the web.” Never sent so large a file, mainly because our funky Internet company here can’t even bill us properly, but I compressed it to 577mb and there it went with a button push and the finger’s crossed. FIVE HOURS AND TWENTY TWO MINUTES LATER it made it to someplace in cyberspace. Probably took five minutes to download it over in Seattle, 40 miles away, but they got it in one piece – and matched the colors perfectly. The resolution is so good on the canvas that it’s difficult to tell it’s not an a real painting, and it has a varnished finish like an glazed oil. Amazing technology – and the folks at ColorOne are very good at . Let’s see. The side of a bus for the next one?

Thanks for reading this week.
Larry Eifert

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