Printing high-res images on limed birch
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WhiteWall is now printing high-resolution photos on wood.
 
The print is made directly onto a 3/4 inch thick birch wood taken from a tree in single pieces. That way, WhiteWall says it avoid offsets when printing on wood, even in large formats, and maintains a printing surface with even grain throughout.
 
Printing is done using a seven-color UV printing process that leaves out white inks, allowing the wood to remain visible.  WhiteWall guarantees the image will be long-lasting, using laboriously limed plywood.
 
Each printed wood piece is packaged in a protective cover cut and seamed by CNC machines.
 
Prints start at 4x4 inch sizes for around $8 and standard sizes expand up to 36x24 inches for $162.

 

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Robert Dalheim is an editor at the Woodworking Network. Along with publishing online news articles, he writes feature stories for the FDMC print publication. He can be reached at [email protected].