Introducing The "Canvas Stretching Machine" - A New Way To Stretch Canvas

A fully pneumatic Canvas Stretcher designed to produce gallery wraps and regular stretches for original artwork and giclee prints in less than 3 minutes. Now you can stretch a canvas in a fraction of the time and save on labor costs. End Quote

"When it sounds like a drum...you're done!"

(1888PressRelease) September 20, 2007 - The Canvas Stretching Machine was conceived, designed and built by a local custom frame shop to increase productivity. The Canvas Stretcher was built for the frame shop and by the frame shop to reduce their labor costs. Typically, a 40" X 40" canvas would require about 20-30 minutes for a seasoned employee to stretch, this impacted other areas of the frame shop that services large commercial accounts. Greg Moulin, a seasoned graphic artist and the owner of the custom frame shop, combined forces with Dave Weaver, a retired Coast Guard Engineer Officer, to create a simple, light-weight and affordable device that was extremely portable and required little to no training, the result was a fully pneumatic canvas stretching machine. After several prototypes and nearly one year of extensive testing the Canvas Stretching Machine was "born".

The Market:
It was never intended to be manufactured and sold to other custom frame shops or artists, this seemed counter-productive to Greg, the owner. He then realized that there has been a rapid increase in the number of small businesses that print to canvas, everyone that prints to canvas could benefit with such a machine. If you print art to canvas and are sending your customers out the door with an unstretched canvas you have just lost money.

Features:
There are two very unique features that set it apart from other stretching machines on the market, an adjustable pressure regulated stretcher bar and the fact that it mounts to the side of any workbench, this provides the operator with a relatively seamless work surface. Another feature that is uncommon to existing canvas stretching machines is that all of the stapling is done from the front. In addition to the above features each machine is built with the provision to be "hooked-in-tandem" with any model regardless of size. If a customer purchased a 2' model and a later on realized that there was now a need to stretch 60" X 60" canvas , they would have the option of purchasing a 4' model, and with a special "harness" that can be installed in less than 10 minutes, they could be stretching up to 6' X 6' (in this example).

Summary:
There are several mechanical and pneumatic canvas stretching machines currently on the market, but there is only one fully pneumatic canvas stretching machine that allows the operator to apply staples to the front, make the folds in-place and with the artwork facing up... and all of this can be done in less than 3 minutes.

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