Hi,

I recently acquired an Epson 9800 printer, in addition I've also purchased;

100% cotton canvas
Breathing Color varnish
Wagner Spray Gun
Electric staple gun

I've been having some quality issues and I wonder if anyone else has had similar issues.

The main problem is the ink seems very fragile and seems to crack on the folded corners (when being stretched) and can scratch off the canvas relatively easily.

I tend to put 5 or 6 light coats of varnish onto the canvas then let it dry overnight before stretching as suggested by Breathing Color.

The last batch I've tried has a gloss base coat and a matte top coat of varnish (as recommend by Breathing Color), so I put on 2 light coats of gloss, then let it dry for over an hour and placed 4 or 5 coats of matte, each coat of matte had 3 or 4 minutes dry time (until touch dry).

Is this only an issue with the amount of varnish I'm putting on or is there something else I'm not doing correctly.

I'm using the 'hospital' fold corners if that helps.

Any help or suggestions is much appreciated.