Just appending a P.S. to my post. I sought clarification from the Support staffs both at Canvas on Demand and CGProPrints as to the relationship of these two outfits, and the question of whether their products differed in some way, or not. The two people I communicated with were quite open and helpful. This is what I learned:

1. COD and CGProPrints are, in fact, a single printing entity.

2. The “premium canvas” product from both companies is exactly the same— both outfits make their prints on the same equipment, using the same canvas, same ink, etc. Also—same 2-year warranty.

3. CGProPrints offers a few items that COD does not, e.g., metal prints.

4. Pricing and sale promotions differ.

Hopefully others here will find this info useful.

My canvas saga. Creds: I shot semi-professionally for many years and published hundreds of images. I’ve more or less retired from photography as an income source, but in the last few years have been turning my professional office into a gallery of my work. I have hung about 50-60 canvases in sizes up to 24×36″, from about four different printers. Most (the great majority) were from Canvas On Demand (couldn’t resist the frequent deals that COD offered via Groupon). I have never had any issues re/ color fidelity or any other right-out-of-the-box issues. Shipped promptly.

However, between year one and year two of ownership, I’ve had about a half-dozen of the COD prints exhibit problems with glue failure between the canvas and the flat backing—the prints developed large, obvious bubbles. COD replaced the defective prints, no questions asked, under their two-year warranty, no cost to me (kudos, great customer support). Now I’m concerned that the problem may become more epidemic as my print collection gets past that two-year warranty mark. I would hate to sell one of these prints to a client (which I do from time to time), only to have them call me at two years and three months reporting that the print is getting “bubbled.”

Recently just placed my first order for some premium wrapped canvases with CGPro, which appears to have the same glued-down anatomy as the COD prints. Anyone here run into glue failure problems with CGPro?

Obviously one way to avoid the problem entirely is to just go with a stretched canvas product, no backing.

We have not tried CGPro for metal. We’ve used ProDPI for metal in the past and have always been impressed. Maybe we will try it in the future and touch back here. Let us know too!

Hello Lisa,

We use them regularly. Just submitted a canvas order with them on Monday and it was delivered today. So far we’ve had no issues.