What is APC doing to help protect the environment?
Artistic Photo Canvas is among the industry’s leaders when it comes to adopting products and practices that reduce our impact on the environment. Among other mitigation initiatives, we have committed to using a special (and superior) set of materials to create each canvas. For example, unlike 99% of inkjet canvas buyers, we pay a little more to procure canvas that is produced without optical brighteners or other harmful agents. (Surprisingly, our canvas is a significantly brighter white, and will not yellow, in spite of the disuse of these chemical agents.) In addition (and also unlike the majority of our competitors) the protective coatings we apply to each canvas are water-based instead of solvent-based. Solvent-based coatings not only create toxic fumes that are dangerous to those who apply them, they require the production and use of chemical agents that are known to seep into groundwater. Our solid-wood stretcher bars are made from fir wood harvested in managed forests. (Some of o
