A few weeks ago, I ordered a canvas by pixum and I’m going to write some lines about it:

With pixum (works in cooperation with the biggest European fotofinisher CeWe Color) I had very good experiences with printing photobooks before. I compared the printing quality of some books with one I ordered at HappyFoto (an Austrian company) and I think that the HappyFoto-books can’t hold a candle to pixum. The photos are not that sharp as they are printed by pixum. But I tried something new: a canvas with the dimension 60×40 cm (cost factor: about 50 Euro and with an extra of 5 Euro for the delivery to Austria – if you’re one of the newletter-members of pixum you will often get a bonus up to 15 Euro).

So I ordered a canvas of one of my sunset-pictures whose colour gradients are really hard to print, so I thought it would be a nice shot to test the printing quality of the canvas. So here is the shot as I sent it to pixum (via Internet):

Since it will be unfair to compare the quality of the canvas only with a monitor, I compared it furthermore with the photobook. But have a look on your own (raws scanned in by a photo-scanner):

Here is the output of the canvas, on the right site you can see the linen-structure:

The left one is out of the photo-book, the right one is the original photo, as you can see above:

With the manifacturing quality I was satisfied. It could be better, but for the beginning, canvas are new in their product line it’s quite o.k.:

So all in all I think that the quality is quite good, but the price must decrease for the smaller formats (the biggest format there is 160×90 cm by now). First of all I was a little bit shocked, because pixum sent the canvas with a registered letter and not as a parcel.