Some Canvas Prints

Yep.

There was a printer In Ontario called Brushstrokes that made a high quality print with brushstrokes like paint texture. I can't find them online any longer. I believe it was not done by hand. I just stretched one in my shop by Linda Hartough (a very successful golf artist). The canvas is laminated with some sort of plastic layer making the prints very stiff and a little challenging to stretch. It's an interesting print technology.

This is an explanation of the company and it's demise it seems.

http://www.brushstrokes.com/

David, that makes sense, ( to have it done by a machine somehow.) All I know, is that compared to the traditional canvas prints you see around, the ones with the paint textures are head and shoulders above.

I have heard of paint factories where they hand embellish prints in China. I'm guessing it's probably cheaper in China to pay a bunch of artists to do these hand embellishments assembly line style than to buy several machines and hire operators for them and maintain them. The company I work for has done business in China as well as India and in both cases they had a very strong preference for labor over on materials, in other words, when designing something to be manufactured there you designed to minimize materials even that meant you had to use substantially more labor. Here in the US we are the exact opposite, materials are abundant and relatively inexpensive, skilled labor is rare and expensive.

Machines are expensive. Humans are cheap and easily replaced.