The Grand Tour
EPS reproduce art treasures for the National Gallery
EPS has used some of the world's most advanced printing technology to help bring priceless art from the National Gallery to the streets of London.
Life-size reproductions of masterpieces from the likes of Constable and Da Vinci have been unveiled across central London. The attraction has been branded The Grand Tour.
EPS used their new HP Designjet 10000s to produce replica paintings to hang in the streets of London. The process involves printing on a new vinyl called Epiflex.
HP says that without any protection the prints will last three years or more. Lab tests suggest prints may still look the same after a decade. As the National Gallery's project designer Danielle Chidlow put it: "Members of the public have even thought real works of art have been left outdoors".
EPS Managing Director Steve Farley said he had travelled the world looking for a printing machine that could produce pictures containing billions of pixels at extremely high resolution: "Despite the high technological standards needed to reproduce the art, the process was cost effective".
Danielle Chidlow from the national gallery is delighted with the reproduction: "These images are the best we have ever seen and the public love them, to walk to work and see images displayed this way is superb, EPS have done a wonderful job."
