Robert Moore, multidisciplinary artist and creator of the Instagram BrownLikeMe_, asked us to create for him a print series of his painting “This Smile Didn’t Come Easy”. After scanning the art with our METIS scanner, we used our swissQprint large format printer to apply UV varnish to simulate the look of thickly applied paint. The resulting series of 50, 18 x 24" prints are beautiful and look very close to the original painting! 

Get to know Robert Moore and see his work available through The Arte Haus.

Textural Printing with UV Varnish

The swissQprint UV inkjet printer (shown in action below) speedily builds up a layered relief that replicates brush strokes in the minutest detail. Varnish, printed in the right places and with the right gloss level, provides the fitting finish. Only a practiced eye will spot the reproduction for what it is. And its impression will last for years, thanks to color-fast inks.

The METIS scanner is designed to combine innovative software with cutting-edge technologies. For example, our METIS, along with its Light Impression software can:

• 2D COLOR SCAN: with extended customization over the lighting in order to provide the required visual appearance and maximize the appeal of the scanned materials;

The METIS Light Inspector software accommodates high-resolution 2-D scanning (above)

and 3-D data generation (below).

• 3D DATA GENERATION: METIS scanners are the only devices in the market capable of providing suitable 3D data for even the most demanding applications and in perfect register with 2D color information. Using METIS's unique implementation of the 3D Photometric Stereo principles, our scanner can generate high-resolution 3D data directly from the 2D color information, removing the need for a dedicated 3D capture device and ensuring that the color and texture of the object are always in perfect register.