Aurora Expressions Canvas Now Available at Midwest Inkjet — OBA-Free, HP Latex Certified, and Made in the USA

Midwest Inkjet is proud to announce we are now offering the complete Aurora Expressions canvas line, and if you've been searching for a wide format canvas that checks every box — archival quality, broad printer compatibility, production-ready roll lengths, and a finish for every application — this is a line worth knowing well.

Aurora Specialty Textiles Group has been manufacturing textiles in Illinois since 1883, making them one of the oldest continuously operating textile manufacturers in the United States. Their Expressions canvas line is produced at their state-of-the-art facility in Yorkville, Illinois - which means no international freight delays, no exposure to import tariffs, and no vulnerability to the kind of overseas supply chain disruptions that have plagued the print media industry in recent years. In a climate where sourcing reliability matters as much as product quality, that's a meaningful advantage that often goes overlooked.

The Expressions line includes eleven canvas and textile substrates covering the full range of wide format printing applications. The core lineup spans matte, satin, semi-gloss, and gloss finishes — all OBA-free and HP Latex certified. Beyond that, there are natural and cotton-linen options where the unbleached fabric tone shows through the finished print, delivering an organic warmth that bright-white coated canvases simply can't replicate. For high-volume production work, economy-weight décor substrates keep per-square-foot costs in check without sacrificing coating performance. And for specialty applications, Aurora offers a silver metallic polyester canvas for retail and display work, and a paste-applied wallcovering textile engineered specifically for commercial wall mural installations in retail, hospitality, healthcare, and corporate environments.

 The range is genuinely comprehensive, and every product in the line is optimized for latex, eco-solvent, and UV printing platforms across all major manufacturers including HP, Roland, Mimaki, Mutoh, and Epson.

Seven of those eleven canvases carry Aurora's explicit OBA-free designation — a distinction that matters significantly in the fine art reproduction, photography, and gallery wrap markets where long-term archival integrity is part of the product promise. Aurora's OBA-free canvases achieve excellent whiteness and a wide color gamut through the chemistry of their proprietary Expressions coating rather than optical brightening shortcuts, which means the color accuracy built into your ICC profiles today is the color accuracy your customers will see a decade from now.

The core Expressions canvas line also carries HP Latex certification — independently tested and approved for use with HP Latex ink technology. For shops running HP Latex printers, that certification removes the guesswork from media selection entirely. For shops on other eco-solvent or UV platforms, Aurora's cross-printer coating technology delivers consistent color output and ink adhesion without platform-specific reformulation.

For production environments, Aurora's standard canvas rolls ship in 150-foot lengths — nearly double the 75-foot rolls most competing brands offer. Fewer roll changes per shift means less downtime, more consistent color across long runs, and a lower effective cost per square foot at volume. The line is also available in widths up to 126 inches, covering everything from standard 54-inch and 60-inch production widths all the way to grand-format applications. Smaller width rolls available as well - ask Midwest Inkjet for details.

Every Aurora canvas order at Midwest Inkjet ships free whether it goes Ground or Freight, with no minimums and no thresholds. If you have questions about which canvas in the Aurora line is the right fit for your printer or your application, contact us — we're happy to help you find the right product for your application.

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