This creates a slight bleeding of colors. As the colors are printed on the paper they leave behind a subtle texture in the printed area, referred to as crawling. The paper is finished off with a matte vinyl coating. Surface printed colors can be deep and rich. The largest vertical design repeat for surface printing is twenty five and a quarter inches high.
Surface printing allows as many as thirteen colors to be printed.
Due to the fact that surface prints place wet on wet, there are limitations to the amount of small detail that can be achieved with this method. Hometown has thousands of wall samples to look at and choose from.