A PRINTING business owner who started out in his parent’s garage is celebrating the worldwide launch of its life-like printed murals this week.

Acres Retail started when Ryan Acres began printing t-shirts and mugs from his parent’s garage using a £150 heat press he got for Christmas.

After going into business with dad Tony three years ago the company is celebrating the launch of its custom-sized wallpaper murals which can be shipped around the world through its ecommerce website Canvas Art Rocks.

The colourful murals, with 15,000 images to choose from, from the Eiffel Tower to a tyrannosaurus rex, can be printed in any size to produce a larger-than-life effect.

Director Ryan Acres explained the new venture to the Adver: “When we first saw those wall papers coming off our printers they looked phenomenal.”

“They look ten times better in person. They almost look 3D.”

“The murals smooth finish means they are ever so slightly shiny which helps the light bounce off of them.”

“The printers we use also have eight colours. So instead the four you have in your printer your printers have orange inks, light black, light cyan and magenta. So the colours are a lot richer and deeper.”

After the father and son team moved into offices at the Cheney Manor estate in 2015 they brought the company e-commerce Canvas Art Rocks in 2016.

The new products are handmade in-house at the Acres Retail offices where the firm’s five members of staff print, make and ship the customised murals.

Company director Tony Acres, 46, from North Swindon, told of how the idea’s been developing for some time.

“Following the launch of our USA and Netherlands’ stores, we’ve been looking for ways to grow Canvas Art Rocks. We’ve been selling canvases for some time and we’ve mastered that. We needed to find a way to scale and develop our ecommerce business and wallpaper was the perfect fit.

“We’re really excited to have launched our wallpaper murals this week, it’ll diversify the product range offered by Canvas Art Rock.”

For more, visit: www.canvasartrocks.com.