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Serbian NS Plakat has been involved in wide-format digital printing for the past 30 years. Roughly half of its revenue comes from manufacturing POP products made from cardboard. In addition, the company digitally produces a wide range of promotional products, including soft signage. NS Plakat has a facility in Novi Sad with 140 employees and another in Zagreb with 100.
GT Signs has installed a new LED-curing flatbed printer running Nazdar inks from Quality Print Services (QPS), boosting the quality of its large-format signage.
The Colour House has clocked up two decades in sign and print, and for the last ten years has depended on a Roland VP-540 printer for a variety of work. Therefore when the Merthyr Tydfil, UK business decided to invest in a machine that could offer its customers larger, seam-free prints, it went straight to Roland DG.
As most business gurus will likely agree with, standing out from the crowd and distinguishing your offering is crucial to retaining and building your client base. Subscribing to this principle is what lead two former leading signage & display professionals to establish Australia’s first dedicated large format 3D printing house, OMUS.
International Artist, Emily Campbell has been creating stunningly beautiful, bespoke vinyl flooring for over 20 years. Her unusual and individual designs, promoted under the name of Blue Butterfly Flooring, makes use of images taken from above, emulating the sensation of standing in the actual landscape. Through the use of photography, she creates a world that contains both reality and the imaginary. It's through this ‘experiential décor’ that one really gets the sense of standing in an actual landscape.
Growth rates in wide format printing are impressive. More and more wide format printers are relying on web shops to offer their customers a fast, simple and digital platform for new print jobs. In order to be able to meet the ever-increasing demand in the web-to-print business on time, it is now more important than ever to take the step towards automation. However, how can production processes be optimized as effectively as possible in order to achieve higher revenue and improved print quality?
Istanbul-based Maggenta, a leading printer of custom-made wallpapers for businesses and individuals around the world, was founded in 2010. The company prints high-quality, emission-compliant, environmentally-friendly wallpaper using a Fujifilm Acuity LED 1600 II. Having invested in an Acuity LED 1600 in 2014, Maggenta upgraded to the Acuity LED 1600 II in February 2018, boosting production speed by 50% and bringing in added versatility. With this recent investment, Maggenta, once a latex print specialist, has ceased all latex print for wall coverings.
When Fespa UK Association ran their Textile Printing Now Conference at the Textile Centre of Excellence in Huddersfield, a large audience of specifiers, designers, printers, retailers and importantly colleges and academics heard what is happening in the industry and where the industry is going.
