Category: Applications

Giving it some welly

Giving it some welly

Mar 4, 2013 |

CS Labels is the largest Xeikon site in Europe specialising in short-run colour labels. Melony Rocque-Hewitt finds that amidst this, is a trio of wide-format printers producing decals for children’s wellies.

Our unpredictable and unseasonal weather of recent years has meant that the humble Wellington boot has been elevated to almost iconic status. Wellies are everywhere and have become a portable canvas (albeit a rubber one) for children’s cartoon characters, spots, stripes, Union Jacks, vegetables, flowers et al.

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Chrome and mirrors

Chrome and mirrors

Jan 30, 2013 |

Melony Rocque-Hewitt finds out how Press On Digital Imaging created stunning chrome effects for a well-known London department store’s windows.

Every year during the build-up to Christmas, I would be taken to London specifically to see the Oxford and Regent Street lights and to view the glittering, fairytale shop windows of the capital’s most famous department stores. Three decades or so on, the Christmas windows beckon still, spreading their own brand of magical glamour and consumer seduction. 

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Christmas shopping

Christmas shopping

Dec 6, 2012 |

How does wide-format digital print put consumers in the mood to shop ‘till they drop? Melony Rocque-Hewitt investigates.

When Halloween is finished and the last sparkler has gone cold from Bonfire Night, the cascading rush for all things Christmas explodes.  For many PSPs, the week commencing 5 November is often one of the busiest of the year as clients ready themselves for their Christmas campaigns.

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It’s the thought that counts

It’s the thought that counts

Nov 6, 2012 |

The skies the limit when it comes to wide-format digital printing. So, as the countdown to Christmas begins, Melony Rocque-Hewitt looks at some of the niche products that have caught the imagination of the public.

Not so long ago, I was having lunch with a sales director of a London-based, wide-format, digital printing company who told me that when he went to see clients, one of his party tricks was to take an empty portfolio with him to demonstrate the ‘no limits’ characteristics of wide-format digital print. 

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The Emperor’s New Clothes

The Emperor’s New Clothes

Sep 27, 2012 |

Can wide-format printers in our sector make the most of the boom in demand when it comes to digitally printed textiles? Melony Rocque-Hewitt investigates.

The textile and apparel market is in love big time with digital printing and it’s serious. By 2015 the textile and apparel global market is forecast to be worth somewhere in the region of $1,557.1 billion, an increase of 32.5% since 2010. There seems to be little doubt that where the printing of textiles is concerned digital will be the future.

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