
Digital Printing-Wide Format - Flatbed

When you install your next piece of wide-format equipment, here are some steps to make the process smooth and easy.
Investments in digital printing, binding, mailing, and wide-format are opening the doors to new opportunities at Hillsdale College.
The Wide-Format Summit is an intimate, invitation-only event designed to help print executives and in-plant managers make strategic decisions about wide-format printing technologies.
Wide-format printing makes up an increasing percentage of the revenue in-plants generate. We spoke with three managers to learn where this work comes from.
While you can control the prepress and the print side of production fairly reliably, installation is a different kind of beast. Every location will be different, with different considerations that can help — or hurt — the process.
IPI Editor Bob Neubauer toured the sign shop at American River College in Sacramento and chatted with Supervisor Don Reid about how he uses the in-plant’s flatbed printer and automated cutter to repurpose old campus signage by printing over it, keeping that material out of the landfill and saving the college money.
We sat down with HP’s Daniel Martinez and Oscar Vidal to learn more about the company’s wide-format strategy, and where it is headed.
IPI Editor Bob Neubauer recently visited Sacramento State University Print & Mail and talked with Director Laura Lockett about her in-plant's expansion into flatbed printing and cutting, which necessitated the opening of a new facility the shop has dubbed "Wide-Format Land."
Many PSPs are familiar with the concept of window graphics. What may not be so clear is the different options for installing and applying these colorful graphics.
IPI Editor Bob Neubauer recently toured the in-plants at University of California - Davis, Sacramento State, American River College, and the State of California's Office of State Publishing. Here's a look at what he saw.