Digital Printing-Wide Format - Flatbed

The Océ Arizona 1300 series of high-productivity mid-volume UV true flatbed printers have productive print modes, optional light and white ink support, optically clear varnish and enhanced screening to deliver outstanding print quality, print after print.

The 20th annual conference featured nearly 200 educational sessions, many new product demos and peer-to-peer networking opportunities.

Offset volume has been slowly declining at Carleton University’s in-plant. Printing campus signage seemed the perfect solution.

Losing money is never a good strategy, especially for an in-plant in the gaming industry. PCI Printing placed it bets on two new hybrid flatbed printers and came up a winner.

Adding a hybrid flatbed printer to his in-plant, says Joe Morin, has "allowed us to expand well beyond our past capabilities to substrates such as acrylics, metals and wood.” The shop now prints signage for district schools, which is becoming a big business.

Print volumes are going down for types of work that have traditionally kept in-plants busy. At the same time, those in-plants producing wide-format projects have discovered a gold mine. Not only are the margins higher, customers are actively looking for new wide-format applications to order.

At IPG's well-attended breakfast discussion during the SGIA Expo, Editor Bob Neubauer reviewed new research on the growth of wide-format at in-plants and discussed applications that are bringing them success. Listen to his informative presentation in this new podcast.

At the SGIA Expo, attendees experienced new and advanced Fujifilm technology in the company's "Win even more work" themed booth, which resulted in successfully signed contracts.

The future has never looked brighter for companies that produce signage and display graphics. It remains a growth market and, as inkjet printing technology advances, the types of applications continue to expand.

Swiss manufacturer of high-end UV inkjet printers, swissQprint, launched a new product generation at the SGIA Expo.