Digital Printing-Wide Format - Roll to Roll

Skip Barber Racing School has been running its new 64" Roland DG TrueVIS VG2 series printer/cutters virtually non-stop to wrap its fleet of race cars.

With new categories such as social distancing signage, the wide-format sector has evolved throughout the pandemic and is expected to grow with even more applications. At drupa 2024, the key manufacturers will showcase a multitude of applications.

We took a closer look at the top trends impacting the wide-format market right now, everything from supply chain issues to staffing problems.

Greg Stecker will describe how his business grew from traditional offset toward high-margin display graphics.

In some ways the digital transformation of textile printing has been accelerated due to the COVID-19 crisis.

Two of the Smithsonian Institution’s finest museums rely on in-house printing operations to produce the graphics that accompany their numerous exhibits.

As technologies advance, in-plants find themselves much better suited to producing signage than the facilities departments and in-house sign shops that traditionally handled them. Some in-plants are strategically taking over sign making.

Considerations of print speed, print quality, and flexibility factor strongly in wide-format equipment purchases. A strategy involving all three is essential.

The new portfolios deliver advanced photo and color quality, enhanced precision, and new graphics application potential.

On Monday, Sept. 13, judges gathered at In-plant Printing and Mailing Association headquarters to judge the In-Print 2021 contest, the only printing contest exclusively for in-plants. They selected 29 Gold award winners.