Digital Printing-Wide Format - Roll to Roll

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.

In a new video, IPI Editor Bob Neubauer chats with two university in-plant managers about how wide-format printing became a “lifesaver” during the pandemic. They talk about the benefits of latex and UV-curable systems, the challenges of finding space for the equipment, and the huge profit margins of wide-format printing.

Providing all the printing for a large grocery chain is a challenging task, but the four-person in-plant team at Coborn’s Inc. does it with style, spoiling its customers with fast service.

The digital textile printing market is growing fast with many options available to consider.

With wide-format adoption on the rise, here are four wide-format options to consider.

In another of our free online PRINTING United Expo Preview days, we focus once again on the in-plant industry by talking with two in-plant managers about the logistics of adding wide-format printing equipment, and discussing substrate shortages and future availability with two experts.