{"id":531,"date":"2018-07-25T06:21:12","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T06:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitalprintingzone.com\/?p=531"},"modified":"2019-08-26T09:58:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T09:58:26","slug":"large-format-digital-printing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitalprintingzone.com\/en\/large-format-digital-printing\/","title":{"rendered":"Large Format Digital Printing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Instead of printing onto individual sheets, large format digital printing involves printing onto rolls of media.<\/span><\/p>\n

The printing machine to use here is a wide-format printer. By definition this is any machine that can take a print roll between 18\u201d and 100\u201d in width. Rather than print onto sheets individually, printing is carried out continuously onto these rolls.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a very economical way to produce prints that are only required in smaller quantities.<\/span><\/p>\n

What sort of media can be produced with a wide format printer?<\/span><\/p>\n

Theatrical and media sets for one thing. When you need a limited run of larger sized items, such as on a theater set or even a movie set, then a wide format printer will be involved.<\/span><\/p>\n

Companies that have booths at trade shows will need the services of a company that provides wide format printing.<\/span><\/p>\n

The banners, posters, and murals that will be needed to cover what are often quite large spaces, in the bigger and double-story booths anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n

Diagrams used in architecture or by architects may need to be printed using a wide format printer.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are fundamentally two types of wide format printer: Aqueous or Solvent.<\/span>
\nThey are classified on the type of fluid that carries the pigment onto the media being printed.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a common misunderstanding when it comes to \u201cwater\u201d based carriers. The non-reactive carrier is often not water but a substitute, sometimes soy-based.<\/span><\/p>\n

Aqueous dye inks offer a wide range of bright color choices. The disadvantage is the low UV resistance. It is also necessary to properly coat all material that use aqueous dyes to \u201cfix\u201d the ink.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pigment inks are not as bright in color as aqueous inks, but are much more resistant to the effects of UV rays and fading.<\/span><\/p>\n

Any inks that do not use \u201cwater\u201d based carriers are Solvent inks. The \u201csolvent\u201d is petroleum-based or perhaps non-petroleum, such as Acetone. Prints thus produced are water-proof. The solvent softens the substrate materials allowing the pigment a degree of integration with the substrate.<\/span><\/p>\n

Substrates that can be used in the printing process include acrylic and plexiglass, canvas, coroplast, fabric, foamboard, gatorboard, styrine, mesh, sintra, flexface, and of course vinyl.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Instead of printing onto individual sheets, large forma […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalprintingzone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalprintingzone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalprintingzone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalprintingzone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalprintingzone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalprintingzone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalprintingzone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalprintingzone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalprintingzone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}