Large Format/Sign

What technology options are available for wide format printing, which media and colours can be used and how does wide format printing fit into a digital workflow. This is the subject of the 7th Wild Format Guide written by Nessan Cleary and downloadable from the Blokboek.com downloads page.

The designers of Silic Shirt have developed a very special fabric which is nearly impossible to stain the fabric. The Silic Shirt is capable of diverting waterbased solutions. The solution isn´t absorbed by the fabric, but glides off. The high quality shirts are designed in cooperation with one of Vera Wang´s designers. Silic Shirt´s designers want…

Cutting, shaping, glueing, framing and stretching of large format prints is specialist work and an important part of the production process. Nessan Cleary lists a number of possibilities and techniques in the sixth Digital Dots Wild Format Guide. This and the other Guides in the series can be downloaded from our Download page.

“We often hear that the cutter market is mature,” said Yuko Maeda, Roland DG general manager for sign products. “However, we believe that the needs for using a cutter, for both professionals and consumers, are still strong, and we remain committed to exceeding our users’ expectations with our market-leading technology. The sale of our 420,000th…

Inkjet systems are built around printheads which ensure that ink drops of the right size and colour land in the right place on the material to be printed. Nessan Cleary describes how this happens and what the different techniques are, in the fifth Guide in the Digital Dots Wild Format series. This and the other…

The reproduction of predictable colours and producing these within quality norms is an essential part of the production process of every graphics company. How to get from digital data to the ultimate end product is the subject of the fourth Digital Dots Wild Format Guide written by colour and standardisation expert Paul Lindström. This and…

It all seems a bit science fiction-y but scientists at the University of Saarbrücken have come up with a technology that can print a 0,1mm screen using special ink. Not only is the screen flexible but can also be touch sensitive. Printing will cost about 20 Euros for an A4 size and could for example…

Digital Dots has published a series of guides concerning all aspects of large format printing. Industry experts such as Sophie Matthews-Paul, Nessan Cleary and Paul Lindström go over subjects ranging from the very basics of this technique to practicalities such as colour calibration and finishing of large format prints. All Guides published up to now…