According to Victor Linetsky, president of PosterTech Group in Edmonton, dye sublimation helps diversify his product line and profits his bottom line. Therefore, he sees it as a vital component of his production.
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Signs, displays, and specialty graphic applications are powerful communication tools, compelling marketing vehicles, and effective decor enhancers.
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Anyone who has worked with dye sublimation for the production of soft signage is familiar with stories of trouble managing colours effectively, reducing downtime, and preventing clogged nozzles and broken printheads. Fortunately, the sources of all of these issues can be addressed with the following tips, tricks, and techniques.
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Digital textile printing is one of the most significant market opportunities for related supply sectors as it is seeing double-digit growth, according to the latest data from Smithers Pira, a market research, consulting and testing firm.
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In recent years, fabric printing has moved beyond clothing and apparel, dye sublimation and screenprinting with the advent of digital direct-to-textile printing. Thousands of solvent-based, eco-solvent, durable aqueous ‘latex’ and ultraviolet-curing (UV-curing) wide-
format digital inkjet printers can be used today to produce a broad variety of unique fabric applications.
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While wide-format digital printing on vinyl has revolutionized the sign industry over the past few decades, the digital printing of fabrics is having an even more significant impact on businesses today, as the vast and diversified textile industry represents a much larger opportunity for inkjet technologies to address.
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The worldwide digital textile printing market for industrial, home décor and garment applications is experiencing a strong compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 34 per cent, according to a new forecast by research and consulting firm InfoTrends.
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In the wide-format digital printing industry, the term ‘textile’ has been used to encompass a variety of applications, materials and processes, including wearables, soft signage, interior décor, environmental graphics and other applications using dye sublimation, direct-to-fabric printing or another transfer process.
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Ultraflex Systems, which supplies soft-signage materials and other substrates for wide-format printing, has hired Terry Amerine as director of marketing. He joins the company from Fujifilm Graphic Systems, where he held multiple senior management positions.
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