Wrapping on the fly

by all | 5 January 2013 8:30 am

Since purchasing its first durable aqueous inkjet printer with ‘latex’ inks, Canawrap Imaging in New Westminster, B.C., has reportedly no longer used solvent-based inks for any of its vehicle wraps.

With an approximately 279-m² (3,000-sf) shop and seven employees, Canawrap purchased the HP Designjet L26500 printer to help improve productivity, as the need to off-gas prints before cutting and laminating them is all but removed from the process.

“We can now turn around our prints for our cutters on a tighter timeline,” says Jonathan Glen, owner. “Expediting print-to-lamination time rolls into on-the-fly printing, for example, if a print needs to be redone while our customer’s vehicle is in-house. We just print/lam/trim and deliver.”

Glen also credits the printer’s output for its solid, rich colours.

“Everything looks fantastic that comes off of it,” he says.

Canawrap is using the Designjet primarily for vehicle graphics and textured surface wraps, along with some banner work.

“Banner printing is great because, again, there is no dry time or off-gassing,” says Glen. “We just put the banner on the table, edge it and deliver it to the customer.”

The company still uses an HP Designjet 9000s to print on substrates that require solvent-based inks, including dimensional display boards and some banner media.

Source URL: https://www.signmedia.ca/wrapping-on-the-fly/

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