flat bed UV printers are changing the way signs are made. In the past if you want a full colour image printed onto signs for a trade shows you would need to go through a 3 part process. Firstly print the sign onto paper. This would then have to be laminated and have double sided self adhesive sign film applied to the rear. The laminated sign would then have to be mounted onto a substrate material such as foam pvc board. This process was costly in terms of materials and labour. An alternative would be to print the sign onto self adhesive vinyl and then mount this to the sign board again more materials and labour. Our disadvantages of these methods is the risk of delamination of the print or in the case of the self adhesive vinyl shrinkage of the vinyl itself. UV printing saves time and money. The large format flat bed machines print the ink direct onto a wide variety of sign substrates. So no need for laminate, adhesive or labour. The resultant sign is UV stable, weatherproof and will not crack peel or fade. Customers get better signs faster and at a lower price. At discountdisplays we are finding our UV printed replaces many of the traditional large format digital printing methods we have used in the past.
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