Soft Signage

Fabrics with an edge

Fabrics are used to create lightweight, flexible advertising panels and displays. They are often preferred over standard self-adhesive panels, posters or displays because of the easy handling and more luxurious perception. A second use of soft signage is interior decoration.

For a large part of the market, printing on fabric is done with a dye-sublimation process: this requires special printing machines with special dye inks, in combination with a separate transfer and sublimation process. These printers are single purpose machines. UVgel does not intend to offer a replacement solution for dye sublimation printers, but rather to offer the ability to print on a limited number of textiles.

Media

The media used for this are mostly synthetic (polyester) fabrics. UVgel can be used to print on a range of soft signage materials.

Case study Iconic Display

Iconic Display specialise in exhibition stand design & build, signage & graphics, hoarding decoration & large format print. They recently replaced 2 Latex machines with 1 Colorado 1650. Before, they had issues with colour consistency throughout tiles and tiles weren’t lining up perfectly. With the Colorado these issues were cured. They are also baffled by the speeds that they’re seeing now, which are in some instances more than double what they were previously printing at, while maintaining the high quality customers demand.

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