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  • “Retail stores, like Target, are spending more and more money on advertising outdoors,” says Mike Von Wachenfeldt, digital fabrics product manager for Glen Raven Custom Fabrics. “They’re trying to focus on bringing the customer into the stores.”

    City signage makes an impact

    September 1, 2010

    Impact your city—and your company’s bottom line—with artistic digital graphics applications.

  • Green printing

    September 1, 2010

    Usually, I write about new and cool uses of digitally printed fabrics. This is about something much more mainstream: banners.

  • Printed electronics is the gateway to edible, foldable, rollable, conformal, wearable, biodegradable and other electronics and electrics.

    Printing electronic circuitry

    September 1, 2010

    The definition of printing on fabric appears to be expanding.

  • This Infiniti billboard campaign was managed by Clear Channel Spectacolor who produced an EMC billboard component that used graphics, text and numbers to present local and regional weather reports. The screen was revised every five minutes via a DSL line

    The effects of hybrid signage

    May 1, 2010

    Digital billboards—those brightly lit, often enormous signs that scroll through multiple messages—are hard to ignore, both on the highway and from an industry standpoint. What does their proliferation mean to the fabric signage business?

  • The flatbed inkjet printer market

    May 1, 2010

    One of the most important trends in the digital wide format market is the rapid development of the flatbed inkjet printer market.

  • The future of digital printing technologies

    March 1, 2010

    Two technologies that will make a big impact are Latex inkjet printing and UV-curable inkjet printing.

  • Peach Berserk has a lively storefront business in Toronto, but customers can also design their own fabric and dresses interactively on the store’s website, www.peachberserk.com.

    Customize products on the web

    February 26, 2010

    Peach Berserk is a buzzing “bricks and mortar” store and workshop in Toronto, Ontario, but it has a far more commanding reach via an interactive website.

  • Wall Decal Printed on InteliCoat’s STICK2 Media

    Commercial interior wall coverings boost graphics market

    January 1, 2010

    In one of our recent surveys, commercial interior wall coverings was identified as one of the strongest growing applications for wide format digital printing.

  • Camouflage vehicle wraps assist the military

    November 1, 2009

    Leave it to the military and the companies with whom they do business to turn “pretty” into “practical.”

  • Growing demand for floor graphics

    November 1, 2009

    Professional wide format digital print buyers expect to increase their spending on floor graphics.

  • Photo: Ultraflex Systems Inc.

    Digitally printed carpet

    September 1, 2009

    One advantage of some of the new digital printing ink formulations is that they allow direct printing to industrial textiles.

  • The business of shade

    September 1, 2009

    There is increasing pressure for more public places to offer shade.

  • SIF technology used to produce digitally printed leather

    May 1, 2009

    The most interesting application for fabrics using digital printing I have seen lately is digitally printed leather, available from SIF Technology Corporation, Sarasota, Fla.

  • Photo: Dan Norman

    Theaters present new opportunities for print shops

    May 1, 2009

    Although sets have traditionally been hand-painted, theaters are now discovering that fabric printing is a viable choice.

  • Nazdar’s booth at the Specialty Graphic Imaging Association (SGIA) trade show last October. The booth graphics were entirely printed on the Aurora Direct Print, Coated matte finish, 100-percent soft hand, cotton fabric, 9 mil/4.25 oz.

    Forces drive growth of fabrics for trade show graphics

    March 1, 2009

    InfoTrends found four forces to be among the most prevalent in determining the strength of trade show graphics as a digital print application.

  • Growth potential in fabric graphics market

    Sponsored by IFAI Market Research

    Digital technology is the fastest growing method of printing textiles. In 2007, digital printing accounted for less than one percent of the global market for printed textiles. Its share is likely to grow to as much as 10 percent in three to five years. Digital textile printing applications in the United States, especially wide format, continue to grow at about 10 percent per year. The sustainability movement in the United States is a key issue driving growth in the soft signage market.

    More direct to fabric printers are entering the digital textile printing market with new technology and productivity enhancements, including new large format capability, increased printer resolution and output speed, new inkjet printing technologies, improved textile coating technologies, and decreased equipment costs.

    A Digital Textile Survey shows digital direct-to-fabric manufacturing process as the second most used manufacturing process (25.7 percent) for imaging finished textiles. Applications driving growth in digital direct-to-fabric imaging: Soft signage, short runs for events, fabric samples, and custom fabrics for commercial interior design.

    Continued product enhancements should enable a strong future for digital textile printing, although the current economic climate will likely slow the growth seen in 2007 and the first half of 2008. Outlook is strongest at the low end of the market.