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  • Benefits and challenges of using fabric in digital printing

    January 1, 2012

    Honest answers from interviews with industry experts from the Fabric Graphics Association reveal the benefits, the challenges and the growth areas of using fabric for digital printing projects.

  • Engineered, fabricated and installed by Eventscape Inc., this royal wedding in Abu Dhabi for 3,500 guests features an eight-legged 57,000-square-foot canopy with custom gold print. The installation took 18 days to complete. Photo: Eventscape.

    Printing for special events

    January 1, 2012

    Fabric graphics get serious with the growth of branding and customization in the world of special events.

  • What are your expectations for your wide format business in 2011?

    Good news in industry growth

    May 1, 2011

    In the spirit of reporting some good news, there are three pieces I’d like to focus on.

  • Moss Inc. demonstrates the use of its EZ Fabric Wall System with its own booth at a trade show. Photo: Moss Inc.

    Keep it simple for better customer service

    May 1, 2011

    There’s a lot of talk about diversification in today’s challenging market. While that’s a worthwhile discussion, there’s another “take” on the topic that has more to do with customer service than new products.

  • Toys R Us opened hundreds of new pop-up stores to expand its base for the 2010 Christmas shopping season.

    Pop-up signage

    March 1, 2011

    Pop-up stores serve to focus consumer attention right where the retailer wants it.

  • How high a priority is finding/entering new wide-format markets and offering new services?

    Vendors offer learning opportunities

    March 1, 2011

    Finding new markets and new applications is the key to success in the wide format digital printing market.

  • A labor and delivery room at Warren Memorial Hospital in Front Royal, Va., uses both a Sereneview curtain and overhead graphic to ease labor pain.

    Healing graphics

    January 1, 2011

    Digitally printed fabrics in health care settings create soothing surroundings that aid the healing process.

  • New products are good for the industry

    January 1, 2011

    Demand for the applications and the characteristics of dye-sub inkjet printing continues to grow.

  • www.fencefabric.net offers a variety of proprietary stock images on its fencing products and custom designs.

    Printed fabric fencing

    January 1, 2011

    Fabric fencing is fairly ubiquitous, quite necessary and generally unattractive. But it doesn’t have to be.

  • Wall graphic made using PhotoFAB Ultra by Perception.

    Multi-ink platform fabric

    November 1, 2010

    The development of materials that are digitally printable using a variety of ink platforms.

  • Photo: Roland

    Printed interior decoration ideas

    November 1, 2010

    Interior fabric provides compelling solutions for print shops to offer their customers.

  • Trends in textile signage printing

    November 1, 2010

    What are some trends that are driving the adoption of soft signage printing?

  • “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.

  • 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.