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Digital Printing of Vinyl Banners

Polyvinyl Banners

This is another online guide to full color custom vinyl banner printing…

Printed displays like vinyl banners stay relevant despite the emergence of digital advertising with fancy screens or reader boards. Companies, businesses, or retail environments still exhibit these stationary ads on their own shops, establishments, or trade show exhibits.

There have been significant improvements in digital printing making this type of printing more efficient, larger, and with better print quality over the past decade that give printers the ability to reproduce prints of graphic images in beautiful tones of colors in larger sizes.

I have been working in the printing industry for 25 years.

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GRAPHIC IMAGE DISPLAY PRINTING

Wide Format Dye Sublimation Printers

This is your online guide to large format printing of graphic displays in banners, posters, signs, P.O.P, clings, decals, and more.

Graphic image display printing continues to upgrade with new advances in printer technology. The new printers being manufactured are capable of reproducing prints with high quality and full color tones. Sizes of print images are less limited to certain sizes as large format printing has been made available with the creation of wide format digital printers.

I have discussed much about the different types of printers and print methods. Feel free to scan through the topics below to learn more about graphic image display printing.

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How to Screen or Digitally Print PVC or Vinyl Banners

Vinyl Banner Screen Printing

Screen printing and/or digital printing of PVC or Vinyl Banners. Also, no painting is allowed on vinyl substrates.

Can You Use Paint on Vinyl Banners?

I have received several questions regarding vinyl (flexible PVC) banners that I am going to answer over the next few articles. The first is, “What type of paint does one use on vinyl banners?”

The answer is that we don’t use “paint” per se on vinyl banners, although there may be some craft type stores that sell such a product. Coming from the commercial side of vinyl banners, though,

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Digital Sign Printing Compared To Screen Printing Signs

On-Screen Printing Process

Several hundred years ago when I made the fateful decision to get into the signage business, my first position was screen printing signs. Back when I started, you could be make graphic displays with lacquer inks and get high at the same time…those were the days!

Many companies who used to be screen pressing have switched over to digital printing, but there are still numerous companies who do screen-print press, and as far as I can tell, it isn’t going away anytime soon, as was prognosticated by myself and other sign experts 5 years ago.

Digital and Screen Printing: Speed vs.

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Why Sign Makers and Their Clients Love Digital Printing

Digital Sign Printing

In some past articles I reviewed the techniques involved in how sign makers screen print signs, and I also explored various plastic materials and how they were used. Today I’m going to talk about the revolution digital printing has brought to the print industry in the past 10 to 15 years.

In the beginning, Johannes Gutenberg invented moveable type, revolutionizing the world into the modern era. One thing led to another (I will save the history of printing for 20 more articles later), and now we all have digital signage press!

In the Good Old Days,

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Basic Screen Printing Compared to the Basics of Digital Printing

On-Screen Printing

Several hundred years ago when I made the fateful decision to get into the sign business, my first position was screen printing signs. Back when I started, you could print signs with lacquer inks and get high at the same time…those were the days!

Many companies who used on-screen print processing have switched over to digital printing, but there are still numerous companies that make use of this traditional method, and as far as I can tell, it isn’t going away anytime soon as was prognosticated by myself and other experts 5 years ago.

While digital imprinting has increased in popularity,

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