Hardware sales are strong for all three bands of large-format digital inkjet systems, largely at the expense of conventional process and practice. The United Kingdom market sustains approximately 5,500 wide-format systems with two-thirds being lower band – a 62% market share in solvent printers up to 2.5 million and they anticipate selling another 780-plus systems in 2008.

Research shows that 93% of commercial printers outsource wide-format. Epson hardware is engineered so that only its own inks are compatible. B&P Lightbrigade sells in excess of 300 large-format systems per year, ranking as Agfa’s top pan-European re-seller. It represents a number of leading brands as well as marketing its own Uniform range. The cost of hardware and ink is dropping. The difference is, that ink continues to sell throughout the life of the machine. The ongoing supply fuel is what makes it profitable.

The future for the large-format sector suggests onward development across all aspects.

Everydayprint’s most popular printed poster size is A2, but we have many people questioning the actual size in millimetres.

So below is a table which defines all the A series of paper sizes fro A7 to 2A0

A7 - 105mm x 74mm
A6 - 148mm x 105mm
A5 - 210mm x 148mm
A4 - 297mm x 210mm
A3 - 420mm x 297mm
A2 - 594mm x 420mm
A1 - 841mm x 594mm
A0 - 1189mm x 841mm
2A0 - 1682mm x 1189mm

The above sizes are the standard finished paper sizes. If you are designing artwork for print you must add 5mm bleed to each side of the page (i.e. add 10mm to the width and 10mm to the height of the page)

Digital printing has evolved so much over the past few years in that screenprinting I feel is dying a death.
Having worked for a large format screenprinters for the majority of my print career you would think that i would be trying to sell it and bring it back.
Sorry but no! Digital is the way forward!
Digital is a much better quality, quicker and so much cheaper!
State-of-the-art laser printers have made it possible to produce small quantities of high-quality color products at prices everyone can afford.
With screenprinting the maximum of 65lpi is achieved and that is the being kind with digital printing the outcome is around 1200dpi which you would class as photographic quality.
Because digital printing is much quicker this goes hand in hand with the cost too! You don’t have the set up charges of screenprinting (ie screen set/clean up etc) simply send us a hi res (300dpi) PDF and we will print from that - pretty much in the same way that you will send to your regular printer at home.
This cuts down on man hours too. So, a few hundred A4 prints can take minutes rather than hours to produce. The cost of materials is also a factor of the cost, with digital printing you will only need 1 or 2 sheets of overs, and screenprinting you will need a minimum of 10% overs! and that is all getting added into your cost! Think of it this way - you should only be paying for what you need.

So next time if you are debating which direction to go in!
Give me a call or email me for a price - you might just be surprised in the price that you get!
sales@everydayprint.co.uk
0845 437 0551

When printing on the Xerox 8265, it is important to be sure that media will release from the supply roll when the end of roll is reached.

If the print media does not release from the core on the supply roll when the end of roll is reached, the media tension detector will register that the media is too tight, and will apply power to the feed roller with the aim of feeding more paper off the roll. But in fact the unreleased paper will now begin to be pulled back onto the roll (albeit print side inwards). (more…)

Your PC is rubbish and can’t handle full scale artwork?

Neither can mine, so the best thing to do is to scale it down to half or even quarter size when youre designing it. When you give the file to the printers they will scale it up at their end without much loss of quality (none if its all vector!). As long as your original pictures and images are of a decent quality, your scaled output shouldnt be too bad. (more…)