Use:

Mostly used to print directly onto Cromadek, Wood, Glass, Tiles etc but can also be used on most plastics, PVC and Boards. Flatbed printing is just amazing, able to print on any flat surface, even glass, as you can see in the video. The moving gantry can even be raised to print on flat media up to 48mm thick – in other words, you can print any design or image onto a regular door, or a tabletop. As long as the object is relatively flat and smooth, and less then 48mm thick. As you’ll notice in the video, the Océ was printing a layer of white ink as well, which offers you even more freedom when printing on various surfaces. In our case, we printed two colour layers for the base design, and then a white layer to fill in the text – it looks great with a back light shining through it. You’ll also see that we printed the graphic in reverse, so that it’s on the inside of the glass when the doors are closed.

Ink:

The Flatbed Printer uses a UV Latex Ink and it can print White, when printing on darker substrates.

Printing Image size:

The maximum paper size printable on these machines is 2500mm x 1250mm, yes, 2.5 Meters by 1.250 Meters

Flatbed Printing – Why?

Flatbed printing give you the opportunity to print DIRECTLY onto the substrate that you want, not like it was normally done, by first printing it on Vinyl, and then applying it to the substrate. Also we use UV inks, which last a lot longer under South African conditions. The conclusion is that the printing will last a lot longer, as you have no vinyl that can peel off, inks that fade, etc.