Large Format Inkjet Printing | Sign & Display Graphics

Display Graphics Remain in High Demand

Consumer product companies, which are the primary purchasers of in-store displays, have a lot of pressure on them to provide more store-specific or more demographic-specific displays. Think of a big box retailer or grocery store with a sales campaign. Stores are in constant need of materials to highlight products during promotion. In fact, in-store signage provides printers with an insulation against economic downturns – the last marketing dollars to be affected are those that market at the retail level.

If you look at some of the industry reports from InfoTrends or I.T. Strategies, you’re going to see that the expected year-to-year growth for wide format, based on customer surveys, is about 14.5 percent. Compare this to 4 percent projected annual growth for commercial side printing.

The innovation in wide format inkjet printing applications provide printers new flexibility in taking full advantage of the growing sign and display graphics market areas.

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What Does the Future Hold for Wide Format

The range of substrates wide format inkjet technologies will be able to print on will continue to expand. This will coincide for retailers and consumers demanding more choice. Think of retail shop murals changing every three months as product line changes. Think of going beyond the mural to the use of fabrics for the creation of soft signage, even the product itself might be digitally printed. Decorative applications (coalescing with advertising) will become an important and growing part of output.

Wide format printers utilize Fujifilm inkjet technologies today to successfully print using these unique substrates:

Flexible substrates like paper (and all its many varieties), flexible plastics, vinyls, canvas, and textiles
Rigid substrates like thick plastic, board, glass, wood, metal and even 3-D objects like doors and surfboards
Unique substrates like aluminum and aluminum-composites, imitation metallics, and magnetic materials

Other Benefits of Wide Format Printing

Applications

Wide format inkjet provide a myriad of solutions for applications including signs, posters, banners; POP and POS materials; backlit films; window displays; decor items like wall coverings, floors, custom-printed draperies; vehicle wraps and even textiles and clothing.

Finishing Options

Wide format provides a myriad of value-added (and potentially profitable) finishing options for printers to add to their repertoire, including: laminating/coating, hot stamping, mounting, die-cutting, routing, vacuum forming, tiling and adding dimensional elements.

Versatility

Fujifilm provides the widest selection of wide format options available, including rollfed, flatbed and hybrid models. From the dynamic innovation of our entry level Acuity LED model to the class-leading production POP champion Onset series of flatbeds, Fujifilm has the proven technology to help you dominate the sign and display business today and for years to come.

Fujifilm has the ability to provide you a detailed ROI analysis before you invest based on your particular shops expertise; the equipment, media, inks, substrates and finishing processes you plan to use; our knowledge of average retail selling price per square foot of printing and finishing; and the cost per square foot of the equipment and materials.

What The Experts Say

“The large-format signage market continues to grow for all sizes of printing companies. In my opinion, this is one of the greatest opportunities for small- to medium-sized companies.”

Howie Fenton, Consultant for NAPL

“What’s clear is that wide format inkjet remains on average two to three times more profitable than both screen and offset printing. As a tool, wide format is more simple to use than offset or screen technologies.”

Marco Boer, Vice President, I.T. Strategies