The first thing I want to show you here is a banner, an indoor banner:
Blockout material, printed on the Colorado 1630 in a beautiful gloss finish...
wide colour gamut, poppy colours, ideal for visual communication.
That's it. Let's go to the next one. The same application, but for the outside:
An outdoor banner, different material. This one is actually printed double-sided.
It's finished as a pole banner, as you can see...
up there are inks, easy to be stitched through.
You can easily weld them. No problem with that.
A different type of banner: a pop-up banner for pop-up advertising, printed on a polyethylene film.
This one has a matte finish to it. You see here the cassette, a typical way of finishing.
Now I find myself on a floor graphic. Everybody knows this application...
everybody does this with UVgel, because you don't need to laminate. Our ink is very robust.
I could do a song and dance here, but I'm going to skip that for everybody's sake.
UVgel, very robust, no lamination.
Let's go to the shelf, a typical retail application. What do we see here? Labels.
This is actually a new way of doing labels: on a self-adhesive paper. It's eco in two ways:
It's eco-friendly, as a paper-based application, which is where the market is going to...
and it's also very economical.
Another way of doing labels is on a metallic film, a very special effect.
Can you see it on camera? Hot stuff.
What we have wobbling here is a literal 'shelf wobbler'...
printed on a fairly rigid type of rolled plastic. A typical supermarket application.
Also we're talking about new applications here.
Packaging is hot. Everybody's ordering stuff from the internet and getting it delivered in a box.
A couple of ways to decorate a box: a label, self-adhesive paper that you put onto it as a label.
But here we also have a really professionally looking box, printed on the Colorado...
and finished through litho lamination, the professional way of doing packaging.
And our Colorado 1630 inks: perfect, no cracking, flexible.
Short-term application, packaging. Remember that.
Then we go here. On the back of this chair we have decals. Everybody knows that.
You can print on monomeric and polymeric. Everybody knows that application.
A little restaurant scene. I see a menu, printed on a synthetic paper.
Very robust, waterproof, you can't scratch it.
This is interesting. This is printed on Tyvek, a special type of soft Tyvek.
And then all of a sudden we have a crumpled map. Yes, you can crumple it...
and the ink doesn't come off. It's waterproof.
This lasts for ages. Only possible with UVgel. It's unique that way.
Let's have a look at the tablecloth. This is a soft paper, so-called 'soft-wrap paper'.
It's very cheap commodity paper. When you print on it, it becomes a high-margin application.
Unique: you can really upgrade commodity material that way.
You can make lots of money by personalising your tablecloth.
In the background we have wall decor, a very popular application.
It went through the roof last year. The growth is expected to continue exploding.
Everybody wants to decorate their bar, restaurant or hotel room...
but it's also for personal spaces, interiors. A couple of properties are very important.
The colours need to stand out, the alignment of all the panels needs to match perfectly...
and you're very welcome when you can actually see a hamburger and a ketchup bottle...
and you can just spray it on there.
Before you start thinking: 'Oh no, you ruined the application, the decor':
No, that's the power of UVgel and the Colorado 1630.
Our ink is very scratchable, washable.
You can take it off, sponge it off, scrub it with a brush: it stays intact.
What do we have here? An overhead sign. This is how the industry got started, with signage.
This is still how signs are done. You print on a rolled material and then glue it onto a sign.
This one is cardboard, typical for an overhead sign in a supermarket...
but also to be used outdoors on Foamex or Forex material.
Let's go over here. We have backlits. I want to show you two ways of doing backlits.
This is the more traditional way, printing on a film with light behind it. That's the traditional way.
On the bottom here we have a more modern way. This is not printed on a film but on a textile.
A very specific type of textile, it's a Samba, what they call 'soft signage', so silicone edge graphics.
It's very stretchable textile, and our ink is also very stretchable. You stretch it around the frame.
The good thing about UVgel 1630 inks is the high contrast. We have a very high colour intensity...
and also where you don't want to have colour, but want absence of light instead...
our ink is actually blocking the light very much. Unique.
Then we go over here, to this wall, which is a fake wall.
This is a very flexible foil...
which you can heat and then you can push it into these seams...
and then you can actually push it into a brick wall.
These are quite modern applications...
but now I'm going to show you an old-fashioned one, usually still done with analogue equipment.
It's blue-back paper. These are the traditional billboards.
I've actually soaked it in water and glue, and then with a little help...
don't watch the alignment, you can stick it on there.
Very high volumes of this application are still being printed.
This is blue-back paper, and when we talk about paper we talk about posters.
With the Colorado 1630 and UVgel there's lots of possibilities.
Posters are a commodity, but with UVgel they come out great.
You can print uncoated paper, machine-coated paper and the colours pop out...
they don't look washed out. Very good.
When we talk about colours and getting a more arty effect, we talk about canvas.
Everybody knows canvas. As you see, it's stretched on a frame.
What's important: the colours pop out, you can stretch the ink around the frame without cracking.
Very robust, you don't have to handle it with gallery-type white textile gloves.
I'll leave it there for just a moment. Let's go here, where we come across my skateboard.
Why do I show you my skateboard? To explain vehicle graphics.
I can't drive a bus into the indoor application area. But this is what vehicle graphics is all about.
Customers are doing it because the ink is very flexible and lends itself well to it.
We can cover fleets of trains, metros, buses.
They all have windows, so we also need to think about windows. How to decorate transparencies?
This is one example: a transparent film, printed with UVgel, but there are lots of ways of doing it.
You can also print on micro-perforates, or even on window cling film.
Here we are. What do we have here? Cheap wrapping paper.
This is brown kraft paper, almost the cheapest paper you can buy...
but if you personalise it, all of a sudden you have a high-margin application.
Cheapest paper in the world almost...
but if you personalise it and print it on high-speed with the Colorado 1630...
all of a sudden you have a very profitable business.
I'm running out of breath.
This is the personalised paper, which you can finish off with a label.
We were talking about floor graphics and about printing on transparent material...
but if you combine the two, we have a new application. A customer taught us this.
This is what he calls a 'floor tattoo'. Our ink is so robust that you don't need to overlaminate it.
You can actually print on the laminate itself, as it's transparent.
You stick it on the floor, on the concrete in this case...
and all of a sudden you have a new application: a floor tattoo.
There's one last thing I want to show you.
Printing on magnet. This is magnetic film. We finished it in two ways:
High-gloss, high-pop, and this is the smooth matte version.
It's the same material. The matte-one we printed with FLXfinish.
This is magnetic material. You can stick it on anything ferrous or metal.
You can make your own fridge magnet out of it.
A lot of applications in a very limited time frame.
I'm running out of breath. I feel like I deserve a prize.
I got a prize. What's this? It's another Colorado application: a T-shirt.
We didn't print on the T-shirt itself, but on a transfer paper...
which we then transferred onto the T-shirt. Our ink is stretchable, and also very washable.
That was it. A lot of applications.
If I had half an hour, I could show you a hundred more.