Printing

Volume I

Nº03

methods

To produce the wide range of products we offer to photographers, we employ a range of different printing equipment and techniques:

Methods

Nº03 · Dye-Sublimation · Giclée · UV

Nº01

Dye-Sublimation

Chromaluxe is a premium brand of high definition coated aluminium panels, designed to be used with the process of dye-sublimation to recreate stunning art and photography.

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Nº02

Giclée printing (pronounced “zhee-clay”) is a high-quality fine art printing technique that uses inkjet printers to reproduce art, photographs, and other images. The term “giclée” is derived from the French word “gicler,” which means “to spray” or “to squirt,” and it refers to the way ink is applied in the printing process. Giclée printing is known for its ability to produce high-resolution, detailed, and vibrant prints that closely match the original artwork or photograph.

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Nº03

UV

Unlike our giclée printers which are roll-fed and use pigment inks, our UV printing facility uses a flatbed and can print up to 2.5 x 1.25m. Its unique selling point is that it can print on any flat substrate that is no thicker than 50mm (2 inches), such as wood, leather, acrylic, canvas and even more unusual substrates such as stone. Utilising a set of UV lamps that are positioned either side of the bank of 7 print heads, as soon as the inks hit the substrate, they are immediately cured or dried by the UV lights, meaning that substrates such as glass can be successfully printed on where previously the ink would run before drying.

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