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LexJet’s Holiday Gift Guide: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
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LexJet’s Holiday Gift Guide: The Gift That Keeps on Giving

‘Tis the season for giving, so we’re going to help make your gift-giving and gift-making a little less stressful and a lot more lucrative with the most popular holiday products. Don’t get your tinsel in a tangle; prepare now for the busy holiday season!

Photographers and print shops will want to offer the beautiful and affordable canvases in the Elements Portfolio that are certain to dazzle their customers. The collections feature everything from high-end canvases for discerning clients to high-quality, high-volume recycled canvases for environmentally conscious consumers. These canvases are the perfect gifts to display treasured family portraits, wedding memories, or exciting journeys.

Elements Quarry Collection

Makers and DIYers have many customizable and hot-selling options to offer their customers! Our sublimation products include Unisub coasters, ornaments, magnets, key chains, pet tags, and the beautiful ChromaLuxe® Wall Tiles that will brighten someone’s holiday. ChromaLuxe® tiles are available in various sizes and finishes offering superior quality and durability.

There is something to be said for a well-wrapped gift. The care given to the wrapping says as much about the giver as the recipient. Our recyclable HP Satin Wrapping Paper allows you to bring your unique and whimsical designs to life. This paper is quick drying and stays intact with handling- avoiding smudges and smears, making the wrapping as valuable as the gift itself.

Sunset Production eSatin 250 is a premium-quality, resin-coated photo paper that is part of our award-winning Sunset lineup. This satin-finish photo paper makes high-volume, production-oriented printing easier. It’s an excellent solution for posters and commercial displays for holiday signage and for all those holiday portraits shared each year.

Customized gifts are hot sellers, adding a much more personal touch to company gifts for employees, for family and friends, and for customers that want their unique gift to stand out from the rest.

No matter what you plan to offer your customers, we have the high-quality products to help you stay ahead of the competition. To learn more, please contact a LexJet Customer Specialist at 800-4-LEXJET.

60 Minutes Photo Adds a Personal Touch to Photo Reproduction
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60 Minutes Photo Adds a Personal Touch to Photo Reproduction

In the 1970s, 60 Minutes Photo was the first one-hour photo development lab in West Palm Beach, Fla. Today, its ability to continue to offer innovative solutions with top-notch, in-person customer service has helped keep it in business during a time when online competition keeps heating up.

“Photo labs are becoming a dying breed,” says Renea Hutchings, who owns 60 Minutes Photo with her husband, Harold. “We’re more of a custom lab. People walk in and we have consulting where we can pull up their image and show them how it will look at a certain size. We work with both professionals and amateur photographers. Today, we’re one of the only all-around labs in Palm Beach County.”

The team pairs that customer-intimate approach with photo restoration work as well as up-to-the-minute photo reproduction trends, such as acrylic glass art, photo books, t-shirts, puzzles and metal prints, utilizing a variety of print technologies and substrates, based on their customers’ preferences.

The metal prints are particularly popular these days, Hutchings says, because of their sleek look and color reproduction. “If you have a really good shot, and we sublimate it on metal, we can get a really good print,” she says.

Her production team opts for Chromaluxe Photo Panels and LexJet InFuze Rigid Substrate Dye-Sub Paper for transferring the image to the metal. “Our guys like the InFuze better than the others they’ve used — it feels thicker and it’s more  porous, so it holds more ink when we sublimate it — it heats better and works better, especially with the photo panels,” Hutchings says.

When finishing the panels, the 60 Minutes team adds customized hanging fixtures with stainless steel buttons and sticks that are adhered to the back and can hold panels as large as 30-by-40 inches — and they deliver the final product within just a few days.

“We have some interior designer customers in Wellington, which is a huge horse-show world,” she says. “Their photos can be sublimated onto metal and hung outside on patios or in these multi-million-dollar horse barns. You can pretty much just squirt them with a hose and wipe them off. They’re pretty indestructible”

Another popular wall art item the team produces is photos printed Sunset Photo Metallic Paper and adhered to acrylic. “The image just pops,” Hutchings says. “It’s not like looking at a regular print.” She says portrait photographers, restaurants, sports bars and healthcare facilities are just a few of the types of customers opting for these two dynamic options.

To learn more about photo reproduction options, connect with a LexJet print specialist to day at 800-453-9538.

Posted on by Jennifer Corn Posted in Technology & Products
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Three Tools to Help You Wrap the Perfect Holiday Canvas

The holidays are the perfect time to create custom gifts. With the hundreds of personal images that people store on their phones, there’s no better way to encourage your customers to print an image than by turning a personal photo into an archival canvas wrap right before their eyes. Here are three tools that can help you create sentimental gifts that will last a lifetime:

HP Designjet Z9+ Printer: This nine-color (plus optional gloss enhancer) printer allows you to easily create content and submit jobs through the HP Applications Center, the dual roll feed saves you the hassle of switching media types between prints, and the vertical trimmer gives you frame-worthy graphics right off the printer.

HP Artist Matte Canvas: This high-quality, stretchable canvas delivers vivid, long-lasting images. Designed for fine art and photography, it’s a cost-effective canvas that works seamlessly with the HP Z9+ vertical trimmer.

GOframe Stretcher Bars: No canvas wrap is complete until it is properly stretched and the easy-to-use GOframe stretcher system is perfect for the novice and professional, alike. The GOframe Starter Kit and bars are designed to help you wrap canvases in no time. The reusable corner clamps make positioning accurate, and the bars are finished with adhesive on two sides for easy installation.

To see how LexJet can help you create other customized gifts this holiday season, call us at 800-453-9538 or visit LexJet.com.

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Posted on by Rhian Arvidson Posted in News & Trends
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Hotels Are Becoming Fine Art Spaces — But Where Do They Buy Their Art?

Queen Elizabeth sits serenely with eyes closed in a giant photograph — perhaps meant to lull viewers to sleep. Her portrait is not on display in a museum, rather, she hangs in the lobby of London’s Churchill Hyatt Regency, part of a growing trend of hotels that are using artwork to create a unique and memorable experience for their guests. But where do hotels buy their art?

Whether a Hilton, Hyatt or Marriott, these franchises must all meet branding specifications set by a parent company. Art selection, on the other hand, is usually determined by an architect or interior design team hired by the hotel owner. There are also Boutique Hospitality Art Consultants who negotiate with working artists to create custom art packages for hotels.

Art consultancies will often locate artwork from local artists through area art galleries for global placement in luxury hotels around the world. One way for local art galleries to stay informed is to partner with the American Society of Interior Designers Association. This partnership helps galleries get an inside track on current and upcoming interior design projects.

Sometimes these design projects require high-volume and quick turnaround and that’s where digital print technology comes in. Galleries and designers look for quality substrates such as Fredrix Canvas to reproduce museum quality work for their guestroom art pieces. Artists know they can trust their work to Fredrix because of their 150-year-old legacy of making fine canvas products in the U.S.

Fredrix 777VWR Vivid Matte Canvas – is an 18-mil, bright-white, poly/cotton canvas with a 2-over-1 weave. This water-resistant canvas is the smoothest of the Fredrix aqueous canvas line, making it the perfect choice for highly detailed, photographic, decorative gallery wraps on canvas.

Fredrix 901SGSJ Artisan Semi-Gloss Canvas – A poly/cotton blend, 2-over-1 canvas is specially engineered to create beautiful prints with the latest solvent, eco-solvent, and latex inks, providing a wide color gamut, exceptional Dmax, and a consistent, subtle texture.

For more information on Fredrix Canvas offerings, call 800-453-9538 to speak with a LexJet sales representative or visit lexjet.com to purchase Fredrix Canvas today – available exclusively through LexJet.

Looking for Digital Décor Materials? Download This!
Posted on by Shellie Terry Posted in Technology & Products, Tips & Tricks
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Looking for Digital Décor Materials? Download This!

So you’re expanding your services to include more digital décor options for your customers, but you need guidance on the best materials to print to. We’ve got you covered, whether you’re printing with aqueous, latex, eco-solvent, UV-curable or dye-sublimation technology.

At LexJet, we’ve got more than 100 materials for you to choose from in a variety of finishes, including media and substrates for wall art, wallcovering, window treatments, fabrics, upholstery and accessories. With these options, you can decorate nearly all of the objects and surfaces in a room, office, retail space or commercial facility with digitally printed graphics and images.

With digital technology, you can make fully customized décor pieces that your customers will cherish. To discover LexJet’s line of digital décor materials, please download our Digital Décor Printing Line Card.

To discover more ways to incorporate digital décor printing into your operation, call a LexJet print specialist at 800-453-9538.

Posted on by Shellie Terry Posted in Tips & Tricks
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Speedy Canvas Wraps Are on a Roll with GOframe

You can stretch professional-level canvas wraps faster than all get out with the GOframe PRO system, available at LexJet. In the video above, we take you step-by-step through the process, which takes just minutes, unlike traditional canvas wrap procedures.

You’ll need:

  • GOframe Starter Kit: Includes 4 Reusable Corner Clamps, Archival Glue and an Edge Trimmer
  • Stretcher Bars: Shown here are 16” x 20” GOframe PRO stretcher bars that come with tensioners and U-shaped fasteners for the corners
  • Hammer, utility knife and straight edge

When you prepare your print, add a 2.5-inch bleed on all sides before printing. We recommend printing on LexJet Sunset Reserve Matte Canvas or LexJet Sunset Reserve Gloss Canvas for great canvas wrap results. Be sure to install GOframe on a smooth surface when the canvas is print-side down to avoid scratches.

The GOframe Starter Kit and Stretcher Bars are prepped to help you wrap canvases in no time. The reusable corner clamps make positioning accurate, and the bars are finished with adhesive on two sides for easy installation. The kit also comes with a bottle of archival glue for extra adhesion.

Follow the step-by-step instructions in the video to learn how to align your print, finish the corners and place U-shaped fasteners and tensioners to create a gallery-worthy wrap.