Sublimation Offers the Recipe for Success

Seeking innovative methods to invigorate your business and increase revenue is a top concern for many business owners. Fortunately, the resurgence of food trucks presents a promising opportunity that could prove lucrative for print service providers open to exploring sublimation printing. Delving deeper into this trend could unveil a potential avenue for increased profitability beyond vehicle wraps. These mobile eateries provide their owners a platform to introduce distinctive culinary concepts to a broader audience, traveling around towns and sharing their culinary delights with the foodie generation. These endeavors demand signage and printed promotional materials, a niche where your expertise can seamlessly come into play.

While food trucks can eliminate the great expense of a physical location that requires furniture and décor, maintaining the connection with local customers, while on the move and offering personalized service, can still be challenging. You can help by providing the resources to help them create unique promotional merchandise and everyday essentials for their business, enabling them to stand out.

Built to serve the unique needs of businesses, Epson dye sublimation printers are engineered to offer easy and reliable operation and exceptional quality to help your business grow and expand your product line. From signage to aprons, sublimation can add the spice your business needs to cater to food truck owners so they can stay focused on creating culinary works of art.

Below are some key ingredients to help broaden your range of products and provide personalized sublimation goods tailored for food truck entrepreneurs aiming to differentiate themselves in the market:

Curb Appeal

From vibrant branding to creative designs, the exterior sets the stage for what’s inside. Creating catchy visuals not only attracts attention but also creates a lasting impression that keeps their foodie customers coming back for more. Create attractive and colorful signage on aluminum panels, acrylic, or glass that can be seen from a distance.

Innovation

Food truck owners have to stay fresh and dynamic with their menus. Help them to introduce new dishes, fusion flavors, or unique twists on classics with vibrant menu designs. Leverage your sublimation printer to craft personalized menus that can be easily updated, ensuring a steady revenue stream throughout different seasons.

Stay Connected

Beyond the food, it’s the personal touch that counts. Help them engage with their customers. Sublimation breathes life into their concepts with a vibrant spectrum. Your expertise can aid in amplifying their reach through vivid referral or rewards cards that feature their social media handles, utilizing materials such as aluminum, acrylic, or hardboard, including items like keychains.

Adapt to Change

Markets evolve, trends change, and customer tastes shift. Review their signage needs and promotional materials often. When they need an update, simply redesign and print new materials quickly. The Epson SureColor® F570PE provides many features to streamline your workflow, including specialized transfer paper for both rigid and soft media, a 50-sheet auto-feed tray, and built-in cutter to get their new materials produced quickly.

LexJet offers various Epson sublimation printers to fit your business as it grows. Take a look at what Epson offers here.

Remember, in the world of food trucks, it’s not just about serving food; it’s about creating an experience that leaves a lasting memory.

Here are some suggested sublimation products that you can produce and tailor to perfectly suit your distinct food truck clientele with the Epson SureColor® F570PE:

  • Employee and customer T-shirts
  • Employee name badges
  • Mugs
  • Coasters
  • Menus
  • Signs
  • Bags
  • Serving trays
  • Paper trays for food
  • Kitchen towels
  • Aprons
  • Food truck décor
  • Keychains

Interested in learning more about Epson’s sublimation technology and how you can expand your printing services to the food truck industry? Please contact a Customer Specialist at 800-453-9538 or visit LexJet.com.

                               

Unveiling UFabrik: Pioneering Sustainability, Versatility, and High-Quality Fabric Materials for Super-Wide Format Printing

Embark on a journey into the future of display graphics with LexJet’s exclusive unveiling of the innovative UFabrik collection. This specially curated selection meets a comprehensive array of applications, covering 95% of applications used in exhibition, event, and retail markets. With materials available in 2.6m (102 inches) and 3.2m (126 inches) sizes, UFabrik empowers you to dream big and bring those large-scale projects to life without compromise.

UFabrik stands as a testament to adaptability and high-performance innovation. These fabrics work flawlessly with a broad array of super-wide-format UV, Latex, and dye sublimation technologies, ensuring smooth operation with systems from global frontrunners like EFI, Canon, Mimaki, Durst, Agfa, and HP.

The commitment to exceptional quality at UFabrik also extends to their dedication to environmental stewardship. Several eco-friendly fabric materials ingeniously repurpose single-use plastic waste into vibrant, robust display graphics. Complementing this are polyester-based fabrics, offering the potential for recycling or energy conversion.

Be part of this exciting evolution as UFabrik sets the stage for sustainability and versatility in super-wide format printing. By choosing UFabrik, you’re selecting products with vibrant color reproduction and high-quality performance while championing a more sustainable global ecosystem.

Don’t miss your chance to be among the first to experience the UFabrik range.

To delve deeper into the UFabrik portfolio and explore its potential for your projects, connect with a LexJet Customer Specialist at 800-453-9538.

Achieve Brilliant Quality Glossy Canvas Without Lamination

The Elements Portfolio offers a stellar selection of quality canvases to create high-end works of art to high-volume production prints.

Making its grand debut in the Gemstone Collection is the NEW Elements Crystal Opal Gloss Canvas! This high-quality polycotton gloss canvas has been specially crafted to provide stunning glossy prints and is an ideal choice for fine-art reproductions, gallery wraps, and other similar applications.

This canvas is specifically designed for print environments where liquid lamination or spray coatings are not supported, but a glossy finish is desired. It provides a glossy finish at a lower cost, time, and hassle compared to traditional liquid laminates.

Crystal Opal offers a bright white finish on a 2-over-1 weave, which makes it both durable and soft to the touch. The polycotton blend also ensures that the canvas has excellent color reproduction and sharpness, which is critical for producing high-quality prints.

Each unique canvas in this collection offers the high quality and durability you expect from the Elements Portfolio. With its excellent color reproduction, durability, softness, and compatibility with aqueous printers, Crystal Opal is an excellent choice for photographers, artists, and print shops that require high-quality prints and is available now for purchase.

To learn more, please contact a LexJet Customer Specialist at 800-453-9538 or visit lexjet.com.

Canon Announces New Revolutionary Printing Technology with Modular and White Ink Options

Productivity powered by UVgel technology is one of the extraordinary features of the new Canon Colorado M-series 64-inch roll-to-roll printer. It features two speed configurations and optional UVgel white ink capabilities producing high-quality applications surpassing high productivity demands and turnaround standards.

Upgrades You Want When You Need Them

This latest addition of the M3 BASE and M5W PRO to the Canon portfolio of already impressive technology will undoubtedly spark interest in those looking for a single platform that can be configured with in-field upgrades to help meet customer needs and business growth. The scalable series, along with two speed configurations and optional UVgel white ink capabilities, also provides additional modular options. The M3 BASE configuration can be expanded up to the M5W PRO configuration over time, which includes increased functionality, such as speed enhancements, double-sided printing, dual-roll, white ink capabilities, and FLXfinish+.

With current printing technology, the days of choosing matte OR gloss are gone. With the new Canon M-series, you can choose the popular FLXfinish+ option allowing you the ability to add matte, gloss, or BOTH on the same print without additional varnish. This option opens the door for your creativity to go where it could never venture before.

High-volume customers can automate the print-to-finish process with a UVgel Print Factory or UVgel Wallpaper Factory configuration, which seamlessly integrates the Colorado M-series printer with cutting, rewinding, taping, or sheet stacking to manage volumes of at least 500,000 ft.2 per year with minimal operator time.

The Canon M-series devices can be easily upgraded to ‘W’ versions for white ink after they are purchased, allowing users to choose the options required for optimum growth as they are needed. M-series devices incorporate the latest print head technology found in the Colorado 1630 devices, which, relative to the Colorado 1650 devices, have double the nozzles, a higher firing frequency, increased durability, and a reduced number of print heads from eight to four.

Expand Your Market Reach

Customers can benefit from UVgel’s renowned performance advantages for a full spectrum of premium graphics and décor applications like window graphics, labels, and wallpaper. With new media detection sensor technology for easy media handling for even non-white applications, Colorado M-series customers can expand product offerings using heavy structured, transparent, colored, metallic, and magnetic materials. Offering new products that weren’t possible before opens a world of possibilities for growth and revenue.

 

Speed Up Productivity

In terms of white printing speed, the M-series outperforms its competition boasting a 2-3 times faster output while using less ink, 50-70% less1! The need to remove and store heads or shaking ink bags before printing is eliminated. Together, the revolutionary non-evaporative UVgel inks, whose gel-like consistency helps keep the white pigments suspended, and the printer’s automated maintenance features, ensure that the ink and nozzles are ready to print on demand.

For those looking for maximum productivity and speed, Canon UVgel ink delivers tack-sharp image quality and consistent color and enables immediate cutting and finishing with its instant drying properties. Its ultra-durability also removes the need for lamination. Like previous Colorado configurations, the M-series is designed to handle the workload of multiple legacy roll-to-roll printers, with industrial-grade round-the-clock reliability. Operators are no longer bound to the printer during printing with minimal operator intervention. The new Colorado M-series printers are supported by PRISMAguide XL, the powerful make-ready software offered for free with each white ink-enabled device, resulting in effortless production runs with consistent high quality.

Additional Features:

  • Compared to other ink technologies, such as latex or eco-solvent inks, UVgel technology consumes up to 40% less CMYK ink to build up the same image quality and color intensity.
  • The low-heat, energy-efficient LED curing system and ‘instant-on’ operation result in reduced energy use compared to other technologies.
  • With UVgel technology, customers can print on environmentally responsible materials such as PVC-free and paper-based media. The Colorado M-series printer fits perfectly in a sustainability conscious organization, building on the Colorado 1650 UVgel 460’s GREENGUARD Gold certification2 from UL Environment.

To learn more about this low cost of ownership solution, please contact a Customer Specialist at 800-453-9538 or visit lexjet.com.

1 Production speeds of 312ft²/hr and 427ft²/hr and maximum print speed of 1,195ft²/hr. and 1,709ft²/hr., respectively.

2 UVgel 460’s GREENGUARD Gold Certification resulted from its testing against the UL 2818 – 2013 Gold Standard for Chemical Emissions for Building Materials, Finishes and Furnishings.

 

Smart Printing Redefined

Printer technology has evolved quickly to meet the high demands and expectations of the printing industry. Canon continues to exceed expectations of high image quality, advanced media handling, and speed with the imagePROGRAF PRO-4100.

The 44-inch imagePROGRAF PRO-4100 printer’s use of LUCIA PRO ink set plus Chroma Optimizer, a high-precision mechanical platform, and the L-COA PRO high-speed image processing engine achieves a balance between exceptional print quality and speed. The Chroma Optimizer, when used on glossy or semi-glossy paper, acts as a clear coat, improving color performance and gloss characteristics enriching the dark areas of a print while reducing graininess and scratches that the most critical photographer can easily detect.

Those searching for a more automated and easy-to-use printing solution will enjoy some key advanced features that may improve speed and productivity while reducing the waste of valuable resources, including:

  • Loading and recognizing paper without human intervention by simply setting the roll holder in the printer and letting the media automatically feed into the printer. The built-in multi-sensor measures the surface reflection and the media thickness to determine your chosen media type without manually entering it.
  • Accurately measure the remaining media on a roll without the need to print a bar code – saving both ink and media.
  • Matte black and photo black inks have their own dedicated nozzles, so no manual switching between ink tanks is necessary. You can print on fine art paper and then glossy paper without worries, changes, or waste.
  • The PF-10, a 1.28″-wide print head with 18,432 nozzles equipped with anti-clogging FINE technology, generates fast print speeds while reducing the possibility of clogging.
  • The L-COA PRO high-precision control engine performs the processing of massive image data and controls the optimal ink layout that produces high-resolution prints.
  • Includes an upgraded, built-in color densitometer that offers precise calibration and color matching.
  • The Device Management Console software, ideal for fleet management, lets you perform color calibrations, notifies you via email when an error has occurred, and checks the amount of ink left in the printers remotely.
  • The dual-roll feeding mechanism lets users load a second roll of a different media type and size, allowing you to switch from printing on matte to gloss paper without pausing your jobs.
  • The sub-Ink tank system allows all of the available ink in a tank to be used before having to replace it, helping eliminate any wasted ink. You can also replace the empty tanks while your print jobs are running.

Breakthrough printing technology with advanced ink and media handling features is available now and at your fingertips. Now’s the time to upgrade with a $575 instant rebate and a mail-in rebate of $800 through June 30, 2023.

To learn more about the Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-4100, please contact a Customer Specialist at 800-453-9538 or visit lexjet.com.

Immerse Yourself in Innovation at EFI™ Ignite

Get an up-close-and-personal opportunity to see the latest wide- and superwide-format print technology that can ignite your business with brilliant capabilities. Join us and immerse yourself in innovation at EFIIgnite on June 7.

Explore limitless potential as you see the latest print technology in action. Experience live demonstrations of hybrid, roll-to-roll, and soft signage printers and discover new applications that will drive profits.

Get inspired at EFIIgnite at EFI’s Global Inkjet Innovation Center in Londonderry, New Hampshire, on June 7, 2023. Here’s a glimpse of some of the solutions being featured.

The EFI Pro 32r+ Printer is ideal if you want to up your game with more capacity. Imagine doing more with 16,404 square feet (5,000 square meters) per month. Build growth as you offer customers a wider range of applications including white, textiles, and double-sided on a variety of substrates. Lower your running costs and power bills thanks to better ink consumption.

Searching for soft signage printing that meets your application needs? Consider EFI VUTEk FabriVU 340i+. This dye-sub printer offers a wide application range like exhibit, backlit and front lit graphics, retail fixture wraps, block-out banners, flags, as well as fabric interior décor. Expect production-level speeds with outstanding image quality. Want to increase productivity? The 340i+ offers direct print to fabric; sublimate inline in one step with production runs that are immediately ready for finishing and shipping.

Want to future-proof your business with a powerful competitive edge? The EFI™ VUTEk® h Series represents a new generation of super wide-format hybrid inkjet printers. With every job, they provide your business with unmatched levels of reliability, serviceability, ease of use, functionality, quality, productivity, and expandability.

Take your business beyond speed and quality with new EFI™ VUTEk® Q Series roll-to-roll LED printers. These printers were developed to bring you the highest image quality at the highest rated speeds in the industrial roll-to-roll printer market.

Discover EFI’s latest inkjet printing innovations that will ignite your business with brilliant capabilities.

Registration closes Friday, May 26, 2023.

Agenda:

June 6

5:30 PM Welcome cocktail reception @ Foundry Restaurant

June 7

8:00 AM Check in and continental breakfast

8:30 AM Welcome

8:45 AM Wide format graphic printing trends 2023

9:30 AM Tour of the EFI™ Inkjet facility

10:15 AM Make the move to production-level hybrid printing

11:15 AM The power of true flatbed printers

11:45 AM Up your game with the EFI Pro 32r+ roll-to-roll printer

12:15 PM Lunch

1:15 PM More soft signage capabilities with the EFI VUTEk® FabriVU® 340i+

1:45 PM Reduce media costs, increase printer throughput and free up your staff with the Fiery® Display Graphics Suite

2:15 PM Build a stronger, more profitable business with EFI IQ™

2:45 PM New applications and new opportunities powered by digital inkjet

3:15 PM Break

3:30 PM Go beyond with the EFI VUTEk Q Series roll-to-roll printers’ complete print to finished graphic workflow

4:00 PM The EFI VUTEk h Series: Your next competitive edge. Right here. Right now.