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A Recipe for Décor Printing at Avant Printing

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Expert in décor printing (and every other type of wide-format printing), Avant Printing, Richmond, Calif., has found the perfect recipe for wall-mounted décor graphics for educational, government and corporate clients.

Avant Printing uses the HP L25500 Latex Printer for instant-dry printing on LexJet Sunset Photo Gloss SUV 275g.

Avant Printing for Corporate Clien“Everyone we’ve done prints for with the paper has loved it. They love the way it looks, and the great thing about the latex printer is that it comes out dry immediately and you don’t have to let it sit, so there is no time between print and laminate. On our aqueous printer, on the other hand, we like to give it at least 24 hours, if not 48, before we laminate,” says Robyn Rickansrud of Avant Printing.

The recipe is completed with a luster laminate, adds Rickansrud. The laminate is less for UV protection, and more to protect the graphics in high-touch zones, but more importantly to cut down on glare and provide a nice finish.

“The gloss paper provides the sharpness, contrast and color saturation so the images stand out,” says Rickansrud. “We fine-tuned the profile for the Sunset paper based on the HP Photo-realistic Poster Paper setting, and that worked well for nice output on the Latex printer.”

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Winner of iPad Drawing Has Big Plans for New Printer

Keith Fabry Inc., Richmond, Va., was one of five companies picked randomly to win a free iPad 2 with Wi-Fi and 3G in LexJet’s first-quarter printer promotion where everyone who bought a 42-inch or wider printer from LexJet received a $200 gift certificate and were entered into the drawing.

Inkjet printing photo metallic Canon printerOperations manager Ricky Shannon says the promotion was perfectly timed since the company was looking for a printer with which to attack the fine art reproduction market. Since its inception in 1958, Keith Fabry Inc. has always seized opportunity. The company was founded to focus on reprographics and when plotting went full color, Keith Fabry went full bore into that market.

Keith Fabry still does blueprint work, but the majority of its work is now concentrated on high-quality, full-color output with a 4×8 flatbed, a low-solvent printer and an older aqueous printer. It was time to upgrade and seize opportunity once again so the company bought a 44-in. wide Canon iPF8300 to make it happen.

“We’ve had the printer installed for a week or so and have printed some work on Sunset Hot Press Rag and Sunset Photo Metallic Paper. The prints look great and with the printer’s ability to do edge to edge printing and back trim to the print is a big plus for our workflow,” says Shannon. “That machine will mainly be a fine art and photo machine, as well as some high end museum work, and we’ll offer high-end Sunset photo and fine art papers on it. We’ve toyed with this market before, but didn’t have the proper hardware to pull it off. It’s a small investment for what you can re-sell prints. We expect it will pay for itself very soon.”

We’ll stay in touch with Keith Fabry and profile some of the more interesting projects the company prints in the future. Other winners of the iPad drawing included Banko Beverage Company, Dave Zerbe Studio, Wine & Beverage Merchants of W.V., and Mears Photography.