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How to Customize Weddings with Wide-Format Print
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How to Customize Weddings with Wide-Format Print

When wedding planning, most brides include printing in their plans, but that often begins and ends with invitations. While custom invitations are certainly a vital piece of the planning process, using print to create a unique experience can permeate all the way through the big day itself. And wide-format services can make those projects come to life.

Makayla Harris during a wedding reveal event.

Makayla Harris of The Harris Co. in Saratoga, NY, operates a Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-Series 4000 to create a fun “reveal” event for couples before and after their weddings. If Harris has photographed their engagement photos and/or wedding photos, she prints sample portraits and hangs them in her studio to give the couple a feeling of what they look like on the wall.

“We customize the studio for them, and it really helps our sales,” Harris says. “It’s such a wow factor to see them on the wall — they just can’t resist.” (Check out The Harris Co.’s Instagram Behind the Scenes stories to see how couples have reacted to the reveal events.)

During the reveal, she also projects wall-sized photos for the couple to review digitally. Often, she says, couples choose engagement photos to print for large displays during the wedding. “We didn’t want to be a high-volume studio,” Harris says. “We wanted people to come to us for statement pieces.”

She says many younger couples have expressed interest in the new, award-winning HP Recycled Satin Canvas for portraits. “It’s interesting,” she says. “The younger the bride, the more they care about that.”

Wide-format print can also come in handy for wedding day signage, backdrops and more. On trend that’s caught on in recent years is a “step-and-repeat” photo area for the couple as well as their guests (pictured at top). Fabrics that offer some opacity are a good option, especially when flash photography is in use. For dye-sub, Fisher Textiles 4019 Nirvana BOB provides a built-in black backing. EnduraFab™ Stretch fabric is a latex-compatible version that prints and hangs elegantly in settings that don’t require the opaque backing.

Signage can also come in handy during weddings, including completely customized welcome and wayfinding signage, as well as posters that can be displayed to provide useful information, such as table seating. A number of adhesive-backed products can be printed and adhered to poster board, including:

For more ideas on how to customize weddings with wide-format printing, call a LexJet print specialist at 800-453-9538.

 

Fredrix Metallic Pearl & Gold Canvas Now Available at LexJet
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Fredrix Metallic Pearl & Gold Canvas Now Available at LexJet

We’re excited to announce that the much-anticipated Fredrix Metallic Pearl and Metallic Gold canvases are now available exclusively in the U.S. through LexJet.

These new canvases give photographers and printers all new options for creating glamorous and elegant portraits for engagements, weddings and more, as well as eye-catching retail displays.

Fredrix Metallic Gold Canvas

The shimmering pearlescent finish of Fredrix Metallic Pearl, pictured above, adds a beautiful, ethereal glint that brides and new moms love for their portraits. Fredrix Metallic Gold adds pop to all sorts of displays, especially for artwork and signage in high-end retail environments, and looks especially great with black ink (pictured here).

These new products offer print service providers the ability to create metallic-enhanced canvas wraps, which could only be accomplished previously by using mylar wallcoverings, which are difficult to finish and wrap. The 2-over-1 weave of these Fredrix poly-cotton canvases are easy to wrap around stretcher bars (such as GOframe) and deliver a consistent, subtle texture.

These canvases are compatible with solvent, eco-solvent, latex and UV-curable ink technologies. To learn more ways to put some “wow” into your canvas prints, call a LexJet canvas specialist at 800-453-9538.

Discover the All-new Fredrix Metallic Canvases at WCAF
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Discover the All-new Fredrix Metallic Canvases at WCAF

Our friends at Fredrix are on-hand in booth #239 at WCAF this week at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas. To discover one of the most exciting recent advances in canvas options, be sure to check out Pearlescent and Metallic Gold while you’re there.

These first-of-their-kind canvas products were developed for latex and solvent printing, and they’ll be available exclusively in the U.S. at LexJet soon!

The Pearlescent option adds glamour and elegance for wedding, engagement and baby portraits. The Gold canvas create eye-catching retail signage and displays that will grab attention.

In the past, solvent and latex printers attempted to create the same look using mylar wallcoverings since an effective metallic canvas wasn’t available for them. Now, these medium-textured, cotton-polyester blend canvases make it possible with reliable results and easily wrap around stretcher bars.

So be sure to stop by booth #239 at WCAF to learn how these new canvases can put the “wow” in your prints. And stay tuned to LexJet to get updates on the canvas availability.