Applications

SUBSTRATES & MEDIA

 

SEPIAX aquares inks are VERSATILE.

 

Our technology enables our customers to print onto almost any substrate or media:

–        coated or uncoated

–        absorbent or non-absorbent

–        common substrates or unusual media

 

Examples include the following:

 

GRAPHICS & SIGNAGE APPLICATIONS

 

  • Indoor and outdoor signage and displays
  • Textile graphics and soft signage – including flameproof applications
  • Point-of-purchase displays
  • Backlit displays
  • Posters and billboards
  • Exhibition and event graphics
  • Fine art printing

 

SEPIAX prints on common substrates such as:

Poster paper, self-adhesive PVC, banner vinyl, mesh, ink jet paper, coated canvas, coated backlit and frontlit, textile banner materials, coated PET, coated synthetic paper, rigid PVC, foamed PVC, styrene, etc.

 

SEPIAX prints on novel substrates for inkjet graphics such as:

Uncoated PP films (e.g. Yupo), uncoated PE films, PU films, self-adhesive PU, uncoated PET, uncoated spun-bonded PE (e.g. uncoated Tyvek), PVDC film, uncoated canvas, uncoated wallpaper, waxed label paper, fibreboard, corrugated cardboards, non-woven textiles, etc.

 

INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS - FILMS OR COMPONENTS

 

  • Wallpaper manufacture
  • Marking, coding and industrial labelling
  • Packaging printing – proofing and production on plastics / papers / board / metallised films / blister packaging
  • Printing on napkin paper, tissue paper, paper towels
  • Digital newspaper printing
  • Industrial graphics – nameplates, fascias, overlays
  • Wooden box packaging (e.g. wine boxes, chocolate boxes)
  • Manufacture of decorative laminates for home décor, construction, furnishing
  • Printing of medical consumables
  • We also envisage new applications, subject to passing the manufacturer specifications,  in IMD (in-mould decoration), glass marking/decoration, ceramics, and several other industrial applications

 

SEPIAX prints on common substrates such as:

PET, PC, OPP, PE, ABS, PU, PA (nylon) 6 or 6.6, PS, PMMA, Tedlar, PI, moulded rubber products, packaging films/composites, label composites, etc.

 

SEPIAX prints on special substrates such as:

Inkjet printing direct onto tissue paper, towelling products, medical packaging, wallpaper, aluminium foil or sheet, wood laminates, wood packaging, acrylic glass, metals, etc.

 

This means that our printer customers can satisfy the needs of their customers in new and exciting ways.  Having these new capabilities opens up the chance to print for new applications, giving opportunities for our printer customers to win business that cannot be serviced effectively by their competitors – which means higher profitability.