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Dainippon Screen also sells their own printers aside from the Inca printers, actually are quite nice. Dainippon goes by the name DS America mostly here in the states.

Fuji sells the Oce unit under their name, they call it the Acuity. Fuji is also in bed with Inca and owns Sericol. Fuji will become the dominant player in this industry, they displaced Kodak and Agfa in the offset printing industry. Gandi and Agfa should be a nice marriage. Gandi was...

I believe the company you may be looking for is Lowen out of Kansas, I seem to remember them supplying the blanks. Could be wrong. Anyone using HDPE ?

It's going to depend on your media. Vinyl, should be easy to print, polyester not so easy. Depends on the surface. If you get something with vinyl surface you should be fine. Polyester would need a top coat or print treatment. Joe Coburn founded a new company after he sold Coburn Films to...

As long as you get a top coated or print treated material you I see no reason why you would have any problems.

If you're concerned about durability you might be better off printing on a banner stock and then laminating a crystal clear permanent/removable mounting adhesive to the banner.

If you're printing using an eco solvent type ink with your Mutoh I think you will have a hard time printing to plain polyethylene. Even some of the UV printers have adhesion issues with plain corona treated PE. There are top coated versions out there but it usually adds .10 to .25 square foot...

Try Herculite Bantex, made in Emigsville, PA. I quit selling other brands from offshore, too many returns. Go to Bantex website will tell you the name of a distributor in your area and they can set you up with a sample roll.

Herculite has addressed this and has a banner material that is CPSIA compliant and meets all the standards. It's manufactured on a made to order basis right now. I got dragged into this because of a customer request, my customer prints for McDonalds. I do have a clear static cling vinyl that...

Busy as all get out until mid October, we hit our October numbers by second week of October then things got real slow until last week. Was almost as though someone had figured out we hit goal. Things seemed to start picking up again last Thursday and seem to be rolling along again.

Both Hexis and General Formulations offer a very nice product. Hexis is their DW line, two different film thickness and 7 different widths. General Formulations is the Concept 111, three different widths.

Any major manufacturer of these vinyls with UV inhibitors should be able to give you expected outdoor exposure life cycles. The thing that most say will go before the vinyl is the ink. There are 30 year laminates out there, I doubt that most inks will hold up that long.

Try these guys: http://www.bardes.com/ Great company, nice people !

Try these guys, http://www.californiacombining.com/materials.asp Ask for Wilfred, he might be able to help you.

Pat, I'm a big subscriber to what Alan Greenspan ( reserve your judgements ) called " creative destruction". Basically he believed that every time something is destroyed in the business world it creates a new business opportunity.

I used to work in the offset printing industry selling chemicals and durable products for printing presses, I made good money for years supplying printers. Many of them are now gone. There are very few business form, envelope printers or even small business card printers left. Much of that has...

Try DME LLC, they distribute the edge trim material. It's available in 8' and custom cut lengths. Owner is named Dennis Milliacca. 414-704-0159

Also, well said Joe and Fred.

Perhaps, the title of the original post should have been how to price commodites vs. how to price special projects and products. I can tell you this, I had a material that was approved by HD for decorative purposes in their dealerships, a brushed metal look product. It was sweet while it lasted.

Fred, thanks for your clarification and that's what I was seeking to answer by posting my question. I agree. Seems like the point of contention on this whole thing might be a definition of what is commodity based and what isn't.