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Stick it There: A Consumables Applications Photo Gallery

Variable-temperature graphics installation. Vaccine site graphics. Outside art exhibits. Home décor. Superbowl graphics from the Before Times. In this photo gallery, we highlight some recent projects that users have produced using a variety of consumables types, from labels, to vinyls, to fabrics.

Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Variable-temperature graphics installation. Vaccine site graphics. Outside art exhibits. Home décor. Superbowl graphics from the Before Times. In this photo gallery, we highlight some recent projects that users have produced using a variety of consumables types, from labels, to vinyls, to fabrics. Like our occasional Flatbed Application Gallery (see our April 2021 issue), these ideas are intended to serve as “food for thought” in developing creative applications for clients.

When conferences come back later this year and next, there will be demand for trade show and other events graphics. This project, completed by ArtSoft Expo Solutions, was created for the Grocery Innovations Canada conference just before the pandemic shut everything down. The challenge with this project was finding an adhesive vinyl that could be installed during extreme changes in temperature. ArtSoft ultimately chose Drytac Polar Premium printable vinyl. (Image courtesy Drytac.)

Marlow, Buckinghamshire, UK’s Globe Print used five different Drytac substrates for a new vaccination center in Marlow, including Protac AMP antimicrobial film for door pushes and SpotOn Floor 200 non-slip PVC film for floor/carpet graphics. (Images courtesy Drytac.)


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About Richard Romano

Richard Romano is Managing Editor of WhatTheyThink.  He curates the Wide Format section on WhatTheyThink.com. He has been writing about the graphic communications industry for more than 25 years. He is the author or coauthor of more than half a dozen books on printing technology and business. His most recent book is “Beyond Paper: An Interactive Guide to Wide-Format and Specialty Printing.

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