February 2019 I MANY GOOD REASONS TO ATTEND APPPEXPO 2019 INNOVATIVE MATERIALS TO PRINT ON, After-Market INKS ALL Flatbed Cutter Technologies Laminators & Coaters PREVIEW FOR APPPEXPO 2019 Pablo M. Lee
II Contents Introduction 1 Media & Substrates 3 Printable Fabrics: 5 Hard, Rigid Printable 7 Wide Format Inkjet Inks 10 Finishing Equipment 15 FLAAR-REPORTS staff 19 * All items on this page are hotlinks.
Introduction 1 Introduction Our report one week ago was on the diversity and quantity of wide-format inkjet printer brands at APPPEXPO each year. Now we introduce the inks, printable materials, cutters, and laminators that you will find at APPPEXPO 2019 on the first week of March, in friendly Shanghai. All of us don t have time to fly to every expo. Thus it helps to know which expos offer more than other expos. Very simple: APPPEXPO has more brands, more booths, than every other printer or signage expo in Europe, and more than any other expo anywhere in the Americas: North America or South America.
Media & Substrates 2 APPPEXPO 126 Companies 114 China 1 France 2 Germany 1 India 1 Italy 3 Korea 2 Taiwan 1 Turkey 1 USA 2018 120 100 80 60 40 20 126 Media & Substrates Companies at APPPEXPO 2018 0 *All the data on the charts is based on the information made available to us during the exhibition.
3 : Media & Substrates If you are a print shop owner, anywhere in the world, visiting APPPEXPO is a good investment. If you are a distributor, whether in Europe, USA, Canada, Latin America, Australia, Oceania, or Asia, it is a wise choice to fly to Shanghai and take the time to see all the printable materials which are exhibited here. YOU will have more clients if YOU can offer media and substrates that your competitors don t know about.
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Printable Fabrics 5 Printable Fabrics: Sublimate-able When you think of dye sublimation, you naturally think of polyester (since to sublimate you normally need polyester). But even a modest-sized Chinese fabric factory will produce more than nine kinds of polyester. You can have contented clients if you can offer dye sub printing on the kind of polyester that best suits the job (and best appeals to the client). So if you are doing now, or thinking of doing in the future, dye sub, you can learn a lot here at APPPEXPO about printing on diverse kinds of polyester.
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Hard and Rigid Printable 7 Hard, rigid Printable Materials: Signage Several kinds of UV curing printers of course can print on hard rigid material for signage. You will find every kind of printable rigid material you can imaging at APPPEXPO 2019.
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9 Rigid Flexible Textile Rigid, Flexible &Textile media companies at APPPEXPO 2018 0 20 40 60 80 100 57 Rigid Textile Media & Substrate 31 Media & Substrate 86 Pigment Media & Substrate
Inkjet Inks 10 Wide Format Inkjet Ink Inks can be used to print on both flexible and rigid materials, opening the opportunity to extend the limits of applications for both indoor and outdoor purpose (posters, signage, window graphics, POP displays, etc.) If you are a print shop owner or manager, you also like to know what third-party inks are available that provide better cost savings for you. The best place to learn about price saving is at a signage and printer trade show. But if you want to see more than 40 different brands of inks, then it is worth your investment also to attend the biggest printer and signage expo of Shanghai (APPPEXPO).
11 INK Companies Exhibitedat APPPEXPO *All the data on the charts is based on the information made available to us during the exhibition. **Companies by country, that exhibited digital ink. 2018 40 35 30 25 40 20 15 10 5 25 China 2 Hong Kong 1 India 1 Italy 4 Korea 5 Taiwan 2 USA 0
12 Since there are dozens of ink companies exhibiting at APPPEXPO 2018, we look forward to visiting the booths of all these companies to learn about their inks. For 2019 we are especially interested in: All textile inks, especially pigment textile ink which produces better color. All UV-LED inks, especially from an ink company, which knows about printing on décor and architectural materials (so, more than just signage).
13 Any ink company which is interested in making special ink for décor applications, including single-pass printers for flooring, plus wall coverings (especially wallpaper), and fine art photos plus giclee prints. Ink companies who want to move into the growing markets of printing on folding cartons or on corrugated packaging.
14 UV UV-LED Solvent Eco-Solvent Water Based Latex Textile Acid Dye Disperse Dye Dye Sublimation Pigment Reactive Dye 21 9 25 25 16 2 7 2 5 20 6 6 HOW many Companies Exhibited Each INK Type *All the data on the charts is based on the information made available to us during the exhibition.
Finishing Equipment 15 Finishing Equipment: CNC Equipment There are so many ways to cut materials for signage. The giant exhibit halls at APPPEXPO 2018 allow you to compare CO2 laser cutters, CNC routers, digital flatbed cutters, both international brands and scores of local brands. One new reason why your print shop needs to have a good flatbed cutter is to create 3D signage. Yes, you do not need a 3D printer to create a 3D sign. You can do better 3D signage with a flatbed UV-curing printer plus a 3D cutter.
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21 We look forward to seeing you at APPPEXPO 2018 March 5, 6, 7, and 8, 2019 www.apppexpo.com Venue National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) No.333 Songze Avenue, Qingpu District, Shanghai, China
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24 This report has been licensed to Shanghai Modern International Exhibition Co. to distribute on their website, since they are the organizers of APPPEXPO (Advertising, Print, Pack & Paper Expo), Shanghai. You can also obtain FLAAR-REPORTS straight from our websites: www.flaar-reports.org www.large-format-printers.org www.wide-format-printers.net Copyright 2019 This PDF may be cited as follows: Pablo M. LEE 2019 Many Good Reasons to Attend APPPEXPO 2019., &, PREVIEW for APPPEXPO 2019. FLAAR Reports Trade Shows