34 email: news@printmonthly.co.uk November / December 2024 - Issue 351 SEASONAL PRINT shop, which remained open for four weeks during the show’s airing and personalise certain products. These included the famous water bottles that contestants carry with them in the Love Island villa as well as hoodies and t-shirts. Resolute supplied its R-Jet Pro DTF UVi printer, which launched to the market earlier this year. The machine allows for printing on a variety of surfaces such as phone cases, mugs, and water bottles as well as items made of plastic, metal, and glass. “The R-Jet Pro DTF UVi is well suited to on-demand personalisation of just about any hard and semi-rigid item in the first official Love Island store,” says Colin Marsh, managing director of Resolute DTF. Jurian van der Meer, executive vice president of brand licensing at ITV Studios, adds: “For the first time, fans were able to shop in person and collect personalised merch on the same day. It was a fantastic opportunity to connect with our audience in a new and exciting way.” These closing comments sum up the idea of seasonal print. While it may only be relevant at certain times of the year and around particular events, there are seemingly endless ideas for you and your customers to explore. removal of the applied graphics. “The client was extremely pleased that we found an adhesive product that worked for these windows. The client was also happy with the end results of the installation and our commitment to providing the highest level of service and responsiveness.” Staying festive, custom flags, banners, and large-format print specialist FaberExposize UK chose to showcase its own capabilities by creating a Christmas-themed display at its Leeds facility. This comprised a series of backlit display lightboxes. For this project, FaberExposize UK chose to work with ST-100 Diana Soft Backlit, a woven-based, lightbox fabric from Soyang Europe designed for dye-sublimation printing. Available in widths of up to 3.2m, the solution features a tight structure so that almost no light is leaked when the material is used as part of a lightbox application. “ST-100 Diana Soft Backlit tested so well that we decided to use it on our own Christmas display,” FaberExposize UK’s managing director Iain Clasper-Cotte said, adding: “We were delighted with how the lightboxes turned out; they looked fantastic.” The Bigger Picture While the obvious choices for seasonal work centre around major events like Christmas, Easter, Halloween, and Valentine’s Day, the reality is that these opportunities stretch much further. The summer in particular is an interesting time – think holiday shopping, back to school, and even weddings. Of course, not all weddings are summertime occasions, but with the warmer months very much seen as wedding season, this offers plenty of opportunities to printers. Canadian printing and lamination solutions provider Lamin-8 can attest to this, having worked with one happy couple to create a personalised dancefloor for their wedding. The application measured 20ft x 20ft and featured a black and white design, complete with the first initials of the bride and groom, along with their now-family name – the Archers. Other aspects of the design included a lined border around the edge of the dancefloor and a large graphic in the centre. Lamin-8 chose to work with Drytac SpotOn Floor 200, a monomeric PVC film designed for use in short-term, indoor floor graphics without requiring lamination. The film also has a number of slip rating certifications, making it suitable for use in spaces with heavy footfall – such as a dancefloor. Lamin-8 printed all graphics for the application in house using its HP Scitex FB500 flatbed printer and installed the piece on site for the customer. “Our client was taken aback with the quality and performance of the product,” Lamin-8 president Michael Isaacs says, adding: “Another key feature was the removal; this was a quick process that required little effort and left no adhesive behind on the floor.” On the subject of warmer weather – and indeed bespoke print – each year, ITV2 airs one of the most popular programs among youngsters (and a certain former Print Monthly editor) in Love Island. The show is now a bi-annual event, with broadcasts both at the start of the year and during the summer. During this year’s summer version, Resolute DTF partnered with Print Clever | Print On Demand to launch a pop-up shop at Bluewater Shopping Centre selling personalised merchandise themed on the show. Fans were able to visit the pop-up ▲ FaberExposize UK worked with ST-100 Diana Soft Backlit to produce a festive display ST-100 Diana Soft Backlit from Soyang Europe is compatible with dye-sub transfer, dye-sub direct, latex, and UV printers Factoid ▼ Lamin-8 printed a bespoke dancefloor using its HP Scitex FB500 flatbed
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