Large Format Imaging Services

New Service

Digital Printing Marine Acrylic (Sunbrella) Color Swatches

Beginning 2020, Consort has digital printers with amazing capabilities: 1. Superb digital printing on vinyl media for exterior and interior banners. 2. State-of-the-art digital printing on all colors of Sunbrella® marine acrylic. 3. Flatbed digital printing on virtually all solid substrates, including glass & metals

The most remarkable news about our new equipment is that we are no longer “screen” printing our Sunbrella marine acrylic banners! Our entire large-format screen printing facility has been replaced by new technology that prints intense, vibrant inks onto Sunbrella®. Prior to this new technology, all our marine acrylic banners were hand screen printed with plastisol inks, cured with big, hot dryers. No more! No more big, expensive screens that are required for every color and no more ink mixing! Will the marine acrylic banner images look differently than our past screen printed images? The richness of our past screen printing (printed one color at a time) is not only matched by the new process but is expanded with true four-color process gradients, not previous attainable. We think you’ll love the results!

Does that mean there are no more “Screen Preparation Charges” for Sunbrella printed banners? Correct! No more screens. A multi-color Sunbrella banner is now the same price as a one-color Sunbrella banner. Instead, there is a small file charge ($25.00 or less) per design change and that can be waived for orders of 10 banners of more per design. Which is better, vinyl digital media banners or marine acrylic (Sunbrella) banners? See the next page under “How do we print our banners?” for more information on that. Both methods are excellent, but cost, durability and image requirements may help you determine your preferred material. For one example, vinyl will allow a more photographic look and marine acrylic may be viewed as “richer looking”.