Roland Unveils New Printer, Media, Paints, and Software for Textured Decor Prints

Roland DIMENSE DA-640 dimensional surface printer

Currently, the most common method of building textures on the surfaces of wide-format prints is to jet layers of UV-curable inks and varnishes onto selected areas of the print. Roland DG’s patented DIMENSE wide-format dimensional surface printing process takes a different approach. The DIMENSE digital print solution consists of an inkjet printer, special texture-forming media, a colorless structural ink to …

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Epson Introduces Roll-to-Roll Resin-Ink Signage Printers: The SureColor R Series

The 64-inch Epson SureColor R5070 and SureColor R5070L wide-format printers are the first Epson signage printers to use resin ink technology. Like wide-format printers that use latex inks, the Epson SureColor R series printers use water-based (aqueous) pigmented inks with an optimizer and onboard heating system. The key difference is the chemistry of the binding agent in the ink that …

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