Brite

This is not an easy question to answer as there are many types of screen inks with different lightfast properties. As a general rule UV cured inks will last up to 2-3 years in most outdoor situations, BUT if it is a north facing aspect of less than 90 degrees then the fade resistance is much lower. There are specific UV curing inks that are warranted for up to 5 years in certain applications.

At Brite we have a Svecia Jumbo machine that will print one piece of substrate 1.5metres wide x 3.2meters long. Digitally on flexible substrates we can print up to 3.2metres wide x any length (this of course is dependent on substrate availability)

This depends very much on the physical dimensions of the job, the expense of the substrates and the finishing applications involved. With digital printing a lower proportion of spares or overs are required therefore if the substrate is expensive this will play a major part in the total cost.

Again the screen ruling is matched to the overall physical dimensions and viewing distance of the finished job. We have printed up to 100# screen on work to be viewed from a close distance

We pride ourselves on being responsive and flexible on job delivery, this timeframe very much depends on the printing hours on the press and the amount of finishing stages after printing. Under normal capacity situations we try and plan around delivering most work in 5-10 working days. If finishing involving subcontractors is required then estimates will be given at ordering stage.

As we handle all prepress in-house, proof times will directly relate to job turnaround. Urgent deliveries we endeavour to turn proofs around within 24 hours of receiving official order and output ready computer files.

Certainly, Brite have extensive finishing and dispatch facilities in both the Sydney and Melbourne production plants. We regularly dispatch printed promotions to thousands of addresses throughout Australia and overseas.

FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol and is another way of providing artwork from one computer to another across the world wide web (www)

Inkjet printing is a non - impact printing process in which text and images are formed by the precise placement of minute (picolitre-sized) droplets of ink fired at high speeds from the nozzles of computer controlled printheads.

Droplets of cyan, magenta, yellow and black ink are combined to form precisely placed dots of various colours which when viewed from a distance, compose an image.

A picolitre is a millionth of a millionth of a litre. Depending on the resolution of a printer, inkjet drop sizes range from three to four picolitres to more than 25 picolitres.

Even though many industry professionals use the terms dpi (dots per inch) and ppi (pixels per inch) interchangeably, they shouldn't. Printer ink dots and image pixels are simply very different things; dpi is a measurement of printed dots per inch on paper and ppi refers to the number of picture elements (pixels) gathered by a scanner or viewable on a monitor. There is no one to one correlation between the resolution of digital data (eg. 300 ppi) and the resolution of a printed image (eg. 300 dpi).