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Ever since we got our trusty HP DesignJet in the office here it's 
been my little joke with my boss every year that we should put a 
"Sintra printer" into the budget.

Well, it appears the universe has called my bluff, and such things 
actually now exist.  "UV curable flatbed printer" is the keyword... 
print on any substrate!  Wood, plastic, metal, glass -- apparently 
any reasonably flat thing you can lay down on the printer, it'll 
print on it.

These things are still in the realm of service bureaus at this point 
(I don't think my boss will spring for a $200k printer, regardless of 
how geeky cool and useful it may be), but I just wanted to ask for 
feedback from anyone who has had much of this sort of printing done. 
Vendor?  Cost?  Process?  Durability?  Good/bad applications of the 
technology?  Examples you've seen?

We have a project in the pipeline for which large-format graphics 
printed on wood and metal might be exactly the right look, so we're 
trying to get a sense for how to approach it.  Thanks for any insight.

--Allan




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Allan Ayres
Exhibit Developer
Lawrence Hall of Science
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-5200
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510-642-1254

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