Print onto virtually any vlat surface!
Our Mimaki EX flatbed printers are capable of printing onto a wide variety of substrates including wood, ceramics, metals and acrylic. We have used our flatbed printers to help our clients produce everything from personalised wedding invites made from acrylic to branded swimming floats!
Flatbed printing gets its name as the ‘bed’ or ‘area’ that the machine is able to print onto is flat rather than the more conventional roll to roll printers. The head of the printer moves across the bed and sprays the ink directly on the flat substrate. The ink is UV cured almost instantly as it prints, which not only speeds up production but allows for us to print onto non-porous substrates like glass. Once fully cured the inks are scratch proof and colourfast.
The printers’ RIP software allows us to print up to x3 layers of ink on any one job. This means we can boost the vibrancy of the colours by printing x2 hits of CMYK or even laying down a layer of white ink first. This is particularly important when printing directly onto wood as without a layer of white ink images can come out dull against the natural colour of the wood. This ability to print white ink also means you are able to print opaque images onto clear materials such as acrylic.
Flatbed printing is a cheaper alternative to screen printing as no silkscreens are needed. This also allows us to have no minimum run quantity and to produce diverse bespoke one-off prints. The variable head height lets us print on almost any material up to 50mm thick. With a maximum bed size of 2500 mm x 1250 mm the possibilities are endless.

Digital POD is Cape Town's only graphics printing company capable of UV 2.5D printing.
In the Mimaki 200-2513EX UV Flatbed printer each gradation layer is processed differently, creating varying levels of thickness across the picture.
The result is an eye-catching depth and texture.