Latex Printing

There are a couple of HP Latex Printers here. Sitting in the corner belting out hundreds of square metres of print per day.

These are now our go-to printers for any Self Adhesive Vinyls, Posters and some synthetics. Great for any signage applications like three and five year vinyls. Particularly good, as the inkset allows for immediate lamination.

Cost-wise, it’s a little more expensive to run Latex than Solvent, but for us the benefits of running Latex generally outweigh the extra cost.

Solvent Printing

We started off a solvent-shop, but over the last seven or so years, we’ve migrated most of the work to UV, Textile and Latex.

Not a whole lot that can’t be run on a UV, Textile or Latex Printer these days, but we still have a few jobs that require a solvent print - often a canvas, Self Adhesive Vinyl, or Solvent-particular substrate that has to be run.

UV-cure inkjet printing

We have two of these printers. Great for printing direct-to rigid and roll substrates like PVCs, Papers and Cardboard, Polypropylene, Acrylic, Woods and some really odd substrates.

PVC Billboards and Mesh are run through a UV cure printer. We can print 3.8m wide in one piece. Wider and it needs to be welded. We’ll regularly run billboards up to 150 square metres.

Polypropylene is used in Corflute, Yupo, thin rolls and thicker rigid materials. Any of these can be run through these machines and printed directly to.

Cardboard for box mockups, POS and packaging is printed on these machines, as are some poster papers and thicker stocks.

Dye Sublimation - Transfer and Direct-to

Waterbased “eco-friendly” printing to textile for Soft Signage, Furnishings and Garment.

Transfer means we print to a paper, then heat-press transfer that image onto a textile. Direct-to is exactly that. We take a textile and print directly to the textile that then gets heat-pressed to fix the inks.

There are benefits to both methods of Dye Sublimation and there are several ink options for each of those methods. This is why we run four dye-sub machines. All set up differently to take advantage of those differences.

The chemistry behind it requires more than a couple of paragraphs of explanation, but a quick overview would be that polyester is required for this process for the particular inks to bond - this can be either a polyester textile, a polyester-blend textile, or a coating with polyester in it.

Stunning colours and vibrancy are achieved when printing dye sub and with our gamut-expanding ink set (Orange and Blue in addition to CMYK) we can print more colours more accurately.

Super Colour has both the widest and fastest of dye sub printers and heat-presses in New Zealand. At a maximum of 3.3m wide, we can produce almost anything required in a polyester textile. From indoor and outdoor soft signage to garments and decor.

Finishing Table

We use a computer controlled cutting table to increase finishing accuracy and to speed up the whole process, but this machine really comes into its own when producing work that requires any kind of routing, creasing and exact cutting

It produces work on substrates like ACM panel, timber, paperboard, PVCs, polypropylene, foams and acrylic.

We’re happy to finish any printing you’ve done - please call us to discuss file setup prior to printing.