LFP - Large-Format-Printing
MUTOH ZEPHYR UV PRINTER IN ACTION FOR WIDE FORMAT RIGID BOARD PRINTING
Tuesday 14. July 2009 - OUTDOOR FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITIONS
On the occasion of the cultural and musical festival Theater aan Zee (Theatre at the Seaside – TAZ#2009), to be held in Oostende, from July 30th until August 8th, wide format inkjet printer manufacturer Mutoh Europe accepted the challenge to digitally reproduce more than
50 unique fine art photographs for two outdoor photo exhibitions along the seaside. Photographs made by Danny Willems and Wim Vandekeybus were printed in one go on a Mutoh Zephyr UV printer, directly onto wide format PVC foam board panels. The two photo exhibitions – in total more than 250 m² of fine art prints – are now open to the wide public until end of August.
“For Mutoh Europe, this project represented an ideal test case to explore the limits of our Zephyr UV inkjet printer for wide format rigid board printing”, says Arthur Vanhoutte, Mutoh Europes Managing Director.
“For photo enlargements of this size, images are usually tiled into smaller sections to be joined together afterwards. However, this is not the most elegant way of processing neither presenting fine art photographs. All individual photographs for both exhibitions in Oostende were realized in one go onto our Zephyr UV printer. The photos were reproduced on 4 m wide by 1.5 m high Kömatex PVC foam board supplied by our media partner Vink (www.vink.be). Kömatex plate material is an ideal medium to enhance the impression of fine art photography. To be able to handle the 25 kg Kömatex boards, the input and output tables of our Zephyr were extended”, Vanhoutte comments.
“With this project, Mutoh proves the flexibility of our Zephyr UV printer for both roll and rigid printing and more specifically its capability to be an alternative for print jobs that are usually run on larger and more expensive UV printers. At the same time, it is a nice opportunity for us to present the capabilities of wide format inkjet printing to the wide public,” Vanhoutte concludes.