What is Hiflex tarpaulin? Application of Hiflex material in sign printing
Are you looking to learn what is Hiflex tarpaulin? What types of Hiflex tarpaulin are most popular today? The following article of AIT Group will help you answer the above questions, and share more information about the pros and cons of Hiflex canvas printing, applications, and notes. Let’s follow along now!
1. What is Hiflex Tarpaulin?
Hiflex’s main component is milky white PVC, which can withstand the effects of weather and has good elasticity. Hiflex tarpaulin is a material used a lot in the advertising industry, especially in printing, designing outdoor billboards, banners, outdoor billboards, printing advertising panels… because of its durability and high aesthetics.
Hiflex tarpaulin advertises Song Hong Steel constructed by AIT
2. Hiflex tarpaulins are popular today
The most popular types of Hiflex tarpaulin on the market are Hiflex translucent tarpaulin and non-translucent Hiflex tarpaulin. The following content will introduce specifically these two types of canvas:
- Hiflex translucent tarpaulin: The most widely used tarpaulin with an average thickness of 0.26mm to 0.52mm. The thinner the thickness of the canvas, the better the light penetration. Advice for businesses wishing to use this type of tarpaulin is to use a thickness of 0.32mm.
- Hiflex tarpaulin does not penetrate light (2 skin tarpaulin): This type of tarpaulin is relatively thick, so it will not be able to penetrate light. Hiflex non-translucent tarpaulin has the best thickness today, often used by businesses to print large size signs for the purpose of product promotion.
Hiflex tarpaulin at Piaggio’s test drive event built by AIT
3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Hiflex canvas printing?
3.1 Advantages
Currently, businesses use Hiflex canvas printing technology more and more because of outstanding advantages such as:
- Hiflex tarpaulin is a printing material with high durability, good elasticity, and weather resistance, so businesses can use this tarpaulin for a long time.
- Hiflex tarpaulin after printing gives sharp images, clear details, vivid colors, and especially good adhesion to oil ink.
- Customers can choose the thickness, thickness, and printing size horizontally or vertically depending on the needs and requirements of the product.
- Hiflex is a material that can be reused many times, so businesses will save a lot of replacement costs.
- The price of Hiflex canvas printing is much cheaper than other printing materials such as PP, Decal… a lot.
- Hiflex tarpaulin is widely applied in many different types of advertising.
Hiflex tarpaulin at Microsoft Vietnam Spring Festival built by AIT
3.2 Disadvantages
Besides the advantages, Hiflex canvas printing still has disadvantages such as:
- Hiflex canvas printing produces imperfect details and lines.
- Businesses should limit Hiflex canvas printing for products that require detail and high quality, should only be used for large-sized products.
- This is rather old material, so the quality of the image is somewhat inferior to modern printing technologies.
4. Application of Hiflex canvas
Hiflex printed canvas is often used to:
- Manufacture of signs (lightboxes)
- Make a table of rules
- Print the grand opening banner
- Making Pano
- Making facades
- Print propaganda and promotion banners…
- Make advertising pictures
Hiflex tarpaulin for Vespa Racing event made by AIT
5. Notes when printing Hiflex canvas
Businesses should note the following things when printing Hilfex tarpaulins:
- Product resolution: Businesses should choose a resolution for Hiflex tarpaulin from 72DPI to 150DPI for products with a close distance, with a visibility of 1m or more. For larger-scale products such as banners, banners, and backgrounds, businesses should choose resolutions from 150DPI to 300DPI.
- Size of the print file: The size of the print file is also related to the resolution of the product. If the file size is large, you should export the file as small as possible to ensure high-quality printing.
- Print file format: Production units often use tiff format for print files, in addition, there are other formats such as JPG, PDF, EPS, etc.
- Especially if businesses use Hiflex tarpaulin as banners or overhead banners, they must leave a margin of 5 cm for nailing and drilling screws. For horizontal banners, a 10cm margin can be left for easier hanging.
Hiflex canvas for Vespa events produced by AIT
Above is all information about the concept of what is Hiflex tarpaulin, its advantages, disadvantages, applications, and notes when printing this type of tarpaulin that AIT Group wants to share with you. Hope the article is useful to you and don’t forget to follow our next articles!
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