Sun board, also known as foam sheet is a thin, lightweight, and flat sheet of plastic. It is mainly used for the manufacture of signs and displays. It is rigid and can be printed upon. Once printed, what you have in hand is a very smooth surfaced, even, and rigid poster. Add support on the back and you end up with a beautiful high-resolution sun board standee or information display stand.
We print your artwork on our high-resolution eco solvent vinyl printers. Our Konika machine gives stunning image quality. We recommend that the prints be laminated to save them from scratches and scuffing. A top coat of lamination obviously increases the life of the print. But even without the same, our prints remain resistant to rain and sunlight.
Shape cut display boards
A cut-out standee is a novel way to attract potential customers in modern retail stores and point of sale locations. As the name suggests, this display stand is fabricated in the shape of a cartoon, a celebrity, or even a product.
Eyeball attraction is the name of the game in retail stores. And a shape cut standee will surely gain more attention than ads and posters that are uniformly rectangular. Outdoor displays are mostly in the form of banners or posters stuck on a wall. So a life-size board cut out in the shape of a movie star, standing right in the middle of the supermarket aisle is a sure-fire method to generate client interest.
Sun board printing for creating wall posters
Printed vinyl comes in a roll form. They have a sticker base. Canvas, flex banners, and cloth media too, get printed out of rolls. We now need to now make these flexible rolls, rigid. This is achieved by pasting the printed vinyl on a thick sheet of plastic known as a foam sheet. Foam sheets are very smooth, lightweight, and rigid. They are used extensively in the print and sign industry to create posters.
These rigid board prints or posters can now be drilled on a wall, put in a frame, or simply gift wrapped and handed over directly for use. So when we say sun board printing, we actually mean printing on a media with a sticker base and then mounting/laminating on a sun board or foam sheet.
Foam sheet / Sun board printing
These sheets are made of low-density polystyrene. They have a smooth, even, and coated surface. Sunboards are available in a variety of thicknesses ranging from 2 – 18 mm. They are also available in a number of colors. But, the digital printing industry typically uses sheets that are 3 – 5 mm thick for their printing applications. The color used by default is white. Due to their low density, the finished prints are extremely lightweight and can be easily lifted.
Apart from gaining rigidity, prints are mounted on a sheet of sun board also gain a very flat and even finish. The low density of the sheets enables one to cut the edges of the prints easily. The end result is a smooth, stiff panel. This panel and be carried and easily pasted on walls, doors, and glass partitions using strong 2 sided tape. One can also drill the boards on a wall.
Here are some images of product branding done on vinyl using our Konika, eco-solvent photo printers. The prints have been laminated and then mounted on sheets of 3 mm sun board. The finished job has then been installed at the point of sale locations like in retail stores, malls, etc.
