Flex printing
Front-lit flex for hoardings, banners and outdoor visibility at every scale.
Overview
What this family covers.
Flex and vinyl carry most of the branding you see on a street: hoardings, shop fronts, in-store graphics, glass films and wall coverings. It is also the family where a wrong grade shows up fastest — as fading, sagging or peeling within months.
We print and finish in-house, and we specify by environment and service life first: a two-week campaign and a two-year storefront should never be quoted on the same material.
- Front-lit, backlit and blackout flex grades
- Cast and calendered vinyl, with lamination options
- Glass films: one-way vision, frosted, clear
- Fabric and wallpaper applications for interiors
- Framing, pasting and on-site installation
Photo slot — large-format printingRoll coming off the large-format printer, or a finished hoarding/storefront.
Recommended 1600×1200.
Recommended 1600×1200.
Formats
What we produce in this family.
Flex on frame
Flex mounted on fabricated frames — ready-to-fix shop boards and site branding.
Vinyl printing
Self-adhesive vinyl for boards, walls, vehicles, floors and short-run graphics.
Sunboard vinyl
Vinyl mounted on rigid sunboard — clean, lightweight indoor display boards.
One-way vision
Perforated glass film: graphics outside, visibility from inside.
Frosted vinyl
Etched-glass effect for privacy, partitions and premium office glass.
Translite
Premium light-diffusing film for backlit panels and lightboxes.
Wallpaper
Printed wall coverings for interiors, feature walls and environments.
Backlit applications
Backlit flex and film builds where the graphic has to glow evenly.
Fabric applications
Printed fabric for frames, displays and premium interior use.
The details that decide the outcome
Quality, application, production.
Quality & material options
- Normal front-lit flex — economical, for short and medium-term outdoor use
- Star / premium flex — tighter weave, better ink hold and a cleaner white
- Backlit flex — light-diffusing, for lightboxes and glow signs
- Blackout / black-back flex — opaque, for double-sided or overlap applications
- Vinyl: gloss, matte and clear; cast grades where the surface curves
- Lamination — gloss, matte or cold, wherever handling or sun demands it
Applications
- Hoardings, gantries and building facades
- Shop fronts and dealer boards
- In-store graphics, drop-downs and floor graphics
- Glass branding: retail, office and privacy films
- Feature walls and interior environments
- Campaign and event banners
Machines & production
Printing, cutting and finishing run in-house on large-format digital machines, so grade, colour and deadline stay under one roof.
The exact machine list for this family is available on request — ask and we will share it with your estimate.
Questions
Frequently asked.
What is the difference between front-lit, backlit and blackout flex?
Front-lit is for signage lit from the front or unlit; backlit is engineered to diffuse light evenly from behind, which ordinary flex will not do; blackout carries an opaque layer so a graphic on one side does not ghost through to the other. Choosing by price rather than by lighting is the usual mistake.
When should I use vinyl instead of flex?
Vinyl is a self-adhesive film for smooth surfaces — glass, panels, walls, vehicles — where you want the graphic on the surface rather than on a stretched sheet. Flex is for large tensioned areas and frames. One-way vision, frosted and translite are vinyl-family answers to specific problems.
How should artwork be supplied for large-format print?
Work in CMYK, state the artwork scale clearly, match resolution to viewing distance rather than to a fixed dpi, outline or supply fonts, and include bleed and safe area. Supply layered originals if the same artwork will be resized for other elevations later.
Do you frame and install printed flex?
Yes. Framing, fixing and installation are part of the same scope, and the fixing method is specified before printing — the frame and the wind load decide the finished size more often than the design does.
Start here
Specify it with us, not after us.
Send the environment, the service life and the deadline. We will recommend the grade and the build — and say plainly what a cheaper option would cost you later.