Print ideas
Browse by the occasion, by the object or by the material. Whichever way in you take, the entry tells you what it is made of, how it behaves in the hand and what goes wrong with it.
EZ Print is a printing company in Singapore, trading since 2017 and working in the Central Business District. This section lists printed objects — display stands, large-format graphics, signage, collateral, packaging and apparel — and states the specification of each one rather than only showing it. Every entry answers the same six questions: what it is, what it is printed on, how it feels in the hand, what it suits, its lead time — the one standard window, stated identically on every entry — and the mistake made with it most often. Entries are indexed three ways, by application, by format and by material and effect, because a buyer arrives knowing one of those three. EZ Print quotes from the specification and does not publish prices.
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Each one a real commercial print product, described by what it is made of rather than by what it looks like.
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What it is, what it is printed on, how it feels, what it suits, the lead time and the common mistake. Every entry answers all six.
Three ways in
A marketing manager knows there is an exhibition. A designer knows they have drawn a pull-up. A procurement officer knows the line item says fabric. Those are three different questions about the same shelf, so the shelf is catalogued three ways and every entry sits on all three.
The occasion decides more than the object does. An exhibition graphic and a retail graphic can be the same material and still be different jobs, because one is seen at six metres and the other from arm’s length.
What the print is for. Start here when the date is fixed and the object is not.
A shell scheme or a custom build, seen from six metres and then from sixty centimetres.
Window, shelf and floor. Everything competes with the product it is selling.
It has to travel, be put up by whoever is on shift, and survive being put up again.
Stage, registration desk and delegate bag, usually against a fixed run-of-show.
One evening, photographed heavily, and judged on how it reads in the hand.
Wayfinding, glass manifestation and wall graphics that have to live with the lease.
Handled wet, handled constantly, and replaced on a menu cycle rather than a campaign one.
The shape of the thing. Start here when the object is already decided and the question is what it should be made of.
Frames, backdrops and pull-ups — a printed graphic plus the hardware that holds it flat.
Stands and display systems · Large format
A woven polyester graphic sewn with a silicone bead and tensioned into an aluminium frame, so the printed surface is flat, seamless across its width and free of glare under a camera.
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days.
Stands and display systems · Large format
A backlit aluminium frame with a woven polyester graphic tensioned into it by a sewn silicone edge, so the panel glows evenly, the fixings vanish and the frame outlives every graphic it carries.
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days.
No plateEvery fact that would tell this drawing apart — panel count, overlap width, curve radius, magnetic bar pitch — is hardware geometry the estate holds no figure for, and the printed panel itself is a plain laminated drop with no layer order or edge specific to it. Blank space is the honest answer until there is a photograph of the frame.
Stands and display systems · Large format
A folding lattice frame that opens into a wall without tools, with graphic panels hung across it on magnetic bars. Curved and straight are the same hardware set differently.
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days.
Anything printed on a roll: banners, backdrops, wall graphics, floor and window vinyl.
Stands and display systems · Large format
A woven polyester graphic sewn with a silicone bead and tensioned into an aluminium frame, so the printed surface is flat, seamless across its width and free of glare under a camera.
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days.
Large format · Signage
Printed self-adhesive film applied to glass or to a hard floor. The film is chosen for the surface it has to leave cleanly, and the laminate over it is chosen for what walks on it.
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days.
Stands and display systems · Large format
A backlit aluminium frame with a woven polyester graphic tensioned into it by a sewn silicone edge, so the panel glows evenly, the fixings vanish and the frame outlives every graphic it carries.
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days.
Panels, plates and directories, mounted to something and expected to stay there.
Large format · Signage
Printed self-adhesive film applied to glass or to a hard floor. The film is chosen for the surface it has to leave cleanly, and the laminate over it is chosen for what walks on it.
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days.
Stands and display systems · Large format · Signage
An overhead frame spanning an entrance or a walkway, carrying a printed header above the crowd and a wrap on each leg. It is the element at an event that everybody walks under and most people photograph.
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days.
Stands and display systems · Large format · Signage
A printed sail sleeved onto a flexible pole and held by a spike or a weighted base. It is read as a shape and a colour long before anybody reads a word on it.
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days.
Sheet-fed print a person picks up: cards, invitations, folders, brochures, booklets.
Collateral
A single heavy card struck with a heated brass block, so the mark is a mirror set slightly below the surface of the sheet. It reads by reflection and by touch rather than by colour.
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days.
No plateThe entry says in its own words that the rack is hardware and is not printed, so half of it cannot be drawn at all; the other half is a die-cut net, and the estate holds no die line for it. A drawing of one panel of a folded holder would assert a specification that does not exist.
Stands and display systems · Collateral
Two answers to one problem: a folding rack that is hardware and outlives every campaign, and a die-cut folded board that is print and carries a message of its own on the way to the brochure.
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days.
Collateral · Packaging
A clear varnish screened onto chosen areas of a matt sheet and cured hard, so a mark stands proud of the ground. It is found by a fingertip before it is read by an eye.
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days.
Boxes, sleeves, tags and labels — printed flat, cut to a net, and folded into a shape.
Collateral · Packaging
A clear varnish screened onto chosen areas of a matt sheet and cured hard, so a mark stands proud of the ground. It is found by a fingertip before it is read by an eye.
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days.
Collateral · Packaging
A heated brass block releases an opaque metallic or pigment layer onto a brown or dark sheet. It is the one mark that reads cleanly on a stock with no white in it, and it needs no underprint to do it.
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days.
Packaging · Collateral
A tag cut from bonded board with a coloured middle ply, so the only colour on an otherwise plain piece is the stripe running round its edge and ringing the cord hole.
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days.
A material and a finish are one decision, not two. Most of what goes wrong in production is a pairing rather than a part.
The materials library states what each sheet measures and which finishes leave tooling behind for the reorder. This column says which of them the jobs in this section are actually made of.
Woven polyester, printed by dye sublimation, tensioned rather than mounted.
Boards and bonded stock that hold their own shape, judged at the cut edge.
Self-adhesive films: a face, an adhesive and a liner, each chosen for the surface it goes on.
Uncoated, cotton, kraft, laid, linen and felt — sheets chosen for what the hand reports.
Relief and reflection: hot foil, emboss, deboss, spot UV and soft-touch film.
The plates
A photograph of a printed panel tells you that print exists. A plate tells you what the thing will do: the proportion it is made at, the order and count of its layers, the structure of its core, the thickness of its cut edge, the part of it that disappears into the hardware. Seven treatments cover this section, each one states what it is drawing and what it is not — and where an entry’s distinguishing facts belong to hardware that is not printed, it carries no plate at all rather than a drawing that would say nothing.
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days. Same-day printing available. Subject to artwork, stock and production capacity confirmation. Timing is agreed for each job. Send the product, quantity, materials, finishing and required date. We confirm the specification and production schedule in your quotation.
Because a printed price is only true for one exact specification, and it is almost never yours. Every job here is quoted from what it is made of — stock or substrate, quantity, sides, finish, size and the date it is needed. Send those and a written quotation comes back against your job rather than against an average one.
A fabric backdrop is woven polyester, printed by dye sublimation so the colour is in the fibre, and tensioned into a frame. It folds, it washes, and it photographs without a hot spot. A banner is printed on a coated substrate, hung or hemmed rather than tensioned, and it holds a crease where it was folded. For anything that will be photographed or repacked repeatedly, fabric is the better-behaved material.
Rarely without work. A name card is read at arm’s length and a backdrop at six metres, a tensioned panel loses its perimeter into the frame, a roll-up loses its foot into the hardware, and anything struck or die-cut has to stay clear of the trim. The artwork usually survives; the layout has to be rebuilt for each object, and every entry here states what its own object takes away.
No. Every drawing in this section is a technical plate, drawn rather than photographed, and it states what it is drawing. A cut edge is drawn at the estate scale of one millimetre to twenty-two pixels, a panel is drawn at its finished proportion, and a section shows the order of the layers rather than their thickness. A photograph of a printed panel tells you that print exists; a plate tells you what it will do.
Every job is quoted from its specification — stock, quantity, sides, finish, size and deadline.
Artwork is welcome but not required to start. Email sales@ezprint.com.sg if you would rather attach files.
