By format
Panels, plates and directories, mounted to something and expected to stay there.
EZ Print is a printing company in Singapore, trading since 2017 and working in the Central Business District. Panels, plates and directories, mounted to something and expected to stay there. 18 objects in this section belong to that family, made of vinyl and film, rigid board, fabric and specialty paper, and they are bought most often for retail, launch, food and beverage and office fit-out. Each one below states 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. EZ Print quotes from the specification and does not publish prices.
18entries
Every one a real commercial print product, described by what it is made of rather than by what it looks like.
6fields
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.
The shelf
Every entry states the same six things in the same order, so two objects can be compared without reading two pages of prose. The lead time is typical and confirmed on quote; the mistake is the one that costs a reprint.
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.
No plateThe product is a snap frame and a water-fillable base; the print in it is a plain poster in a slot with no layer order, no relief, no allowance and no edge specific to it. If a standard poster size is ever committed to the panel table this can carry a drop — until then the frame is the thing worth photographing, not drawing.
Stands and display systems · Signage · Large format
Two hinged panels that stand on their own, holding a poster behind a snap frame. The frame outlives every poster it carries, so the running cost is the sheet and nothing else.
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days.
Stands and display systems · Signage
A clear acrylic panel held off the wall on barrels, with the graphic printed on the reverse face so it is read through the panel and protected by it. The default reception-wall treatment.
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days.
Large format · Signage
Perforated film that reads as a solid graphic from the street and as a window from inside. The holes are the product: they are what the eye outside ignores and what the eye inside sees through.
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days.
Large format · Signage
Etch-effect film cut to a pattern and applied to glass, so a partition reads as a surface rather than as an invisible hazard. Privacy, wayfinding and a visible glass line, in one layer.
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days.
Signage · Large format
Film cut to the shape of the artwork rather than to a rectangle: lettering, logos and decals with no background at all. The edge of the graphic is the edge of the shape.
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days.
Large format · Signage
A printed graphic under a textured laminate made to be walked on. The print is the easy half; the laminate and the state of the floor decide whether it survives its first week.
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days.
Large format · Signage
A banner with holes in it, so the wind passes through rather than pushing against it. On an exposed elevation the mesh is not a compromise on the image — it is what keeps the banner and its fixings attached to the building.
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days.
Large format · Signage
Printed panels fixed to the timber hoarding around a site, working as a fence, an advertisement and a piece of the street for as long as the works run.
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days.
Large format · Signage
Cast film conformed over a vehicle’s panels, curves and recesses. A full wrap changes the colour of the vehicle; a part wrap puts the message where the panels are flat and leaves the difficult geometry alone.
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days.
Stands and display systems · Signage
A paper-cored rigid board: two liners bonded to a honeycomb of paper cells. Stiff for its weight, printable directly, and at the end of the show it belongs in the paper stream rather than the plastic one.
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days.
Signage · Large format
Two thin aluminium skins bonded to a plastic core — the flattest exterior panel in common use, and the one that still looks straight after a year on a wall. Sold under trade names including Dibond and Alupanel.
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days.
Signage · Stands and display systems
A closed-cell foamed PVC board — light, matt, easy to cut and easy to fix — which is why it has become the default rigid panel for indoor display. Sold under trade names including Foamex, Forex and Palight.
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days.
Signage · Large format
The corrugated plastic board used for short-life outdoor work: waterproof, light, quick to fix, and honest about being temporary. Sold under trade names including Correx and Coroplast.
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days.
Large format · Signage
A translucent print made to be read by light coming through it. The specification is decided by the box rather than by the image: how deep it is, how it is lit, and how much of the graphic the frame swallows.
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days.
Collateral · Signage
A printable plastic film with no fibre in it, so there is nothing for water to swell and nothing to tear along. It is specified for anything handled wet, handled outdoors, or handled thousands of times.
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days.
Three ways in, and the other two are still open. The same entries are catalogued by occasion, by object and by substance, because a buyer arrives knowing one of the three.
If nothing here is the object you had in mind, the other two indexes hold the same entries under different headings.
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.
