Saturday 20 November 2010

LIFE SIZED CARDBOARD CUT-OUT PRINT PROCESSES AND SPEC.



  • Life size cardboard standups can be printed on quality matt or pearl photo paper and then mounted onto 3mm,5mm or 10mm foam board or heavy duty card, or printed using UV inks directly onto the panel.
  • The average size is of the life size card is 24 inches wide by 72 inches high
  • The image can be relatively small: after a conversation with James down in digital print and my own reaserch on scanning for large prints I have found that the initial image size is not relevant as the high quality scanners used in the industry would allow the image to be enlarged to a much larger scale.
  • The cost varies dramatically obviously depending on the quantity. For comsumers for things like gifts it seems that the one off prices vary from £60-£150, but obviously I would be printing more than one so the price would be less. I got a quote for a batch of 15 which I think would be reasonable (quote includes finishing (contour cut rather than square, and deilvery) working out at £48 per board: 


  • The time required to produce the cut outs seems to start from as little as 5 working days for a one off, presumably more if it were a larger batch.
  • There are two main ways of cutting foam board/card: hand cutting, or router cutting which is more expensive for one off jobs but much cheaper for batches.
Here is an example of router cutting:






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