Maranello, Sihl's "best value" universal photo paper, is an 8 mil. pure white opaque, true PE photobase with a microporous topcoat.
Another high quality photo paper with premium features, useful in professional advertising/presentations and trade shows for less than you would ever expect to pay. Think "Cadillac" at "Buick" prices.
Supersorb, Sihl's highest quality photopaper, is a 9 mil. Pure white opaque, true PE photobase with a microporous topcoat. Instant drying allows for high ink limit and immediate lamination. Compatible with thermal and piezo printers, dye and pigment inks. Water-fast without lamination Wide gamut, high definition, brilliant color saturation.
Instant Dry Canvas WR is a single side satin coated Artistic Canvas for high quality graphic art applications on inkjet plotters and printers. This product is especially suitable for picture presentations as full color graphics, reproductions of art and photos, where the structure of the fabric is very pronounced and decorative. Due to the presence of natural components (cotton) in the base material, the surface characteristic may vary slightly.
The slight glossy inkjet coating is water and scratch resistant. This product shows a very fast drying time (instant dry), can be sewn and used as banner application. Lamination or use of lacquer is not really necessary due to the satin and water resistant layer, but will increase the life expectancy. Please use dye inks only for short terme application (2-3 weeks).
ADVANTAGES:
• Stiff base with visible real canvas structure and good flexibility
• Waterfast, satin finished coating for dye and pigmented inks
• Well suitable for stretching over borders (no cracking)
• Bleached backside giving an extra noble touch
• Short drying time
• Good colour brilliance
• Good light stability with pigmented inks
• Cold lamination, spray or lacquering possible for protection
Picasso Canvas is a single side coated Artistic Canvas for highest quality graphic arts applications printers with eco and true solvent inks. Due to the special coating, this high end Canvas is suitable for heavy ink loads and uniform area prints also in critical color-tones. The drying time is excellent and the ink fixation on the surface is optimised in the coating. The coated surface is water-repellent and the light-stability with common eco and true solvent inks is excellent.
The Picasso Canvas is also suitable for the use with UV curable printers. The product was tested with different UV curable inks from Colorspan and Zünd. The fixation of the ink to the surface is very strong and the UV lamps can be run on reduced performance (low) to avoid high temperatures and a possible cracking of the inks. The print is water resistant. Main applications are for indoor only.
ADVANTAGES:
• The satin finished inkjet coating is water resistant
• Excellent compatibility with solvent or eco solvent inks
• Very good drying time, more homogeneous colours and higher colour brilliance with solvent coating
• The coating has also the necessary flexibility to avoid cracking when the canvas is stretched over borders
• The product has mainly been designed for longterm indoor applications
• Also suitable for the use with UV curable inks
Optilux is a single-side, mattte coated polyester film designed for use with solvent inks. This 5 mil front-print film is water-resistant, compatible with eco-solvent and volatile-solvent inkjet inks, and has superior dimensional stability and "lay-flat" properties typical of graphic arts quality polyester substrates.
ADVANTAGES:
• water resistant
• high ink limit for maximim gamut and pop
• built in diffuser layer gives uniform glow
• compatible with pressure-sensitive adhesives and lams
DESCRIPTION:
• 50" x 100' size
• 5 mil / 130 μm thickness
• 48 lb / 180 g/m² weight
3856 is a single-side coated, transparent polyester film with a matte coating. It is designed for high quality graphic arts applications on inkjet plotters and -printers. The Backlit film is ideally suited for picture presentations in light boxes. This product is also suitable for areas with high humidity and condensation when pigmented ink is used.