Saturday 27 August 2016

What is Flex Printing

One of the best sources of outdoor advertising is the use of flex printing. It is becoming more and more popular as it is economical, so now reaching the audience does not need lots of money. It is used on streets, inside shops, on airports, and many other places. So what basically is Flex printing.

What is Flex?

Flex is a thin, plastic coated material which has a fabric backing that gives it that extra strength to withstand many harsh conditions. A solvent machine is used to print flex. Note that the ink used in a solvent machine is a special one, which has great resistance towards rain or sunlight.

The uses of flex printing are many. It is used in Outdoor advertising as its print is wonderful even in larger formats. Flex Printing is of two types:


  1. Frontlit printing
  2. Backlit printing
Flex Printing
Flex Printing



Frontlit Printing, is when the flex is illuminated by the sun itself. So it does not require any artificial lighteners like bulbs or LEDs to light it up. It is thinner, (about 340 GSM) and looks like a white opaque sheet. It can give a matte as well as a glossy effect.


Backlit Printing is when artificial illumination is used to lighten the flex up. It has to be more in breadth because small tube-lights are used to light it up from the behind. Backlit flex is also called glow sign boards (GSBs). 
For backlit flex, the right combination of colours has to be used so that the best quality print is visible. 

Usually people do not know how to use banner designing softwares, like corel, adobe-photoshop and others. So it is advisable to hire advertising agencies.




Illumina Advertising LLC is a Dubai based advertising agency which can offer the service of Flex Printing in Dubai. Apart from this, we also excel at the following services: