The digital age has brought us wonderful and useful tools.  The capability of creating digital art, capturing digital photographs and converting hard copy imagery to digital files provides us the opportunity to be creative and let our imagination soar.  Anyone with a computer, digital camera, smart-phone or scanning device can take advantage of the endless creative possibilities.

Once an image is in a digital format, it can be modified, manipulated and enhanced to be output on a variety of media. The most popular and obvious is paper.  However, numerous other materials have emerged as favourites and have been added to the paper family as printable surfaces.

In terms of categories and printing method, Cine Affiches is proficient in the following;

A) FLAT BED printing on rigid substrates available in flat sheets up to 4ft x 8ft.

• Currently, Acrylic and Aluminium have become rigid materials of choice for artists, designers and decorators. Please take a look at our pages on Acrylic, and Aluminium for more details on these materials.
• Most popular and economical among these surfaces are Coroplast and Foamcore and are regularly used and are designed mostly for the signage and graphic design industries.
• Foamcore or Foam board is a very strong, lightweight, and easily cut material ideal for indoor signage because of its smooth paper surface. It consists of three layers — an inner layer of polystyrene foam clad with outer facing of a white clay-coated paper.
• Coroplast is ideal for indoor and outdoor graphic applications. Tougher than corrugated fiberboard, and l lighter than solid extruded plastic, waterproof, weather resistant and stain resistant, Coroplast is the material of choice for the screen and digital printing industry.
• At Cine Affiches, we use both of these materials for jumbo sized poster reprints and STANDEE easels for movie theatre lobbies, photographic prints, graduating class “mosaics” and retail merchandising signage. Both of these materials can be easily cut to shapes and are converted for stands and supports for promotional marketing communications for special events.
• Another rigid PVC based substrate that Cine Affiches prints on is Sintra. It is a lightweight yet rigid and durable board of expanded closed-cell polyvinyl chloride (PVC) extruded in a sheet with a low gloss matte finish. It is easily formed into just about any shape using wood and foam board fabrication techniques, and is heat formable and chemical, dent and scratch resistant. Sintra is frequently used for POP Displays, Exhibits & Kiosks, interior and exterior signage.
• Cine Affiches presently prints directly on Sintra and uses it as a backing for our acrylic prints. We cut Sintra to various shapes and have found that the bright, slightly textured surface accepts our inks well and produces surprisingly elegant results.
• We have also had requests to print on wood, glass, and veneers, among other rigid surfaces. All we need to do is run a few tests to confirm the adhesion of our inks to the required surface and produce prints to suit your needs.

B) ROLL to ROLL printing on flexible paper, vinyl and Canvas.

• A proven favourite in the rolled materials, in addition to paper and vinyl, is Canvas. Cine Affiches is now ready and fully equipped to print on both of these categories of materials.

Digital printing is mostly done on paper and vinyl products that are available on a variety of roll widths.

Cine Affiche is required by our clients to stock all types of media in the Roll to Roll category: poster and archival photographic paper, self stick permanent, removable and backlit vinyl, banner and canvas.

The flexibility and versatility of our machines offers us the ability to print on roll media up to 86 inches in width.

Here is a short list of specifications to better help you select the right media for your clients:
7mil and 8mil Poster Paper, 60 inch roll
8pt Archival paper, 36 inch roll
7mil Backlit , 60 inch roll
13oz Banner
16.5 mil Canvas, 54 inch roll

Flat Bed specifications are found on each appropriate page.