What Is Vertical Printing?

Vinyl printing has notable drawbacks including difficulty adhering to textured surfaces, susceptibility to damage, and fading due to moisture and sunlight. It's costly, environmentally unfriendly, and challenging to remove without damaging underlying paint. Conversely, wallprinting can be applied to any textured surface, is damage-resistant, and not affected by environmental conditions. It's cost-effective, eco-friendly, and easy to remove with two coats of paint or primer.

Your options are virtually endless. If it's a vertical surface (i.e. walls) we can most likely print on it. Drywall (yes, even textured), glass, wood, brick, tile-our printer can handle it!

We use a very resistant, plastic-like UV ink that hardens immediately under the integrated UV curing lamps and can be used on almost all substrates. Thus, plaster, wallpaper, wood, brick, latex paints, stone, clinker, plastic, metal, glass, most tiles and many other materials can be printed without any problems.

Even natural stone, clinker or rough plaster can be printed without problems up to a contour depth of approx. 10 mm.

Nope! We can either use the color of the wall or lay a layer of white ink as part of the printing process. The ideal wall color is white, but we can even print on dark black!

Print height: The vertical axis is extremely flexible. The lowest ceiling height for using our printer is 5 ft 6". After that, the axis can optionally be extended up to 13 ft print height.

Print width: unlimited

Unfortunately, due to the nature of the printer and the offset of the robotic wheels and track from the print head, we cannot print edge-to-edge or guarantee full coverage of a wall surface.

Our vertical print margins start at about 13 inches from the floor, up to 13 inches from a ceiling or the maximum tower extension, whichever comes first.

For horizontal margins, if we are printing from one wall to another wall, we usually recommend a minimum 20 inch margin from each wall corner in order to safely print. If there are no corners (such as printing in an open hallway) or only a single corner (starting or ending near a wall) then there are only 3 inch margins needed for the print.

Yes! Our prints are completely damage resistant. Unlike Vinyl, which is a layer of plastic that gets adhered to the wall and will start to peel away from any nicks, cuts, or dings that get put into the surface of the wrap, our special UV ink is cured directly onto the surface of the wall. Any damage to the wall does not degrade the quality of the print whatsoever, and results in no lasting damage to the overall print. No peeling, warping, or bubbles!

The wallprinting process does not prevent damage from occurring on your wall, any significant damage to the surface of the wall will transfer to the print. But this damage will not compromise the integrity of the rest of the printed surface.

Each wall is unique, and the specific layout of your wall and any obstacles in the way - such as light switches, plugs, internet jacks, electrical panels, cracks or damage, windows, etc. will all take a unique approach.

Generally speaking, we can either design around the obstacles on the wall, or if we have access to your space's electrical box, we will shut off power and safely remove the switches and outlets, taping over the holes to make a uniform approach. Or, if your building has a maintenance crew, then we would request their help to temporarily remove those obstacles if they are available.

If we cannot safely remove any obstacles, then we will be required to design around them, such as decreasing the print size or breaking the design up into separate pieces.

Our process is incredibly quick, with same-day printing services available. We've started our design work, visited the printing site, done our measurements, set up the printer, printed the design, and packed up in just a few hours!

Depending on the print specifics, it can take anywhere from 1 to 3 hours per 50 sq feet. 

Specially formulated, plastic-like, low-odor wallPen UV ink. 

Given the nature of the ink we're able to print without having to worry about ventilation or operating after hours. The smell is extremely negligible. 

Immediately! Given the UV-curing process, once the print head has passed the image is completely dry and able to be touched.

Absolutely! Outdoor printing is weather dependent and we would recommend applying a UV protectant-which also protects against vandalism/graffiti removal. 

Of course! On glass with a ceramic hob scraper or razor blade. Otherwise, a print can always be painted over in two or three layers. Only on wood must be sanded or - as with metal or concrete - sandblasting or glass bead blasting.