PRODUCT PORTFOLIO 2024-2025 SIGN • DISPLAY • GRAPHICS allprint.co.ukCONTENTS Contents 1 Introduction to APS 2-3 Delivery & Pricing Terms 4 APS Product Testing 5-6 Environmental Concerns 7-9 FESPA UK - Total Waste Management Solution 10 Our ‘Collect & Recycle’ Scheme 11 SIGN MEDIA INTRODUCTION 12-13 Flat Surfaces Mid-Term 14-17 Curved Surfaces Long Term 18-23 Wrapping Long Term 24-27 Windows & Backlit 28-38 Safety 39-41 Stencils 42-43 Metallised Short Term 44-47 Writing Boards 48 Application Tapes 49-51 Magnetic 52-53 LX HAUSYS INTERIOR FILMS INTRODUCTION 54 LX Hausys BENIF Architectural Interior Films 55 PRINT MEDIA INTRODUCTION 56-57 SOLVENT, LATEX, UV PRINT MEDIA Flat Surfaces Mid-Term 58-77 Curved Surfaces Long Term 78-85 Wrapping Long Term 86-89 Windows & Backlit 90-99 Speciality 100-105 Architectural 106-118 Flooring 119 Banners & Mesh 120-121 Papers 122-124 Display Films 125-127 Display Fabrics 128-129 FINISHING MEDIA INTRODUCTION 130 Flat Surfaces Short Term 131 Flat Surfaces Mid-Term 132-136 Curved Surfaces Long Term 137-138 Wrapping Long Term 139-141 Anti-Graffiti 142-144 Dry-Wipe 145-146 Flooring 147-152 Mounting 153 TOOLS & ACCESSORIES INTRODUCTION 154 Solvent Inks 155-157 Application Fluids 158-163 Printer Maintenance 164-165 Wrapping Tools 166-168 Applicators 169 Small Tools 170 Sign Tapes 171-173 Display Stands 174 Textile Tapes 175 TIPS & TECHNICAL INFORMATION 176 Signmaking - Choosing The Right Vinyl 176 Signmaking - Guide For The Correct Usage Of Self-Adhesive Materials 176 Signmaking - Cautionary Notes 176 Handling Solvent & Latex Print Media 176 Digital Printing - Printer Maintenance 176 LX Interior Films Guide 176 Wallpaper Printing - Guide For Producing & Installing Solvent Printed Wallpapers 176 Digital Wallcovering Projects - Key Stages 176 Car Wrapping Guide & Issues With Special Surface Coatings 176 Signage & Advertising - UK Guide To Planning Permissions 176 Conspicuity Marking Requirements 176 Fire Rating Summary 176 Floor Rating Summary 176 Our ‘Collect & Recycle’ Scheme 176 FESPA UK - Total Waste Management Solution 176 APPLICATION FOR A CREDIT ACCOUNT 178 TERMS & CONDITIONS OF SALE 179 1INTRODUCTION TO ALL PRINT SUPPLIES We are delighted to introduce our 2024 Product Portfolio. WELCOME We are fast, flexible and friendly and understand the demands of our graphics customers. We’ve lived and breathed this sector for 40 years and we know what our customers are up against; instant deadlines, last minute changes and time pressures. By being fast, flexible and friendly we should be able to reduce the stress levels in your business and help you to keep your customers happy. WHAT CAN WE DO FOR YOU? All information provided is believed to be true at the time of going to print. (02/07/2024) CERTIFIED CARBON NEUTRAL BUSINESS 2INTRODUCTION TO ALL PRINT SUPPLIES We are one of the UK’s leading suppliers of roll materials to the sign, exhibition and display market and are proud to have achieved carbon neutrality in 2023. Established in 1984, we celebrate our 40th Anniversary this year, and are still a family owned private business. We currently operate from 40,500 ft2 of new premises in Slough and provide a portfolio of thousands of products, including major brands such as Avery Dennison and Mactac, for next day delivery. We have slitting, sprocketing, rewinding and cutting machines in-house and our own applications centre with printers and cutters. We also have a Northern Sales Office in Rotherham and currently employ 60 people. Customers are our life blood and we will do our utmost to make sure you are kept satisfied. From answering the phones quickly and efficiently, right through to delivery of your material the next day. Stock outs are rare and we will make sure we will inform you as soon as they arise and try to offer an alternative. HISTORY SERVICE VALUES 1984 All Print Supplies was established as a supplier of self-adhesive materials to the print sector 1987 Entered the rapidly growing Computer Aided Signmaking sector 1992 Gained ISO 9002 / BS 5750 accreditation 1996 Entered the rapidly growing wide-format ink jet sector 2000 Became heavily involved in supplying solvent media for the RasterGraphics Arizona printer 2002 Launched a complete range of solvent media and moved to 26,000 ft2 of new premises 2009 Won ‘SBEC Environmental Management Award’ 2010 Purchased Andersons, one of our main competitors 2013 Major investment in new swatch making equipment in addition to 3 new slitter / rewinders to help continue to meet the tight deadlines required 2014 Moved to a brand new 36,500 ft2 high capacity warehouse with full solar power capacity making us the only carbon neutral distributor in the UK in terms of energy consumption 2015 Purchased the Sihl Direct UK business and were appointed a full portfolio Avery Dennison distributor 2016 Installed new superwide conversion equipment for fabrics 2017 Named in Thames Valley top 250 companies and started to manufacture Cling2, our own static cling PVC 2018 Extended our own delivery network to 7 vehicles 2019 New website launched and invested in a high speed automatic slitting machine 2021 Piloted our ‘Collect & Recycle’ program 2022 Acquired the UK LX Interior Film business, launched under ‘spAce’ Architectural Interiors 2023 Achieved carbon neutrality as measured under PAS 2060 2023 Launched new e-commerce platform for online ordering 2024 All Print Supplies celebrates 40 years of servicing the sign and graphics industry: 1984 ~ 2024 OUR TIMELINE 3DELIVERY & PRICING TERMS Our standard delivery is by overnight carrier, on a next day service, nearly anywhere in the UK, with no minimum order charge. • Standard next day carriage is free on all orders over £130.00 (excluding VAT). • For orders under £130, we can now offer you two options to suit your workload and schedule: Next working day delivery: £13.50 Next working day delivery before noon: £17.00 • Special deliveries are on a slightly more restricted basis and include next day by 9am or 10.30am, Saturday before 9am and Saturday am. The surcharges for these delivery services are as follows: Next day before 9.00am: £32.00 (*20kgs max weight) Next day before 10.30am: £25.00 (*20kgs max weight) Saturday before 9.00am: £47.00 (*20kgs max weight) Saturday am: £35.00 (*20kgs max weight) *Special Deliveries over 20kg incur additional delivery costs - please confirm at time of order. Opening hours: Monday to Thursday 8.30am to 6.00pm Friday 8.30am to 5.30pm Collections: 9.00am to 5.00pm The Sales Office team consists of industry hardened staff who have practical, hands on experience coupled with excellent customer service skills. The Field Sales team have decades of industry experience behind them to help guide you and ensure you receive the correct products to meet your deadlines. Payment: • BACS payments or Bank Transfer • Direct Debit • Credit or Debit Card: We accept most credit cards and there is no surcharge for using them • Credit Accounts: These are available upon satisfactory credit references. An application for a credit account can be found on the last page of this product portfolio, as well as on our website. DELIVERY OUR SALES OFFICES Deadline for orders: Generally 6.00pm Monday to Thursday, and 5.30pm on Fridays. Orders for slitting and sprocketing at non-standard sizes will go out next day if placed before 5pm. Due to pressures of orders and the practicality of meeting our carrier’s deadlines this is a guide and cannot be guaranteed. Slitting charge: There is a nominal £8.00 per roll slitting charge, for simple slitting down to narrower widths. For example, if you require a roll of 1300mm to be slit into 2 narrower rolls of 650mm wide, then the slitting charge would be £8.00. We cannot reslit material on 2” cores. The sign products are all now offered on a ‘no surcharge for standard rolls’ basis. A standard roll is generally 10M, 25M or 50M (45M for some speciality items and 1M for some expensive items). All prices are exclusive of VAT, unless stated otherwise and may be subject to change without notice. Please read our terms and conditions. Due to the complexity of use the purchaser should carefully consider the suitability and performance of the product for each intended use, and the purchaser should assume all risks regarding such use. All specifications are subject to change without prior notice. Phone: Southern Office: Tel: 01753 696977 Northern Office: Tel: 01709 829800 Email: sales@allprint.co.uk Online: allprint.co.uk ORDERS PLACE YOUR ORDER 4Being able to offer good technical support and advice on how to use our large range of media has always been an important part of our complete service. Our dedicated print room team use digital printers with Solvent, Latex and UV ink as well as vinyl cutters, laminators and software to help customers get the best out of our range of media. Using leading RIP technology from Onyx, Rasterlink, and Versaworks we can provide custom made tailored profiles for a broad range of digital printers, advice on the best settings and support on how to handle and process our impressive range of media. Our dedicated colour profiler can also work on site to provide bespoke colour profiles. Using our Pantone® colour booth we can now give customers a quick, simple and straightforward answer on colour match requests under a range of lighting conditions. This includes daylight, retail lighting and office environment. We are also using a Hunterlab Miniscan EZ to provide accurate colour values in whatever format is needed, including L*a*b* and also LCH and provide accurate details of colour differences. In order to give our customers more information quickly, we have invested in a complete new in-house laboratory. This includes analytical equipment such as Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) which is a technique used to obtain an infrared spectrum of absorption or emission of a solid, so if something in the product has changed we can identify and take remedial action very quickly. ALL PRINT SUPPLIES PRODUCT TESTING ® is the property of Pantone LLC. 5ALL PRINT SUPPLIES PRODUCT TESTING We also have adhesive testing equipment for peel adhesion, shear strength (static, dynamic and elevated temperatures), gloss meters, temperature controlled ovens and a humidity/temp controlled sample store. We can accurately measure key physical properties; these include gloss level, thickness, shrinkage, whiteness, peel adhesion and also tensile strengths. This is helping us to build an independent picture of the quality of the range of products we supply. These tests are carried out using standard FINAT, DIN or ISO test methods. We can measure the adhesion of our self-adhesive products to a range of substrates typically used by our customers, including glass, stainless steel, MDF and polypropylene. We can also measure the tensile strength and elasticity of our self-adhesive products. This is a good measure of how stretchable and conformable a product is to use and helps us to offer guidance on the best self-adhesive product to use for specific applications, be it simple flat panels, to curved and deeply recessed panels. 6ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS As of July 2023 our business is now carbon neutral with the aim of achieving ‘net zero’ within the next 2 years. When we moved into our new building in 2014 we invested in a large solar array consisting of 509 panels on the roof. In 2022 this produced 30% more electricity than we consumed, the surplus being exported back to the National Grid. PAS 2060 and the ‘Race To Zero’ ‘Race To Zero’ is a global campaign to rally leadership and support from businesses, cities, regions and investors for a healthy, resilient, zero carbon recovery that prevents future threats, creates decent jobs and unlocks inclusive, sustainable growth. Over 80% of Britain’s largest businesses have now signed up to the UN’s Race to Zero campaign, designed to accelerate the adoption of credible net-zero targets at, during, and beyond COP26. ‘PAS 2060’ is the internationally recognised specification for carbon neutrality published by BSI (British Standards Institution). It sets out the requirements for quantifying, reducing and offsetting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for organisations and products. Our Qualifying Explanatory Statement in Support of PAS 2060:2014 Self-Validation for the period 1st January 2022 to 31st December 2022 can be found on our website. It consists of 3 scopes: Scope 1 includes a calculation of GHG emissions for internal items including Fuels, Bioenergy, Refrigerants, Passenger vehicles and Delivery vehicles. Scope 2 includes a calculation of GHG emissions for external items such as electricity, steam and gas. Scope 3 includes a calculation of GHG emissions for transmission and distribution UK electricity, heat & steam, UK electricity T&D for EV’s, water supply, water treatment, material use, waste disposal, business travel by air, sea and land, freighting goods, hotel stays and homeworking. The only parts of Scope 3 we did not calculate were ‘Processing of Sold Products’ and ‘End use of Sold Products’ as we have no control over how and where our products are used. For the period 2022 our total emissions were as follows in (tCO2e): Scope 1 Direct emissions 105.5 tonnes. Scope 2 Indirect emissions 189.4 tonnes. Scope 3 Other indirect emissions 253.8 tonnes. Total emissions for 2022 was 548.6 tonnes. We then offset this 548.6 tCO2e by purchasing 549 carbon credits in Verra -Verified Carbon Standard (VCS), the Gold Standard - Voluntary Emission Reductions (VER) and the United Nations - Certified Emission Reductions (CER) programmes. These were then retired in July 2023. We have our own ‘Collect & Recycle’ scheme and in partnership with FESPA UK we also offer our customers a total waste management solution - more details are available on pages 10 and 11. Most of the products we ship every day are a 3 layer self-adhesive construction; face film, adhesive layer and release liner. Face films These can be PVC, Polyester, Polyolefin (Polypropylene or Polyethylene). • Plasticised PVC (Polyvinyl chloride) films are by far the most popular in the Sign and Digital industry, probably accounting for over 90% of demand. It can be cut, pigmented, printed by nearly all technologies without expensive and energy consuming top coats, and most importantly is very durable outdoors, offering a service life several times longer than the alternatives. PVC also consumes less energy during production than other plastics. The raw materials for PVC are salt and oil, with salt making up the majority of the film, and there is no shortage of salt in the Ocean. PVC is recyclable with number as its resin identification code. Plasticisers, which incorporate Phthalates, are added to the PVC to make the film more flexible and practical to work with. Other additives include heat stabilisers, UV stabilisers, lubricants and generally pigments. As the Chlorine atom is a major part of the PVC monomer, PVC produces HCl upon combustion and can release dioxins, which is a concern. To investigate this further we visited modern electricity generating plants using high temperature Energy from Waste incineration and they insist no Dioxins are created in the stack or the residual ash. PVC is the third most popular plastic in the world, behind Polyethylene and Polypropylene. CERTIFIED CARBON NEUTRAL BUSINESS 7ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS • Polyester (PET) films only account for a small part of the market due to the high cost, the rigidity of the product and the need for a top coat for printing. Polyester has the number . Commonly used in packaging for plastic bottles and food trays. • Polyolefin (Polypropylene or Polyethylene) films are beginning to make a small impact. Polypropylene (PP) and Polyethylene (PE) have the same basic ingredients and the raw material is oil. Polypropylene is recyclable . PP is the second-most widely produced plastic and is used in packaging for dairy trays, microwave containers, etc. The new UK bank notes are now manufactured from PP. It is generally more rigid than PVC and cannot be printed without a top coat being applied, which adds to the cost and has a negative environmental impact as the coating requires energy to be dried in the ovens. PP also has a shorter life outdoors. Although Polyethylene is the most popular plastic in the world, PE films have made no impact in our industry. Like PP, PE cannot be printed without a top-coat being applied which adds to the cost and environmental impact. It also has a shorter life outdoors than PVC. Used in packaging for bags, milk bottles, films and labels. Polyethylene comes in a variety of densities, is recyclable and has the number or dependent whether high (HDPE) or low density (LDPE). Adhesives These are nearly all acrylic based in our industry. In either solvent dispersions, water dispersions or UV cured format. • Solvent based adhesives. These acrylic adhesives are dispersed in a chemical solvent to make them less viscous and then coated in a ‘thick’ layer. They then pass through long heated ovens to evaporate off the solvent carrier. These ovens can be over 50M in length and require a lot of energy to heat. Solvent based adhesives offer excellent long- term performance but chemical solvents are expensive, and in Europe the solvents driven off in the drying cycle have to be re-captured, which adds to the cost. • Water or emulsion based adhesives. These acrylic adhesives are dispersed in water to make them less viscous and then coated in a ‘thick’ layer. These acrylic adhesives are less durable, have lower performance, are cheaper, and are generally more suitable for internal applications. They still require a lot of energy to drive off the water in the ovens. • UV cured adhesives. Our focus has turned in recent years to UV cured polyacrylates. These have the same acrylic backbone as solvent adhesives, so have virtually the same performance as solvent based adhesives, but can be coated as ‘solids’, without the need for dilution, and are cured by UV, rather than traditional ovens. They require less energy to manufacture and are less hazardous in the manufacturing process. Our NU-COAT self adhesive products are VOC (Volatile Organic Compound) free, quite unique in our industry, it is currently thought that breathing low levels of VOCs for long periods of time may increase some people’s risk of health problems. Canada and California have recently enacted legislation to eliminate or reduce VOC’s in everyday products. Release liners These can be kraft, Polyethylene coated, or occasionally Polyester. Release liners are one of the biggest waste factors in our industry, as they are almost part of the packaging in that they do not figure in the in-situ graphics. All the papers we source are FSC certified which allows you to identify, purchase and use paper made from well managed forests and/or recycled sources. Under the FESPA UK waste management scheme we have found a recycling partner that can recycle the liner into new products. • The most popular liners are clay-coated krafts. We are currently working on how we can reduce the weight of these papers but retain the performance our customers and some of the printer technologies demand. The ‘lighter’ the paper, the less trees need to be used in the papermaking and the less mass there is to be disposed of. It is a difficult balancing act between price, performance and environmental impact. • The other main liners we use are Polyethylene coated, also known as PE or resin coated. These liners are more stable under heating in printers and are less prone to cockling in changing humidity conditions, but are more expensive and have an extra layer of Polyethylene added to the back of the paper to improve performance. 8Next >