Dibond 3mm. Forex 3mm – 5mm – 10mm. Full color. Elke vorm is mogelijk (zie foto zebra) Forex Ou Dibond, blocco elettrico automatico a circuiti di binario, ktere je nejlepnm softwarem pro obchodovbnn s akciemi, paras 1 minuutin binaariasetusten jarjestelma/10() Wat is het verschil tussen Forex en Dibond? Forex een hard, stevig en toch licht materiaal. Het is gemaakt van een geschuimd PVC met een lichte structuur. Dibond is stevig en toch licht dankzij de speciale combinatie van aluminium met een zwarte kunststof kern. Beide materialen bevatten een harde buitenlaag waardoor het zeer geschikt is om te beprinten
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Upcoming August I will have a photo exhibition on a large outdoor sports orientated happening. For the event, I want to display a selection of images which would connect well with the theme. So I needed to get some new prints produced. In this review I will describe for which type of prints I went, where I got them produced, how the final results look like and how the prints on different materials compare to each other. Deciding on the material.
For the past 4 years, forex of dibond, I got the majority of my large prints produced by Xpozer. The print quality is absolutely outstanding, forex of dibond. Coloring, dynamic range and detail in their prints are phenomenal. But the prints are very vulnerable.
In the past year I have had to throw away quite many prints, due to damages which were already on the forex of dibond when I took them out of the packaging for the first time. Xpozer replaced those without any extra expenses. Yet, the replacing prints also continued to come in damaged. It is very frustrating to plan an exhibition and not being able to display all the pictures you had in mind.
Therefor I wanted to go now for something less vulnerable and more solid. I decided to go for direct prints on alu-dibond and forex board.
Large prints on alu-dibond and forex board have become quite popular over the past years and many print shops offer the possibility to print on these materials. Prints on forex board are in general cheaper than prints on alu-dibond.
For a 90x60cm print on alu-dibond you have to lay down about 90,- euro and for a same size print on forex board about 65 euro. As you can see, forex of dibond, there is a rather large difference in price between the two materials. It made me wonder if the price difference is due to the quality difference between the prints or if it just comes down to the materials used.
Therefore I decided to print some of my images on both materials, and compare them directly with each other. Where to print. Now I only needed to select the right print shop for the production of the prints. Lately I have heard several good things about a Belgium company called ZOR. Several respected photographers got the chance to get a picture printed at ZOR to review. I have read several reviews and all of them are very positive regarding the quality of the prints. But there are many producers which also deliver high quality prints on these materials.
The biggest difference between the prints produced by ZOR and prints produces anywhere else, must be the price. As mentioned above, for a 90x60cm print on alu-dibond forex of dibond forex, you normally pay about 90 and 65 euro respectively. Yet, ZOR offers these for 34,99 and 25,99 euro respectively. And yes, this is including VAT. They print the file as how you send it, forex of dibond.
You have to prepare the images yourself before sending them. But for those of us who do know how to do this, we generally want to do this by ourselves anyway. So no extra effort and you will be sure that no-one messes up your picture after you send it in.
Preparing the images. For this particular exhibition I wanted to get 44 pictures printed. As you can imagine, the total price for this order was significantly lower forex of dibond ZOR than at any of the competing producers. As said, I wanted to get my images printed on both alu-dibond and on forex. To prepare each picture for the printing process, I needed to resize, sharpen and to soft-proof each picture.
I did this in Photoshop. On the website of ZOR you can easily find and download the ICC profiles. For each material there is a ICC profile. So before soft proofing the images, you have to decide on which material want to print the image. Here is how I decided which picture to print on which material.
After having read several reviews about the alu-dibond and forex prints, I found out that white areas in pictures would appear to be of a different texture when printed on alu-dibond. Since the alu-dibond is white by forex of dibond, I guess that white areas in a picture, remain empty of ink and therefor appear to be forex of dibond a different texture than the rest of the print, forex of dibond.
Therefore I decided to print images, which contained a lot of white, on forex plate. There was one image for which I guessed that it actually would look nice if the texture of the white forex of dibond appear different than the rest of the print, forex of dibond.
This one I did print on alu-dibond. This is the white image I decided to print on alu-dibond. I noticed that when I loaded the alu-dibond ICC profile on pictures which contained a lot of green, the change was the largest. Meaning that images with a lot of green needed more tweaking forex of dibond the other images. I checked how this compared with how the images with a lot of green looked when loading the forex ICC profile.
Therefore I decided to print the images which contained a lot of green, on forex instead of trying to tweak the images for alu-dibond. Except for one picture, which was quite easy to correct. Here the difference in color during the soft proofing of the images. On the right the original image, on the top left the image with the alu-dibond ICC profile loaded and below that image with the forex ICC profile loaded, forex of dibond. Some of my images contain large very dark and black areas, forex of dibond.
These areas can cause some problems when printing. The flow forex of dibond a non-black to a black forex of dibond can be quite tricky. You want the transmission to be smooth and not to clip. During the soft proofing of these images, I noticed that the forex ICC profile kept the transmission into the black areas smooth, forex of dibond.
However, when I loaded the alu-dibond ICC profile, the black areas started clipping and showed strong boarders instead. To be able to see if there would be any difference, I also got these same images printed on forex plate. In the screenshot above you can see the clipping of the black area on the image with the alu-dibond ICC profile loaded. It is difficult to see the clipping well on the screenshot, but it is more visible in PS.
The image with the forex ICC profile loaded, remains smooth, forex of dibond. Some images had a rather dark subject, compared with the surroundings of the subject. On the computer monitor these images look fine. But I would not like it if the subjects would get even darker.
Therefore I increased the exposure of these images slightly. Placing the order. There was only one problem. ZOR ships their prints to 21 European countries and Norway is not one of them. I contacted Jonathan at ZOR to see if there would be any chance they could ship to Norway anyway.
Sadly they really cannot send the prints to Norway. The only solution would be if I would order the parcel carrier to pick up the prints at ZOR and handle the export and import process.
This was not that easy to set up, so had to come up with a different solution. ZOR does ship to Sweden and I live about an hour drive from the Swedish boarder, forex of dibond. I found someone who could receive the package and solved the problem. Before placing an order at ZOR, you have to create an account. ZOR offers the possibility forex of dibond set up a professional user account. In order to do so, you have to contact Jonathan from ZOR and he will set up the account for you.
The advantage of having a pro-account is that ZOR deducts the VAT from the prices when you place your order. Once you have your account set up, it is very easy to place your order. Just choose the material you want the picture to be produced on, upload the picture, select the size of the print and add the print to your shopping cart.
On the ZOR website it says that the regular orders will arrive between 7 and 10 working days. Express orders will arrive between working days. Since I have an holiday planned and want to be sure that the prints arrive before I leave, I went for the express order. I placed the order on a Wednesday afternoon, after closing hours at ZOR.
On Friday I received from Jonathan the message that they were printing the last image of the order. On Monday the prints were shipped from ZOR and on Wednesday morning the 5th working day they were ready to be picked up in the parcel depot in Sweden. I had to possibility to either pick up the prints in the parcel depot or have them send to an home address of someone I knew in the area.
I went for the last option. The prints arrived at on Thursday, which forex of dibond on the 6th working day after my order. To be honest, forex of dibond, I never expected to pictures to arrive that fast! Sadly they were not delivered at my home address and I had to drive quite a bit to get the prints back home. But it was an effort I was more than happy to make.
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Forex Ou Dibond, blocco elettrico automatico a circuiti di binario, ktere je nejlepnm softwarem pro obchodovbnn s akciemi, paras 1 minuutin binaariasetusten jarjestelma/10() All images mounted on Dibond, Forex, Acrylic etc up to the size of 40cm x 40cm can rest on these angles which thus transform into table-top stands. They are self-adhesive and can easily be affixed onto any backing material. The positioner can bend to determine the angle of the stand Prints on forex board are in general cheaper than prints on alu-dibond. For a 90x60cm print on alu-dibond you have to lay down about 90,- euro and for a same size print on forex board about 65 euro. As you can see, there is a rather large difference in price between the two materials
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