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Metal Printing

We have a project in which we need to digitally print to perforated "metal" preferably aluminum and the perforations remain open. Any ideas?

Brandy VanEaton
Sign Company - Ft Worth, Texas, USA
September 24, 2009

You will find it very difficult if not impossible to get proper adhesion of the inks used by conventional digital printing equipment to aluminum. This particular metal requires a special pre-treatment. Manufacturers of aluminum cans have solved this problem. I understand they now use UV curable inks, but I don't know if the pre-conditioning of the aluminum is the same or in some way these inks make it simpler.

Guillermo Marrufo
Monterrey, NL, Mexico
September 28, 2009

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