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ket, but over time our fo- some big news to share. booth demonstrate how
cus shifted to architecture. Immediately after the in- they can be fused togeth-
We would like to go back terview, Shirley began a er to produce incredible
into this market and claim tour of the Dip-Tech booth, works of art.
a larger share. To give an pointing out several of the Shirley offered an example
example, automotive glass design patterns intended of using digital printing to
makers previously used for exterior and interior simulate stained glass. “We
our machines to do smaller architecture projects as have some amazing pro-
print runs of 20 or 30 units, well as for interior design. jects with customers who
and above those num- As part of its service to are using digital printing
bers, they would use silk clients, Dip-Tech offers a for stained glass applica-
are focusing more on ma- or screen printing because catalogue of copyright- tion because obviously it
chines that will replace or it was not cost effective to free patterns that can be saves them many resourc-
complement screen print- set up screen printing for printed in a single colour es. Instead of a project tak-
ing solutions. Where before such small numbers. Now or using a variety of mate- ing one year and costing
we were pushing into ar- with our newer lines of rial textures. The patterns a lot of money, they can
chitecture, now we are ad- machines, which are faster are saved as vector files, complete the project in sev-
dressing other markets that and even more reliable, they meaning they can be scaled eral days.”
were already working with can use our printers for however large or small a The tour included a view-
silk or screen printing, and runs of two, three or even designer wants without a ing of several glass panels
we would like to capture a four hundred units as their loss of image quality. The using the same copyright-
larger part of this market break-even point.” number of ways that pat- free patterns in varying lev-
with digital printing.” At the conclusion of the in- terns can be combined and els of opacity and pattern
One of the examples Alon terview, Alon also hinted at altered seems to be limited density, and Shirley ex-
gave was the automotive more developments, saying only by the imagination of plained how these patterns
market. “Dip-Tech started that at next year’s Glasstec the architect, and even the could be used functionally
with the automotive mar- exhibition, they would have few examples shown in the for energy control on exte-

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