Our Technology
National Print Group, Inc. (NPG) has continued to grow into the largest digital, screen, litho, Out-of-Home, and large format P-O-P printer in the world. Since 1957, we have continued to expand our capabilities to meet the needs of our clients. Fulfilling their printing needs is more than just producing quality work: it is constant research and acquisition of leading edge technologies. It is maintaining and uniting old world craftsmanship with new world ideas and capabilities, including e-commerce applications to state of the art equipment.
Leader of the Pack
Digital printing is expanding the limits of the printed image. This new medium is allowing printing in a variety of new ways. From grand scale wallscapes in Times Square to the wrapping of entire buildings in Las Vegas, digital printing is providing the means to produce pieces not previously possible. National Print Group, Inc. (NPG) is a leader in this technology with expertise printing lenticular images, automobile wraps, food menu boards, billboards, and magnetic signing to name a few. New applications are being invented and produced continually.
Digital: Agility Redefined
With two premiere manufacturing facilities dedicated to digital printing, NPG is leading the industry in capabilities, capacity, and the flexibility of this evolving print technology. With facilities strategically located in Chattanooga, Tennessee and Las Vegas, Nevada, NPG is able to service the requirements of customers with locations on both the east and west coasts.
- Producing small quantities cost-effectively
- Wide range of state-of-the-art digital printing equipment
- Large format presses up to 16 feet wide
- Ability to seam images to virtually any size
- Endless variety of substrates including carpet, mesh, vinyl, foam core, lexan, plywood, and metal for unlimited creative applications
- Vivid color and high definition printing for creating eye-popping images
Digital Advantages
Vivid color and high definition capabilities of current technologies are at your finger tips. National Print Group, Inc. (NPG) offers various digital printing technologies to suit your requirements. Each printing technology is a different digital system with specific benefits. This allows us to cover a wide range of digital printing demands. When we approach your project, we assess the requirements and use the best system for optimum results.
- Printing on demand with varying copy from piece to piece
- Printing up to 16' wide, with the ability to tile and weld to create infinitely larger projects
- Ability to create prototypes and test new concepts for both in-store and outdoor campaigns
- Ability to print on a wide variety of substrates including carpet, plastic, foam core, lexan, paper, vinyl, plywood, aluminum, and glass
- Vivid color and high definition capabilities
Digital Equipment
(3) - 63" x 126" Inca flatbeds (Columbia / Turbo / Spyder)
(1) - 196” NUR Expedio Printer
(1) - 63” x 144” HP Turbo Printer
(4) - 196" Scitex XL Jet printer
(1) - 16' Vutek 5300
(1) - 3 meter Vutek 3360 8 color
(1) - 63" x 96" Scitex Idanit Novo printer
(1) - 73" NUR Fresco 1800 printer
(1) - 126" NUR Fresco 3200 printer
(1) - 110" ISI Jet 2870 Grand Format printer
(4) - 196" NUR Blueboard printers
Various Seaming equipment including the largest seamer in the world, measuring 153'
King-Size Capabilities
Lithography is the undisputed choice for creating unique, high impact large format impressions of the highest quality. National Print Group, Inc. (NPG) has the expertise and a fleet of litho equipment to maximize litho’s advantages and offer you:
- Finer resolution for superior image clarity
- Advanced color matching capabilities for quick, precise press checks
- A wide variety of substrates including plastic, paper, board and synthetics for optimum creative freedom
- Large or small format products such as window signs, displays, banners, and standees for one-source convenience
- Effective project management for shorter production time
- Efficient computer to plate processes for rapid make-ready and turnaround
On the Leading Edge
NPG has six state-of-the-art litho presses that bring large format concepts to life in vibrant media guaranteed to capture attention. The pride of the equipment fleet is the KBA 81” Rapida UV seven-color press, the largest sheet-fed press ever built. High-end UV and hybrid inks allow printing on an unlimited range of substrates including vinyl, styrene, PETG and static cling to name a few. This press allows for unlimited options to extend campaign themes.
NPG's coating towers ensure printed materials have the durability to withstand wear and tear in the field. Advanced die cutters, folders, mounters and laminators transform great ideas into dynamic tools guaranteed to make lasting impressions.
Litho Printing Advantages
- More colors in a single pass! National Print Group, Inc. (NPG) can print up to seven (7) colors and additionally coat the sheet inline.
- NPG has a Wide variety of substrates available including plastic, paper, board and synthetic sheets up to a 48 point thickness.
- Presses can produce a host of products including complex high-quality displays, window signs, and standees.
- Computer-to-plate (CTP) means quicker make ready, faster turn around and finer print resolution.
- NPG has the full spectrum of print sizes available, ranging from large to small format printing.
- Able to print UV, hybrid and conventional inks to allow the best image available for the requirement.
- Ability to cost effectively print multiple images on a single press sheet.
- The number of large format presses on the floor and the speed at which they run, allows fast turnaround times and shorter press checks.
Litho Printing Equipment
1-KBA 59.5" x 81" press (largest sheet-fed press in the world)
- automatic plate changer
- 9,000 sheets per hour
- 7 color plus UV coater and hybrid ink
1-Harris 54" x 78" Lithotronic 6 color press
1-Harris 54" x 78" Lithotronic 7 color press
- aqueous coaters, console inking system
2- Komori 28" x 40" 5 color presses
1- Harris 54" x 77" press
- 6 color console inking system
Screen Printing: Exploring New Territory
National Print Group, Inc. (NPG) merges art and science to bring the magic of screen printing to practically any substrate. Aluminum, glass, plexiglass, coated paper, vinyl, and styrene are just a few of the materials that come to life with near photo quality realism. Other advantages include:
- Ability to print minute detail and maintain readability
- Specialty inks and coatings for true-to-art color reproduction
- Large format capacity for images as large as 72” x 122”
- Solid ink coverage for dramatic image depth and warmth
- Fast turnaround
Best of Breed
NPG is known to create the finest screen print images available. Skilled craftsmen with intricate knowledge of the process create brilliant work utilizing state of the art screen equipment and NPG’s extensive finishing capabilities. NPG operates the largest five and six color in-line presses and has direct-to-screen capabilities that allow images to be printed in very fine detail.
This combination of craftsmanship, unique equipment and capabilities allows NPG to provide customers across the nation with superb imagery, an ability to print on a wide range of substrates and fast turnaround times. NPG is the preferred provider for the exacting quality requirements of P-O-P screen print applications and large format requirements of the nation’s finest retail companies.
Screen Printing Advantages
- Lower cost on shorter runs of comparable substrates
- Special inks and coatings not available in litho or digital
- Ability to print much larger images (up to 72" x 122")
- In-line six (6) color screen press
- Print on virtually all substrates
Screen Printing Equipment
1- M&R in-line 5 color print/UV cure system
- prints 72" x 122", up to 85 line screen, 7mil to 1" substrates
1- M&R in-line 6 color print/UV cure system
- prints 60" x 80", up to 85 line screen, 7mil to 1" substrates
1- 56" x 96" American Vanguard
1- Sign Tronic direct-to-screen
- able to image screens up to 98"x158"