Our Products

- Output Devices

Brilliant Color Range, High-Resolution Output to a Wide Selection of Rigid and Roll-based Surfaces Including Fabrics.
That's Colours Promise.

From high-impact point of purchase displays, to temporary textiles, bus shelters, vehicle graphics, and more, Our range of devices enable you to broaden your expectations when it comes to large format imaging.

  • Prints from 54 to 80 inches wide by any length on roll substrates
  • Prints up to 96x120 inch on rigid substrates
  • Robust and reliable quality print to print
  • Sharp, consistent, repeatable image quality at 1200 dpi or greater
  • Meets or exceeds most of today's ECO-standards

Premium Archival Matte (285g) Fibre Paper
An ultra-smooth surface with a matte, bright white finish make these premium heavy weight archival prints a rich alternative for true photographic reproduction. They are reminiscent of traditional fiber-based matte photo papers, but much heavier and with the dense blacks and intense colors of high-resolution inkjet pigments.

Photo Satin (300g) Fibre Paper
These slightly textured, satin-finish prints have many of the fine attributes of the matte versions, but with a bit more surface sheen, overall weight (300g) and durability. There is an acid-inhibiting layer within the paper for greater longevity and the satin surface creates a handsome, lusterous finish.

Vinyl & PVC-based Fabrics
We print on many types of flexible materials, each with its own special features, to address particular lighting, weather or location specifics.

Fiber and Satin Papers:
Many artists and photographers select the long-term permanence of archival pigment inks, and the rich textures plus added weight of fiber and cotton rag papers for their exhibition quality prints, giving them even greater value over time. Our selection of print papers have some of the widest color gamuts in the industry, for best color reproduction.

Flexible Materials:Our fleet of INKJET PRINTERS can create 8' x 50' images as single pieces, or we can masterfully seam several together to form a graphic of literally any size. Inkjet output make great point-of-purchase and trade show graphics, vehicle wraps, window displays, gas pump signs, wall coverings, stage backdrops, outdoor posters and signage. Anywhere weather resistant, lightweight or large-scale graphics are required, our inkjet output can provide maximum quality at the best price.

Applications:

  • P.O.P. Displays
  • Retail Signage
  • Museum Quality Exhibits
  • Office décor
  • Outdoor signage
  • Wall & Window graphics
  • Banners; Indoor and Outdoor
  • Photographic Quality Prints
  • Fine Art and Canvas Prints
  • Posters

For Photographic Quality, HP Aqueous can deliver prints with detail, clarity and sharpness, free of distracting image artifacts.

Aqueous-based pigment inks provide exceptional color stability, high resistance to ozone and UV light for long-term fade resistance, and high smudge and water resistance. With these qualities, aqueous pigment inks are finding increased use in short-term outdoor applications.

  • Prints up to 54 inches wide by any length on roll substrates
  • Durable finish, reduces need for laminating
  • Best suited for photography, fine art, proofing
  • Expanded color gamut, richer blacks with better D-max

Multi-Surface, Large-Scale, High-Resolution, UV Flatbed Printing.

Direct UV Printing to rigid substrates is an important part of Colours Imaging's core capabilities.  With the means to print with white ink, opens up a world of display opportunities.  We use a Fuji Acuity Advance printer which has a bed size of 8x10 for almost any type of rigid flat surface up to two inches thick. It also has a roll to roll printing attachment for poster and prints.

  • Prints up to 96x120 inch on rigid substrates
  • Prints up to 80 inches wide by any length on roll substrates
  • Prints 4/C Process Inks + Opaque White Ink
  • UV Inks for indoor and outdoor usage
  • Single or Double Sided Printing on hard substrates
  • Prints directly onto hard substrates up to 2 inches thick

Brilliant Color Range, High-Resolution Output to a Wide Selection of Roll-based Surfaces Including Fabrics.

From high-impact point of purchase displays, to temporary textiles, bus shelters, vehicle graphics, and more, HP Latex Printing Technologies’ top-of-the-line indoor and outdoor applications enable you to broaden your expectations when it comes to large format imaging.

  • Prints up to 54 inches wide by any length on roll substrates
  • Durable finish, reduces need for laminating
  • Meets or exceeds most of today's ECO-standards
  • UL GREENGUARD GOLD Certifed HP Latex Inks produce odorless prints ideal for indoor display

Digital Contour Cutting.

We recently installed the M3000 Flatbed Cutting System from Gerber Scientific, to our finishing department. With it we can now offer a number of new contour cutting services.

The light router works great with gatorboards and
PVC sintra, up to ¾ inch thick.

PVC Plexiglas and some aluminum composites (Diabond R)
up to ¼ thick.

A recipicating knife for foamboards, cardboard, corrugated plastics (Coroplast TM).

A drag knife, crease wheel and a kiss and cut knife
for cardboards and vinyls.

Computer-cut
Self-adhesive Vinyl

This product is well suited for long lasting, vivid spot color graphics for window and vehicle lettering, promotional signs, menu boards, ...almost any smooth, non-porous surface. Utilizing new registration software, we can print to self adhesive vinyl and close-cut to very intricate shapes, from simple decals to large format wall graphics.

We stock many standard colors of vinyl and can special order other colors and sizes. Vinyl is not, however, available in an infinite variety of colors, but typically comes in several shades of each color. We'll be happy to show you the colors we stock and are able to order, and can provide you with the approximate vinyl color references to Pantone® colors. Vinyl can be supplied "ready to apply" on backing paper, or we can apply it to a variety of materials.

We've used our cut-vinyl output in exhibits, wall application, basic vehicle wraps and tagging, signage. Suitable text can be cut down to a one half inch height or smaller. (36pt for San Serif, 42pt for Serif.) We cut vinyl on a 30 inch wide plotter, allowing large graphics without seams (subject to roll widths). Most vinyl comes in 15, 24 or 30 inch wide rolls depending on the vinyl type.

- Our Featured Output

Windows, Walls and Floors

Let Your Rooms Speak! Colours is fluent in the visual aspects of Interior Design, and helping a room be the view. Beginning with the range of devices we drive, and the numerous materials and surfaces we can print on, Colours can fullfill the promise of your imaginative use of graphic applications and bring a room to life.

  • Prints up to 96x120 inch on rigid substrates
  • Prints from 54 to 80 inches wide by any length on roll substrates
  • Extensive selection of wall coverings
  • Extensive selection of window coverings
  • Single or Double Sided Printing on hard substrates

Exhibits/Displays:
Colours knows how
to tell your story well...

And we know how to deliver museum-quality output. Our products are well displayed in the museums of the Smithsonian Institute, the Library of Congress and numerous Government Agencies. We have a vast range of output product that match well with your required specifications. Our Finishing services can mounts and encapsulate your images so the quality is preserved and your story endures

Signage
Corporate Identity

First Impressions are important and Colours has a number of ways of making you look good; for both indoor and outdoor signs. And that's only the half of it, your signs not only say who you are, but how to get where you need to be, Colours is experienced in Wayfinding and knows how to follow through on that good first impression.

Banners.

With a full range of over-sized inkjet and UV inkjet printers as well as a broad array of professional mounting options, COLOURS IMAGING offers highly durable banners and displays in virtually any format and scale, for both indoor and outdoor applications.
Our fleet of INKJET PRINTERS can create 8' x 50' banners as single pieces, or we can masterfully seam several together to form a graphic of literally any size. Banners make great point-of-purchase and trade show graphics, vehicle wraps, window displays, gas pump signs, wall coverings, stage backdrops, outdoor posters and signage. Anywhere weather resistant, lightweight or large-scale graphics are required, our banner output can provide maximum quality at the best price.

We output to numerous pvc rolled substrates, fabrics and specialty surfaces. Where and how it will be hung should determine what product will best suit your needs. We print on several types of flexible materials, each with its own special features, to address particular lighting, weather or location specifics. Finished with pole pockets, grommets, edge wrap or flush mounted, COLOURS’ BANNERS can be specially tailored to the demands of any location to deliver your message with the greatest impact. Call us at 703-379-1121, to get the proper material for your project.

Banner Stands

Because of their ease of use, portability and versatility, retractable banner stands have become the most popular method of displaying important information and graphics at meetings, trade shows, in lobbies, offices and for point of purchase marketing. All of our stands function with some kind of window shade mechanism that allows the banner to be pulled up for display and retracted into a compact protective base for transporting. Installation is a quick and convenient, one- or two-person process. Each has its own styling, features and options, but all retractables make your message and graphics readily available when and wherever you need them.
COLOURS IMAGING offers a wide range of brands and options to better accommodate the specifics of your presentation and portability needs. As new features and accessories become available, we will continue to offer the very latest in banner stand technology to support our state of the art, high-resolution banner output services.

BannerBug™ Banner Stands

Quick and easy operation has been the guiding force behind BannerBug’s™ top-selling success. The full line comes in an extensive range of sizes to accommodate virtually any display needs, from the little DeskBug™ to a ten foot high model. Sleek and modern design combines with quick roll-up action and an easy-change, Velcro attachment system to make BannerBug™ exceptionally versatile to use. Widths range from 9” to 114”, single or double-sided, and the bases are silver with black end caps. All BannerBugs™ come with a standard nylon carrying case; hard cases are available as an option. There are also compatible BrochureBug™ literature stands, that will keep the clean, polished look consistent throughout your display needs.BannerBug™ sizes (visual areas, W x H) in inches: 8.5 x 20 (Desk Bug) | 22.75 x 60 (Baby Bug) | 33.25 x 85.539.25 x 85.5 | 47.25 x 85.5 | 59 x 85.5 | 70.5 x85.539.25 x 111.5 (Giant Bug).

Retractable II™ Banner Stand

This is an economic yet solid, classic, roll-up design with all-metal construction and reinforced side plates. The Retractable II™ has a silver, very minimal base and sports two top rail options — self-adhesive or clamp style. There is a banner viewing area of 33.25” x 78.75”. It can also be fitted with an optional energy-saving LED light, and comes packed in its own nylon carrying case. While rugged, The Retractable II™ is still lightweight, and will allow you to transport and set up your graphic display anywhere with economy and ease.

The GrandStand™ Banner Stand

This mid-range banner stand has a heavy-duty, roll-up system that helps extend the life of displays that are repeatedly installed and re-packed. Graphics easily roll into and out of its silver or black base to keep the display sleek and trim and the banner flat — nothing to distract from your message. The Grandstand™ uses a self-adhesive top rail and is available in 33.25” and 39.25” widths by 87.5” tall. It comes with a gray nylon carrying bag.

For More Than 30 Years
Colours has Provided the DC Area with High Resolution Photo-Quality Images.

It's something we take very seriously. It doesn't matter whether your image is a special moment captured, a historical document, official portrait or business record; your image will have the best in detail, clarity and sharpness displaying a broad gamut of colors, or the richest gradient of blacks to white available. On a great selection of paper and films available.

Many artists and photographers select the long-term permanence and the rich textures plus added weight of fiber and cotton rag papers for their exhibition quality prints, giving them even greater value over time. Our selection of print papers have some of the widest color gamuts in the industry, for best color reproduction. Call us at 703-379-1121 and let us match up your image with one of our high quality surfaces.

Fine Art Printing and Reproduction

Whether it's an archival, limited edition, photographic print or a full-size reproduction of an original painting or drawing, COLOURS' superb COLOR MANAGEMENT systems and Epson Ultrachrome pigment-based inks on acid free media will give your work the high definition and longevity it deserves. At COLOURS, every print project starts with a test strip on the actual printing stock to be used, for your approval or tweaking.
With high-end Scitex scanners and a BETTERLIGHT STUDIO SCAN, large-format camera back, we can faithfully digitize any artworks up to 48' x 60' and enlarge from there or reproduce at the actual size of the original. COLOURS' top quality color management assures faithful reproduction at any scale, whether it's on fine art textured papers, or on cotton canvas which we can stretch and frame for you as well.

Poster and Temporary Sign Printing

COLOURS IMAGING offers an array of economical indoor and outdoor display options for signs and posters. With or without imagery, we produce attractive, durable formats with great color punch that are easy to install and reuse in almost any environment, including: hotels, restaurants, theaters, malls and retail sales of all kinds; meetings, conferences and educational gatherings; as well as fairs, festivals, sporting events, election graphics and traffic/parking signs.

Even from the back,
Colours' Canvas Wraps are a thing of beauty.

We use the best of everything, including craftsmen. Whether we print from a provided image or you select something from our Collections; you'll get a well-constructed visual capable of enhancing any room you put it in. We carry standard stretcher sizes up to 50 inches, larger sizes are possible as custom orders.