Digitex gets backstage press

Bespoke fabrics printing firm Digitex is to take delivery of the countrys first Mimaki TX3 after setting up a new division devoted to producing theatre and television sets and backcloths.

The creation of the new division has come after the company won the commissions to produce a backdrop for the stage musical Guys and Dolls and a five-metre montage for a Euro 2004 video.  

The Bury, Lancashire-based company says that the division has the capacity to print at any size onto substrates, including linen, silk, canvas and cotton on its range of digital Mimaki printers. 

Managing director Roger Wills said that the jobs were "typical of the sort of requests we are now increasingly receiving". 

He said that digitally printing backcloths was "proving especially useful for set designers wanting to create historically accurate period scenes ... or for rural landscapes." 

The company also has an in-house design team at its 700m2 facility. Its portfolio of images was recently expanded by a three-year licensing agreement with the Andy Warhol Foundation to use its 100,000 pop art images, including Warhol's iconic images of Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and Campbell's Soup. 

Story by Josh Brooks