Roland TrueVIS

What is a TrueVIS?
It’s best to think of TrueVIS as a high quality large format printer as well as being a knife cutter. If you’ve ever wondered how those full size ‘vehicle wraps’ are produced where sharp, photographic advertising images are put onto vans, trucks and buses then there’s a good chance that they came from a TrueVIS. The machine prints images onto vinyl and then cuts them in exactly the right shape to fit the vehicle. A modern print-shop will use the TrueVIS to batch-produce self-adhesive stickers, labels, point of sale displays, floor graphics, signage and heat transfer images for interior decoration and garments. When you check the working width of these machines you will see that a few metres of print run will produce hundreds of high quality peel-and-stick product labels. TrueVIS has so many uses that a commercial printer couldn’t live without one and, indeed, this latest generation of machines from Roland have proved a phenomenal success worldwide.


TrueVIS in Education
TrueVIS delivers superb print quality for banners, posters, photographs or digital artwork, so has huge potential for improving the quality and scale of school/college displays, signage and promotional material. It will enable professional quality graphics to be applied to any manner of projects in Graphics or Product Design, and make the production of class sets of digital graphic products a swift and efficient operation. TrueVIS uses advanced four-colour inkjet technology but needs special media to achieve high resolution printing.

Both SG and VG2 TrueVIS machines will print well onto our specially formulated ‘Printable Card for TrueVIS Inks’. Due to the solvent nature of the inks, neither will print onto standard card. Both will cut card well but TrueVIS machines are not ideally suited to printing and cutting card in one operation, eg., for card packaging nets. This process can be achieved using a TrueVIS but, if this is your primary need, the VersaSTUDIO BN-20 or Roland CAMM 1 GS-24E machines provide more flexible options using their optical print alignment capabilities and control from 2D Design V2.


Materials and Applications
A range of special materials are available for TrueVIS and these include self-adhesive vinyls, poster paper, printable iron-on media, water transfer paper, banner materials and a textured canvas to give printed posters the appearance of a traditional painter’s canvas. Details of these can be found. A TrueVIS is probably going to be a whole-school resource as much as a great tool for Design and Technology, Graphics and Art. It has huge potential for Business and Enterprise activities and would be a valuable shared resource for a regional Hub School, CLC or Professional Development Centre.