Inca Digital has helped art student Elliot Dodd realise his vision with the SpyderX flatbed roll to roll model and the Onset X3 14 colour machine, bringing to life his Ice Cream Man exhibits as part of the Royal Academy’s postgraduate Schools Show.

Chief executive officer of Inca Digital John Mills comments: “Applications like this are an excellent way to show people the enormous potential of digital printing. Advances come from experimentation, not only for the artists but for our technical people too, so it’s a win-win as far as we’re concerned.”

Applications like this are an excellent way to show people the enormous potential of digital printing”

The sculptures began as stills from a hip hop video, which were printed and moulded as a skin around 3D objects, before using the Inca technology to print the resulting images onto steel sheets. Lastly, the sheets were moulded by hand into the finalised exhibits, incorporating PU foam and aluminium mesh.

The artist Elliot Dodds says: "Inca went out of their way to help. I had access to two printers for the whole day as well as the help of two Inca technical specialists. This gave me the time to test print samples, discover the process and understand ink weights that achieved the best quality and colour gamut.

 
“In the end, we used the SpyderX to print a layer of opaque white onto metre-square steel sheets, then printed the images in full colour on the Onset X3.”

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