They said you couldn’t put raised holographic foil on a synthetic vinyl banner. We said, “Watch us.” 🚀

I am beyond thrilled to announce that bigDAWGS® just took home the 2026 FSEA Gold Leaf Award for Best Use of Digital Embellishments – Miscellaneous! 🏆

Check out the video to see the winner: a 100% synthetic vinyl banner featuring Soft Touch Lamination, Raised UV, and Raised Holographic Foil.

If you know the printing industry, you know the heat from UV lamps and lamination rollers makes this almost impossible on synthetic vinyl. Most experts would tell you to use wide-format printing and expensive cold lamination.

Instead, we spent the last two years developing a patent-pending process:
✅ Printed on a toner press (not wide format!)
✅ Used thermal lamination (1/3 the cost of cold lam)
✅ Engineered a way to beat the heat and bind it all together flawlessly

Tech Used:
🔹 Konica Minolta AccurioPress
🔹 MGI JETvarnish

The result? A premium, highly tactile, and visually stunning banner that is remarkably cost-effective to produce.

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TRANSCRIPT (AI-GENERATED)

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[00:00:00] Hey guys, Eddie Davin back again, and I wanna show you this. What is this? This is another entry to the FSCA Goldie Awards, and I think it’s cool, uh, but also it’s patent pending. And this is a process that took me quite a while to come up with, a patent pending process as well to come up with, uh, over the past two years to figure out how to do this.

But first, let me show you. What is, what is Eddie talking about? Let me show you. Look at that This is a banner, a vinyl, 100% synthetic vinyl banner, and it has raised UV and raised holographic foil. Oh, man, this feels so good. But look, check it out. It’s, it’s totally not what you think. If you’re thinking, “Okay, how- Eddie, how did you print this?

You have wide format?” No, I don’t. We’re running this through a toner press. Uh, so the quality is such an amazing quality, but also the cost to print is one-third the cost of ink. [00:01:00] Also, well, we can use now, um, thermal lamination. Not cold lam. Not cold lam. Again, this is synthetic, so you’re probably gonna tell me, you, you, uh, wide-format industry experts, “Oh, why are you using, uh, thermal lam?

You should be using cold lam.” Well, no, this is, this is our process. So we’re using thermal lam. We have a way to bond all of that together. And again, thermal lam is one-third the cost of cold lam, and you have these soft touch options, other, uh, cool embellishment type of holographic options with lamination.

Man, I’d rather do that and save money. Oh, man, there you go. So on top of that, the process to run it through the MGI took us a while, uh, to fight the heat. You are fighting the heat, the heat of the UV lamps and the heat of the rollers, the heat rollers that lay down the foil. But we, we just mitigated all of that.

We had to do a lot of magic, a lot of the magic my side, a lot of magic on the process side, uh, and man, we came out with this. You are not going to see a banner like this 100% synthetic. [00:02:00] So I contacted a IP law firm right away and said, “Hey, is this patentable?” And they said, “Yeah, you gotta get a patent.” So imagine that.

No one in Canada or US will be able to produce this because of the patent. But also, it’s actually pretty cheap to produce as well. So this is something exciting. Uh, and man, like you don’t re- you haven’t seen. I think it’s gonna be groundbreaking because it’s also very cost-effective. Um, but man, it’s just such a beautiful piece.

So I wanna know, guys, is this award-winning? I mean, what do you think? Have you seen anything like this? Have you seen raised varnish on synthetic banner, banners produced at a larger scale? Or have you seen, uh, raised foil, holographic foil even? Uh, have you seen them on banners? Have you seen them on car magnets outside?

We can do that, by the way. Have you seen them on signs? Let me know in the comments below. Uh. Yo, we don’t need bark [00:03:00] ’cause we got mad bite. So sit back, relax, and watch your sales take flight. ‘Cause in this day and age, success depends on keeping up with the latest trends.