FAQs
Quotes / Files
How do I get a quote?+
We have 3 ways to do it... You can upload your files from our webiste (top right button on each page), give us some information and we’ll get back to you with a quote. You can also call us at 512.236.0600, or email us here.
Click the big red button at the top of every page in this website to get started. It will bring up a short
form where you can upload your file (or a smaller filesize low-resolution version of it) for a quote.
Types of Equipment
What types of equipment do you have?+
API Austin has a wide variety of equipment on site to give you the fastest service and highest quality graphics for your needs, see the questions below for more detail on specific devices. Click here for more information on our equipment.
Printing Equipment:
- Vutek GS 5000 – 16ft wide / 1,000 DPI prints for billboards, trade shows and more
- Vutek HS 100 Pro – 10ft wide / 6-color super sharp graphics
- Epson SureColor S70670 – photographic print quality, 64in, metallics, 10-color printing
- Epson Stylus Pro 9900 – 44in archival printing
- HP Designjet Z600 – 8-color, covers 88% of the Pantone color space
Cutters and Routers:
- Zund G3 Digital Cutter / Router – precision cutouts up to 5x10-ft
Scanners:
- Cruse Scanner — for large original fine art up to 4in thick, flat artwork or four color reproductions that would ordinarily be too big for conventional scanners.
- Epson Flatbed Scanner — high quality scans, perfect for flat art, 12 x 17, scans up to 2400 dpi
Vutek GS5500LXr Pro with Ultradrop Technology +
Vutek GS5500LXr Pro with Ultradrop Technology - Faster. Sharper Image. UV Ink. Can print up to 16 ft. wide by almost any length. It has 1,000 DPI resolution and is suitable for tradeshow graphics, textiles, billboard signage and commercial graphics.
Now even faster and sharper than before with UltraDrop Technology 7-picoliter printheads!
The Vutek GS5500LXR Pro LED printers uncompromised quality at sizes up to 16 feet wide by almost any length. With 1000 dpi resolution and 8-color printing, it's suitable for a variety of applications such as trade show graphics, textiles, billboard signage, banners and commercial graphics. This printer lets you be creative with materials and sizes that no other sign producer in the Southwest can offer.
If you’d like to visit with us about your next project, please call us at 512.236.0600 or send us an email. If you’re ready to get started, click here to upload your files and get a quote.
Epson SureColor S70670+
Epson SureColor S70670 - 10-color printing including a unique light black, orange, white and all new metallic silver. This printer redefines photographic print quality for virtually any signage or fine art application.
- Handles up to 64-inch wide rolled medias
- New extreme gamut 10-color solvent-based ink system
- High density white and metallic silver inks for unique signage and fine art applications
- Revolutionary Dual Epson MicroPiezo® TFP® print head - 4 picoliter
- Maximum resolution of 1440 x 1440 DPI for extreme print image quality
If you’d like to visit with us about your next project, please call us at 512.236.0600 or send us an email. If you’re ready to get started, click here to upload your files and get a quote.
Epson Stylus Pro 9900+
Epson Stylus Pro 9900 - Designed for 44 inch wide printing, the Pro 9900 incorporates a state-of-the-art MicroPiezo TFP® print head with an ink droplet size of 3.5 picoliters.
- Advanced 10-color screening algorithm resulting in prints with superior color and clarity
- Maximum resolution of 2880 x 1440 DPI for incredibly sharp text and line art
- Produces extremely fine blends and photographic transitions
- Archival printing. When used with Epson professional papers, color images are rated up to 200 years….black and white, even longer!
If you’d like to visit with us about your next project, please call us at 512.236.0600 or send us an email. If you’re ready to get started, click here to upload your files and get a quote.
HP Designjet Z6200+
HP Designjet Z6200 - This printer delivers 2400 DPI resolution and is fast. This printer uses new HP Vivid Photo inks that are scratch resistant and have a wide color gamut with deep blacks.
- 8-ink system that includes HP Chromatic Red
- Up to 88% of the Pantone color space is covered
- Prints up to 1,500 square feet per hour
If you’d like to visit with us about your next project, please call us at 512.236.0600 or send us an email. If you’re ready to get started, click here to upload your files and get a quote.
Zund G3 Digital Cutter / Router+
The Zund G3 Digital Cutter/Router allows us to produce the most accurate of digital cuts from the most demanding graphics. It has a 5’ x 10’ cutting bed so we can accommodate all your large graphic cut-out needs.
If you’d like to visit with us about your next project, please call us at 512.236.0600 or send us an email. If you’re ready to get started, click here to upload your files and get a quote.
Cruse Scanner+
Cruse Scanner — We can scan your original fine art, flat artwork or four color reproductions that would ordinarily be too big for conventional scanners. Touchless scanning system. We can capture your artwork in full, vivid color at resolutions from 75 to 500 PPI. We can scan original sizes up to 48” x 72” and up to 3” thick.
If you’d like to visit with us about your next project, please call us at 512.236.0600 or send us an email. If you’re ready to get started, click here to upload your files and get a quote.
Vutek HS100 Pro - UV Ink+
Vutek HS100 Pro - UV Ink. Ultra high speed direct to substrate and roll-to-roll UV printer. This printer offers 6-color plus white ink and uses environmentally friendly UV fast curing ink. Capable of printing sharper, vivid colors on a variety of rigid and flexible materials up to 10 ft. wide.
If you’d like to visit with us about your next project, please call us at 512.236.0600 or send us an email. If you’re ready to get started, click here to upload your files and get a quote.
Epson Flatbed Scanner+
Epson Flatbed Scanner — High quality scans that are perfect for flat art up to 12"x17". Scans up to 2400 dpi (depending on original flat art/print size).
If you’d like to visit with us about your next project, please call us at 512.236.0600 or send us an email. If you’re ready to get started, click here to upload your files and get a quote.
Types of Materials
What are the various materials / substrates you can print on?+
Here is a list of the materials we can print on:
- Flex Vinyl
- Vinyl Mesh
- Backlit Vinyl
- Adhesive vinyl in white or clear
- Specialty materials such as wallpaper, textured floor graphics, window cling
- Metal
- Dibond (White or Brushes Aluminum)
- Plexiglas
- Gatorboard
- Artboards
- Sintra
- Styrene
- Giclee Fine Art Paper: Watercolor, Sommerset Velvet & Enhanced Matte
- Canvas
- Photographic papers : Matte, Glossy and Pearl (metallic)
If you’d like to visit with us about your next project, please call us at 512.236.0600 or send us an email. If you’re ready to get started, click here to upload your files and get a quote.
Types of Printing
What are all the types of printing you can do?+
We have a solution for you:
If you’d like to visit with us about your next project, please call us at 512.236.0600 or send us an email. If you’re ready to get started, click here to upload your files and get a quote.
Can you print Billboards?+
Billboards — We have an 8-color press. We produce vinyl billboards in all standard sizes on MEA approved substrates including mesh and flex vinyl. To see more about our billboards, please click here.
If you’d like to visit with us about your next project, please call us at 512.236.0600 or send us an email. If you’re ready to get started, click here to upload your files and get a quote.
Can you print Building Wraps?+
From construction sites to grand openings let your building tell the story. The bigger the better. We can go on and on and on and on. To see more of our building wraps, please click here.
If you’d like to visit with us about your next project, please call us at 512.236.0600 or send us an email. If you’re ready to get started, click here to upload your files and get a quote.
Can you print Banners?+
Banners — We have an 8-color press that can print 16 ft. wide by almost any length. We can produce graphics for pop-up portable stands or tradeshow booth graphics. Banners can be printed on flex vinyl or a variety of other material including canvas. To see more on our banners, please click here.
We have a variety of banner finishing options:
- Grommets — metal hole reinforcement which you see on most banners.
- Pole Pockets — pole pockets all for rigid poles to be inserted along the edges of the banner. These poles make it easy to change out messages quickly.
- Welded Edges — welded edges reinforce the sides of the vinyl banners, helping to maintain the banner’s shape and prevent stretching. This finish is standard with all banner orders.
- D-Rings — D-rings are typically sewn into large banners that will hand on buildings. These rings allow the banner to be secured with ratchet straps.
- Webbing — nylon webbing sewn into the top and bottom makes the banner stronger and will significantly extend its life.
If you’d like to visit with us about your next project, please call us at 512.236.0600 or send us an email. If you’re ready to get started, click here to upload your files and get a quote.
Can you print Digital Wallpaper?+
Digital Wallpaper — We have an 8-color press that can print 16 ft. wide by almost any length. Custom wall paper and murals are very popular. You see them often in restaurants, retail and even residential interiors — especially children’s rooms. You design it, we’ll print it. Our printers will produce stunning photo quality on vinyl wallpaper material. You can select permanent or removable and repositionable materials. We also have a graffiti-proof liquid lamination for ultimate protection. Images can be tiled together to create a graphic that’s easy to install.
If you’d like to visit with us about your next project, please call us at 512.236.0600 or send us an email. If you’re ready to get started, click here to upload your files and get a quote.
Can you print Adhesive Graphics, stickers?+
Adhesive Graphics — We have an 8-color press that can print 16 ft. wide by almost any length. From floor graphics to windows and vehicles, we can print and adhere to almost anything.
If you’d like to visit with us about your next project, please call us at 512.236.0600 or send us an email. If you’re ready to get started, click here to upload your files and get a quote.
Can you print Photographs?+
Photographic Printing — In 1976 we began providing photographers, ad agencies and corporations with a broad range of traditional photographic services. Today, laser imaging to photographic media is the standard for photographic reproduction. Professionals trust us with their most demanding projects. Our years of experience and superior color management and sensitivity to deadlines keep them coming back.
Large Format Photographic Printing: We can produce full color, continuous tone images from your digital file up to 48” to 60” wide by 120 ft. long on photographic print and back-lit material. Our large format photo printers can create photo-quality prints with a resolution up to 2400 DPI. You’ll notice whiter whites and darker blacks with our prints.
If you’d like to visit with us about your next project, please call us at 512.236.0600 or send us an email. If you’re ready to get started, click here to upload your files and get a quote.
Can you print Giclée Fine Art?+
Giclée Fine Art Printing — Giclée is a sophisticated inkjet printing method. Giclée mergers the use of professional grade large format printers with archival pigment inks, acid free watercolor papers, and canvas. By using custom profiles, precise color correction and expert scanning, pigment printing can render subtle gradations and many colors that would be out of range with other technologies. We use the latest imaging equipment and profiling technologies. All art substrates used are archival and acid free. Every file sent to us is opened and tested for color, resolution and shadow/highlight information.
We DO NOT retouch, color correct or resize any image provided for Giclée printing unless requested by the customer. Proofs are printed on the final output substrate (i.e., canvas or watercolor), no generic proofing paper. When supplied with original art, we will scan, correct and proof to be as close as possible to the original. We print all items in house. Your art will never leave our premises.
If you’d like to visit with us about your next project, please call us at 512.236.0600 or send us an email. If you’re ready to get started, click here to upload your files and get a quote.
Can you print on Canvas?+
Canvas Printing —Have an awesome photo you want to showcase? Then let’s print it on canvas and wrap it around the frame. This way the frame doesn’t take a way from the beauty of the photo and gives it that gallery quality look.
If you’d like to visit with us about your next project, please call us at 512.236.0600 or send us an email. If you’re ready to get started, click here to upload your files and get a quote.
Can you print “Direct-To-Board/Substrate,” like Gatorboard, brushed aluminum?+
Direct-To-Board/Substrate Printing — Our technology provides you with direct-to-board/substrate printing that delivers rich, full color images on a variety of materials. We use UV inks that are resistant to moisture and fading. Here is a list of common materials/substrates we can print directly on:
- Flex Vinyl
- Vinyl Mesh
- Backlit Vinyl
- Adhesive vinyl in white or clear
- Polyester-based Dye-sub Fabric
- Specialty materials such as wallpaper, textured floor graphics, window cling
- Metal
- Dibond (White or Brushes Aluminum)
- Acrylic (Plexi)
- Gatorboard
- Artboards
- Sintra
- Styrene
- And More… (just ask)
If you’d like to visit with us about your next project, please call us at 512.236.0600 or send us an email. If you’re ready to get started, click here to upload your files and get a quote.
Can you print Backlit Signage?+
Backlit Signage — From menu boards to retail point of purchase, backlit has the highest impact and attention grabbing power of all signage applications. We have a broad range of backlit materials to satisfy your requirements. From museum to menus.
If you’d like to visit with us about your next project, please call us at 512.236.0600 or send us an email. If you’re ready to get started, click here to upload your files and get a quote.
Can you print Photographs onto Aluminum, “Dibond Printing?”+
Dibond is high definition, photographic imaging on aluminum. This is a unique technology that we’ve been involved with since the beginning. Unlike printing processes that print on top of a coating applied to the paper, our process adheres the image onto the coated finish of the aluminum. The result is better color: richer, deeper, brighter. Dibond prints are printed directly onto the brushed aluminum finish. To ensure longer lasting protection, we can also add a coat of UV liquid lamination. For more samples of our dibond printing, click here.
If you’d like to visit with us about your next project, please call us at 512.236.0600 or send us an email. If you’re ready to get started, click here to upload your files and get a quote.
Can you print directly on Plexiglas?+
Printing directly onto plexiglas can have a dramatic impact on the art’s image and is also long lasting. Perfect for lobby graphics and especially for graphics that will get hands-on use such as blue prints and architectural plans.
If you’d like to visit with us about your next project, please call us at 512.236.0600 or send us an email. If you’re ready to get started, click here to upload your files and get a quote.
Can you do 4-Color Digital Press Printing?+
Need 50 or 5,000? We can do it. Digital printing is fast and half the cost of traditional offset printing for quantities less than 5,000. Our digital printers print 2400 DPI in sizes up to 12” by 18” (full bleed up to 11 x 17). Click here to find out more about our equipment.
If you’d like to visit with us about your next project, please call us at 512.236.0600 or send us an email. If you’re ready to get started, click here to upload your files and get a quote.
Finishing, Scanning, Installations and Stuff
Can you do precise custom Cut-Outs?+
Custom Cut-Outs — We can create custom cut-outs for your small or large (life size) graphics. CEO can’t make the tradeshow this year but you’d still like him to make an appearance? Try a custom cut-out of her. Our precision cutting department has the latest technology in fully automated, digital cutting systems. Because it is digital, we no longer have to use expensive and time consuming metal dies. Specialized “i-cut” technology ensures the cut matches the print every time. In additional to life-size cut-outs we can also cut dimensional letters, logos, fine art, displays, point of purchase displays, tradeshow booth graphics, ceiling danglers, and more. We can cut virtually any substrate to satisfy your unique design goals.
If you’d like to visit with us about your next project, please call us at 512.236.0600 or send us an email. If you’re ready to get started, click here to upload your files and get a quote.
What kinds of Mounting and Finishing do you do?+
Mounting and Finishing — Great art deserves a great finish.
- We can mount on a variety of substrates from foamcore and gatorboard to sintra and acrylics.
- We can laminate in a variety of thicknesses and materials that include gloss, luster, and matte options offering UV stabilizing characteristics.
- Flexible Lexan laminations and backers for “pop-up” tradeshow booths and panels.
- Museum mounts and canvas stretching.
- Velcro strips, magnetic strips, black edge binding, grommets, wall mounts, standoffs, and we also offer a variety of other print hanging solutions.
- We will sort, collate, bundle and complete fulfillment by drop shipping via FedEx, UPS, common carrier or local courier service.
If you’d like to visit with us about your next project, please call us at 512.236.0600 or send us an email. If you’re ready to get started, click here to upload your files and get a quote.
What types of Scanning and Retouching are available?+
Scanning and Retouching — Our high resolution scanners are capable of scanning everything from an artist’s precious originals to entire archives for museum and libraries. Our expertise in retouching comes from a long tradition of photographic retouching directly onto film and prints. With this intuitive sense of craftsmanship, our artists have a photo realistic way of interpreting their craft. Click here for more information about our equipment.
- Cruse Scanner — We can scan your original fine art, flat artwork or four color reproductions that would ordinarily be too big for conventional scanners. We can capture your artwork in full, vivid color at resolutions from 75 to 500 PPI. We can scan originals sized up to 48" x 72" and up to 3" thick in one pass. Over sized piecescan be scanned in multi-sectional passes and spliced together.
- Epson Flatbed Scanner — High quality scans that are perfect for flat art and is also an economical solution for scans being utilized on the web. This scanner can scan originals up to 12x17 and up to 2400 dpi resolution. Please specify output at time of order.
- As of August 2015, we no longer scan nor print from negative or transparency films such as 35mm, slides, 120/220 and 4x5 film.
If you’d like to visit with us about your next project, please call us at 512.236.0600 or send us an email. If you’re ready to get started, click here to upload your files and get a quote.
Can you re-energize our office or lobby with Indoor graphics?+
Looking to reenergize your office and your team? From custom wallpaper, adhesive graphics and prints on acrylic, metal, canvas, etc., we can help you recreate the exact mood you want when people first enter your offices. To see more, click here.
If you’d like to visit with us about your next project, please call us at 512.236.0600 or send us an email. If you’re ready to get started, click here to upload your files and get a quote.
What kinds of installations do you do?+
If you need professional graphic installation and removal, API has the expertise to do the job. We can make your graphics fit almost any surface — vehicles, walls, fences, buildings…. Spot graphics, signs, tradeshows, photos even complete wraps.
If you’d like to visit with us about your next project, please call us at 512.236.0600 or send us an email. If you’re ready to get started, click here to upload your files and get a quote.
Experience / Overall
Do you use UV Ink?+
Yes. We’ve been using UV ink printers since 2001. We are committed to using environmentally friendly substrates suitable for graphics production. UV inks release almost no VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) into the air which makes our workplace safer and is better for the environment. If you have a special material you’d like us to consider, please just let us know.
If you’d like to visit with us about your next project, please call us at 512.236.0600 or send us an email. If you’re ready to get started, click here to upload your files and get a quote.
What are your hours of operation?+
We are here Monday through Friday from 9 am to 5:30 pm central. We are closed Saturday and Sunday.
5555 N. Lamar Blvd., J-119, Austin, TX 78751
Call Us: 512.236.0600
Toll Free: 1.800.813.2755
How experienced is API with graphics and printing? +
API (previously known as Austin Photo Imaging) has been in business since 1998. We’ve had the privilege of working with the area’s leading ad agencies, corporations, architecture firms, retail, real estate and construction companies. We have years of hands-on experience with:
If you’d like to visit with us about your next project, please call us at 512.236.0600 or send us an email . If you’re ready to get started, click here to upload your files and get a quote .
Can you do quick turn-around?+
Quick turn-around projects are our specialty and one of the main reasons we are well respected and highly sought after in the industry. Speed and meeting deadlines is a combination of our state-of-the-art equipment, which is always maintained and ready to go, along with our long-term and knowledgeable staff. Ad agencies, art and marketing directors, sales directors and food service specialists and all our clients know they can count on us to get them what they need when they need it. Size and timing are never issues for us. Most jobs are delivered within 24 hours.
If you’d like to visit with us about your next project, please call us at 512.236.0600 or send us an email. If you’re ready to get started, click here to upload your files and get a quote.
Can you do turn-key projects?+
Yes. From design, production and printing, to finishing and installation any place in Texas (and beyond), we’ve got you covered. If you’d like to visit with us about your next project, please call us at 512.236.0600 or send us an email. If you’re ready to get started, click here to upload your files and get a quote.
What can we make for you?