Wellness and Leisure 

In the leisure and wellness industry’s’ Interior designers, architects and specifiers are turning to digitally printed surfaces to deliver a finely tuned aesthetic. 

As a booming industry, the wellness and leisure sectors offer a landscape of commercial opportunity. The interiors that we encounter throughout our daily journeys have a direct impact on our wellbeing. As consumers we expect a lot from our décor, they decorate and frame our retail choices, and their style and quality endorse price-points. Interior Decor is a science in motion, and it is present in all of our online and offline experiences.

Covering all sectors, hospitality, healthcare, home or office – the products used within in our interior and exterior decor is big business and offers the print industry an enormous scale of opportunity.

New technologies and material applications continue to accelerate growth and to create niche markets and innovative product lines. Biophilic design and the use of recycled, organic and environmentally friendly materials are in demand. The interior is becoming an immersive, engaging space and incorporates light, sound, pattern and the printed surface universally.

In recent Printeriors exhibits we have showcased many applications, materials and technologies, many of which cross industry sectors:

Printing applications utilised include Roll to Roll, Dye Sublimation, Transfer Printing, Flatbed UV and Latex and others. Inks sets span Dye Sublimation, Latex, Pigment, UV and Reactive Inks across many applications and materials. Some examples of which are featured below:

Creating ambience is all part of the Wellness Interior story, each and every component of the designer’s scheme is considered to ensure that the final vision meets the specifications of the client. The image below showcases how multiple technologies and materials can be coordinated and customised to fulfil one luxury vision.

The roomset features wallcoverings from Canon printed using their Colorado technology onto environmentally certified wallcoverings from Sentec International. The wellness and leisure sector, also demands materials and surfaces that can sustain high traffic. All of these elements need to be achieved. Also featured are textiles printed onto Organic cotton from Premier Digital Textiles, printed using Kornit Digital pigment inks. The mirror in the centre has been laminated using a Drytac materials and HP latex technology.


The image below showcases leather printed using Brother DTG technology, it’s also worthy of note that in this image white ink has been used as a base onto which the printed image has been applied layer, by layer to create these sunning examples of bright colour on a dyed ground.



The cover image featured in this article has been taken from Unsplash.