Q I have a friend living abroad who recently had her bathroom refurbished and she had a feature wall of a glass panel with an enlarged photo printed onto it. Can any firms in the UK do this?
Bob James
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A Since the advent of flatbed technol­ogies, printing onto glass has become more feasible, though screen printing onto glass is still popular. Obviously, for an application like this you’d want to be sure the glass was hard-wearing. Printed Panels (www.printedpanels.co.uk) in Worcestershire uses flatbed digital technology to print images onto glass panels for this kind of thing. Contact Adrian Hall at adrian.hall@printedpanels.co.uk. I also believe glass manufacturer Independent Glass produces screen-printed toughened glass. Email toughened@ig-glass.co.uk or call 0141 429 8700. I recently heard about a company in Australia, Axolotl Ozone (www.axolotl-group.com), which uses a high-definition inkjet process to print onto the interlayer of a glass panel, which is then sandwiched between two layers of toughened glass. They claim it’s a unique process, but I’d be interested to hear otherwise from a British firm. There’s a German company called Interpane (www.interpane.net, 0049 1728 671 278) that applies high-resolution digital print onto glass with ceramic ink so, really depending on whether you’re interested for your own bathroom or as a business idea, they’d be worth a call.