03 · Buy a printer
What do you want your machine to print?
Bottles, signs, walls, glass, chocolate, labels, garments. Tell me what, and I'll point you to the right machine and who sells and supports it in the UAE.
PRO TECHnology Digital Printing
The Dubai distributor for six industrial printing makers from the USA, Germany, Switzerland and Poland, with installation, training, spare parts and consumables handled locally.
- Exclusive LSINC distributor for the Middle East and North Africa (since December 2023)
- Exclusive wallPen distributor for the Middle East (since January 2026)
- Direct Color Systems, IQDEMY, IMAGO and MODICO, plus Marabu inks and primers
- Machines run in daily production at Sun Studio in Al Quoz, so you can watch your own material go through first
Disclosure: PRO TECHnology is part of the same Dubai group as the publisher of Printing Experts.
Match the machine to the job.
Start from the product you print most often, not the machine with the longest spec sheet.
| You print mostly | Machine family | Look at |
|---|---|---|
| Bottles, jars, cans, tumblers | Cylindrical (360°) UV | LSINC PeriOne, PeriQ360, Perivallo360m |
| Signs, braille, flat gifts, panels to 2.4 m | UV LED flatbed | Direct Color Systems |
| Large glass, acoustic and long panels | Continuous belt UV, 2.5 m wide | IQDEMY |
| Murals, on-site walls | Vertical wall printer | wallPen E2 |
| Chocolate, macarons, desserts | Edible inkjet | IMAGO |
| Ink won't stick (glass, PP, metal) | Surface pre-treatment | MODICO · Marabu primers |
LSINC
Prints straight onto round containers as they turn: glass and PET bottles, aluminium cans, jars and tumblers, with no label or sleeve.
Bottle printing machines ↗Direct Color Systems
Colour, white and clear in one pass on metal, glass, acrylic and plastics; strong on braille, tactile and raised graphics.
UV flatbed printers ↗wallPen
The E2 prints murals directly onto finished walls on site, for interiors, retail, hospitality and a wall-printing business of your own.
Wall printers ↗IQDEMY
2.5 m wide continuous belt UV printers with no machine limit on length: large glass, acoustic panels, fabric panels and long boards.
Belt printers ↗IMAGO
Direct-to-food printers for chocolate, confectionery and desserts in hotels, restaurants and patisseries.
Food printers ↗MODICO
Flame-silicate and plasma pre-treatment that makes hard, slippery surfaces accept UV ink before they reach the printer.
Surface pre-treatment ↗Inks: Marabu (Germany) UV inks, primers and adhesion promoters for glass, plastics and metals, stocked in Dubai.
Before you buy
Five questions to ask any printer dealer.
Can I see my part printed?
Not their demo sample. Your bottle, your panel, your plastic.
Will it stick?
Ask what pre-treatment or primer your material needs, and how adhesion is tested.
Real speed, not rated speed
Time a full-coverage job with white ink, including loading.
Who fixes it here?
Local engineers, spare parts in the GCC, and how fast someone arrives.
Cost per piece
Ink, primer, power, labour and rejects, not just the machine price.
Not covered here (yet)
Office printers, offset presses, label presses and garment printers are different worlds with their own dealers. If you need the printed product rather than the machine, the makers directory lists UAE companies that run them.