StreetPrint

StreetPrint is stamped asphalt, the original decorative asphalt system, installed in Canada since 1992. A pattern is pressed into asphalt using heat, a stamping template, and a plate compactor, then the surface is coloured and sealed with StreetBond coatings. The result gives the look of brick, cobblestone, or stone while keeping the flexibility and flush surface of asphalt.

Both. New asphalt can be stamped while it is still hot behind the paver, and existing asphalt in good condition can be reheated in place with infrared asphalt-reheating technology and then stamped. Reheating is what makes retrofits possible: a sound existing driveway or intersection does not need to be repaved to be patterned.

The print is as durable as the asphalt it is stamped into. Installed correctly on sound pavement, it lasts the life of the surface itself. In Canadian municipal service that is a 10–20 year range, and StreetPrint installations have been performing on public streets for over 30 years.

The stamped pattern itself requires no maintenance. Where a finishing system such as StreetBond coating is applied, the coating can be refreshed on its own cycle (a recoat, not a rebuild), following the coating manufacturer's guidelines.

Left uncoated, StreetPrint can be opened to traffic immediately after stamping. When a coating system is applied, opening follows the coating's cure time rather than the stamping: for StreetBond, that is measured in hours, not days.

StreetPrint carries a significant cost advantage over brick and paver alternatives, and installs faster: there is no excavation, no unit placement, and no jointing. It also avoids the long-term costs pavers accumulate: no joints for weeds, no units to settle or heave, and nothing for a snowplow blade to catch.

Yes. StreetPrint can be applied to any speed table or raised feature built from stable asphalt, which is how many municipalities pattern traffic-calming installations: the calming geometry and the visual treatment go in as one surface.

StreetPrint should go onto stable asphalt designed for its application and installed to specification. For most hot-mix designs that is a compacted thickness of 1.5 to 2 inches. Stamping into significantly thinner asphalt risks cracking along the grout lines unless the pavement was specifically engineered for that thickness.

Neither is recommended. Patios and pool decks are better served by concrete or patio stone, because asphalt can take indents from furniture point loads. Seal-coated surfaces should not be stamped at all. Most sealers become unsafe to work and sticky when heated, so the seal-coat would need to be removed first.