Square Signs
Square Signs, a custom online sign making company based in Burbank, California, launched a number of client-centric campaigns in the year 2022. The company, which specializes in sign printing, regularly offers outstanding promotions to its customers. Throughout the year, they ran several campaigns that will continue to be in effect in 2023. Benefit-rich Referral Program Recently the company launched a referral...
Times Square
Daktronics of Brookings, South Dakota, in partnership with Branded Cities, a premier global out-of-home advertising company, was asked to design and manufacture approximately 10,500 square feet of digital displays for Midtown Financial’s location at 3 Times Square in New York City. “We are excited to have lit up our new Midtown Financial digital spectacular in the heart of Times Square...
Digital Signage
According to prior market research, digital signage is expected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 11.6 percent from 2021 to 2026. The coming year puts us smack-dab in the middle of that forecast. Some factors cited driving this growth and acceptance include an increase in commercial applications, ongoing technological advances with displays, and interest in 4K...
January
Wall wraps are at the forefront of the January 2023 issue of Sign Builder Illustrated, as we check in with how a sign shop put together a graphics packing to make a dogfood restaurant’s branding bite. We also present stories about on-premise rebranding, putting together a business plan, pre-installation site surveys, and fabricating an outdoor letter set for a...
Dryers
New EconoRed Series VI conveyor dryers in 30-, 54-, and 78-inch (76, 137 and 198 cm) widths are equipped with six infrared heaters in a single chamber for high-volume curing of plastisols, water-based inks, discharge and DTF adhesives, it was announced by Mark Vasilantone, president of Vastex International. “This addition to the EconoRed series offers greater power and high production...
Wide Format
Laborprint, a printing company in São Paulo, Brazil founded in 1995, has built a modern offering of complete solutions for the production of promotional materials, display graphics, and packaging. And the company has just taken another important step in that direction by acquiring its second EFI™ VUTEk® hybrid flatbed/roll-to-roll UV LED inkjet solution—a VUTEk h3 superwide format printer from...
“Diverse and Developing.” That’s the only way to describe the current breadth of the polymer materials portfolio for additive manufacturing. From materials that vary in form factor (i.e., powders, resins, filaments) to material properties (i.e., flexible, reinforced, tough, etc.) to application (i.e., medical, industrial, dental, etc.), it can be difficult to define suitable enough categories that adequately cover this diverse...
Printing
Timothy Mitchell, senior director of Print Technology at S-One, has been a key influencer in the digital printing community for thirty years now, and he believes the hot trend concerning this field going into 2023 is direct-to-film printing—but with reservations. Mitchell understands why DTF technology is popular (it competes well with direct-to-garment and simplifies the process by removing some pre-treatment...
Outlook
While the 2022 Congressional elections weren’t the “red wave” that many pundits had been predicting, they did result in some changes that will have implications for our industry. The U.S. Senate remains in Democrat hands—but still just barely. Sixty votes are still needed for most bills to proceed in the Senate. For the first time since January 2018, the U.S....
A recent uptick in angry online choruses from the artistic community has led to an increased awareness over the promise or threat, depending on your viewpoint, of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) programs producing artwork on its own, thanks to user text-to-image commands. Overnight it feels as if A.I. generator apps and terminology like Lensa, LAION, Midjourney, Dall-E, DreamUp, and Stable...




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