NOTE: An edited version of this complete article appears in the Shop Talk column of the May 2012 issue of Sign Builder Illustrated. Whenever you make your pilgrimage to Music City, USA, allow some time for Hatch Show Print, a Nashville, Tennessee institution now esteemed the world over as practitioner and proponent of the art of letterpress printing...
As the main sponsor of T-ShirtForums.com’s Seventh Anniversary Design Contest Extravaganza, Roland DGA Corp. is pleased to provide the competition’s grand prize: a VersaStudio BN-20 desktop printer/cutter, complete with a supply of inks and media. With more than 170,000 members, T-ShirtForums.com is the industry’s largest online community of T-shirt designers, printers, manufacturers, and entrepreneurs. Open for entries at...
The weather is a fickle thing, and it’s always good to examine the effects it has on your materials and tools. In this article, let’s take a look at the effect of low temperatures on self-adhesive tape performance. Self-adhesive tapes are commonly known as PSAs (Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives) and are available as single-sided or double-sided tapes. PSAs belong to...
The imaginative winner of Signs By Tomorrow’s contest will have its idea turned into a wrap. The “Imagine It…We Can WRAP It!” Facebook contest announced the winner as the Believe in Tomorrow House at St. Casimir in Baltimore, which will receive a free full-color graphic wrap valued at $3,500 for its idea to wrap an actual building located...
Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California, home to the 49ers and Centerplate (the largest hospitality partner in North America), has installed a new digital menu board system. Atlona, a digital connectivity solutions provider, helped to power up the displays with multiple HDMI® distribution amplifiers (AT-HD-V12 1x2), HDMI EDID emulators (AT-HDSync), and 50-foot-plus HDMI cables throughout the park's twenty...
SIGNARAMA has launced the new initiative “SIGNARAMA Salutes Our Veterans,” which supports returning military members seeking to start a SIGNARAMA franchise. As part of the program, the company will waive the franchise fee for one qualified US military veteran, making it easier for them to start their own business. The saving is estimated at up to $40,000. “My...
Thanks to the efforts of Evonik Cyro, the Plastics Hall of Fame at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell (UMass) will continue to honor the major contributors and innovators in the plastics industry. Evonik Cyro has donated twelve Acrylite® Abrasion Resistant acrylic sheets, valued at over $2000, to the University. The sheets will be used to protect approximately...
Arlon is excited to announce the launch of the new and improved DPF 4560GTX and the all-new DPF 4500GX. Arlon’s New and Improved DPF 4560GTX is a 3‐mil (75 Micron) calendered film with a new, brighter white finish and a light grey, tinted air egress adhesive. The new improved adhesive is specially designed for opacity to directly cover...
Cheaper than installing an electrical outlet, Outwater Plastics Industries, Inc., has once again redefined the standard for lighting with the introduction of the first of its kind, economically priced Battery Operated LED Wafer Puck Light System. This unobtrusive, ultra-low-profile system can be easily surface-mounted virtually anywhere via the system’s incorporated peel-and-stick tape, screws, or available magnets without anyone...
