Xeikon America, a world-class developer and manufacturer of digital printing presses and related equipment, announces the opening of its new North American headquarters in the Chicago suburb of Elgin, Illinois. Xeikon executives were joined by Elgin Mayor Dave Kaptain, Elgin Area Chamber of Commerce President & CEO Carol Gieske and Economic Development Group Director Tony Lucenko for a gala...
The Gilman Brothers Company rocked the house at the PRINTING United Expo in Las Vegas October 19-21 with a show-stopping rock-and-roll stage booth produced entirely from their substrate product line. Gilman Brothers collaborated with Zünd America, Inc., to showcase in one location the possibilities when the right materials, software, and equipment are combined and executed from prepress to printing...
FASTSIGNS®, a leading sign, graphics, and visual communications franchise, has been ranked 4th on Entrepreneur magazine’s 2022 list of Top Franchises for Veterans. This is the fifth consecutive year FASTSIGNS has been recognized in the top ten and the sixth year the brand has been included on this list, which highlights a wide variety of franchises that provide advantageous opportunities for...
YESCO, the 102-year-old company known for creating, repairing and maintaining internationally recognizable signs, announces the design, fabrication and installation of new rebranded signage for eight new Bally’s casino locations across the United States.
The monumental project included removing old signs displaying each property’s previous name and installing brand-new Bally’s signage.
Updated locations include Lincoln Twin River, Rhode Island; Tiverton, Rhode Island;...
The November 2022 issue of Sign Builder Illustrated goes behind the scenes at sign shops to find out how they are putting together sign packages, designing projects for approval, bringing CNC routers onto the production floor, and safely setting up for installations. Plus we have a couple of business-related how-to columns that will help you give accurate project quotes...
LightFair, North America’s largest architectural and commercial lighting trade show and conference, has announced it is transitioning to a biennial schedule beginning with the 2023 event, scheduled for May 21-25 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York. As the major player in this vibrant space, LightFair’s updated schedule will better serve the industry’s manufacturing cycle, product...
Offering print providers a platform to help achieve automation through process efficiency and optimization of digital print investments, Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, today introduced a new version of PRISMAproduction; a high-performance workflow and production management platform.
Complementing PRISMAproduction, Canon also launched PRISMAsimulate Ultra enabling digital layout proofing, ink estimation and production simulation features for graphic arts...
Watchfire Signs, a leading manufacturer of premium digital displays owned by an affiliate of H.I.G. Capital, is pleased to announce that it has completed the purchase of the assets of Anthem Displays, LLC.
Headquartered in Elizabethtown, North Carolina, Anthem Displays has been engaged as a digital billboard manufacturer since 2014 and was previously held by Circle Graphics. The company has...
For Minuteman Press franchise owners Larry and Tami Jacobs, the printing industry is not new. “Our background prior to franchising with Minuteman Press was…wait for it…printing and graphics,” they said.
Tami has been in the industry her whole life with parents who also spent their entire careers in the industry. Larry jumped in to printing shortly after marrying Tami in...
Orbus Exhibit & Display Group® has continued its substantial and longstanding relationship with digital print technology provider Electronics For Imaging, Inc., choosing the premium-quality capabilities of the EFI™ VUTEk® FabriVu® 340+ soft signage printer to meet surging demand for dye-sublimation soft signage graphics.
The new printer, now running at Orbus’s Las Vegas facility, marks an important milestone for EFI, as...
