LexJet now offers FaceMount Perforated Window Grip, a 60/40 perforated film (60 percent printable area, 40 percent open area pattern) that makes inside window applications even easier. The film has a unique low-tack grip adhesive that's repositionable and easy to remove with little to no residue after it's removed. You print to the window grip adhesive, which has...
Global Imaging, the leading value-added integrator of wide and grand format equipment and supplies, announced that it has been chosen to distribute Asphalt Art, a unique non‐slip floor and street graphics film for UV and Latex printers. Asphalt Art, a 2011 SGIA Product of the Year winner, is a printable and flexible commercial grade, slip‐resistant foil‐based media that...
Roland DGA Corp. is excited to announce that Gamut Media of Brea, California, is the North American November People’s Choice award winner in the 2011 Roland Creative Awards. Voted number one by site visitors from more than ninety-five regional entries, Gamut Media’s nature-inspired wall wrap for Saladish has earned the firm’s owners, John Kim and Phillip Yu, a...
Headquartered in San Francisco, California (and with offices all over the world), Salesforce.com is a company entirely devoted to “cloud” concept apps and solutions engineered to help other businesses and corporations connect with their customers. (Note: “Cloud” refers to managing content and information via the Web instead of software.) The company generates well over a billion dollars in revenue...
Thomas G. DolanAlthough lamination provides an extra layer of protection for digital print and vinyl graphics (generally a good thing), perhaps the best place to start a discussion about this topic is with the observation that this methodology isn’t always necessary. According to Garth Bertini, senior marketing/sales manager at laminating company USI, Inc., “If you’re printing on weaker materials—such...
Jeff WootenThanks to “competition” from mobile devices and the Internet for the attention of today’s audience, the new owners of the Pennsylvania branch of broadcast media group Max Media, LLC realized that they needed to employ innovation of some kind to grab listeners. Their solution: Open up a brand-new broadcasting studio space inside the Susquehanna Valley Mall in Selinsgrove,...
Mike AntoniakOver the past twenty-five years, Selbert Perkins Design (SPD) has built its reputation as an innovator in environmental graphics—everything from the symbols people associate with a building or complex to the wayfinding aids that guide them to their destination within that locale. And the company’s approach to these signage systems is one many can learn from. “With any...
Jarob Inc. in Grand Rapids, Michigan is a sign company that has been in business for 41 years, and it’s solid business plan is one of the things that has kept it rolling for four decades. That business philosophy is to invest in technology to grow the business. “Jarob has a very aggressive growth strategy,” said Doug VanPortfleet, chairman...
3M Commercial Graphics recently hosted the Wrap Battle:1080 contest on its Facebook page to choose the next color and finish for the 3M™ Scotchprint™ Wrap Film Series 1080. The Film series 1080 is a long-term, removable, dual-cast film that offers graphics installers virtually bubble-free applications. After compiling over 500 Facebook fan votes, the overwhelmingly majority selected Brushed Black Metallic...
