By Jeff Wooten On a summery Friday afternoon this past August, downtown Raleigh, North Carolina put on a festival-like celebration to mark the dedication of a series of fifteen oversized banners adorning a previously bland cinderblock-walled parking deck. The images are a colorful menagerie of floating dragons, flying bears, and aerial sailing ships (among others) chasing across the...
The 2011 SBI Sign Making Innovation Award contest was open, this past summer, to any sign maker or sign shop that had: Designed and/or built highly creative signs; implemented environmentally friendly initiatives into the production process or workplace; incorporated a number of varied sign processes in one project; improved their business and/or profit model; found a new market...
3A Composites USA has expanded its line of Gatorfoam® Exterior, a tough new Gator® board that is designed to stand up to the elements in exterior graphic displays and signage. Gatorfoam Exterior now is available in the Bright White color in 48-inch-by-96-inch sheets in the 1-inch, 1.5-inch, and new 2-inch thicknesses. Gatorfoam Exterior offers all of the features...
The Digital Signage Federation® (DSF) has announced another new benefit for its members designed to help them attract new business. The DSF’s new Vendor Invitation for Proposal (VIP) Service is a new turnkey proposal facilitator designed to make it easy for potential customers to submit an invitation for proposal to qualified providers among the DSF membership. This VIP...
Lucite® announces the addition of a new .236-millimeter thickness for its LuciteLux light-guiding, continuous-cast acrylic sheet for edge-lit displays and shelving typically used in retail displays. “In response to customer demand, we are pleased to begin offering this new thickness option in our illumination series of light-guiding, continuous-cast acrylic sheet specifically designed for displays that use LEDs as a...
EFI™ announces new Xerox EX Print Servers powered by Fiery® for three Xerox color presses: the Xerox Color 800/1000 Presses and the Xerox 700i and 770 Digital Color Presses. These EX Print Servers are the first implementations of the newly available EFI Fiery System 10 technology, and incorporate the latest color accuracy and calibration tools, Variable Data Print (VDP)...
Halco Lighting Technologies® announces the accreditation of the company’s energy efficient lighting testing division—Halco Lighting Laboratories. Halco Lighting Laboratories received NVLAP (National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program) accreditation (NVLAP Lab Code 200924-0) in energy efficient lighting products. The scope of this accreditation consists of 28 test methods that are conducted to measure colorimetric, electrical and photometric properties of lamps....
EskoArtwork has released a new version of ArtiosCAD that offers a wide array of new features. New features help the packaging design shop and converter, as well as sign and display shops with enhancements that make designs with special display materials trouble-free. New features benefit the complete supply chain, from design to die-making to palletization. “We want to...
The Screen Printed Apparel Training Zone (booth 3319) is returning to the 2011 SGIA Expo (New Orleans, October 19-21) to showcase the latest in apparel screen printing and provide attendees with free educational sessions hosted by industry experts. "This free training area on the Expo floor showcases new innovations in apparel screen printing," said Riley Hopkins, president of...
