Dan Rustin As more plastic manufacturers are streamlining operations and shifting acrylic sheet casting to overseas production, it becomes very difficult to offer innovative specialty materials. Larger required material runs, longer lead times, expensive shipping costs – how do architects and designers using acrylic in architectural applications satisfy their desire for specialty materials under these circumstances? In the cell...
Océ North America announces it has qualified several products created by leading fiber paperboard producer M-real Corporation for the Océ Arizona® Series of UV flatbed printers. The products qualified include Carta Elega, Carta Integra paperboard, and Kemiart topsheet used in corrugate packaging applications. “Océ’s qualification of the M-real products now provides packaging companies entering into digital packaging an immediate,...
WAC Lighting President Shelley Wang will participate in the National Association of Electrical Distributors’ “Women in the Industry Forum,” which will be held June 5-8 at the Hyatt Regency Newport Hotel in Newport, Rhode Island. The forum brings together women executives in the electrical industry to share experiences, successes, professional networks, and to provide the opportunity for executives to...
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, volunteers from Pinellas County teamed up to help build two houses in just seven days. Hundreds of community members joined forces to craft houses for those less fortunate. Employees of Creative Sign Designs in Tampa, Florida devoted 161 hours over 24 shifts Saturday and Sunday to the Blitz Build in Clearwater. Although most...
SGIA recently honored 28 member companies that successfully completed the Safety Recognition Program throughout the duration of 2010. After completing the program, SGIA members received a plaque declaring to inspectors, insurers, clients, and employees that their imaging shop is safe. “Safety is one of the most important aspects of running a successful shop,” said Marci Kinter, SGIA's vice president...
NEC Display Solutions and DOmedia™ have announced the formation of a strategic partnership that creates an end-to-end solution for the challenges related to the buying and selling of digital out-of-home (DOOH) advertising. DOmedia™ powered by VUKUNET allows for the seamless integration of advertising agency and DOOH network activities from campaign planning through execution. The solution incorporates DOmedia’s web-based, front-end...
i-cut, Inc. will be introducing i-cut Vision version 7.1 during the ISA International Sign Expo 2011, from April 28-30 in Las Vegas, Nevada. At the i-cut, inc. booth (#2415), the company will also feature its most popular consumable products from the icuttools.com Web site. To promote the new software and online store, a number of special product promotions are...
Digital Signage Expo (DSE) recently announced the results of its Quarterly Business Barometer Survey for Q4 2010. After a modest third quarter during which the economic recovery in the United States and other countries began to pick up steam again, 97 percent of all survey participants in North America still remained positive about the future of the digital out-of-home...
Before digital type, there was Photo-Lettering, Inc. A casualty of the digital publishing revolution, most of Photo-Lettering’s timeless alphabet styles and the proprietary techniques that accompanied them have lain fallow for decades. House Industries, who acquired the collection in 2003, announces a new easy-to-use online service based on the original Photo-Lettering model. Photolettering.com users will be able to purchase...
