Mutoh America Inc. proudly appoints Michelle Pugh as their newest marketing coordinator. Michelle’s background in public relations and sales makes her the perfect fit for Mutoh’s marketing department.Working under the guidance of General Manager: Brian Phipps and Director of Marketing: Hiro Futsukaichi, she will be responsible for coordinating trade shows and Mutoh’s Hands-On School of Wrap. Along with events,...
Lori ShridhareAs the sign industry continues to embrace the myriad benefits of LEDs, specialized niche markets are beginning to take shape around this technology. Twenty-eight years later, LED Concepts has changed its name from EXPOTRANS and changed its specialization in light boxes relying on fluorescent illumination for backlit graphics. Today the company has expanded its original mission and catapulted...
Mike AntoniakWhen independent sign shop owners start investigating ways to take business to the next level, new equipment usually figures prominently in their plans. A printer, cutter, or laminator won’t transform the business alone however. It’s the marketing of services that often determines the return on investment.Financing AssistanceSo buying a new piece of equipment may be the easy part....
Adam MellenWhether in a hotel, an office building or a school, each room must be identified by a sign readable even by those who are visually impaired. In fact, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) mandates that all public buildings have permanent room identification signs, each of which must include large, clear lettering and Grade II Braille raised at...
Mark RobertsI consider myself to be very blessed and fortunate during my thirty-one years in the sign industry. Almost 100 percent of my projects have been successful and returned a nice profit for my time and talents.But this month, I’ll explain how the tide recently (and suddenly) turned into a comedy of errors and misfortune because of my ignorant...
Agfa Graphics will be displaying and demoing many new products at Print World 2010 in Booth #1200. This includes: :Apogee 7.0 (first time in Canada)—The newest version of the award-winning :Apogee workflow management suite includes :Apogee Impose, an imposition module that relies on live job information rather than templates to perform imposition. Additionally :Apogee 7...
Sawgrass Technologies Consumer Division, a world leader in the development of profitable solutions for digitally printing consumer products, has expanded its social media presence on facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. The social networking sites will be kept up to date with all the latest activities at Sawgrass Technologies. They are the go-to place to learn about new...
3M has added automatic face and text detection to its Visual Attention Service, a web-based scanning tool that digitally evaluates the impact of creative and graphic designs. With this latest enhancement, users simply upload images to 3M’s Web portal and within seconds, the Visual Attention Service (VAS) tool analyzes and reveals the results. The suite of enhancements for the...
Digital Signage Expo® (DSE), the world’s largest International Tradeshow and Conference dedicated to digital signage, interactive technology and digital out-of-home networks (DOOH), will present a total of eleven new seminar topics in its Interactive Technology and Network Operations educational tracks within a reformatted and expanded Conference Seminar Program on February 22-25, 2011, in Las Vegas....
