Avery Dennison Graphics Solutions® has announced the launch of new Transparent Colored Overlaminates for Conform Chrome films and two new colors in the Giovanna Edition of Supreme Wrapping™ Film. Transparent Colored Overlaminates for Conform Chrome are available in three distinct colors—orange, green, and purple—to combine with the five existing Conform Chrome colors for new creative color...
As of April 1, 2016, Heat Transfer Warehouse has announced its official agreement to acquire API Sign Supply, the arts and crafts store located in Columbus, Georgia. API Sign Supply provides locals with great customer service, sign and heat transfer vinyls, and other crafting supplies. Now that the agreement is complete, Heat Transfer Warehouse will immediately...
Acrilex Inc., the leading distributor of plastic products, has launched a new online Factory Store to offer the company’s specialty and one-of-a-kind Acriglas® colored acrylic materials. All products are available in small quantities and with no minimum purchase. The Acrilex Factory Store was specifically opened to fulfill the creative inspirations of designers, makers, and manufacturers needing only a few...
Roland DG Announces changes to its Board of Directors. Hidenori Fujioka, previously director and executive vice president of Roland DG, was named representative director, president of the company. Fujioka joined Roland DG in 2014 as an advisor to the company after serving as Director of RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION. Masahiro Tomioka, previously representative director, chairman and president, has stepped aside...
While the gradual return of more favorable market conditions and improved business confidence is a welcome relief from the post-2008 years, the challenge for sign makers and wide format printers now is to maintain the disciplines, customer focus, and progressive initiatives that enabled their survival. Many companies have emerged leaner and fitter from the Great Recession, but it’s also...
Roland DG Corporation has announced several changes and additions to its Board of Directors. The moves were announced after Roland DG’s recent annual shareholders’ meeting and the company’s Board of Directors’ meeting held on March 24, 2016. Among the announced appointments, Hidenori Fujioka (pictured), previously Director and Executive Vice President of Roland DG, was named Representative...
The demands of a competitive landscape and eager customers are encouraging signage providers to work harder than ever before to get more creative and garner more attention in our distraction-rich society. To be successful, you must embrace new types of applications that are up to the challenge. Backlit printing is one such application, and it is gorgeous—and impactful. It...
It’s no secret: There’s been an uprising when it comes to the printing of graphics—the digital printing of fabrics.
If you’ve been to one of the major tradeshows in the past few years, you’ve seen firsthand the exponential growth of manufacturers, suppliers, and distributors playing in the fabric side of the market.
And you’ve no doubt seen the number of shops...
Ubiquitous in towns and suburbs across the country, monument signage is as classic as signage gets. Its pervasive impression of heaviness, however, may be just that—a perception only. Reminding us of the traditional methods that are used to manufacture and install this type of signage, Jim Nordquist, president of Viscom Architectural Graphics in Clearwater, Florida, points...
In recent years, vinyl application has expanded to include windows, walls, floors—and now even barricades. On a recent project for Merchandise Mart in Chicago, ER2 Image Group in Bloomingdale, Illinois was tasked with creating a large vinyl wrap for a drywall barricade blocking off the food court while it was under construction. This wasn’t ER2’s first...
