OKI Data Americas has expanded its reseller network with the addition of Styers Equipment of Overland Park, Kansas. Established thirty years ago, Styers Equipment is a printing equipment and peripherals sales and service organization. As part of the agreement, Styers Equipment will sell the OKI pro900DP digital envelope press within the greater Kansas and Missouri vicinities beginning immediately. Reece...
Sign Builder Illustrated columnist Jim Hingst writes: “Some articles, such as umbrellas, backpacks, computer bags and raincoats, are difficult if not impossible to heat press. Now you have a cool new option from RTape Corp. It’s a printable, pressure-sensitive polyurethane film called CoolPrint. The new film sticks to virtually every surface. It even sticks to surfaces with a hydrophobic...
For the sixth consecutive time (and the seventeenth overall), Lanham, Maryland-based Hargrove, Inc., was selected as the official general services contractor for the Presidential Inaugural Committee, from January 20-21, 2013 at Washington, DC venues including the Walter E. Washington Convention Center and National Building Museum. For Obama's second inauguration, the tradeshow, exhibit, and event production company...
Today, design transcends geography, language, culture, discipline, and even physical reality. Designers working across these boundaries have much to learn from one another, and the 2013 SEGD Conference June 6-8 in San Francisco will celebrate the boundless impact of design on a global scale. Vince Frost of Frost* (Australia), Sascha Lobe of L2M3 Kommunikationsdesign GmbH (Germany),...
With an eye toward making its customers more profitable, Agfa Graphics is bringing a wide array of printing systems, media and the best application lab in the country - the Six Strings Classic Blues Lounge to Sign Expo 2013 in Las Vegas. The company is also introducing its first Duratex fabric for UV curable, latex, solvent and eco-solvent printers....
For the more than three million visitors to Cedar Point amusement park each year, this complex on the shores of Lake Erie in Sandusky, Ohio is the destination for fun, with enough rides, events, and shows to thrill those of all ages. Parkgoers will also find signs of every size, shape, and description throughout the complex, guiding them, informing...
The 2013 International Sign Expo is back in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center from April 3-6. Sign Builder Illustrated recently spoke with Brandon Hensley, ISA’s vice president of Trade Show & Marketing, to find out what’s new, who’s attending, and what’s still a safe bet at the show. To give you an overall idea of what...
Visitors to the celebrated Cleveland Museum of Art and its Gallery One are engaging with displays and curating their own tours thanks to Christie® MicroTiles® and Christie Interactivity Kit. Blending art and technology as part of an elegant $100 million renovation, Gallery One’s Collection Wall is a forty-foot-wide multi-touch screen comprising two fifteen-units-wide-by-five-units tall Chrisie MicroTiles video walls using...
ORAFOL Europe, GmbH (“ORAFOL”) is pleased to announce the merger of ORACAL USA, of Black Creek, Georgia and ORAFOL Americas Inc., of Avon, Connecticut. The merger positions the combined company as a leading manufacturer of PSA films, reflective materials, and industrial tapes in the Americas. Effective July 1, 2013, both entities will be restructured to form ORAFOL Americas, Inc....
Stock Drive Products/Sterling Instrument (SDP/SI) announces the donation of components to Team SpacePRIDE for the NASA Lunar Rover Challenge 2013, enabling the team to better compete by improving robotic and automation technology for space applications. Their space rover will traverse up to 80,000 square meters, avoid obstacles, navigate, and locate different samples autonomously. The rovers’ drive trains consist of...
