Four graphics installers passed the Avery Dennison Car Wrap Certification exams given in Pompano-Beach, Florida, and Dallas, Texas, this year. The certification is a two-part test that includes a written exam and hands-on vehicle wrap installation demonstration. Since launching the program in 2011, over 40 installers across the U.S. and Canada have joined been achieved Avery Dennison Car...
Watchfire Signs will attend the National Restaurant Association Show for the first time this year. The show runs May 5-8, 2012 at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois. The Watchfire booth (number 5640) will showcase a variety of digital LED signs, including Watchfire’s XVS 12mm and XVS 16mm signs, for restaurants and hotel operators. Digital electronic message centers are...
The Technical Center for Inkjet Printing, located in Fujifilm’s Hanover Park, Illinois, facility, was designed to demonstrate and support the company’s leadership role in inkjet technology. The culmination of a series of strategic acquisitions and technological innovations led to the development of Fujifilm Inkjet Technology, the focal point of the Technical Center for Inkjet Printing. Fujifilm Inkjet Technology...
Mr. Shiz and Foundry, two artists from Paris and Brighton, have created two pieces of urban art commissioned by the International Powered Access Federation (IPAF) celebrating aerial platform safety. The artists from Wet Paint Productions sprayed two 7m-by-4m canvases over six days at the Intermat construction show in Paris, working from a boom and a scissor lift. They...
On a Roll Color Imaging customers now have access to LexJet’s extensive and varied digital imaging product line following LexJet’s April acquisition of the Orange, California-based company. “We were able to move over to LexJet’s Sunset Select Matte Canvas from On a Roll’s canvas and there were no problems with the switch; we’re very happy with LexJet,” says...
NOTE: An edited version of this complete article appears in the Shop Talk column of the May 2012 issue of Sign Builder Illustrated. Whenever you make your pilgrimage to Music City, USA, allow some time for Hatch Show Print, a Nashville, Tennessee institution now esteemed the world over as practitioner and proponent of the art of letterpress printing...
As the main sponsor of T-ShirtForums.com’s Seventh Anniversary Design Contest Extravaganza, Roland DGA Corp. is pleased to provide the competition’s grand prize: a VersaStudio BN-20 desktop printer/cutter, complete with a supply of inks and media. With more than 170,000 members, T-ShirtForums.com is the industry’s largest online community of T-shirt designers, printers, manufacturers, and entrepreneurs. Open for entries at...
The weather is a fickle thing, and it’s always good to examine the effects it has on your materials and tools. In this article, let’s take a look at the effect of low temperatures on self-adhesive tape performance. Self-adhesive tapes are commonly known as PSAs (Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives) and are available as single-sided or double-sided tapes. PSAs belong to...
The imaginative winner of Signs By Tomorrow’s contest will have its idea turned into a wrap. The “Imagine It…We Can WRAP It!” Facebook contest announced the winner as the Believe in Tomorrow House at St. Casimir in Baltimore, which will receive a free full-color graphic wrap valued at $3,500 for its idea to wrap an actual building located...
