Wall wraps are at the forefront of the January 2023 issue of Sign Builder Illustrated, as we check in with how a sign shop put together a graphics packing to make a dogfood restaurant’s branding bite. We also present stories about on-premise rebranding, putting together a business plan, pre-installation site surveys, and fabricating an outdoor letter set for a...
New EconoRed Series VI conveyor dryers in 30-, 54-, and 78-inch (76, 137 and 198 cm) widths are equipped with six infrared heaters in a single chamber for high-volume curing of plastisols, water-based inks, discharge and DTF adhesives, it was announced by Mark Vasilantone, president of Vastex International.
“This addition to the EconoRed series offers greater power and high production...
Laborprint, a printing company in São Paulo, Brazil founded in 1995, has built a modern offering of complete solutions for the production of promotional materials, display graphics, and packaging. And the company has just taken another important step in that direction by acquiring its second EFI™ VUTEk® hybrid flatbed/roll-to-roll UV LED inkjet solution—a VUTEk h3 superwide format printer from...
“Diverse and Developing.” That’s the only way to describe the current breadth of the polymer materials portfolio for additive manufacturing.
From materials that vary in form factor (i.e., powders, resins, filaments) to material properties (i.e., flexible, reinforced, tough, etc.) to application (i.e., medical, industrial, dental, etc.), it can be difficult to define suitable enough categories that adequately cover this diverse...
Timothy Mitchell, senior director of Print Technology at S-One, has been a key influencer in the digital printing community for thirty years now, and he believes the hot trend concerning this field going into 2023 is direct-to-film printing—but with reservations.
Mitchell understands why DTF technology is popular (it competes well with direct-to-garment and simplifies the process by removing some pre-treatment...
While the 2022 Congressional elections weren’t the “red wave” that many pundits had been predicting, they did result in some changes that will have implications for our industry.
The U.S. Senate remains in Democrat hands—but still just barely. Sixty votes are still needed for most bills to proceed in the Senate. For the first time since January 2018, the U.S....
A recent uptick in angry online choruses from the artistic community has led to an increased awareness over the promise or threat, depending on your viewpoint, of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) programs producing artwork on its own, thanks to user text-to-image commands. Overnight it feels as if A.I. generator apps and terminology like Lensa, LAION, Midjourney, Dall-E, DreamUp, and Stable...
Shane Welch, exhibits fabrication manager at Science Museum Oklahoma, has employed Videotel Digital’s media players and touchless peripherals, but he believes that the ability to add directional sound to an interactive exhibit enhances the visitor experience.
“For the past three years, Science Museum Oklahoma has used Videotel Digital media players and directional sound speakers to enhance the performance of its...
DEHN is a global specialist in the fields of surge and lightning protection as well as safety equipment. In production, the company works with many types of printing technologies including inkjet, laser, direct thermal and pad printing to make components for a wide variety of devices and systems. Having in-house printing facilities not only speeds up production and controls...
Daktronics of Brookings, South Dakota, is providing additional flexibility to their indoor LED display technology. Now businesses, schools, offices and more can take advantage of the All-in-One Smart display with the simplicity of a cloud-based control system.
“The narrow pixel pitch (NPP) All-in-One Smart LED display was originally designed as a high-resolution option for business conference rooms and training centers,”...
