Printscape Imaging & Graphics, a Pittsburgh-based digital printing, document management, and architectural graphics firm, has acquired Visual Impact Graphics, a sign maker and vehicle graphics company formerly located in Robinson Township., Pennsylvania. John Dziak, owner and CEO of Printscape, said the acquisition will enhance his company’s talent base and expands its signage and graphics capabilities. Mark Sokol, the former...
Wasatch SoftRIP 6.8 features a new Separations mode in SoftRIP SP that automatically detects the correct spot color and process separations to produce for incoming jobs; enhanced support for dye sublimation and textile printing; enhanced support of custom inksets for the most popular printers; improved handling of PDF files that involve transparency; a new Hindi user interface; and support...
3M announces its sponsorship of the 2011 American Wrap Star car wrapping competition at ISA in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 28-30, 2011. As the platinum sponsor of the event, 3M will provide exciting prizes—including discounts on testing and rolls of the new Scotchprint brand Wrap Film Series 1080 from 3M, on-site support and demonstration using its Controltac brand Wrap...
Digital printing innovator EFI has today announced the company's $45,000 donation to the Red Cross for the Japan earthquake and tsunami relief efforts. This amount was generated by a thirty-day employee donation matching program EFI put in place specifically for the relief fund. "Our hearts go out to the Japanese people, who have shown such strength and resilience...
Epilog Laser, the leading producer of CO2 and fiber laser engraving and cutting systems, has announced that new customers will receive a free seven-day trial membership to the highly-popular LaserU Web site. LaserU provides basic and advanced projects for users of all skill levels in a self-paced, online setting. “We are thrilled LaserU has extended this opportunity exclusively to...
AllBannerStands.com, a DisplayShops specialty Web site, has just released a new line of LED trade show lights that comply with the North American “Go Green” initiative. The LED lights, sold in bundles of two, use five watts of power each. This number is considerably lower than the amount of energy conventional LED light bulbs use. “The set...
For the second consecutive year, ISA held its annual Sign Design Competition online, empowering members to promote their sign design project photos via their social media networks. “Our members’ signs are unique works of art and manufacture, as well as the most important marketing vehicles for businesses,” said ISA President and CEO Lori Anderson. “The ability to design and...
Dan Rustin As more plastic manufacturers are streamlining operations and shifting acrylic sheet casting to overseas production, it becomes very difficult to offer innovative specialty materials. Larger required material runs, longer lead times, expensive shipping costs – how do architects and designers using acrylic in architectural applications satisfy their desire for specialty materials under these circumstances? In the cell...
Océ North America announces it has qualified several products created by leading fiber paperboard producer M-real Corporation for the Océ Arizona® Series of UV flatbed printers. The products qualified include Carta Elega, Carta Integra paperboard, and Kemiart topsheet used in corrugate packaging applications. “Océ’s qualification of the M-real products now provides packaging companies entering into digital packaging an immediate,...
