Founded in 2000 as Lettra D.Sign Incorporated, Groupe Lettra (Boisbriand, Québec) recently installed an Agfa Aanpurna M3200i RTR (Roll-To-Roll) UV Inkjet Printer from Agfa Graphics Canada (Mississauga, Ontario). As a leader in large-size printing in Québec, the company specializes in all types of vehicle lettering, wide-format printing, posters, signs, banners, commercial stickers and much more. … Read more →
A day-long Executive Boot Camp, produced by Florida State University College of Business, will help sign, graphics and visual communications company leaders master the crucial skills required for success in today’s challenging signage and wide-format marketplace. The Boot Camp will be held Wednesday, March 21 as part of pre-conference workshops leading up to the ISA … Read more →
Registration for the Specialty Graphic Imaging Association (SGIA) and ST Media Group’s WFX (Wide-Format Exchange) Conference is now open. The event will take place in Minneapolis, Minnesota May 21-23, 2018. WFX is designed to give top executives from high-volume, wide-format print providers an opportunity to network and connect with their peers to discuss challenges and … Read more →
SA International (SAi, Salt Lake City, Utah), a leading provider of software solutions for the professional signmaking, wide-format digital printing, and CAD/CAM for CNC machining industries, in collaboration 3M, has launched FlexiPRINT Authorized 3M Traffic Edition – a design-to-output traffic signage software powered by SAi’s Flexi software. The new solution is compatible with HP 300 … Read more →
SA International (SAi, Salt Lake City, Utah), a leading provider of software solutions for the professional signmaking, wide-format digital printing and CAD/CAM for CNC machining industries, has appointed Michelle Johnson as its Marketing Manager. Johnson’s role will be to support the continued development of SAi’s relationships with industry media and partners, as well as further … Read more →
The International Sign Association’s 2018 Board of Directors reflects the breadth of the sign, graphics and visual communications industry – including representatives from local and national sign companies, international suppliers and distributors, and end-user groups. The ISA’s Board of Directors is responsible for setting direction for the sign, graphics and visual communications industry’s leading association, … Read more →
GPA (Chicago, Ill), a market leader in substrate solutions for digital, wide-format and offset printing, has announced the addition of five new specialty synthetics and photo papers to its wide-format offerings. “With this latest collection of unique substrates, design professionals can create even more attractive graphics that allow their clients’ messages to take centre stage,” … Read more →
SA International (SAi), a leading provider of software solutions for the signmaking, wide-format digital printing and CAD/CAM for CNC machining industries, has announced a worldwide agreement with cutting technology giant Graphtec, to supply three newly-created cutting software packages with the company’s entire range of large-format vinyl cutters. Driven by SAi’s market-leading Flexi software, the feature-rich … Read more →
The Mimaki UCJV300-160 and UCJV150-160 are new 1200-dpi UV roll-to-roll wide-format print-and-cut devices. The UCJV300-160 includes a new function called the 4 layers of print – colour + black + white + colour. Mimaki revealed that the resulting print effect of this is an image that changes appearance between day and night. The newly equipped … Read more →
Industry leaders and executives are supporting WFX – The Wide-Format Exchange – a new conference from the Specialty Graphic Imaging Association (SGIA) and ST Media Group, coming to Minneapolis, Minnesota May 21–23, 2018. With three days of networking, educational sessions and thought-provoking keynote speakers, WFX 2018 will focus on the convergence of markets and technologies … Read more →
An innovative and highly practical solution that uses inkjet technology from Xaar to create wonderful designs on indoor and outdoor walls has been launched in Germany by Wallpen GmbH. The Wallpen Printer is a patented, mobile, large-format UV printer system for printing pictures and graphics direct to walls and other vertical surfaces. It prints brilliant, … Read more →
Esko, a leading global supplier of integrated solutions for the packaging, labels, sign and display industries, has launched the Kongsberg C66 – a digital finishing table designed for short-run production of corrugated applications. Built on decades of Kongsberg table innovations integrated with Esko software solutions, the Kongsberg C66 “is the largest digital cutting table for … Read more →