EMCs: LED screen sales, permits and installations

Electronic message centres (EMCs) that use light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to convey changeable messages can open tremendous advertising opportunities for businesses and other organizations, along with new sales streams for sign companies. By educating customers, the return on investment (ROI) can become substantial.

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Engraving: Laser vs. rotary machines

Engravers can help improve a sign shop’s productivity, efficiency and profit margins. They handle work that would otherwise need to be outsourced, for example, and they enable new revenue streams by allowing shops to offer new products to their existing customers.

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Wide-format Printing: The four Cs of colour management

Until the 1950s, there were no real industry standards for the colours of inks used in commercial printing. The Pantone Matching System (PMS) was established because, at the time, each manufacturer of inks followed its own standards and did not share them with their competitors, which became the source of much frustration.

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Digital Signage: How to jump-start content

Whenever communicating through the medium of digital signage, it is important to realize today’s viewers will not care about a message simply because it is digital in nature. The ‘cool’ factor of digital signage has long since worn off. There needs to be a better reason for them to be engaged.

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Illumination: Optimizing LEDs for signage

Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are a household name today, with a growing number of general illumination applications in residential buildings and elsewhere, but only after enjoying a longer period of research and development (R&D) specific to the sign industry, along with long-term real-world use.

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Digital Signage: Why cloud-based software matters

The digital signage industry has spawned many software options—some offered at a price, others for free—that provide easy content management functionality and can make everything from standard-resolution computer monitors to plasma screens to large-format liquid crystal displays (LCDs) look attractive.

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