Sign Shop Profile: Montreal Neon

2 December 2015

In the 23 years since Montreal Neon was founded by Linda Dupré and Carlo Paolucci, the company has grown substantially from a 464.5-m2 (5,000-sf) sign shop to, today, a newly built 5,760-m2 (62,000-sf) facility, with plenty of room for further expansion on a 16,723-m2 (180,000-sf) lot.

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SGIA names 2015’s products of the year

26 November 2015

The Specialty Graphic Imaging Association (SGIA) announced the results of its 2015 Product of the Year Competition—spanning everything from inks and films to printers and finishing equipment—during its annual expo earlier this month in Atlanta, Ga.

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Printer service engineer crowned world champion

19 November 2015

Digital inkjet printer/cutter manufacturer Roland DG has crowned Terry Carpenter the world champion in its 2015 Global Service Engineer (SE) Awards program, which culminated in a two-day competition at the company’s headquarters (HQ) in Hamamatsu, Japan.

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Digital wide-format printing grows, but only with new opportunities

12 November 2015

The North American wide-format inkjet printing market, valued at more than $20.3 billion U.S. in 2014, is projected to grow to $24.4 billion U.S. in 2018, according a new study conducted by International Data Corporation (IDC).

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Digital Signage: Flying high in the transportation sector

5 November 2015

The global market for digital signage is expected to be worth nearly $4.5 billion U.S. in 2016. At the same time, information technology (IT) spending in the transportation sector has been increasing each year.

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Monumental screen left speechless

5 November 2015

When is a sign not a sign? In the case of Speech Bubble, a new public art piece commissioned for a condominium tower in Toronto’s entertainment district, it’s when the format of a sign is used not to convey a direct message, but instead to display abstract images.

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Wayfinding Systems: Uniting Union Station

4 November 2015

More than six years in the planning, the installation of new wayfinding signs in Toronto’s iconic Union Station—Canada’s busiest transportation hub, with an average of more than 250,000 people passing through every day—finally began this summer.

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Digital Signage: Designing more effective wayfinding

3 November 2015

As the old saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. This rings especially true when it comes to producing effective wayfinding sign systems. From a very young age, people learn to recognize colourful shapes and symbols that carry meanings, such as safety and restroom signs.

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Wide-format Graphics: The advantages of magnetic applications

2 November 2015

Magnetic and magnetic-receptive materials are becoming popular in the wide-format printing of point-of-purchase (POP) graphics because of their adaptability to a broad range of retail environments and, perhaps most important to store staff, their ease of installation for ongoing promotional updates.

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Wide-format Graphics: Increasing sales with web-to-print

30 October 2015

Many corporate customers of wide-format printing companies also buy smaller printed collateral from other commercial print providers through the web. This has raised the question: why don’t sign shops empower their customers to buy large-format graphics from them online, too?

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