Wide-format Graphics: From design to print to cut

The technological landscape for the printing industry has changed dramatically over the past decade. Today, 98 per cent of all print service providers (PSPs) are using digital presses of some type. For 72 per cent, their production environments are already mostly or all digital. This has changed the nature of competition.

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Illumination: Retrofitting signs with LEDs

Signage is one of the most important ways to advertise a business. Companies use signs not only to display their name and logo, after all, but also to promote the products and services they offer. So, no matter how large or small the business may be, signage is a crucial tool for building sales.

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Digital Signage: Keeping retail dynamic

Today’s retailers are battling a threat known as ‘showrooming.’ This practice involves potential customers inspecting products in a traditional bricks-and-mortar store, but then ordering the same items online, instead, if they can find lower pricing.

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Sign Systems: Learning to lead

The University of Western Ontario’s (UWO’s) Richard Ivey School of Business began construction on a new three-storey building in London, Ont., in 2009. When it opened in September 2013, in time for the beginning of the current school year, it marked the culmination of the largest fundraising effort in UWO’s 90-year history.

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Sign Shop Profile: FusionCast

FusionCast is a sign manufacturer that came about by fluke. One day in 2007, a sign dealer and his manufacturing partner, who had been mixing different combinations of polymers and metals in a warehouse in Mississauga, Ont., discovered a blend of high-density urethane (HDU) and bronze had solidified in the bottom of a bucket.

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