Sign Shop Profile: Masterhand Signs & Designs

In business since 1988, Masterhand Signs & Design is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Pat and Ruth Welter, a husband-and-wife team living just outside Unity, Sask., have found a niche by specializing in handcrafted signs, handpainted murals and other works with a personal touch.

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4K flies high

In February, LG Electronics installed the world’s first 4K digital signage display at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Nev. Representing the commercial-grade version of the manufacturer’s ‘Ultra-HD’ TVs and boasting four times the screen resolution of HD displays, it debuted in time to welcome visitors arriving for the 2013 Digital Signage Expo (DSE).

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4K is here to stay

In the beginning, there was light. Then marketer Dave Nichol (now recently departed) hooked up videocassette recorders (VCRs) to cathode-ray tube (CRT) monitors in Loblaws grocery stores and early digital signage was born. Those first attempts were eventually followed by flat-panel displays (FPDs), including ubiquitous high-definition (HD) liquid crystal displays (LCDs).

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Safe lifting in production environments

While the sign industry has seen automation significantly reduce manual labour in wide- to super-wide format print production environments, there are still many employees working in these spaces who bear a heavy burden each day—often literally, as they must move ever-larger quantities of both printing consumables and final printed output around.

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