Mobile advertising media is getting popular with savvy business marketing heads as an extremely cost effective form of advertising. Mobile advertising provides advertisers the opportunity to send their message across a large volume of audience in attractive and effective way by using high impact images on vehicle like trucks, vans, cars, etc. Read the rest of this entry »

The Roland DG Academy has announced today it is adding a new one day finishing course to its growing portfolio of digital print courses. The new module, titled
‘Basic Application Finishing’ will be taught at the bespoke Roland DG Academy training facility based at Walsall College and is designed to provide sign makers and printers with skills in the basic preparation, application and finishing of a range of vinyl, digital and lamination media. Read the rest of this entry »

Spandex is offering new lines of its ImagePerfect cast and polymeric films for large-format inkjet printers that use solvent, eco-solvent and UV-cured inks. The new products offer an adhesive system that delivers an “ultra smooth” print surface when applied to vinyl.

With speed and application process security so important to vinyl applications, Spandex may have hit on a sweet spot for European vinyl installers looking to boost productivity.

Avery Dennison Graphics & Reflective Products Division just inked a deal with Gregory, Inc. as a full line national distributor of Avery Graphics branded products.

Gregory has a solid reputation for distributing sign-making materials and supplies. The company has also been a national wholesaler of digital and screen print, computer cut text, and die cutting services to the graphics industry for over 53 years. All this together puts Gregory in a position to offer Avery products to customers in all 50 states as well as wholesale graphics and personal technical support.

Gregory will immediately begin supplying the full Avery Graphics product line.  Avery said it is confident that all customers in the demanding graphics market will have easy access to exceptional products, technical expertise, and focused customer service.

Avery also said it will continue to add value to the wider graphics industry through a range of training and education programs and new product development to meet the demands of existing and emerging technologies.

Avery Dennison’s Graphics & Reflective Products Division has ended its distribution deal with Grimco. The company issued a press release around the decisions.

What does that mean to you? It means you can’t buy Avery screen print and sign cut vinyls through Grimco anymore as of now. Come next month, you won’t be able to buy Avery’s line of digital vinyl media from Grimco either. But don’t worry. You can still buy these products through other partners in Avery’s network of distributors in North America. But if you are a Grimco customer, you’ll need to begin developing a new relationship now.

“We are committed to working closely with our distributors to ensure our complete line of vinyl products are easily available to sign shops,” said Mousa Elsarky, Marketing Director, Graphics and Reflective Products Division North America. “We will continue to provide the market with the broadest selection of high-quality digital, screen print and cut vinyl products.”