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Environmental Graphics: Way More than Wayfinding Signs

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Environmental Graphics: Way More than Wayfinding Signs

There is so much creativity in the world and here at SignCenter, we have the luxury of seeing some of the best imaginations at play when we print and produce environmental graphics.

Environmental graphics, also known as environmental design graphics, as described by the Society for Experiential Graphic Design (SEGD), “embraces many design disciplines including graphic, architectural, interior, landscape, and industrial design, all concerned with the visual aspects of wayfinding, communicating identity and information, and shaping the idea of creating experiences ...

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How can SignCenter help you grow your print business?

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How can SignCenter help you grow your print business?

SignCenter has extensive experience supporting the print needs of many industries. We understand your businesses and the different priorities and pressures specific to those needs. SignCenter creates new and profitable opportunities for our print affiliates by delivering high-quality, competitively priced wholesale large-format and specialty printing products and services. Partnering with SignCenter adds 18,000 sq.ft. of digital printing and finishing technology to any company’s capabilities and eliminates the need to invest a dollar in equipment and training.

Print Brokers know that they ...

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White Ink and Its Creative Uses

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White Ink and Its Creative Uses

Digital printers have traditionally used some version of a CMYK ink set to reproduce colors (some use additional CMYK Light colors for greater subtlety of tone, or chromatic green, orange or red for increased vibrancy).

These color sets are perfect for printing on white media, but what if your media was clear, black or colored? It would be impossible to correctly render the colors, and what if a design required white ink on these substrates?

Fortunately, UV curable digital white ink ...

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Display Graphics, Large-Format Printing, Retail Graphics, SignCenter Blog, Specialty Printing, White Ink

Danglers: Help Products Stand Out!

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Danglers: Help Products Stand Out!

Shelf danglers are an excellent way to catch a shopper’s eye. These colorful attention getters are extremely versatile. They come in many shapes and sizes, can be die cut to any creative design and they can be easily installed to various retail shelving systems. Even their name is fun, danglers aka, wobblers or talkers!

We see a lot of great shelf danglers come off of our printers– really, with these little guys the sky’s the limit when it comes to ...

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Retail Spaces and the Switch to SEG

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Retail Spaces and the Switch to SEG

Many major retail chains have made the transition from backlit films and paper based substrates to SEG signage. SEG stands for silicone edge graphics. These are dye-sublimated fabric graphics with a silicone strip stitched around the edges. They are used in combination with frames that have a recessed channel to receive the silicone edge and pull the fabric taught.

SEG is not new to the print world. For several years now, the Out-of-Home industry has been implementing these graphics ...

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Overstreet Banner Construction: What to Look For

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Overstreet Banner Construction: What to Look For

Today we are going to discuss overstreet banners. As the name suggest, overstreet banners are the long, usually double sided, banners that are temporarily installed over roads and pedestrian thoroughfares. They are widely used to publicize events, foster community engagement and celebrate holidays. A lot more goes into these banners than just a creative design and large size. Most towns and municipalities have strict specifications for the fabrication and installation of these banners as well and it is important ...

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“Back to School” Graphics- not just for Retail

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“Back to School” Graphics- not just for Retail

When people in the print industry hear “Back to School,” retail graphics advertising sales usually come to mind. It is important to expand that thinking. There are plenty of print opportunities surrounding schools and educational environments outside of retail.

Many educational institutions use graphics to create a sense of pride and camaraderie in their students and to promote learning. Digital printing has made this type of branding more affordable for schools. The days of one color banners have been replaced ...

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Printing on supplied media?

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Printing on supplied media?

Here at SignCenter we are asked on a regular basis if we can print onto materials that our customers supply. It’s not an unreasonable request, and even though we stock over 100 different media, there are some specialty products that we don’t have in our warehouse. Many of our customers know that the state-of-the-art printers that we operate have the capability to output some pretty unique products. For example, it’s not very often that we utilize the ability to ...

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Printing on Wood

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Printing on Wood

UV cure printing technology opened up a whole world of new options for printable substrates – the challenge, however, is finding materials that are inherently flat enough to allow for high quality output without risking damage to the printer. Fortunately, SignCenter has done that!

Wood has always been a favorite material for designers to work with, but it is wildly unstable, easily warps and comes with dust and ...

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The Pantone Matching System

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The Pantone Matching System

In 1963, Lawrence Herbert, Pantone’s founder, created an innovative system for identifying, matching and communicating colors to solve the problems associated with producing accurate color matches in the graphic arts community. His insight that the spectrum is seen and interpreted differently by each individual led to the innovation of the PANTONE® MATCHING SYSTEM®, a book of standardized color in fan format.

We encourage our resellers to communicate color specifications using the Pantone® Solid Coated or Solid Un-Coated color bridge. It ...

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