A picture may be worth a thousand words, but when you want to showcase a unique benefit of a new product and have only seconds to do it, two images may be better than one — provided they’re expertly designed and executed to do the job. When Cincinnati-based KDM P.O.P. Solutions Group (www.kdmpop.com) was asked to create a shelf wobbler to support the launch of Banana Boat’s new SunComfort Sunscreen, the challenge was to communicate that sand easily brushes off the person wearing the product, differentiating it from other sunscreens, at the store level.

Digital printing technology has improved rapidly, and as a result, it’s merged and diversified industries so that screen printers are now offering digital printing and sign shops are able to offer apparel. We saw this type of industry adaptation happen with the emergence of eco-solvent printers, and we can see it now with dye-sublimation printers.

Nazdar SourceOne is pleased to announce participation in The 2015 American Sign Museum Online Auction. The Online Auction is now open and will run until 3:00 P.M. EST June 24, 2015, with proceeds going to the American Sign Museum’s operating budget and especially the acquisition and restoration of signs. Auction items are primarily – but not entirely – sign industry products and services, equipment, and software that sign companies use every day. Auction items for the product manufacturers include booth space and registration for the 2016 ISA Expo as well as ad space in trade publications.
SourceOne has offered an ImageStar print

Printed graphic advertising has always had a strong and effective presence in the sign industry—and always will for the foreseeable future. But the rise of electronic digital signage (EDS) has created opportunities for sign shops to find ways to combine new and established technologies to create more powerful ways to deliver advertising messages. Think of this concept as a new school/newer school pairing of two already successful media channels

Dan Kimmerly, Graphics Director at KDM POP Solutions Group in Cincinnati, shares the reasons why they were looking for next-generation digital technology, and how their now three VUTEk HS100 Pro presses are driving KDM’s digital print business.

EFI Celebrates 10 years of acquiring VUTEk marking EFI's first bold move into industrial inkjet. Nazdar SourceOne has been a proud partner with EF/Vutek for a decade and has placed more than 100 EFI printers with our customers!

New article from the June 2015 edition of Sign Builder Illustrated magazine on SourceOne's long time customer, Cotton Eyed Joe's, and how the silk-screen company has expanded it's capabilities into a full-service graphics solution center. 

New video from EFI. See how you can achieve perfect output quality for images and vectors in a high-volume production environment. Learn best practices to overcome common issues by identifying print quality problems in color images, including techniques to visually evaluate both color and grayscale images for quality assurance, optimizing output quality for vector graphics, such as illustrations and gradients, in both design applications and the DFE, and understanding print quality issues that can result from design elements including transparency and overprints

The 2015 SGIA Specialty Imaging Industry Survey was conducted between January 1 and February 28, 2015. The data presented in this report is culled from the responses of 193 U.S. sign and graphics producers. To access more of SGIA’s Benchmarking Reports, visit SGIA.org.

One of the biggest investments any sign shop or large format graphics provider will ever make is their inkjet printer. It really pays to do your homework here and the best place to start is by analyzing your own needs. What kind of jobs do anticipate printing, what kind of volume do you expect and what kind of quality do you need.