5 things to know

Here’s your quick morning update on news in the sign industry:

1. Toronto’s Downtown Yonge Business Improvement Association (BIA) hopes to capture some of the city’s rapidly disappearing history by developing a sign museum near Yonge-Dundas Square, similar to recent initiatives in Vancouver and Edmonton.

2. The Montreal-based CSL Group recently commissioned four local street artists to paint a 196.2-m2 (2,112-sf) mural on the forward façade of the accommodations block of its Trillium-class bulk carrier, CSL St-Laurent.

3. Samsung Electronics Canada has set up an interactive digital environment on the ninth floor of Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), featuring a table-mounted touch screen that allows patients and visitors to access apps and games.

4. There are increasingly compelling opportunities for digital inkjet printing in the textile industry, according to the latest research from Smithers Pira, which tracks the packaging, print and paper supply chains.

5. Print service provider (PSP) Reprodux has purchased and installed Agfa GraphicsJeti Titan HS ultraviolet-curing (UV-curing) flatbed printer at its Constellation Court facility in the west end of Toronto.