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

1. Astral Out-of-Home has introduced Canada’s largest single digital screen—measuring more than 7.9 m (26 ft) high and 57.3 (188 ft) long—atop the former Hard Rock Café in downtown Toronto, facing Yonge-Dundas Square.

2. An interactive, illuminated outdoor donor recognition system at the University of British Columbia (UBC), designed by Public, has won a Merit Award from the Society for Experiential Graphic Design (SEGD).

3. Three students at Ryerson University’s School of Graphic Communications Management (GCM) in Toronto are among the recipients of the Specialty Graphic Imaging Association’s (SGIA’s) 2017 scholarship program.

4. A Cascades facility in Victoriaville, Que, which converts and produces packaging and tissue products with mostly recycled fibres, has installed a Jeti Tauro H2500 ultraviolet-curing (UV-curing) inkjet printer, which was manufactured by Agfa Graphics in Mississauga, Ont.

5. Marginal growth in the global market for printed signage will be driven by increased competition in the retail sector and the continued adoption of inkjet technology, according to Smithers Pira, a market research firm focused on print, paper and packaging supply chains.