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Mimaki USA / Canada Office

Concord, ON

Mimaki is a global industry leader of wide format digital printers, cutters, and workflow solutions for the sign graphics, textile & apparel, industrial and 3D markets.

Laird Plastics (Canada) Inc

Surrey, BC

Call us for all your signage requirements. We stock Avery and MacTac vinyl, Ultraflex banner, acrylic, polycarbonate, foam boards, MatraPlast Hi-Core, ACP, Sintra and Roland printers and ink.

Underwriters Laboratories of Canada

Toronto, ON

UL solves critical challenges and help innovators around the world to discover new possibilities and deliver what matters — safety, quality, security, sustainability and confidence. To learn more, visit UL.com.

TCT Graphic Products

Etobicoke, ON

Still the best place in the country to buy plotter cut vinyl.

Zund America Inc

Oak Creek, WI

With its highly versatile and modular G3, S3, and dual-beam D3 flatbed cutters, Zünd offers multi-functional digital cutting/finishing solutions for all signage and POP needs—from custom to industrial production.

Mactac North America

Stow, OH

Mactac is your one stop shop for pressure-sensitive vinyl, over laminating films, mounting adhesive, and coloured vinyl. Covering everything from walls to windows, floor to ceilings, indoors or outdoors.

Media Resources Inc

Oakville, ON

Full service solution provider to the Sign & Outdoor advertising industries. LED Digital Displays: On-Premise; DOOH; Spectaculars; Sports; Indoor. 3D Prop Fabrication. Sign Installation & Service Nationwide. Grand Format Printing

Southern Stud Weld Inc

Houston, TX

Aluminum, stainless, and mild steel weld studs. Female studs for stand-off applications. Mounting clips for channel letters and large structural mounting brackets for sign installations. Nationwide stud welder rental fleet.

PATTISON Outdoor Advertising

Mississauga, ON

PATTISON Outdoor Advertising is Canada’s largest out-of-home advertising company, providing unmatched reach and coverage to almost 200 markets. Products include classic outdoor, transit, digital, airport, office and street furniture.

Kornit Digital

Englewood, NJ

Kornit Digital (NASDAQ:KRNT) develops, manufactures and markets industrial digital printing technologies for the garment, apparel and textile industries.

Vivid Signs & Graphics Inc

Brampton, ON

Manufacturer of channel letters, sign cabinets, dimensional letters, and displays. Licensed ADA braille supplier. CNC routing and laser engraving equipment. Proudly celebrating 26 years as a trade supplier.

SignCraft (Kelowna)

Kelowna, BC

Experienced install team servicing interior British Columbia. Certified Electricians, fully stocked service vans. Site Surveys, Local sign permits, electrical permits. In business for over 30 years.

Ultima Displays Canada

Markham, ON

Ultima Displays is a trade supplier of modular and portable displays. A one-stop trade show and marketing solutions supplier of banner stands, outdoor products, fabric systems, and custom modular exhibits.

BIK Hydraulics

Toronto, ON

BIK Hydraulics has developed into an industry leader through our ability to stock, build, and sell boom trucks & sign installation trucks in high volume.

United Digitals LED SIGNS

Toronto, ON

A proud Canadian builder & wholesaler of programmable LED message centres with 30 years sign industry experience, providing best possible custom LED message centres for great pricing and comprehensive supports.

Ultraflex Systems Inc

Riverview, FL

Global leader and preferred partner delivering a wide range of high-performing, digitally printable textiles and substrates for solvent, eco-solvent, Latex, UV, and dye-sub printing. Textiles, film, printable flooring, wallcovering, and more.

Rowmark LLC

Findlay, OH

Rowmark is the world's leading manufacturer of engravable sheet plastic for the signage, awards and engraving markets. Rowmark products are sold exclusively through a worldwide network of authorized Rowmark distributors.

Lintec of America Inc

Schaumburg, IL

Lintec manufactures adhesive films, mounting adhesives, laminates, and printable window films known by Digital Window Graphic Films (formerly known as Wincos), Mistlass Decorative Films, and Vision Control Films.

Display Solution Canada

Vaughan, ON

We specialize in custom trade show exhibits. Trained craftsmen. Superior workmanship. Stunning designs. Long-standing experts. Dedicated account manager. 30 years in business. Shows: Innovative exhibit design, exceptional service.

Signs Alive Inc

Oakville, ON

Since 1993 Signs Alive! has designed/developed high-quality interior signage & dimensional displays. We welcome architects, interior designers, contractors & brokers for all commercial/industrial requirements. Contact Signs Alive! for consultation/design services.

Digital place-based networks are not all created equal. Industry metrics go a long way in explaining why some earn so much more ad revenue than others.

Wide-format Printing: A new generation of POP displays

Point-of-purchase (POP) displays have been a staple of advertising in retail environments for many years, ranging from simple merchandising to high-end fixtures and differentiating the many products competing for shoppers’ attention on store shelves.

Increasing profits with smarter colour management

When sign shops and other large-format print service providers (PSPs) are surveyed with regard to how much their ink costs per square foot of printed output, two out of three shop owners say they do not know.

The evolution of out-of-home media

Consumers are spending more and more time out of their homes working, shopping, and playing. According to the Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA), as much as 70 per cent of their waking hours are spent away from home.

Canada’s Wonderland updates pylon sign with full-colour screen

Twilight Signs of Bolton, Ont., and Optec Displays of Saint-Hubert, Que., recently retrofitted a sign for Canada’s Wonderland, the country’s largest theme park, to better engage motorists driving along Highway 400 through Vaughan, Ont.

Bolder Graphics makes bold printing investment

Calgary-based Bolder Graphics recently acquired three new large-format Vutek ultraviolet-curing (UV-curing) printers from Electronics For Imaging (EFI), marking the largest single installation of its type in Canada to date.

Painting photopolymer panels

As photopolymers become the industry-standard material for braille and other tactile characters in accessibility signage systems, sign fabricators need to develop best practices for preparing them.

Developing sustainable substrates

In September 2011, Groupe BO Concept (GBC), a sign and graphics provider based in Anjou, Que., implemented a point-of-purchase (POP) graphic system for the fresh produce section of Metro Richelieu’s new Super C grocery store in nearby Saint-Laurent, Que.

OOH Advertising: Competing in a connected world

In 2016, online media accounted for 47 per cent of all Canadian advertising revenues. Most other paid media have experienced a decline in their ad revenues due to the overall shift toward online spending. One notable exception, however, is out-of-home (OOH) advertising, which has continued to experience at least...

Reviewing Toronto’s regulations

Toronto’s sign bylaw unit is currently reviewing its municipal regulations, particularly those relating to electronic message centres (EMCs) and other forms of outdoor illuminated and digital signs and billboards. This process has involved collecting public and industry input with regard to potential bylaw changes for both first-party and third-party...