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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.

Caldera

Strasbourg

Caldera is an award-winning RIP software company with 25 years' experience in imaging technologies, specializing in driving solutions for large-format peripherals.

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

Libertevision inc.

Sherbrooke, QC

Outdoor and indoor LED DIGITAL SIGNS custom made to your specifications. LED screens, LED Advertising billboards, Scoreboards, indoor video walls SHERBROOKE (QC) - TORONTO (ON), CALGARY (AB), ABBOTSFORD (BC)

Sunitron Inc

Concord, ON

Since 1986, our goal is to supply clients with custom-designed end-to-end solutions. We provide 24-hour service, coupled with our support and warranty commitment. Visit us on Youtube or Toll-Free 1-877-630-8811

Metomic Corporation

Chicago, IL

Metomic Corporation manufactures and supplies caps and standoffs in polished chrome and anodized brushed aluminum. All parts are Made in the USA

ORAFOL Canada

Oakville, ON

ORAFOL Canada is the national distributor for Graphic Products, Traffic Control & Personal Safety reflective products, and Industrial double-sided tapes used in sign media advertising, traffic & personal safety applications.

Nekoosa

Nekoosa, WI

Nekoosa represents the RTape, Mojave Wide Format Media, Catalina Graphic Films, CET Films and Nekoosa Coated Products brands, offering application tapes, synthetic papers, pressure sensitive films, carbonless papers and more.

Spicers Canada

Vaughan, ON

Across 27 locations, Spicers, with its All Graphic Supplies and Shippers Supply divisions, distribute an extensive range of wide-format media, printing papers, graphic solutions, inks, displays, equipment and industrial supplies.

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.

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 sign, graphics, and packaging needs—from custom to industrial production.

Pony Graphic Solutions Inc

Pitt Meadows, BC

Mojave Wide Format Media - A Nekoosa Brand

Las Vegas, NV

The Mojave portfolio consists of pressure sensitive media, overlaminates, mounting films and many other specialty substrates. Check out the new Nekoosa Bucks program to earn extra cash while you print!

Norlok Technology Inc

Brantford, ON

Over a quarter of a century designing and manufacturing Letter Lok clinching machines. Replaces spot welding and riveting for channel letter fabrication. Featuring SPR option for fastening aluminum composite material.

RTape - A Nekoosa Brand

South Plainfield, NJ

RTape is recognized as the world’s leading manufacturer of application tapes and premasks for the sign, screen printing and digital printing marketplace.

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.

Grant Illuminated Signs Ltd

Campbell River, BC

Building illuminated signs since 1972. Channel letters, extruded aluminum cabinets, push-through acrylic, flex face, monument signs, full colour 9mm message centres any size you want. We ship anywhere! 1-833-GO-GRANT

Signs Alive Inc

Oakville, ON

Expert designers and manufactures in quality custom signage. Building signage, wayfinding, dimensional displays, printed graphics and all commercial/industrial signage requirements.

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.

CADlink Technology Corporation

Ottawa, ON

Serving a wide variety of design and production markets, CADlink Technology has been creating software to streamline your workflow and make your machines run better for nearly 30 years.

Toronto-based environmental graphic design (EGD) firm Entro recently helped the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Group develop appropriate signage for ‘universal washrooms’ in health-care facilities.

Last Impression: Coronation Street signs

Many Canadians are familiar with the long-running British soap opera Coronation Street, whose loyal fans have made it a primetime hit on CBC. What they may not realize, however, is many of the backdrops and props seen in each episode are created with signmaking equipment.

Fine-pixel-pitch LED displays seek global domination

The worldwide fine-pixel-pitch light-emitting diode (LED) display market is expected to grow from $677 million U.S. in 2015 to $3.1 billion U.S. by 2024, according to a new report from Transparency Market Research.

Channel Letters: Common signage configurations

As channel letters are highly customized signage products, specifying their design can become an information-intensive process. It can be helpful for sign shops to refer to a ‘fast-track’ guide to some of the most common options and configurations, as follows.

Sign Shop Profile: Comsign

Comsign is a small shop in Edmonton with roots dating back to the 1940s and which has passed through many owners’ hands over the years. Originally known as Commercial Signs, its name was shortened in 2001 after a change in direction to focus on the architectural signage market.

Monumental screen left speechless

When is a sign not a sign? In the case of Speech Bubble, a new public art piece commissioned for a condominium tower in Toronto’s entertainment district, it’s when the format of a sign is used not to convey a direct message, but instead to display abstract images.

Large-format printers see small increase in shipments

Shipments of large-format printers increased worldwide by 1.3 per cent in the second quarter of 2015 over the same period in the previous year, according to new data from International Data Corporation (IDC), while revenue remained flat.

Why OOH revenue continues to rise

As new studies reveal how out-of-home (OOH) advertising captures the public’s attention and can influence shoppers’ purchasing decisions, it should come as no surprise year-to-year revenue continues to grow.

Last Impression: The spy who stayed out in the cold

For an advance charity screening in downtown Toronto of Skyfall, which would go on to become the highest-grossing James Bond movie to date, two flexible outdoor digital displays were featured on the black carpet to give guests a high-tech welcome to the after-party.

Digital signage: The art and science of visual communications

When one hears the term ‘digital signage,’ the first thing that comes to mind is the technology—or, more specifically, the hardware—behind such mainstream applications as menu boards and video walls. Technology, however, is just the means to an experience; it is not an experience in itself.