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INDUSTRY NEWS Industry news should be sent to signs@stmediagroup.com. Noteworthy Hexacomb Names Kober Marketing Director Hexacomb® (Buffalo Grove, IL), a Boise® company and the manufacturer of Falconboard® graphicdisplay boards, has appointed Darlene Kober as director of global marketing and strategy. She has more than 20 years’ experience with multinational manufacturing corporations. Kober holds an MBA in marketing and strategy from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Bucknell University.  Seiko Instruments Launches New Website Seiko Instruments USA Inc. (Escondido, CA) has launched its new website, http://siuwideformat. com. On it, sales and support can be contacted 24/7. The ColorPainter e-store allows you to get quotes from resellers, and you can also purchase HP DesignJet inks, parts and consumables. Product pages outline all of the ColorPainter’s features. There’s also a link to Seiko’s Facebook page.  Color-Logic Certifies Mimaki Latex Printers Color-Logic (West Chester, OH) is certifying Mimaki’s (Suwanee, GA) JV400LX line of latex-ink printers for its Process Metallic Color System, which equips the JV400LX white- American LED Technology Opens Florida Plant American LED Technology, Inc. (Fort Walton Beach, FL) has officially launched its Florida manufacturing facility. The address and phone number are 304 Racetrack Rd NE, 32547; (877) 533-6284; local, (850) 863-8777. With this facility, the company reports that it can produce and deliver small, medium and large, all-aluminum LED displays in as little as four weeks from time of order. ink-set, latex printers to produce metallic effects when printed on metallic substrates. Color-Logic visualization software allows designers to assess their metallic designs, and the Color-Logic software permits white-ink masks that reduce design time. When preferred, the white-ink application enables designers to block unwanted metallic-substrate effects. Onyx TV Includes Instructional Videos Onyx Graphics (Salt Lake City) has announced ONYX® TV, a new online video resource that features Onyx Graphics experts sharing their knowledge and tips on the full Onyx software product line. Viewers can now watch instructional videos featuring in-depth information on the company’s Thrive™ workflow software; ProductionHouse™, PosterShop® and RIPCenter™ RIP software; and the SmartApps™ line of plug-ins, at www.youtube.com/ user/OnyxGraphics/videos. Categories include software expertise, product information, quick sets to simple color management, and a four-part series on specialty ink.   Fastsigns in Canada Adds Six Signshops Fastsigns® (Carrollton, TX) has agreed to six new centers in Canada, which adds to its current base of 22 Canadian centers. As part of the four-unit agreement, franchisee Philip Zakem and three partners will open their first Fastsigns center in Halifax, NS, slated for the fourth quarter of 2013. They will also convert their independent sign business, located in Charlottetown, PEI, into a Fastsigns franchise in 2014. Their other two centers will open in Saint John and Moncton, NB.  In addition, the company signed two single-unit deals for new Fastsigns centers in Toronto and Calgary. 100 SIGNS OF THE TIMES / OCTOBER 2013 / www.signweb.com Mutoh Cutters Ship With SAi FlexiStarter SA Intl. (SAi), Salt Lake City, and Mutoh (Phoenix) are announcing an agreement to provide SAi’s FlexiStarter ValueCut cutting software with Mutoh’s three, ValueCut cutters – the 24-in.-wide ValueCut 600, the 52-in.-wide ValueCut 1300 and the 72-in.-wide ValueCut 1800. The ValueCut software includes drivers and registration marks, plus design, draw, view, manipulation, plotting and cutting tools. It also provides a user-friendly interface that helps create cut-vinyl signs and decals. ICaldera Announces WebShop Solution Caldera (Strasbourg, France) has launched a web-to-print solution developed specifically for sign and display printers. WebShop is designed to help large-format PSPs promote their products online, reduce the time spent on the sales process, and increase orders. Based on the Magento e-commerce solution, WebShop can be integrated with Caldera’s Flow+ and RIP solutions to provide a complete sales-to-production system. Highlights include the ability to create multiple shops, with different products and prices for specific customers or target markets, and various product-categorization features, with unlimited categories and sub-categories supported. Caldera lists Simple Product, Grouped Product, Configurable Product, irtual Product, Downloadable Product and Variable Size Product as categories.  http://siuwideformat.com http://siuwideformat.com http://www.youtube.com/user/OnyxGraphics/videos http://www.youtube.com/user/OnyxGraphics/videos http://www.signweb.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Signs of the Times - October 2013

Signs of the Times - October 2013
Contents
ST Update
Technology Update
Vinyl Apps
Strictly Electric
LED Update
Software Update
Technology Review - Mimaki’s JFX500-2131 flatbed and UJV500-160 UV printers
Technology Review - Seiko’s UV Jetrix 1212FK and KX5/KX5R flatbed printers
New Products
Rollin’ for the Lucky Seven!
The Inaugural Readers’ Choice Awards
Smart Lighting
The SGIA Preview
Industry News
Enter the ST Intl. Sign Contest!
Advertising index
Editorially speaking

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