FASTSIGNS of Maple Shade Relies on SAi Flexi for Flexibility and Smooth Production Integration

FASTSIGNS of Maple Shade began using SAi Flexi in 2000, and uses the software for a large number of vehicle application projects.

In more than 30 years as a signmaker, Jeffrey Chudoff, owner of FASTSIGNS of Maple Shade, N.J., has witnessed the transformation of vehicle graphics printing. He has been one of those who helped drive the evolution, and SAi (Booth 6424) Flexi was one of the enablers.

In 1985, he began supplying and installing cut vinyl lettering. Initially this was outsourced, but in 1986 he bought his first tangential cutter to bring the process in-house.

“That was the beginning of it all,” Chudoff says. “As wide-format printing for vehicle wraps developed in the early 1990s, I’d put designs on CDs and mail them to Kansas for printing electrostatically. The breakthrough came in 1995, when I bought my first Roland (Booth 4616) inkjet printer.” The company currently has two Roland printers, an XR-640 and an RF-640.

“While the quality of our work was always high, the software tools could be tricky to use, and not suitable for vehicle wraps and graphics,” he explains. “We began using SAi Flexi in about 2000, and the tools it has for handling different file formats, color matching, and efficient management of jobs is great.”

FASTSIGNS of Maple Shade has two subscriptions for Flexi software. “We can afford two because of the price difference for the options. We use one for designs, while the full version is connected to the printers,” he says.