PRINTING United Expo

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite from Corel plays an important role in the day-to-day operations of an Oklahoma screen printing company. Dustin Barr, owner/designer of Five Nine Print Shop, has been using CorelDRAW to help his custom T-shirt company thrive.

How well do you know your own business? You might know what products and services sell well, but do you know your margins? You may have added new services in response to requests from customers or perceived market opportunities, but are you charging the right price for them? Should you even be offering those services?

Silicone Edge Graphic (SEG) signs are a red-hot growth sector in the sign industry for several reasons. First, they look great aesthetically, with a thin, clean look. Also, once the SEG frame is installed, the textile faces can be replaced quickly and easily without a highly skilled installer. 

Print is a term that has come to encompass far more than just “ink on paper.” That has never been more evident than when walking the show floor at PRINTING United, where vendors are demonstrating the ability to print on everything a printer can dream of.

Starting a successful American company in a suburban garage might sound cliché, but that’s exactly what happened with AccuLabel. Over the years, the flexographic label business had been good to Dave Manning, as he steadily grew AccuLabel’s customer base over a period of 30 years.

SpeedPro Imaging owners Rick and Connie Rhind Robey in Silver Spring, Md., were recently testing HP Optimal Gloss Air GRP and HP Gloss Polymeric Overlaminate distributed by LexJet for wall graphics, and getting great results.

For St. Paul, Minn.-based Honsa-Binder Printing, the challenge was to educate its website customers about value — or exactly what they get for their price point — which can often be more easily done in person than online.

Space within a shopping mall in Calgary, Alberta, was transformed into a tennis court using floor graphics media from Drytac. The project, at the Core Shopping Centre, was to promote the first Men’s ATP Tennis event, hosted at the Alberta Tennis Center.

Snowflake Designs brought in dye-sublimation equipment to easily and quickly create customized apparel. LaDonna invested in the Roland VersaCAMM VS-300i 30" printer/cutter and a GS-24 cutter, then added the Roland XT-640 64" high volume dye-sublimation printer.

As PRINTING United ends, SGIA’s Women in Print Advisory Council enters a state of reflection on where we’ve been, and where we want to go next.