UV-LED Technology Update - stretching the limits
By John Kuta, Director of Business Development, Lumen Dynamics
Nidal Abbas, Manager, UV Curing Products, Lumen Dynamics

UV LED (light emitting diode) technology is poised to take on UV arc lamps as the next generation of UV light applications.

Five Reasons to Consider Converting Your Sign Business into a Franchise
By Sign A Rama

Every small business owner would agree that today’s customer is far more aware, and far more educated than ever before.  The Web 2.0 age has enabled people to find more information, about more businesses, and about more products than was conceivable in the past.

Carbon Dioxide: sinister gas or much-maligned friend?
By James Cryer

James Cryer from JDA Print Recruitment offers us some thoughts on the recent government announcement to introduce a tax on carbon emmissions.

FESPA Europe 2010 Print Awards
By Tom Staiger

Tom Staiger was one of our representatives at this year's FESPA in Munich. He has followed up his overall report on the show with this pictorial display of the 2010 Print Awards.

Maximise Your Colour: Controlling Ink Use
By Max Derhak

When profiling a print mode in Media Manager, one quickly discovers that the total amount of ink (colourant) can be controlled in several locations. If controlled incorrectly one can significantly damage the colour gamut available to the print mode. This article discusses some of the various ways that total ink can be controlled with recommendations on when and how to control ink use to minimize gamut loss.

Video Didn’t Kill the Radio Star and the Digital Age Hasn’t Killed Off Print
By Alison Stieven-Taylor

Every wave of new technology brings with it a sense of panic that the established mediums in the marketplace will be superseded in the wake of the latest and greatest.

Rudd's reforms aren't looking so super
By Alison Stieven-Taylor

The fallout continues from the Rudd Government’s proposed tax reforms released in May. The ‘stronger, fairer, simpler tax plan for our future’, has stirred up a hornet’s nest.

Fujifilm and Urban Storm stretch the limits in outdoor advertising
It’s immediately apparent when talking to Sam Cook, director of UK-based Urban Storm, that here is a company setting out to make a real difference in the outdoor advertising and billboard sector. In order to do so, they have partnered with Fujifilm to make use of both its technological and business expertise.

A Melbourne man's first intrepid trek to Sign China

Paul Coniglio from Conect Enterprises visited Sign China (March 2nd - 4th 2010) for the first time to represent his company and seek out new product opportunities. He relates his first experience of a huge Chinese show.

Jail for LA billboard execs?

City Attorney Carmen Trutanich has played the jail card in a wildly inappropriate fashion again, the second time in a matter of months. The first was when he threatened to jail a City Council member and AEG executives over the issue of signage at L.A. Live.