March 2011

  • Published On: March 1, 2011

    Avery Dennison Corp. announced that 3M’s request for a preliminary injunction was denied. As part of a patent infringement lawsuit filed by 3M against Avery Dennison last June, the request tried to block the company’s OmniCube product from competing in the marketplace for retroreflective sheeting. The Court found that Avery Dennison had raised a substantial [...]

  • Published On: March 1, 2011

    By Jeff Leagon If you are a print service provider, it’s likely that most of your technical expertise is in the areas of digital printing and color management, and not necessarily in fabrics. Even if you print exclusively on fabrics, it’s difficult to become an “expert” on them since there are many different types and [...]

  • Published On: March 1, 2011

    By Jos Notermans When one looks in detail to the workflow of a digital textile printer, it quickly becomes clear that it is not as easy as it seems. There is a realistic probability that a company that starts in digital textile printing underestimates this and therefore will struggle for a long time to get [...]

  • Published On: March 1, 2011

    By Steve Urmano Leather is one of the oldest and most widely used materials in fashion, home décor, furniture, footwear and personal accessories. Leather has been finished using traditional tannery methods. In the past, there have been many attempts to decorate leather in niche ways, including digital printing, but no technology has been able to [...]

  • Published On: March 1, 2011

    Corporate environments draw upon printed fabrics for aesthetics, function, branding—and sustainability. By Janice Kleinschmidt Office employees need a degree of privacy, a place to display family photos or a bobblehead-doll collection, and a barrier to gymnasium-like acoustics. But the isolation of contained rooms forestalls collaboration. An employee of the Herman Miller office furnishings company, Robert [...]

  • Published On: March 1, 2011

    Managing color successfully can save your organization time and money, and a little work up front can make life easier in the long run. By Mark Gundlach Editor's note: X-Rite Color Services partnered with Fabric Graphics on a two-part series about the challenges involved in communicating color, the human aspect of viewing and perceiving color, [...]

  • Published On: March 1, 2011

    Four businesses share their successes and challenges in pursuing environmentally friendly practices. By Holly O’Dell “Going green” is the favored phrase for making environmentally friendly choices, but it can be a loaded topic. Three print shops and a fabric manufacturer share their stories of navigating the green waters, from operations to end products, and the [...]

  • Published On: March 1, 2011

    Marketing vehicle combines the best sail manufacturing methods with the newest quality imaging technologies. By David Drimmer In 1995, two years after establishing a local charter business in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Aaron Kiss was stopped by the city from distributing advertising brochures on the beach to his most valued customers: vacationing tourists looking for information [...]

  • Published On: March 1, 2011

    By Pat Hayes Do you think being eco-friendly will just end up costing your business money? Not so fast. Having just moved our U.S. operations to a new, larger facility in December, I thought it appropriate to break down improvements that are friendly to the environment and save our company money. This move, the seventh [...]

  • Published On: March 1, 2011

    EnviroScape Mural Plus! from Neschen Americas is an FSC-certified media that is made from 10-percent post-consumer waste. The covering can be easily removed from walls, windows and virtually any media with a rigid surface. Available in 6 mil thickness and weight of 4.87 ounces per square yard, EnviroScape Mural Plus! is compatible with solvent, latex [...]