PPAI technology partner SAGE (PPAI 100001) has announced its 2023 rating award winners, which distinguishes suppliers and decorators who earn A+ or A grades as rated by industry distributors using SAGE Online, SAGE Web and SAGE Mobile.
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Independent Trading Co. Offers Toddler Lightweight Special Blend Sweatpants
For small children, easy-on/easy-off, washable and comfortably soft are three requirements.
10,000th BN-20 Buyer Recognized at PRINTING United 2022 Expo
Roland DGA Surprises Customer with Plaque and Gift Kit
Condé Now Offering SISER’s New EasyColor™ DTV™ Heat Applied Vinyl
Designed to be compatible with standard desktop inkjet printers, EasyColor DTV provides excellent print quality with vibrant colors and a matte finish.
Stickers International Offers New Glow In The Dark Stickers
Custom glow in the dark stickers add fun, safety and value to any product they are used on.
PPAI Research: Benchmarking Supplier Credit Card Fees
In a new PPAI benchmarking survey, responding promotional products suppliers charge distributors an average of 2% for credit card transactions.
Three Roland DG Customers Win 2022 PRINTING United Alliance Premier PRINT Awards
An annual competition that honors the very best in print communications, the Premier PRINT Awards recognize winners in a variety of categories based on quality, creativity, and innovation.
Three Roland DG customers – Atlanta-based Sagaboy Productions, British Columbia, Canada-based 3Sixty5Designs, and Sydney, Australia-based Body of Work – have won prestigious 2022 PRINTING United Alliance Premier PRINT Awards for their outstanding design and print work.
The Premier PRINT Awards represent all areas of print production, including screen, offset, digital, wide-format, flexographic, gravure, and more. This year’s competition recognized the extraordinary projects of sign and display shops, commercial printers, package printers/converters, in-plants, trade binderies/finishers, graphic designers, and students with just 10 winners selected in wide-format categories.
Award-winning entries submitted by Roland DG customers include the following:
Category: Wide-Format Inkjet Printing
Sub-category: Backlit Display
Roland DGA Customer: Sagaboy Productions, Atlanta, GA
Project: “Finch” Hospital Scene
Device: Roland DG VersaUV Large-Format Printer
Category: Wide-Format Inkjet Printing
Sub-category: Vehicle Wrap Installer
Roland DGA Customer: 3Sixty5Designs, British Columbia, Canada
Project: 2002 Patina Ford with Matching 2020 Snowmobile
Device: Roland DG VersaCAMM SP-540i wide-format printer/cutter
Roland DG Customer: Body of Work, Sydney, Australia
Category: Wide-Format Inkjet Printing
Sub-category: Poster/Fine Art – Wide-Format
Roland DG Customer: Body of Work
Project: “Explosive” 3D Mural
Device: Roland DG IU-1000F flatbed UV printer
“We are extremely proud of the amazing projects produced by this year’s award-winning Roland DG customers,” said Roland DGA President and CEO Andrew Oransky. “The talent and creativity of these sign and graphics professionals, as well as their ability to use the advanced capabilities of our wide-format printers in unique ways, never ceases to amaze us. We congratulate them on their achievements and look forward to seeing more of their incredible work.”
To view the complete list of 2022 PRINTING United Alliance Premier PRINT Award winners, including the Roland DG customers mentioned above, visit https://premierprint.printing.org/winners. For more information on Roland DGA Corporation, or the complete line of Roland DGA product line, visit https://www.rolanddga.com.
PPAI Announces Winners of Its Most Prestigious Awards
PPAI, the Promotional Products Association Int’l., has announced the recipients of its 2023 Icon Awards – PPAI Hall of Fame inductees Carol D. Aastad, MAS, and Mary Ellen Sokalski, MAS; PPAI Distinguished Service Award recipient Roger Burnett, CAS, and PPAI H. Ted Olson Humanitarian Award recipient Danny Rosin, CAS.
Awards Industry mourns loss of Chuck Dahlgren, Founder of Crystal D
Chuck Dahlgren, Founder & CEO of Crystal D, passed away on Monday, October 10, 2022.
Roland DGA Announces the Addition of New Belt-Driven Hybrid UV Printers to its VersaUV LEC2 S-Series
The LEC2-330S B-200 and LEC2-640S B-200 hybrid inkjets, which complement the existing flatbed models within the series, use a conveyer belt to transport media along the bed to a stationary printing gantry for increased versatility.