September 7th, 2010 by Jay Buckley
- Large Format Puzzle Front
- Puzzle back
Here’s an interesting job we printed for a church in our community. They wanted to create a puzzle of their church, and give a piece to each family that pledged in their giving campaign. Everyone would then put the puzzle together at an event, and they would have a complete picture of the church.
We printed the picture of the church on paper and applied to a 40×60 piece of 50 point board. We then printed directly onto the back of the 50 point board with our new flatbed printer. This gave them a pattern to cut out without disturbing the artwork of the church.
We left it up to the people from the church to do the cutting, and they may have raised a few blisters over the weekend. A good pair of kitchen shears cuts the board pretty well, but there is a lot of cutting to do!
August 26th, 2010 by Jay Buckley
- Car Magnet Signs
Why not turn your car into a sign that advertises your business around town? We make magnetic signs that go on your car door, and you’ll get an awful lot of exposure for the $52 that a pair of them cost.
Our magnet signs are printed with four color process, so you can have all the colors of the rainbow on them, including photos. We produce them on a sturdy .030 magnet sheet that won’t come off in the car wash.
July 26th, 2010 by Jay Buckley
Jim Bender visits our shop
Jim Bender, who is a Republican candidate for the US Senate seat being vacated by Judd Greg, visited our shop last Thursday. He enjoyed seeing a successful New Hampshire business, and had a lot of questions about what we do and how we are weathering the recession.
He then went on to play golf in the Grafton County Republican Golf Tournament at Owl’s Nest in Campton. I had the opportunity to golf with Jim, and we had a wonderful time. It sounded like he had been too busy with his campaign to play much golf over the last year, and I hope this felt like more of an afternoon off than another campaign event. I tried not to pepper him with questions, and just enjoy a splendid day on the golf course.
I can tell you that Jim is a thoughtful, experienced businessman with a deep desire to contribute to the Nation. I believe he will make a great senator!
July 15th, 2010 by Jay Buckley
- Our recycling run
Here’s Bob stuffing the last box into the back of the car as we load up for a recycling run.
We have been separating our paper from other trash for the last two years now, and make a trip like this every week or two, depending on how busy we are. We generate a lot of paper scraps from trimming prints to size, running tests, and things that go wrong. It makes us feel good to see that waste being recycled, and it’s kept us from having to increase the size of our dumpster as we have grown.
This spring, we installed a flatbed printer that allows us to offer our first truly green product. We can print directly onto a 100% recycled board, and it can be recycled with your cardboard. That means that we keep material out of the landfill at both ends of the process. We’re pretty excited about it, and our customers are too!
We also recycle our bottles and cans, our plastic containers, and our cardboard. Being green matters to us, and we hope it does to you too!
July 6th, 2010 by Jay Buckley
- Standup of a person
Here’s a fun job we just finished, a life sized cutout for Purity Spring Resort here in New Hampshire. We’re really not sure if they intend to have him hanging out in the lobby, the game room, or at the beach; but wherever they put him he’ll remind everybody that the whole idea is to have a good time!
Our life size cutouts are printed on 3/16″ gatorboard and include an easel stand. They are lots of fun!
Since we’ve installed our flatbed printer, we started printing them directly on the gatorboard. This saves a fair amount of labor in their production, and we’ve lowered our price for a full size cutout to $199.
June 23rd, 2010 by Jay Buckley
- Display using Repositionable Fabric
Here’s a great use of our new Repositionable Fabric material. The Observatory was creating displays to educate visitors about weather and the work they do, and they wanted to cover some existing boards with new artwork. Our new repositionable fabric was the perfect choice! All they had to do was peel off the backing paper and apply it over what they wanted to cover. As you can see from the picture, it looks great.
We use our UV stable inks when printing on this material, so that it will not fade if it gets some sunlight. It should be good for several years.
When you want to put up a display that is easy to install and comes down with no damage to the underlying surface, repositionable fabric is a great choice. The folks at the
Mount Washington Observatory are raving about their new displays! You can see them at their visitors center in North Conway. The Obervatory itself is also worth a visit, either via the Mount Washington Auto Road, or a vigorous hike to the summit! You’ll see lots of our work at both places.
June 7th, 2010 by Jay Buckley
- Installing a replacement panel
The time will always come when the graphics on your pop-up booth need replacement. We have a solution that’s affordable and does a beautiful job- replacement booth panels.
By the time your booth is several years old, who knows where everything came from? Not to worry. We can make replacement panels for just about any booth, and at a substantial discount from what your booth maker will charge.
We print on paper, laminate with our crystal laminate and an extra heavy backer material, and apply the stiffeners and magnet. You get panels that are attractive and affordable.
We can help with the design, too. Our graphics professionals have done thousands of booth designs, and you can benefit from their experience!
June 2nd, 2010 by Jay Buckley
Table Top Display
If you are doing local shows, you often have a table for your display without all the fancy pipe and drape setups of larger trade shows. A table top display like the one shown at the right is a great way to do this kind of show affordably and effectively.
This kind of display is easy to transport and carry. It folds up to fit in a trunk or back seat, and carries like a suitcase.
We print the same crystal laminated graphic panels that we do for larger booths, so you won’t have trouble with glare and the colors come through brilliantly. They attach to the display with velcro, and are easily changed out when your products or graphics change.
May 28th, 2010 by Jay Buckley
Repositionable Fabric Graphic
Here’s an interesting job we did recently. Our customer wanted to put a jazzy graphic in a product showroom, and were going to buy a piece of paper and use spray adhesive to mount it.
We suggested they try our new repositionable fabric, and they loved it! Instead of all the fuss and muss of spray mount, the material comes with “sticky note” ahesive on the back. It’s easy to put up, and if you don’t get it on straight the first try, you just pull it off and start over.
As you can see, it also gives a great look. We print it with our UV stable inks, so it will not fade. Since it’s direct printing on the fabric, there’s no glare trouble with bright showroom lights.
May 24th, 2010 by Jay Buckley
Our new sign
Our new flatbed printer is already doing great work! Here’s a new sign we printed for our building. It’s direct printed on both sides 3mm Sintra.
When I think back to the amount of work it was to make our previous sign, which was printed on adhesive vinyl and then applied to sintra, I start to appreciate how much savings there will be for customers with this new technology.
The old sign still looked great, by the way, after eight years. We just thought that we should be showing off our new capabilities, starting with the sign. People do tease us that we have such a small sign for a company that makes big prints!
Our Building
As you can see, we are sort of in the woods of New Hampshire. Don’t let the weeds fool you, though. Our building is a state-of-the-art large format shop, with 17,500 square feet of clean, modern space. It was designed specifically to do what we do, is completely wired for data and voice, air conditioned for humidity control, and lit with color correct bulbs so we get the colors right for you!
We built it in 1998, and have added on three times since then. Lately we’ve spent a fair amount of time and money beefing up our insulation to make it more energy efficient.
