Cities and towns impose ever tighter restrictions on outdoor signage, but take Pride in promoting their development projects.
Digitally printed fence screens are effective in promotion on a grand scale. While considered temporary they often are visible for the duration of the construction project promoting the
project under construction. Graphics added to a construction site fence screen makes the site attractive while providing dust control and security.
Mesh Fence Screen Material Mesh banner material has three important features. Mesh is light weight compared to filled materials of the same tinsel strength. Mesh banners present
significantly lower wind resistance in outdoor applications. The irregular surface reduces glare form sun light or high intensity lighting in outdoor applications. These features make it an
ideal print material for a number of applications including construction fence screens, and barriers.
B3DigiGrafx has nearly 30 years of experience, expertise and extraordinary customer satisfaction to support your requirements for a project large or small. Our prepress department can
help you with mockup images for your project site.
Common rigid construction walls are enhanced with the overlay of printed banners , with logos, step and repeat images or a graphic depicting the finished project. Development
agencies are delighted to promote their involvement in the project by displays of the funding sources, with accompanying stories of projects impact. MDO or plywood construction
barriers may be directly printed on sheets as large as 5 feet x 10 feet, where the painted surfaces are prepared properly.
Fence Screens are more that construction barriers, Sports Fields, Tennis court wind screens, Track and field, Outfield wall sponsor graphics all found here at B3DigiGrafx.
In the Inland Empire they are all connected through B3DigiGrafx of Rancho Cucamonga.
First the tennis connection:
It all started with B3 and its involvement with The Vijay Amritraj Foundation and it’s Charity Tennis Classic.Peter Gomezof B3Digigrafx and Vijay are alums ofLoyolaCollege, ChennaiIndia, so the chemistry for a cooperative effort was natural. The tournament graphics were all produced by B3DigiGrafx and featured in an earlier news volume here on our blog Step and Repeat Graphics for 2009 Vijay Amritraj Charity Tennis Classic.
Next came the golf connection:
Peter’s son Adrian while participating in a Red Hill CC team play competition at Los Angles Country Club metSouthern California amateur golf legend Lee Davis. No wonder golf is so popular among business professionals, where else can you spend several hours introducing yourself to your peers. The inevitable question “what business are you in?” led to an outline ofAdrian’s grand format printing business, and some of the projects B3 is involved with. It’s well known that the better the golf game and the longer you hit the ball the smarter you must be! Lee and Adrian are pretty good golfers.
Then the artist came into the picture:
Listening toAdriandescribe the work done for the Vijay Amritraj Charity Tennis Classic, Lee suggested that we connect with world renowned sports artist Scott Medlock. Scott was organizing the first Scott Medlock and Robby Krieger Invitational and Concert Charity Event for the benefit of the Pat Tillman Foundation. Weeks later Lee and Scott visited the B3DigiGrafx facility to learn how grand format print capabilities were used for event graphics. Scott was impressed and B3 became the principal media print supplier for the events.
This years event will benefit St. Jude Children Research Hospital staged at Moorpark Country Club JOIN US on AUGUST 29th 2011 Scott Medlock & Robby Krieger Invitationalwww.MedlockKriegerInvitational.com
Cities and towns impose ever tighter restrictions on outdoor signage, but give Pole Banners a pass.
There are few examples for more effective event promotion than Street Pole Banners. Cities and towns have an affinity for banners mounted on street light poles along main streets, shopping centers, and fairgrounds Train and Bus platforms, and just about any place where you have permanent light poles.
Why is the street pole banner so revered by the same municipalities that seem to further restrict many other forms of outdoor advertisement? The answer may lie in the vested interest they have in what is promoted by the banners, and the ability to easily regulate the presentation of the pole banners. Standards are established well in advance of any program, and frankly the citizens of these communities like the pole banner programs.
Unfortunately, specifications and design limitations often don’t keep up with the available technology in print and materials. Mounting hardware has been designed to be flexible in high winds which dump the sail area of the banners. This hardware eliminated the need for those unsightly “wind slits” so often placed where the images are obscured.
With placement of the pole banners on main thoroughfares, and other high traffic areas, pole banners remain one of the most effective event and holiday promotions. Chambers of commerce, shopping centers, veterans groups have all used this media to successfully promote their interests. When you consider the exposure both in numbers of views per banner, and the wide areas covered, pole banners are very economical.
The best place to get information on pole banner programs may well be your local chamber of commerce. Sponsoring the regular holiday or special event banners may get your organization recognized as few other promotion vehicles can.
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Pioneers in the film and print industry collaborate to produce life like photo backdrops with direct print on Kodak polyester films, in place of the earlier DuraTrans process. Translites are large, full scale photos of scenes that complete a view, usually from a window or a doorway. They are typically used on motion picture sets as shown in this example from Richard Lund.
Richard Lund tweaks his image for test printing the perfect scene on B3DigiGrafx OCE 550 XT UV digital printer. Working closely with Kenny Kim and our staff, several iterations are quickly produced with and without white ink layers
I have made a lot of translites, actually thousands. When they work well, they are not even noticed.
I was not looking to change for change sake. My friends at B3 finally poked through my mindset to give me a vision for a real improvement. Translite_UV™ is clean and sharp, gives me bigger panels with fewer seams, does not scratch easily like Duratrans, and eliminates the need to matte spray the backgrounds.
Nobody is there on stage when my backgrounds are hung to explain why I made them the way I did. They have to speak for themselves, but speak quietly. B3 Digigrafx partners with me so that what I make works. I know I have done my job when nobody notices.
DuraTrans is a durable polyester film with a photosensitive emulsion exposed and processed to produce a positive photo transparency. The process requires a laser exposure unit, and a wet film processor. Once the film is processed it requires the application of a Matte coating, which may affect the resultant image.
Translite_UV™ is an improved process that directly prints the photo quality image on a polyester film supplied by Kodak. The OCE 550 XT UV prints the high resolution image directly using an UV ink system. There is no need for darkroom film processing; the resulting image can be seen as it’s printed. UV ink systems produce matte finishes eliminating the need for a coating. This print format offers additional freedom in image manipulation with a “white layer” offering alternative day night presentations. Print Speed offers a throughput many times faster than the wet process methods. Red spectrum heat signatures from high intensity lamps used to back light the scene were not transmitted when compared to Duratrans examples.
See the OCE 550 XT UV printer in action printing in flatbed mode on two 4’ x 10’ panels.
