Do You Regularly Carry a Lot of Inventory for Signmaking?
QUESTION: Do you regularly carry what you consider to be a lot of inventory? Yes: 32% I will buy enough inventory so I never worry about running short. I buy in quantities that will give me a discounted price. — Louis Pascuzzi, Economy Sign Co., Danbury, CT We believe a healthy inventory allows us to […]
Agfa and EFI Form Partnership
Agfa (Mortsel, Belgium) and EFI (Londonderry, NH) have announced a partnership in which Agfa will integrate EFI’s roll-to-roll system into their products, while EFI will bring Agfa’s hybrid inkjet printers into its profile, according to a joint press release from both companies. Through the mutual strengthening of the Agfa and EFI portfolios, both companies can […]
Miami Reduces Billboard Advertising
The city of Miami may reverse its decision to expand its outdoor advertising sites, reducing the number of sites back down to three, per a 2015 law, according to a recent article in Miami Today. These three locations would be the James L. Knight Center, the Olympia Theater/Gusman Center for the Performing Arts and the […]
5 Vehicle Wraps At Your Service
THERE’S NO FEELING quite like driving by a sign you designed or installed (or both), except, of course, when that sign drives by you. Not only is a vehicle wrap an advertisement for the company that owns the vehicle(s), but it acts as a driving hype machine for the signmaker and installer, too — provided […]
A Demanding New Client is Pushing a Sign Company to the Wire
DAVIS CLAY CARRIED himself as something of a big shot in Glen Burnie, MD, just south of Baltimore. A former three-term state senator who represented the area, Clay was wealthy, a self-made man, as he liked to remind his constituents. His business interests ranged widely, though he had not sought to do any business for […]
April 1918 Issue’s Cover Art Repeated in 25 of Next 27 Months
Cover to Cover THIS COVER FOR the April 1918 issue of Signs of the Times was repeated every month but two through August 1920. Maybe the cover artist had gone to Europe, as World War I was grinding to conclusion during 1918, though not ending until November. WWI occupied everybody’s mind in April 1918, as […]