Author Comment / Biography: Barry K. Brown has been in the Sign, Banner, Decal and Display Business for over 20 years. It isn't what he thought he'd do with his life, but he says he knows too much now to do anything else!
He has been marketing these products online since 1998, and the company he was general manager of in 1998 was the first sign company to be listed on Yahoo!
Barry is a great resource for information regarding Signs, Banners, Decals, and Displays, and is also an outstanding source of information on how to shop online without getting ripped off.
The process of sublimating dyes in fabric is what you call dye sublimation printing. In this graphic press method, the graphic is first printed on a heat transfer paper in a printer with a CMYO dye cartridges, which is a bit different from the typical CMYK ink set.
If, by any means, one refers laser printing as inkjet printing, then I would say yes, somewhat the same, but there is much more to that.
Inkjet printers, in general, are known to press graphics onto vinyl banners, stickers, or fabric (given that is designed suitable for fabric printing). On ...
Can Dye Sublimation Work on Mugs, Plates, Snowboards, etc?
It is possible to do sublimation printing on rigid substrates. But you are going to need to treat the surfaces first for this method to work. The surfaces of mugs, glass, license plates, or snowboards are not coated with pol...
Without knowing if it is going to rain or what, you just installed your car window decals on. And then suddenly there is a change in weather conditions and it is about to rain. Should you be worried about the n...
With banner hemming, you can opt to sew, glue, weld with heat, or tape your banners. There are shops that don’t have the sewing machine, and glue is not the only option although it doesn’t need machinery when h...
The first thing to do is to determine your target market. Are you going for graphic designs on mouse pads? Try checking out that competition in that category. See what big ...
Short run printing can be used to produce labels in one or two colors - or more. In the past, before digital graphic printing was invented, often it didn't make good sense to print short runs, and the processes...
Large companies used to be, for budgetary reasons, the only ones that were able to afford full color printing of banners. This is because they could order hundreds or thousands of banners. Orders in large quant...
One of the most common materials utilized to be printed on as graphic displays is vinyl. It is otherwise called as PVC or polyvinyl chloride. There are other available plastic items that can be used too, which a...