Viva Las Vegas

The 2012 SGIA Expo is back in Vegas at the Las Vegas Convention Center, October 18–20, offering the specialty imaging community the best spot for wide-format, graphic applications, installation, garment decoration, screen, digital, and more.


Value Vinyls (Booth 421) has vastly expanded its product line, introducing a wide array of new options including a new line of Rio PET scrimless Opaque Ultra Smooth, Backlit, Blockout, and Mesh products designed to create eye catching graphics. Additionally, we have introduced a line of innovative economical printable frontlit banner alternatives to make you more competitive in the market. Our sales force is focused on developing face-to-face customer relationships and supporting their needs with Printer Preferred Sign Media products. Value Vinyls ships from our six warehouse locations: Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta, New Jersey, Los Angeles, and Toronto.

MACtac (Booth 427) will display new interactive technology at SGIA, showing the latest in visual merchandising displays. In addition to IMAGin ROODLE, PERMACOLOR DecoLam, PERMACOLOR ColorGard, and MACmark 8900 Series Designer Colors for all your high-end applications, MACtac will exhibit an interactive technology that transforms ordinary surfaces into a dynamic digital display.

At SGIA booth 3125, RTape Corp. will showcase its Conform series of heavyweight paper premasks for printers. Conform tapes with RLA Release Liner Adhesion adhere to the exposed areas of the release liner, resisting tunneling, edge curling, and puckering over the print.

Other products featured include its polyurethane and flock films for plotter cutting, which are available in a variety of colors. The line also includes printable polyurethane and flock films compatible with solvent, eco-solvent, and Latex inks. RTape heat transfer materials feature exceptionally thin profiles for a soft hand, outstanding stretchability on performance fabrics, and excellent durability.

To complement the heat transfer products, RTape introduces its HotMask polyester transfer tapes, designed protect printed heat transfer material from the high temperatures of heat pressing.

Available in promotional and outdoor durable grades, VinylEfx metalized vinyl films attract attention and add value to designs. New and improved patterns featured at SGIA include Matte Silver, Large Engine Turn Silver, Brite Overall iridescent vinyl, and GlowEfx photoluminescent film.

RTape will also display its Claritex super bright white films for digital printing along with an array of the Eclypse PVC and polycarbonate overlaminates. 

Output Devices

EFI (Booth 2413) is featuring its VUTEk, EFI Wide Format, and Jetrion lines of inkjet presses, together with the high-performance EFI Fiery proServer at SGIA. The new VUTEk HS100 Pro high-speed press and EFI R3225 UV roll-to-roll printer will be highlighted in the booth.

The VUTEk HS100 Pro is a high-speed digital UV inkjet press that represents a true alternative to analog equipment. Innovative imaging technology driven by the Orion OS software platform delivers the critical color accuracy and consistency your customers demand, with the productivity and digital efficiencies you need. The VUTEk HS100 Pro allows you to take on short-run jobs more profitably, while letting you produce longer sheet runs at a lower cost per print than analog technology.

The EFI Wide Format R3225 3.2 meter, roll-to-roll UV printer delivers near photographic image quality at production-level speeds. It’s the ideal solution for a production environment, franchise shop or commercial printer that wants to capture premium signage applications or needs extra capacity for specialty and overflow jobs. The R3225 prints on a wide range of flexible and low cost substrates, while using less ink and energy for a low total cost of ownership that helps increase your profit potential.

Stop by the Océ booth (435) to see a wide range of solutions for you digital printing needs including the recently-introduced and affordable Océ Arizona 318 GL UV flatbed printer that delivers the highest quality printing and predictable productivity without compromise; and the flagship Océ Arizona 550 XT printer boasting an extra large table and high production print speeds. Both will be producing rigid and flexible material samples that will be trimmed, cut and creased on the Océ ProCut 2500L digital cutting system. Or check out the Océ ColorWave 650 printer that uses Océ CrystalPoint technology to deliver instant-dry prints on plain paper.

Visit Roland (Booth 2659) to see the all new 64-inch SOLJET Pro 4 XR-640 inkjet printer/cutter, engineered for production printing with a dual inline and mirrored print head configuration, integrated contour cutting, VersaWorks 4.8 RIP software, and new Eco-SOL MAX 2 inks in nine colors: CMYK, light cyan, light magenta, white, metallic silver, and new light black.