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july 2012 Volume 17 Number 7
COLUMNS InSight
At Drupa: Creating an experience within the experience.
10 Inside Output
When it’s right to walk away from a job.
DEPARTMENTS 5 UpFront
News and noteworthy, including the Queen’s Jubilee.
FEATURES 12 Decision Time: Rollfed Printers
Investing in an exemplary rollfed printer can prove to be one of the most important financial decisions a print provider must make. To offer a starting point to identify the printers most suited to your workflow and production needs, here’s our annual in-depth compilation of data and specs for nearly 150 rollfed printers.
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Wide Angle
Rescuing the rhino.
40 Job Log
X Factor marks the spot, with help from Graphic Innovations.
28 Virtual Walk-Through
By Mike Antoniak
When Utah’s Office of Tourism wanted to encourage commuters at San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit to vacation in the Beehive State, it chose Los Angeles’ Imagic to output floor-to-ceiling graphics to transform a 103-foot BART tunnel into an immersive ad depicting Utah’s iconic Delicate Arch.
32 Laminators: Protecting Aesthetics
Reasons for needing a laminator in-house run the gamut from aesthetics to necessity. We’ve assembled a roster of more than 30 companies producing laminators to help you find the perfect finishing solution.
36 Inkjet Drupa 2012
The massive two-week Drupa exposition, which took over Dusseldorf in May, drew nearly 315,000 attendees and featured more than 1800 exhibitors. It’s no overstatement to say that inkjet was the technology of greatest interest.
ON THE COVER: Visitors to San Francisco’s busy Montgomery Street Station found themselves transported to utah’s Arches National Park in a stunning display of graphics. Cover design by Bill Parsons.
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THE BIG PICTURE july 2012
Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of The Big Picture - July 2012