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SGIA Announces Product of the Year Winners

Victors revealed at SGIA Expo in Atlanta

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8 years ago

November 10, 2015

Steve Aust Signs of the Times November 2015 Issue

Specialty Graphics Imaging Assn., SGIA, Fairfax, VA, announced its Product of the Year winners at its annual tradeshow, which took place November 4-6 at Atlanta’s Georgia World Congress Center. The winners, broken into 27, sign-related, separate categories, include:

Digital Inks: Sawgrass, SubliJet HD sublimation inks for Virtuoso SG 800 printers

Finishing, Display Exhibit Hardware: Visual Magnetics, VM-SHELF

Finishing, Equipment, Laminators: Rolinx Performance Products, Kala Mistral 1650

Finishing, Equipment, Non-Laminator: Miller Weldmaster, AES1900

Finishing, Laminates, Adhesives, Films and Coatings: EFI, EFI Armor Coatings

Media, Films: Visual Magnetics, VW-DRYerase

Media, Non-PVC: Newlife Magnetics LLC, Cling-King Spider Mat

Media, Rigid: Panel Processing Inc., Liquid Chalkbard

Media, Textile-Apparel: Pacific Coast Fabrics, Jennifer S./914

Media, Textile-Flag: Top Value Fabrics, Flag Superb

Media, Textile-Framing Systems: Fisher Textiles, DD 6788 Mojo

Media, Pressure-sensitive Vinyl: DAF Products, Gecko-Grip

Flatbed/Hybrid Printer, under $100,000: Mutoh, ValueJet 1617H

UV Flatbed, $100,000-$200,000: Agfa Graphics, Anapurna M2540i FB

UV Flatbed, $200,000-$500,000: Agra Graphics, :Jeti Mira

UV Flatbed with White Ink, $100,000-$200,000: EFI, H1625 LED

UF Flatbed with White Ink, $200,000-$500,000: EFi, EFI VUTEk H2000 Pro

Small Flatbed (Industrial/Small Item Decoration): Mimaki USA Inc., UJF7151plus

Roll-to-Roll, Solvent/Latex, Under 80 in. Wide: Hewlett Packard, HP Latex 370

Roll-to-Roll, Solvent/Latex, Over 80 in. Wide: Mutoh America Inc., VBalueJet 2638X

Roll-to-Roll UV, Under 80 in. Wide: Mimaki USA, JV400SUV-160

Roll-to-Roll UV, Over 80 in. Wide: Durst Image Technology US LLC, Durst Rho 312R

Roll-to-Roll, Direct-Disperse Ink-On-Textile: Durst Image Technology US LLC, Durst Rhotex 322

Roll-to-Roll, Dye-Sublimation on Textile: Epson America Inc., SureColor F2900

Roll-to-Roll, Dye-Sublimation on Metal: Sawgrass, Virtuoso VJ 628

UV Hybrid/Flatbed, HIgh Volume: Agfa Graphics, Jeti Tauro H2500

Large Format Scanner: Paradigm Imaging Group, Colortrac SmartLF SG Series

Congratulations to all the winners.

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