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What do your walls say about you?

Cristina — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:45:11 +0000

Medical Office Wall Graphics

Your white walls “symbolize freshness, purity and cleanliness.”, according to Home and Garden Television.

I think you can use that space more effectively. Incorporating creative design into your space can set it apart, presenting a cohesive message to your employees and visitors. You can reinforce your corporate brand or your product.

Many people value a decorated work space, making custom wallcoverings much more common. Architects and interior designers are always looking to create an atmosphere that is unique to a specific company. Custom wallcoverings are an ideal solution.

Museums, retail stores, and hospitality venues frequently use wall murals. Transit buildings such as airports and train stations frequently use corporate wall murals, decorating the space while using advertising to grab the travelers’ attention.

Enhance a Colour has helped many companies brand their environment.

E-Rate Online reinforced their corporate identity using their logo, branding message, and taglines on their building’s walls.

Crystal Rock added a new Learning & Development Center, branding the walls, and the windows with the products they carry. The classroom and product showroom help keep their employees up to date on the product catalog.

The Crab Shell Restaurant in Stamford, CT, located on the shore of the Long Island Sound, branded their outdoor seating using custom table tops, allowing their customers to “Rock the Dock”.

You can brand your environment too. Call Jodi Taubl at 800-894-0264 and request our Digital Surfaces brochure to learn more.

Corporate Office Backdrop

Corporate Board Rooms

Museum Entrance Lobbies

Corporate Branding

Restaurants

E-Rate Online Corporate Office Branding

Crystal Rock Learning Center

Crab Shell Custom Table Top

Learn about Custom Printed Eco-friendly Wallpaper

Enhance a Colour is now producing custom printed PVC-Free Wall Paper. This product emits no harsh chemicals or odors when printed with our latex eco-solvent inks. This material is FSC certified, mold and mildew resistant, and can be used in GREENGUARD certified locations. The PVC-Free Wall Paper is also easy to install, as the paper is pre-pasted and only requires water for application and clean-up.

Johnnie Walker, Mike & Ike and others have learned…

Cristina — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:39:44 +0000

Using dye-sub fabric is ideal for promotions, trade shows, and special events.

Fabric POP Ceiling Banner and Wall Art

Enhance a Colour, doing business since 1988, has been using dye-sublimation processes to create banners and displays for our customers since 1995.

Today, we can print up to 122 inches wide using transfer paper or 192 inches wide direct to the material using a dye sublimated process. To our knowledge, we are the only one capable of producing 16 foot wide printed fabric, having designed and constructed a heat transfer machine to our exact specifications for the purpose.

Some competitors will try to sell you printed fabric created using solvent inks. Watch out for this. Our dye sublimated printed fabric is machine-washable. You can steam out wrinkles, and clean dirty areas with no impact to the image. Ask our competitors if you can do the same with their solvent printed fabric. You will also find the colors on solvent printed fabrics do not last as long as our durable dye sublimated fabric prints, which have colors that one trade-show visitor remarked “popped” when compared to the other samples at a recent Surfaces trade show event.

Other competitors will try and convince you to use vinyl for your project. Using printed fabric is a better choice when you consider that it is easier to fold and lighter to ship. This means that our printed fabric is cheaper to ship, resulting in added savings over a long trade show season, or from the multi-site special event campaign.

Fabric Wall Art Stretched Over Wooden Frames

Hanging Fabric Ceiling Banner

Fabric Step & Repeat Banner Stand and Pop-Up Banner

Fabric Pull-Up Banners

When you are looking to promote your next product, ask one of us to help you explain the multiple styles of fabric we are carrying in stock and how we can use printed fabric, or any of our other capabilities to complete your project.

Re-Inventing Your Existing Trade Show Exhibit Booth

Cristina — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:41:10 +0000

So many times people who have had their Trade Show Exhibit Booths for 5 or 10 years think they have to redo their entire Exhibit Booths when in most cases a “fresh set of graphics” will do the trick. Yes, it is a fact that technology has made the new Trade Show and Exhibit booths much lighter and easier to set up, but when budgets are a concern, and you already own your booth, a fresh set of graphics most times will do the trick. Enhance a Colour, as a full service, large format printing company with just about every type of technology has the staff and expertise to help. The next time you are evaluating what to do about your trade show booth, why not, gives us a call and let us show you how to get a “better bang for your buck”.

Re-Inventing an Existing Trade Show Booth

Empress Ambulance Vehicle Graphics

Cristina — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:36:02 +0000

Empress EMS located in Yonkers, NY services 9-1-1 calls to the City of Yonkers as well as emergency and non-emergency calls to surrounding areas in Westchester County, NY. Being a busy facility they are continually purchasing new vehicles and upgrading existing vehicles to compliment their existing fleet of vehicles ranging from vans and box truck to SUV’s.

Empress EMS came to Enhance a Colour to produce their fleet graphics. Each style of emergency vehicle has its own layout and we were to keep each of those vehicles graphics consistent within each style. Our pre-production staff re-created the artwork from existing vehicles in the fleet to accomplish branded consistency.

Installed either on-site or at Enhance a Colour’s manufacturing plant in Danbury, a Ford E-450 and two Ford E-350 van style ambulances now have reflective cut vinyl lettering and 4-color logos printed to reflective adhesive material. The side windows have white perforated vinyl material applied to them and on the van style vehicles the rear windows have 4-color printed perforated material installed. These are the first three of many more to come from Empress EMS.

Empress EMS E-450 Ambulance Vehicle #401

Empress EMS E-350 Ambulance Vehicle #104 & 103

Enhance a Colour Helping “Newsies” Light The Way

Cristina — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:32:09 +0000

"Newsies" at the Papermill Playhouse, New Jersey

In August 2011, Enhance a Colour was called upon by Hudson Scenic to help with the imagery in the production of “Newsies” at the Papermill Playhouse in New Jersey. The issue was to place an image directly on Twin Wall material that would create translucent and transparent pieces. With our flat bed printers, routers, and a “day-night-day” process, our creative staff and production team were able to achieve such an effect.

“Day-night-day” is a process in which we print a layer of 4-color, a layer of white, and then a second layer of 4-color. Translucency and backlight ability are accomplished to give your images quality visibility when not lit and vibrant rather than washed-out color when backlit. In this case, the images were printed first surface using UV inks to make the prints durable. An interesting challenge our creative staff and production crew met was to make the Ground Row Back Layer and the Ground Row Front Layer line up identically with the Side Wall Panels which were an abnormal size of 5’W x 12’H.

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Ground Row - Front Layer

Side Wall

Ground Row - Back Layer

Side Wall - Backlit

For printed pieces to be transparent yet translucent enough to shine a light source through it, we spot-printed a double strike of 4-color UV inks to the Twin Wall materials. In areas where the producers wanted the light to truly come through, there was no ink printed at all. A light spray of ink was used in areas where they wanted the Twin Wall to shine, but be somewhat opaque. Examples of this spot-print double strike process to attain this unique look are found in the Jacobi Windows and the Front Ground Row.

Jacobi Windows

Front Ground Row

In addition to printing the Twin Wall material, Enhance a Colour produced several other visuals. “The moon” was printed and finished using our 16ft dye-sublimated backlit artist fabric. We printed a number of other fabric panels to wrap flats. Lastly, for the main set we printed the image of a newspaper on our vinyl mesh/textilene so the light designer could shine images off of it.

"Newsies"

Fabric

“Newsies” had a successful run at the Papermill Playhouse from September 15^th to October 16^th. We thank Hudson Scenic for giving us the chance to assist them with their project. After reading this case study, we hope you will contact us to help you with your next project using all of our unique and custom services geared toward the scenic industry.

"Newsies"

From Floors to Ceilings, Enhance a Colour Has Got your Surfaces Covered!

Cristina — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:50:33 +0000

Wall Tiles: 12" x 12" ceramic wall tiles printed with 4-color process UV inks and coated with liquid UV protective over-laminate to give added durability. Overall size 5 foot by 14 foot wall mural. Photo of the Amalfi Coast, Italy - Enhance a Colour Kitchen

A custom tile mural can be a beautiful, durable investment that creates a lasting impression and distinction. Custom tile murals can be printed on ceramic, porcelain, glass or tumbled marble and are suitable for walls and floors in any environment from offices, lobby entrances, restaurants, backsplashes and bathrooms.

Wall Tiles: 6" x 6" ceramic wall tiles showing an underwater seascape as an 8 foot by 8 foot wall. Photo of a Seascape - Enhance a Colour Stairwell

Dye-sublimated Glass Tiles Koi Pond Mural Close-Up

Floor Tiles: 12" x 12" unbreakable dye-sublimated, printed from second surface, glass tiles that are 3/8" thick and can be used as floor tiles for a walkway, entrance or special floor space. Photo of a Koi Pond - Enhance a Colour Hallway

Have you ever looked up at the tiles of a drop ceiling and thought that it would be a perfect canvas for environmental graphics? We have! Turn those boring ceiling tiles into a work of art, by using photographic images or even your company brand. Surfaces are all around us, you just need to look around and imagine!

Ceiling Tiles: Full color UV printed ceiling tiles with a UV liquid protective over-laminate can be used for reception areas, hallways, conference areas and anywhere a special effect is needed. 12" x 12", 24" x 24" and 24" x 48" sizes available. Drop Ceiling Mural in Corporate Lobby

Drop Ceiling Mural in Enhance a Colour Hallway

Contact Enhance a Colour today and ask how we can help you turn your vision into a beautiful reality, the only limit is your imagination! Call (888) 907-8370 and ask for Jim O’Connor.

Kung-Fu Returns

Cristina — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:39:28 +0000

This is the second vehicle our client, Steve DeMasco’s Shaolin Studios, has asked us to transform. The vehicle they brought us was a Saturn Vue to completely wrap with the Shaolin Studios Kung-Fu graphics, this time using a different background color than the first.

With our expert pre-imaging and installation crew, we wrapped the entire vehicle with 3M vinyl adhesive and matching lamination. From the hood to the rear hatch, the Kung Fu graphics stand out making a stunning mobile billboard for our client, as well as creating a cohesive look for their fleet.

Enhance a Colour’s vehicle graphic solutions help to promote your brand image by turning your vehicle or fleet into mobile billboards. Helping you to expand the reach, frequency and impact of your advertising dollars, so that you can grow your business’s bottom line, no matter how big or how small.

Shaolin Studios Saturn Vue Vehicle Wrap

Trade Show and Event Displays

Cristina — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:36:22 +0000

Pull-up displays are a great way to promote your product or business. They are easy to set-up and take-down, as well as easy to transport when on the road. Use them at trade shows, special events as well as lobbies and retail spaces. An added benefit to these types of displays is that you buy the frame once and can change out the printed graphics as easily and often as you like.

Pepsico Pull-Up Banner Displays

WINDOW GRAPHICS DRAW IN THE CUSTOMERS

Cristina — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:02:49 +0000

Promote your products using your window surfaces. Enhance a Colour can print full color graphics onto perforated window material using your artwork, branding or slogan, and install them onto the window’s exterior or interior surfaces.

Perforated window graphics are an excellent way to advertise to passers-by and promote your business day and night. Looking out from the inside, the windows seem to be tinted and your view is un-obscured by the graphics on the opposite side.

Utilize all of your surfaces to promote your brand or product 24 hours a day.

Window Graphics

Colour Takes Form on Digital Surfaces – High Pressure Laminate Prints

Cristina — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:33:14 +0000

Enhance a Colour welcomes you to our world of digitally printed laminate technology; a place where your ideas come to life in high resolution. High pressure laminate (HPL) is our latest success in R&D, which combines the most advanced graphic imaging technology with the proven durability of high pressure laminates.

This technology embeds your full color designs to your chosen laminated panel surface using extreme heat and pressure to create a permanent fusion of the image with unmatched durability and brilliant color reproduction. HPL panel surfaces include Formica, fiberglass, wood, aluminum, steel and marble surfaces. These environmentally friendly coatings are free of VOCs, free of lead and other heavy metals, and phthalates.

The Benefits of this High Pressure Digital Laminate Process:
• Scratch resistance
• High resolution
• Subsurface
• Stain resistance
• Full vibrant color
• Customizable
• Digital One Of A Kind