Iced the Deal

Digi-Pix Signs (Ontario, CO), a commercial-sign company and a digital-photo processor, provided the signs and banners for the Colorado Eagles minor-league hockey team and the Colorado Ice minor-league indoor-arena football team. Brady Stumpf, Digi-Pix Signs’s general manager, said, as the official sign company of the two teams, the 50, 3 x 8-ft. banners and the 33, 3 x 6-ft. dasher banners for the Ice and the 12, 4 x 10-ft. banners and one, 8 x 20-ft. banner for the Eagles tallied the shop's largest banner order to date.

Most of the banners were digitally printed on a Mutoh America Inc. Prism Jet using eco-solvent Ultra inks. The 8 x 20-ft. pre-made banner has vinyl decal logos, which were printed on Oracal USA 3651 and laminated with Oraguard 210.

All the banners were priced at $6.50 per sq. ft., which, according to Stumpf, underbid three other competitors and led to a $10,374 order.

“With the two large orders and the rest of the banners that we receive from other customers, we decided to upgrade our production and purchased a Mutoh America Inc. JV3-160,” Stumpf said. “We are now running two printers, and I have also received the contract again for the Colorado Eagles this year. I’m starting production for them again.”

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