AIR Graphics has introduced the new Mini X Banner display to the New England marketplace. This new banner combines the sleek look of a ultra modern design with the ultra easy banner replacement.

This Mini X Banner display comes with the frame, a color graphics banner with grommets and a zipper case all for $24.95.  You can order replacement graphics for $9.95.

Imagine the possibilities of this eye catching design in your business. Do you offer monthly specials? instore promotions? unique opportunities? The Mini X Banner display sets the standard for the ease of marketing. Simply change out the graphic in seconds and your new marketing promotion is ON !

The Mini X Banner display’s easy interchange of graphics allows the marketing department to determine the promotions, have graphics created and with a schedule of release dates each location can replace the graphics.

AIR Graphics will print the graphics from your uploaded file and ship to your locations to make it effortless.

THE BIODEGRADABLE POLYSTYRENE CENTER, with 15% recycled content, is formulated with “bio resins”. These bio resins cause the discarded foamboard to degrade in landfills or commercial composters once the foam is exposed to a bacteria-rich environment. These bio resins actually transform the structure of the polystyrene, while attracting microorganisms that metabolize and neutralize the plastic. After decomposition, only a biomass compost remains . This material is safe for the environment.

Our exclusive polystyrene center requires one to five years for 100% breakdown, whereas conventional foamboards will not biodegrade for 80 to 450 years.

Is there a “green trade-off” in terms of performance? No way. On the job, AIR Graphic’s biodegradable products are virtually identical to standard foam board. The difference is, BIODEGRADABLE foam boards return to nature when their working life is over.

THE BREAKDOWN OF THE BIODEGRADABLE FOAMBOARD WILL NOT BEGIN UNTIL IT IS DISCARDED IN A LANDFILL OR SIMILAR SOLID WASTE FACILITY.

When Susan Ransom, Marketing Director of PDT Architects (www.pdtarchs.com), called AIR Graphics for pricing on a trade show booth, the idea was to attach some basic color graphics with velcro to the material that came with the booth. That all changed as soon as the framing was set up.

Graphic designer Judy Paolini, the owner of TPDA (www.tpda.com), looked past the limits of the framework. She and Susan started by stringing LED lights inside the side panels. AIR Graphics then printed and laminated an abstract image onto mylar. With these bowed sheets and the lighting, the hard edges of a typically industrial looking device were transformed. The LED lights shining behind the mylar gave the booth a decided glow, expanded the width and softened the hard edges. Rather than have a run-of-the-mill curved booth, the design team, which included Principals Brian Curley and David Webster, chose to leave key structural panels open on the front side and hung color tinted mylar sheets across the back. The immediate effect was to draw attention to the booth and the strategically placed images. Finally, the design team took the booth carrying case, which functions as the front table of the finished display, and dressed it up with prefabricated sheet metal purchased at Home Depot. The sheets were hand-tooled to wrap around the table and the entire display was topped off with a three dimensional PDT logo sign attached to the halogen light clamp that extended above the top of the display.

Talk about thinking (and building) outside the box!

$1,000.00

• Model No. C6074B
• Serial No. SG25313117
• 128 MB installed Ram, (maximum).
• Excellent Running Condition
• Number of Plots (from Service Print) = 1279
• Nearly NEW!!!

KIP 1020 Black & White Plotter “Great Half Size Printer”

$950.00

• Sheet fed, half size printer.
• Will print up to 18 x 24.
• Perfect for the right user.

Below is a PDF with some news clippings about our Green Initiatives. Left click to view, right click to download.

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In the past the greatest obstacle to this transformation was price. In Europe the price of color plotting is considerably less than in the United States. The result of this disparity is that while Europe prints less than half the square footage of their peers in the United States the bulk of their large format printing is done in color!

New technology, including some very efficient color printers are making major changes in how reprographers look at large format color printing. We have installed a number of state-of-the-art color plotters and determined that PRODUCTION COLOR PLOTTING can be done COST-EFFICIENTLY.

These changes to the cost of printing in color will make new applications available to the A/E/C community. Cover sheets can be printed with a color rendering. Coordination drawings can be printed in color. And, the engineer can now print and see multiple layers and disciplines more easily than ever and have more readable documents going into the field. Copies of red-line plans can be made available to everyone

With the greater use of color, a new way of looking at color prints is necessary. High end color presentation graphics, with full color coverage, will continue to be priced much higher than the production prints quoted above. Production color, on the other hand, will yield quick, inexpensive, readable plan documents that enhance the construction work flow because of the added enhancements of color to the image.

If you’re using color now, your prices will most likely go down. If you have avoided large format color printing because of cost we think you’ll be pleasantly surprised and suggest that you look at this service. Color plotting can be an affordable option for many applications.

For more information, or a price quote on color printing and copying, call Kevin Cully at 617-471-3373 ext. 227 or email him at kcully@airgraphics.com

Architectural and engineering drawings are destined for the same fate. Either they will be scanned and organized in a manner that will make them easy to retrieve, or they will be lost forever. Now there are drawings that should be saved in their original hard copy form. Some are great works of art. The problem is that, in most cases, they are buried in a back room with thousands of other drawings from the pre-CAD era.

Setting the “drawing as art” discussion aside, all those documents do have intrinsic value and need to be captured. In the past, such a project was far too expensive and time consuming, often involving expensive software that had to be mastered and an in-house database that had to be managed.

AIR Graphics has a solution. Large format scanning is what we do…we have more equipment and technical expertise than any software company does. Your massive sea of drawings is brought under control, duplicates are removed and the cleaned up, documents are scanned and posted to a database. Now, when a drawing is needed, you can find it easily, view it quickly, download a copy with ease and the archive is not compromised.

The AIR Graphics Scanning and Archiving Service provides:

Mitigate Risk

• Reduce the exposure and manage risk of document loss
• Reduce the exposure to litigation and legal ramifications

Organization

• Documents are organized
• Documents are always where you expect them to be

Budgeting

• No billing surprises, easily budgeted
• You are notified of all prices in advance

Saves Time

• In accessing the documents and getting them printed

Viewing

• Documents can be viewed from your workstations (if all you need to do is zero in on a detail)
• Your consultants can be invited to view your archived documents from their workstations

Printing

• Print thumbnails from your workstation
• Print to large format printers.
• Order high resolution prints from AIR Graphics at your workstation

Productivity

• Archive complete document records for future (renovation work; design details, procurement, etc.)

You also need to get the documents to the bidders who have told you they are going to give you a price.

So why not kill two birds with one stone?

• The bidder receives an email from you and clicks on the “YES, I WILL BID” button.
• Immediately, the specific documents for that bid start to automatically download to the bidders desktop!

This service is available now at AIR Graphics.

So how much would it cost?

How about 10 cents a file download?

Below is a real world example that assumes the contractor has a bid document with a hundred 30×42 plans in it. The contractor has determined what plans are needed for each bid package and how many bidders will be invited to bid. With a few clicks of a mouse, the emails go out and he is done.

Total cost – $306.00 to distribute over 3000 full size plans.

Total Bid Distribution Cost $306.90

Some would ask, “Why should I pay for the plans to be downloaded to my bidder?”. The answer is security. The security that you know that each bidder has the proper plans needed to bid the project correctly and you have a record of what was distributed. You know when he received the plans, you know what plans he received and you can prove it. That is worth far more than a few hundred dollars on this multi-million dollar construction project we are using as an example.

AIR Graphics is committed to a vision of the future that positions us as a partner in your bid process. Solid procedures that will provide valuable safeguards and precise record keeping for all you bids.

Click on the email link below and simply say, “I want a demo!”. We will send you a broadcast. Click on “bid acknowledgement” and watch the files download to your desktop.

kcully@airgraphics.com