SGIA 2012 Las Vegas, Exhibitor List for printers, inks, substrates
SGIA (Specialty Graphic Imaging Association) is one of the popular printer trade shows in the U.S., which brings together exhibitors from all around the world, who wish to display the best of their wide-format inket products to thousands of visitors who walk the halls during the three days of the event.
Below we list the kinds of products you can expect to find in the sign expo exhibitor list. Of course SGIA also offers screen printing, still a major industry. But the FLAAR Reports cover primarily wide-format inkjet printers, flatbed cutters, inks, media, coaters, laminators, and RIP software.
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SGIA entrance. New Orleans, 2009. The SGIA 2010 exhibit was much larger and had better audience. We look forward to seeing the exhibitor list for SGIA 2012, October 18-20, 2011, Las Vegas. |
SGIA 2010 was in Las Vegas from October 13th to the 15th, 2010, at Las Vegas Convention Center, if you are interested in signage you could also expect to see the same kinds of products at SGIA 2011 in New Orleans. We will check the SGIA 2012 exhibitor list as soon as it is available (usually a few months before the expo opens).
- Digital Imaging equipment
- Finishing (cutting, coating, laminating)
- Graphics printers
- Point of Purchase POP
- Signs in general (LED, neon: more than printing)
- Outdoor Advertising
- Transit Advertising
- Fleet & Vehicle Graphics
- Glass & Ceramics (with UV-cured flatbed printers)
- Fine Art photography and giclee
- Decals
- Labels
- Textiles and dye sublimation, including heat transfer
- Garments
- Sportswear
- Embroidery
- Screen Printing
- Circuitry
- Membrane Switches
- Nameplates (CO2 laser engraving)
- Pad Printing.
Usually we are out in the aisles taking notes, visiting with colleagues in their booths, and taking notes. So we are not always in our own booth! Our service is to assist the trade show organizer by helping printshop owners understand the benefits of attending.
FLAAR has a staff of about 18 people. Six of us attended SGIA 2010 in Las Vegas. We had a trained team also at SGIA 2011.At least four will attend SGIA 2012, since we promote this trade show to our readers (trade shows are essential to attend).
Why so many? Because we have over lots ofprintshop owners, managers, and printer operators around the world who depend on the FLAAR Reports for leaning what is new, what are the TRENDs, which printers, inks, media, substrates, software, coating, laminating, or XY flatbed cutters to look at.
408,000 read our fine art photo and giclee printer web site each year
496,600 read our digital-photography.org web site last year (lots of these photographers will seek a printer).
596,400 people around the world read our large-format-printers.org web site (eco-solvent and UV-cured printers, cutters, etc). These are reader statistics: not a hit count (which is multiple millions).
917,000 readers came to our wide-format-printers.org web site (water-based printers, textile printers, inks, media, RIP software, coaters, laminators, etc).
It is not realistic for a trade magazine to list the downsides, the issues, and the parts of a printer that need to be improved. Obviously no PR agency will be able to alert you to both the pros and cons of a printer, ink, or cutter. But at FLAAR, we learn what hardware and software works acceptably, and which products have glitches. This information goes into the FLAAR Reports (available on www.wide-format-printers.net).
During a recession even more people get tired of PR releases, Success Stories, faux-reviews, and sham reviews. Print shop owners and managers need to know the actual pros and cons of an ink type, printer system, etc. So we get more readers since they prefer a more independent resource.
We look forward to an acceptable year in 2012.
If you wish to consult with FLAAR, please make an appointment in advance because usually it is not realistic to handle last minute requests. There is a standard professional fee for consultation, but obviously no cost to drop in to say hello.
Las Vegas is definitely better than other locations of past venues. For example, it is a good business decision to skip St Louis (even though this is my home town, it is a boring place for an international expo). St Louis has one of the best zoos in the entire USA; has one of the best botanical gardens and major botanical research centers (Shaw's Garden), good highway system, and is not overpriced like Duesseldorf for DRUPA !
But St Louis is not an enticing place for an international expo (nor is Atlanta; crime rate in downtown Atlanta is too high as well). Downtown St Louis is simply not alive at night.
I look forward to returning to Las Vegasfor SGIA 2012.
Most recently updated January 4, 2012.
Updated April 14, 2011 and January 9, 2011. First posted, September 16, 2010.
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