Influence Graphics has moved and expanded it’s short run digital and large format printing operations  three subway stops away to a new 12,000 facility in Long Island City.  In addition, we have moved our NYC Manhattan sales office next door to 45 West 45th Street on the 8th Floor.  We now have the best of both worlds….a large, well equipped production facility conveniently located only 10 minutes away from our NYC customers and a sales office in the heart of midtown Manhattan where customers can meet with our experienced customer service representatives to review a job and and pick up their completed projects.

Our new facility boasts 2 HP Indigo presses, a Karat 28″ waterless (digital front end) press, a 2 color offset press, a Oce Light Jet Digital C printer,  3 HP Inkjet printers,  Mamaki  and Roland Solvent printers along with a complete array of finishing equipment.

Influence Graphics specializes in fast turnaround, short run digital printing, offset printing, large format poster and banner printing (inkjet and digital C prints) for the New York City market.

Visited the Print 09 trade show in Chicago this week.  How the industry has changed!  8 years ago went I first started going to this trade show it was all about offset printing.  There were hundreds of booths with vendors that supported the offset equipment (gears, blankets, platemakers, etc.).  The big booths were full of heavy iron equipment churning out printed paper by the ton.  The digital equipment vendors all had smaller booths and were on the sidelines.  This year the show was all about digital.  The offset booths had one piece of equipment at the most.  The big names in offset equipment had very little traffic in their booths. By contrast HP with their Indigo line of digital equipment and Xerox with their iGen digital equipment had very busy booths with demonstrations of their latest technologies.  MGI was demonstrating their new digital press which drew a lot of interest.  In addition there was in big increase in the number of software vendors supporting the digital presses.  A very different show then in years past!  Kodak even decided not to bring a single piece of equipment to the show choosing instead to put on a high tech media show.

Influence Graphics New York uses the HP Indigo digital press for all of it’s short run digital printing

This past week Influence Graphics completed a large order of 40,000 catalogs that were printed for Kremer Pigments.  Influence handled the complete job from offset printing, postal database cleansing, address inkjeting to  mailing.  For more information on how Influence Graphics can help you with your digital or offset printing requirements in New York City please give us a call at 212-354-6123

We’d like to congratulate White & Case, a long time client of Influence Graphics on their award for corporate identity graphic design from the Graphic Design USA organization.  Influence Graphics printed the designs on our digital offset HP Indigo digital press.  Influence Graphics provides short run digital printing for customers in the New York City, tri state area.

Ok, well maybe they weren’t real angels but Us Angels, designers of one-of-a-kind special occasion dresses for little girls worked with Influence Graphics for digital offset printing of their  “look books” to showcase their collection as well as printing large format posters of individual product shots.  Their product line is adorable!  If you or someone you know is in the market for a special occasion dress for a childhood milestone event, check out their collection.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office came to Influence Graphics for help in printing batches of digital photos that are taken at various city functions.  Seems everybody wants a picture taken of themselves shaking hands with the popular mayor.  Every major event such as a parade results in  hundreds of pictures taken of the mayor with his constituents  and each one of them wants a keepsake photo.  Influence Graphics uses in HP Indigo digital press to print the high quality photos which are then distributed to the constituents.

The Novotel hotel in New York City recently called on Influence Graphics to help with their current hotel renovations.  Influence Graphics will be offset printing, framing and installing approximately 1,200 poster prints in the newly refurbished guest rooms.  Each new room will receive 3 framed pictures of New York City skyline scenes.

Check out our new video just posted on YouTube.com  It gives a demonstration of the Tec Lighting UV coater operation at Influence Graphics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mciemIx6iPQ

The numers are in.  Last month Facebook took a big step toward Google in the number of unique visitors.  Facebook had 113 million versus 145 for Google.  Those are big numbers and show how our society is changing in the way we interact with each other and consequently how we go about finding friends and business.  Influence Graphics can be found on Facebook at

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=12126368083&ref=nf

Please join our group on Facebook!

To all of the graphic designer who use Influence Graphics for their printing we say….strut your stuff!

The “Designer’s Dream” Design Competition, sponsored by Pantone, Inc., is a promotion in which one Prize Package  will be awarded to one Competition winner who submits an original design using PANTONE® tools and PANTONE Colors in accordance with these Rules and is chosen by a panel of judges.

The Design Submissions must be created by you using at least one PANTONE Color and/or PANTONE tool.

Contestants must declare which PANTONE Colors and/or PANTONE tools were used in their design submissions, and explain how PANTONE tools were an integral part of the project.

Though not required, you may also discuss how using Pantone tools enabled multimedia design, enabled more precise communication through color selection, saved time and money, list what client the project was for, and list out whether you work for a particular design firm.

Hurry as the deadline is June 15th.  To enter visit…….

http://www.creativepro.com/article/designers-dream-giveaway