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Shaving Cream on Pie: Tips and Tricks for Food Photography

From social media feeds to restaurant signage, food photography is everywhere. What began as a way to provide imagery that accompanied dish descriptions on menus and restaurant walls has grown into a fad captured as much by smartphones as professional cameras. But professional food photography isn't just pressing a button and hoping your dish looks appetizing in print. Instead, photographers use a variety of fascinating and bizarre food photography tips and tricks to make dishes look as appetizing as possible.

Making Visual Communications Solutions as Smooth as Ice

The Opportunity

Hockey Canada® is the national governing body of ice hockey in Canada. They contacted FASTSIGNS® because they needed assistance producing and installing various types of arena signage for their National Female Midget Championship (NFMC) in April 2013. Since the tournament has a high number of attendees, Hockey Canada needed to control traffic flow and warn attendees of restricted areas, as well increase awareness about the upcoming tournament.

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How to Match Today's Laser Cutting Technology to Application Requirements

Laser cutting, a.k.a. digital die cutting, uses high-powered lasers to vaporize materials in the lasers' beam path. The powering on and off of the laser beam and the way in which the beam path is directed towards the substrate effects the specific cuts that the artwork requires. Because cut away parts are vaporized the hand labor or complicated extraction methods otherwise needed for small part scrap removal is eliminated, by Markus Klemm, R&D Software Engineer, Spartanics.

7 Tips for Printing and Folding Funeral Order of Service Cards Like a Pro -

Written by guest blogger Andre Palko of Tech-ni-Fold USA

The first time a funeral director called us at the office, my mind immediately started racing, at first thinking it a wrong number, and a split second later thinking, "Oh no, who could it be?" Fortunately it was a business call, not to mention a sign of the changing times in the printing industry. The funeral home, it turns out, was having trouble finishing the order of service cards they produced in their office. He explained his frustrations to me. With today's changes in printing and copying technology, printing is no longer the province of skilled craftsmen.

From humble beginnings to big success: Inkjet technology

Who would have thought that Inkjet technology is one of the oldest technologies? Yes, you hear right. While the printing industry has only discovered it in the last 20 years, it has been around much longer. Sabine A Slaughter investigates its roots.

The triumphant success that inkjet technology has attained within the last 10 to 20 years is based on science and research covering almost 300 years of history. Although commercialisation and professional availability only cover a short period in history, the principles and basis theories referring to inkjet have been researched more than 200 years ago. The French scholar and cleric Abbé Jean Antoine Nollet already published a report in 1749 on the effects exerted by static charge on a drop. As part of his research on osmotic pressure and only a year after, he invented the electroscope, a device for detection of electric charge, this has only been one of the many discoveries the 18th century had to offer.