We recently had the distinct pleasure of working with the US Agency for International Development (www.usaid.gov).  Our task was to produce a large fabric backdrop for their town hall style meetings held across the US.  We printed the backdrops using our Roland SolJet Pro IIV – Grand format aqueous-based dye sublimation printer.  We [...]

Sustainability
Our Sustainability Vision:
Portland Color strives to offer environmentally preferable options to our clients and to continuously discover the most sustainable processes and materials technologically available. Portland Color evaluates our printing projects to reduce our environmental impacts. We look at materials, product manufacture, distribution, use, and waste. We have implemented an Environmental Management System (EMS) to [...]

Dye Sublimation fabric printing gives you stunning results, is cost effective and just one sustainable approach to large format printing.  There are many uses for wide format dye sub fabric such as retail window campaigns, hanging or floor standing banners, trade show booths or as an architectural component.  Because fabric can fold or roll, it [...]

On November 27th 2009, PUMA, global sportlifestyle brand  debuted a unique new retail concept with the opening of their second Chicago store, located in the highly-anticipated Chicago State Street development.  Portland Color produced and installed several wall covering components [...]

What better way to celebrate Earth Day – by being the influence behind the materials used for this years green campaign hosted by Bloomingdale’s for the NRDC.
Bloomingdale’s is partnering with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) through April to celebrate Earth Month. The partnership will be executed through various in-store and online [...]

Today, on the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day, WhatTheyThink, the leading news and information site for the graphic communications industry announced the winners of the WhatTheyThink Environmental Innovation Awards, given in partnership with Unisource Worldwide, Inc. and the Unisource respect Printers’ Program.
The Environmental Innovation Awards recognize companies that are making [...]

Show Announcement
Seeing Portland – 1970 to 1984
Photographs of a pre-technological, pre-gentrified place
Portland in the 1970s was a city on the brink of being reborn. Nestled between the misguided urban renewal of the 1960s and the boom years of the later 1980s it was a time of gestation and redefinition. A [...]

We are excited to announce a new site that will allow you to browse a wide range of products that pair well with our large format products.  Banner stands, table top displays, hanging hardware for retail windows and more.  Have a look around – we have a very competitive price offering for these products – [...]

Well if there’s one thing I hate it’s an outdated website or blog.  How lame right?  That’s what happens when you ‘reset the rudder’ so to speak and become so distracted by the economic meltdown and pour all of your energy into finding new clients (or holding onto existing ones) that you don’t find the [...]

Portland Color was recently honored with an Award for Excellence by the Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI) for the fabrication of several large format fabric panels that were part of an installation in Minneapolis by artist Nancy Ann Coyne. The project is called Speaking of Home and is intended to draw attention the the history [...]