What an honor.  Congratulations to Fleetwood Fixtures and THANK YOU for making us your large format imaging partner! Tweet

Well, this is great news.  Our creative efforts and strategic partnership with Fleetwood Fixtures has yet again been recognized at this years GlobalShop show.  WE HAVE WON BEST OF SHOW!!!  AGAIN!  I’ll be posting photos of the booth including a description of what materials were used to brand the environment.  Come on by and say [...]

Benefits and challenges of going green Fabric Graphics | March 2011 By Holly O’Dell Occupying a niche When Andy Graham wanted to make his print business more environmentally sensitive, he turned to the industry for help. In 2007, the president of Portland Color in Portland, Maine, reached out to the Specialty Graphic Imaging Association (SGIA), [...]

News Release – Full Article SGIA Honors Imaging Companies with 2011 Sustainability Recognition Award March 17, 2011 Contact: Renee Simpson, SGIA 703.359.1360 rsimpson@sgia.org Fairfax, Virginia – SGIA recently recognized an impressive 17 specialty imaging companies for completing the 2011 Sustainability Recognition Program. “Sustainability is more than just going green,” said Marci Kinter, SGIA’s vice president [...]

If you have not had the chance to make the annual trip to Las Vegas to attend GlobalShop… you should consider doing so this year! Come see us at booth 3811 as we team up with Fleetwood Fixtures once again! (In 2009 we won Best Booth and Best of Show, 2010 was the Fleetwood 40th [...]

Green is “in” with more and more architects, store planners and visual merchandisers turning to green solutions to satisfy both eco-aware retailers and their knowledgeable shoppers. But green retail not only makes environmental sense; it also makes dollars. Knowing no borders, the green movement is sweeping across continents, and affecting store design. In this new [...]

An excerpt from this months (Sept 2010) Maine Magazine – featured article about creative culture in Portland. //Andy Graham, Technicolor dreamer, has new ideas about measuring success. Picasso famously said, “Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.” When Andy Graham looks at Portland he [...]

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 then transferred [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]