SGIA - Industrial Community Page

Here are some of the new resources SGIA has developed for Industrial Imagers, check these out or browse through our Technology, Business Management or Training and Education Resources.

Featured Technology

Proper techniques for printing control panel overlays
Explore the basics of high-precision printing for controls panels, instruments and graphic overlays.

Dynamic on-press trouble shooting:
Learn high performance methods and practices for on-press problem solving.

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Featured Government & Business Information

FREE Safety Posters
Want to keep safety on the minds of your employees? SGIA's got the answer: Free posters on the safety topics that impact industrial-use printers most. Available in both English/Spanish and English/French Canadian.

New — SGIA's 4-Step Sustainability Action Plan
Interested in starting down the sustainability pathway, but unsure where to start? Check out SGIA's resources which include compliance checklists, webinars, metric worksheets and more.

Surveys & Statistics
Your headquarters for graphic imaging industry statistics. Learn the industry's financial outlook, business growth plans, marketing trends, business practices, and much more, each with a special section devoted to industrial-use printers.

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Featured Training & Education

SGIA Brown Bag: Industrial Imaging
Join SGIA for a freewheeling panel discussion on the current state of industrial imaging, focusing on new technologies in industrial imaging applications.

Membrane Switch Symposium

This Symposium will provide hard-hitting seminars on the market trends, production developments and new technologies available in this diverse community.

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Welcome New Members!

CROMOS

Colordex Comércio de Produtos Textil Ltda

FORSSTROM High Frequency AB

Watersports Warehouse Inc

SunRay Scientific

Featured Viewpoint

Robert Tarzwell

Symposium Keynote Discusses New Printed Electronics Trends

SGIA Spoke to Robert Tarzwell, an Independent Consumer Electronics Consultant and the 2010 Printed Electronics and Membrane Switch Symposium Keynote speaker, about some exciting industry developments.

Question: Is the single sided nature of the functional circuit types we produce the only major barrier to moving printed electronics into more markets, or just the largest of several barriers?

Answer: Single sided is a major problem but it has been overcome with the silver bullet system where you can now due multi-layers. Solderability is a big problem as well as the thickness of the silver to get lower resistance. Another big problem is lack of reliability data.

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