Category: display enclosure

Apprentice Finalist to Head up Sir Alan’s Digital Signage Business

The winner of the UK’s 2009 Apprentice show winner is to work in Sir Alan Sugar’s new digital signage company. This year’s winner of the BBC TV show, Yasmina Siadatan will be teaming up with last year’s winner Lee McQueen at Amscreen. The restaurant owner who last week beat fellow finalist Kate Walsh is to […]

All You Need to Know: Using Computers, Printers, Touch Screens, Monitors and LCDs in Harsh or Hostile Environments

The use of computer equipment is now as wide spread in factories, warehouses and in the industrial sector as it is throughout our offices and homes. There is no wonder really when you consider how useful computer equipment is to monitor and control factory processes or stock levels. There are challenges in using this type […]

Challenging Technology – Part Four – Dealing With Dust

One of the main reasons industrial computer enclosures or factory LCD enclosures are used is to protect against dust. Dust is not just a pain for housewives doing the spring cleaning; dust can have all sorts of adverse effects. Breathing in dust can be extremely dangerous, even innocuous substances can bad not just for your […]

Challenging Technology – Part Three – Keeping Dry

When children are first taught about electricity it is quite common to explain the dangers, and particularly the point that electricity and water do not mix. Yet, there are many areas in such as industrial and factory settings where electronic devices like computers, touch screens, printers and displays have to be used as part of […]

Challenging Technology – Part one – the Deep Freeze

We are used to seeing computers, printers, touch screens, digital signage and other electronic devices everywhere in this day and age. It is a huge contrast to just a few years ago when this sort of electronic technology was only to be found operating in ideal conditions such as offices and homes. However due to […]

Outdoor LCD – Changing the Shape of our High Streets

Signage has always been an important aspect of our lives. From giving us road directions to informing us of the latest sales, signs provide useful information as well as being a direct sales tool for retailers. However, signage has been going through what can only be described as a revolution in recent years thanks to […]

Implementation of Outdoor Digital Signage

The great outdoors has always provided challenges for people and the world of digital signage is no different. Having covered the concourses and receptions of hotels, schools, colleges, shopping malls and even supermarkets digital signage is now being regularly implemented outdoors. But the great outdoors poses plenty of challenges for LCD and plasma devices left […]

Signage in the Digital Age

Getting the message across is just as important today as it was at the turn of the century. Making people aware of products, services and important information is essential for all businesses and always has been but the revolution in media devices over the last few years has made it ever easier to get that […]

History of Signs – from Roman Columns to Digital Signage

The growth of digital signage and use of innovations such as plasma screens and LCD enclosures has caused a revolution but this is nothing new in the history of signage. Signs have been around since human beings first began expressing themselves by drawing in caves. Whilst most of these images were probably ritualistic or spiritual […]

Outdoor Digital Signage – a Death Knell for Neon?

There is something exciting about a street filled with neon lights, the gentle buzz and the flickering colours that advertise everything from sex to jazz clubs makes the perfect setting to any film noir. However, the streets of Soho and the sidewalks of Sunset Boulevard may start to look a lot different as the use […]