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See the very best of Roland DGA News Views & How To's articles in this shortlist of all our latest and most popular blogs. From color infographics to facts about goats, Roland DG's featured articles are as diverse and wonderful as our inkjet printers, dental mills, CNC mills, software and writing staff.

Meet Some Successful Large Format Graphics Businesses and Discover Why they Chose Roland DG

24 September 2015 Roland DGA Inkjet Printers & Printers/Cutters , Inspiration , Featured roland inkjet , roland print customer stories , roland printer customers , roland vs latex

At Roland DGA, we love our customers and we’re inspired by what they do with Roland DG products. We recently visited three Roland DGA customers who are doing really exciting things in the sign and graphics industry and asked them why they chose Roland DG printers. Here is a short video of what they had to say:

Top 10 Do’s and Don’ts of Great Car Wrap Design

02 September 2015 Ben Fellowes Tips & Tricks , Inkjet Printers & Printers/Cutters , Inspiration , Featured vehicle wrap , vehicle wraps do's and dont's , vehicle wrap tips , vehicle wraps

Before you start designing, you should size up the vehicle. Photograph the vehicle from all sides and take key measurements of the sides, hood, rear, roof and bumpers, then scale the photos accordingly in your design software.

The Fab11 Conference – Inspiring and Hacking into the Future

19 August 2015 Tiffany Wakimoto Inspiration , Milling & 3D Printing , Featured fab lab mit campus , fab labs , fab11 conference boston , fablab11

Have you ever thought to yourself, “Am I doing enough to make an impact on this world?” That’s how I felt when I arrived at the Fab11 conference in Boston, but by the end of the day, I was INSPIRED. The conference, held on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus was full of passionate people sharing projects to encourage creativity and ingenuity, and to make digital fabrication accessible to everyone, everywhere. I met some exceptional people who are introducing the concept of fabrication and technology to children in the most rural areas of the world who may never have seen a computer before to educate and encourage them to use their imaginations to create and build.

GoPro Camera Accessory 3D Printed

31 July 2015 Ben Fellowes Milling & 3D Printing , Featured arm 10 3d parts printing , gopro 3d print , gopro 3d printed accessories , gopro 3d stl

Roland DG’s monoFab ARM-10 is the kind of device that helps engineers, product designers, artists and other creative people solve problems. At our Roland DG headquarters in Irvine, that’s exactly what we find ourselves doing more and more, as we continue to discover new ways to use this handy desktop 3D printer.

De-Mystifying Some Myths About Eco-Solvent Ink

22 July 2015 Roland DGA Inkjet Printers & Printers/Cutters , Featured eco sol max , eco-sol , eco-solvent , inkjet printers , latex ink , roland vs latex

We hear a lot of debate on the subject of eco-solvent ink vs. latex ink and as the company that produces Eco-Sol® MAX, the most popular inks in the wide format durable graphics printer market, we feel the need to dispel some myths others send around the industry, so that buyers are aware of the real facts before deciding upon a wide format printer and ink system.

Roland DG Joins the Fury with the Lotus Mad Max F1 Car

02 July 2015 Roland DGA Inkjet Printers & Printers/Cutters , Inspiration , Featured car wraps , f1 lotus mad max , f1 racing car , mad max fury road cars , roland inkjet , roland soljet

Likely, most Roland DG vehicle wrap users and other Roland DG gearheads have already seen the Mad Max Fury Road movie with its spectacular array of post apocalyptic hotrods and weirdly wonderful machines. What you might not know is that Roland DG had a small part to play in the promotion of this movie with a very special F1 car that looks like it spent more time in the deserted wastelands of Australia, chasing after the elusive Mad Max than it has on an F1 track.

Planting a Jurassic Idea with NOTLabs and Roland DG 3D Milling Technology

18 June 2015 Ben Fellowes Milling & 3D Printing , Featured 3d milling , jurassic world toys , lego prototype , notlabs , roland mdx-540

Roland DGA talked to Shawn Sims from NOTLabs about his Jurassic World Toys project and prototyping with the MDX-540S. To coincide with the merchandising of its Jurassic World collection of movie themed products, Target reached out to design trendsetters, NOTCOT, to see what they could come up with. With the help of the Roland DG MDX-540S rapid prototyping machine, they created custom designed and milled desktop planters that look like Lego® pieces and are simply “Rex’trodinary.”

Roland DGA Visits Art Center College of Design to See the Next Generation of Innovators In-Action

11 June 2015 Roland DGA Milling & 3D Printing , Featured 3d prototype , art center college pasadena , cnc milling machines , rapid prototype

We love to see our technology being used in educational settings. So, it was especially exciting to visit the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena to see how the next generation of industry leaders are being trained using Roland DG technology.

With Roland DG Videos #2 – Roland DG Machines In-Action

21 May 2015 Ben Fellowes Inspiration , Featured print machine videos , printing videos , roland printing video , with roland video

Our With Roland DG video contest generated a great response from Roland DGA customers who allowed us into their businesses and lives to share how Roland DG machines have helped them grow and succeed. The contest is now over and the winner of a brand new Roland DG has been chosen, but we loved watching all the video entries, so we’d like to share some of them here. In the second of our series of videos that celebrate our With Roland DG entrants and the amazing work they do, here is a sample of the videos that show Roland DGA customers in-action.

3 Things You Should Know About Dye-Sublimation

14 May 2015 Roland DGA Public Relations Dye-Sublimation , Tips & Tricks , Featured apparel printing , dye sublimation , soft signage , sublimation printing

Digital printing technology has improved rapidly, and as a result, it’s merged and diversified industries so that screen printers are now offering digital printing and sign shops are able to offer apparel. We saw this type of industry adaptation happen with the emergence of eco-solvent printers, and we can see it now with dye-sublimation printers.