Inspiration

Roland DG customers are some of the most imaginative and creative people we've ever met. To support your creativity and need for inspiration,we have created a selection of blog entries to help you get inspired and excited about creating your next vehicle wrap, sign, custom graphic or prototype. The following content ranges from fun articles and infographics to customer interviews and print news.

A Print Wonderland! Take a 3D Look Inside our Roland DGA Headquarters

October 9, 2015 Roland DGA Inspiration , Inkjet Printers & Printers/Cutters , Featured roland dga , roland dga custom products , roland dga products , roland printers

If you’ve never visited our Roland DGA headquarters in Irvine, then here’s a first person 3D look at our Creative Center and showroom via the power of Google. If you can’t stop by our Irvine office to say hello and to take a look at some of the cool graphics on display, this is the next best thing.

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

September 24, 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

September 2, 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

August 19, 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.

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

July 2, 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.

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

May 21, 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.

The WithRoland DG Video Contest

April 21, 2015 Ben Fellowes Tradeshows & Events , Inspiration , Featured free roland printer , roland contest , roland dga video , win a roland printer , with roland

See some of the videos that are making us smile, laugh and cry and enter your own. Who knew that Roland DG print devices could help you fall in love, feed some fish, or get you out of a snowstorm? With less than two weeks to go in our WithRoland DG video contest, we’re calling for Roland DG users to share their video story to win a Roland DG product of their choice and we’re already discovering so much about our customers and how they use Roland DG technology. Here are just a few entries that we’d like to share with you in hope that you too will be inspired to put your WithRoland DG story on film:

What Can’t You Print On?

April 16, 2015 Roland DGA Public Relations Inkjet Printers & Printers/Cutters , Inspiration , Featured flatbed printing , flatbed printers , flatbed uv printing , large format uv printing

The flatbed printer revolution and what it means for your business. When discussing flatbed UV printing, the statement “what can’t you print on!” is probably more appropriate. With the right flatbed device, there are not many items you can’t directly print on. For sign shops and other design and print businesses, UV flatbed printing represents a massive increase in production capabilities.

Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print and begin to build.

How Small Business Entrepreneurs Can Become a Magnet for Luck

March 13, 2015 Ben Fellowes Inspiration , Featured famous business quotes , good luck in business , make luck in business , small business tips

Don’t wait for good things to happen- go out there and make luck work for you! The old adage that success can be achieved by simply outworking the other guy definitely has validity to it. However, it’s widely accepted that “luck” also plays a major role in any business success. As super entrepreneur and multi-billionaire Richard Branson confessed in a recent online interview:

Celebrating the Year of the Goat with 10 Facts About Goats You Never Knew

February 23, 2015 Ben Fellowes Inspiration , Featured goat facts , goat information , goat trivia , year of the goat 2015

February 19th marked the beginning of the year of the goat in the Chinese calendar. To join in the New Year celebrations, we’re presenting 10 super-interesting facts about goats. Use these facts to impress your friends and to avoid looking sheepish during the New Year festivities!