On Thursday, September 18th, "Team PacBlue" welcomed our valued customers and friends to the Grand Opening of our new facility at 380 West 2nd Avenue in Vancouver.

This exciting event was an opportunity to open our doors and celebrate our 6th Open House which once again was a great success.

We, the PacBlue Team always look forward to meeting with you, our customers in person and this year we were very proud to show you around our new home.

Surrounded by images of sporting greats scanned on our new Cruse Scanner and printed on our LightJet 430, guests wandered around familiarizing themselves with the new facility and equipment. Our extremely knowledgeable Team offered invaluable information as they toured people around the building.

An exciting addition this year was our guest speaker, 1996 Olympic Gold Medalist Robert "Blast Off" Esmie who held the floor every 40 minutes as he explained how one bad hand-off could ruin an entire race. Robert is preparing to compete in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens in the 100m race and we at PacBlue are proud to be sponsoring him in this endeavor. Robert's enthusiasm, self discipline, attitude, commitment and incredible talent are an inspiration to all who come in contact with him. Everyone enjoyed his presentation immensely.

In the Boardroom, Devlin Russel (our colour specialist) presented a Colour Management seminar that demonstrated our comprehensive colour management system. This attracted a lot of interest and we will be running these seminars on an ongoing basis at your request.

After the tour was over, it was down to the loading bay, where refreshments were waiting. To the sounds of Hockey night in Canada, Queen and Take me out to the Ball Game among others, guests sat on bleachers and chowed down on Jumbo Smokies from Hot Dog Johnny's, peanuts, nachos, popcorn, mini-donuts, cookies and of course those amazing cakes courtesy of Louise Beaton! Not to mention the beer and wine that were flowing.

Once again the party continued well into the evening and a lot of fun was had by all.

To all our guests who graced our event, thank you and for those of you who were unable to make it, please give your salesman a call and set up a time for a personal tour of our new location. We look forward to seeing you.

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PacBlue now offers you digital full colour, durable outdoor banners, signs and graphics at quite a savings over standard laminated inkjet.

Our new six colour solvent ink Mimaki JV-3 printer is designed primarily for the OUTDOOR SIGN MARKET with inks that will last up to 3 years It prints up to 60" wide with 6 brilliant permanent outdoor pigment inks - Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black, Light Cyan and Light Magenta - for near photographic quality up to 720 x720 dpi. without lamination and 5 years with lamination.

We are printing full colour banners on a variety of indoor and outdoor banner vinyl's as well as adhesive vinyl's. Now you can provide files with shadows, outlines, logos, even photographs and have them printed directly on the banner. Because these materials don't need lamination to be completely waterproof, the banners sell for considerably less than a standard inkjet banner.

For more information on this valuable new service contact Sales at 604.714-3288 ext. 108 or 125


Additional New Printer Increases Throughput Capacity

We recently added a new Xerox DocuColor 6060 (big brother to our DocuColor 2045) to our rapidly expanding colour graphics department.

This digital colour printer prints 60 full-color pages per minute or 3,600 images per hour and offers a resolution of 600 x 600 pixels per inch with a full eight bits of color depth per pixel.

By adding the powerful, fast and reliable DocuColor 6060 we have increased our throughput capacity by over 133 percent. It also enables us to print on heavier card stocks up to 14 points at faster speeds.

The DocuColor 6060 dramatically extends the boundaries of digital printing and the benefit to you our client, is faster and more reliable job turnaround.

Call Sales at 604.714-3288 ext. 108 or 125.