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After twenty years being housed in a 3.000- square-foot facility in Miami Beach, Florida, print provider Impress/DC Media (www.impre55miami.com) had been experiencing tremendous business growth. Because of this, they moved last fall to a larger, 10.000- square foot space in Wynwood, the art district in Miami famous for its vibrant outdoor art displays.

Impress/DC Media has been making a name for itself with unique large format and wallcovering installations featuring local artists' photographs. To enhance its outdoor signage and general commercial printing offerings, they recently added an HP Indigo 7600 Digital Press and HP Latex 850 Printer, as well as a Zünd cutter, to its lineup of in-shop digital printing technologies.

www.slgnshop.com. Impress and DC Media are actually two separate entities-the former handling sheet-fed digital and the latter specializing in large format

output. Impress started up twenty-some-years ago focusing on high-quality work for the area's fashion/modeling industries. Meanwhile DC Media Co-Founder Mike Dean noticed that demand for large format printing was very high in the waterbased world around the early 2000s and co-started DC Media using large format printers and laminators. Dean and his company resold printing services to Impress, eventually "impressing" the owner enough to bring them

on-board. In addition to serving the general public, the companies also broadened its focus beyond fashion to create P-O-S/P-O-P Duratrans and backlit displays for luxury timepiece and fragrance companies found in duty-free store. They're also actively involved with special events like the Art Basel international art shows (the Cannes Film Festival for art) held in Miami

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