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Posted on by Regan Dickinson Posted in News & Trends
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A Sky High, Wire Walking Diversion in Sarasota

Nik Wallenda does a high wire walk across US 41 in SarasotaThere are a lot of great reasons to visit Sarasota, Fla., chief among them is LexJet headquarters. There are also white sand beaches with azure waters, a temperate climate, Major League spring training, museums, top-notch restaurants, and so forth.

What also makes Sarasota unique is the unexpected. No, not hurricanes, which are actually fairly rare on the southwest coastline of Florida, but the impromptu odd events that happen here and there.

Today it was high-flying (or walking) acrobat and high-wire artist Nik Wallenda, who describes himself as King of the Wire. Wallenda wowed a crowd with a skywalk across US 41, the main drag through Sarasota.

Suspended about 180 feet in the air, Wallenda made the 500-foot-long walk from the top of a crane to an adjacent building without a tether. The wind picked up more than expected, but Wallenda made it safely across to the cheers of thousands who stopped to watch.

Our man on the scene, LexJet videographer Sean McGettigan, captured the moment in the video embedded below. Sean, by the way, also creates all the handy how-to videos you can find at our YouTube site: www.youtube.com/lexjet. Thanks Sean, and enjoy Wallenda’s daredevil walk Sean captured today…

Posted on by Regan Dickinson Posted in Case Studies & Profiles
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Turning a Bar Mitzvah into a Basketball Court with Inkjet Printing

Printing floor graphics on a dance floor

With the large-format inkjet printing tools and media now at your disposal you can decorate just about anything, and turn the humdrum into something special.  That’s exactly what Brett Feldman, owner of Unlimited Exposures, Manalapan, N.J., did at a recent bar mitzvah.

Printing graphics for a bar mitzvahThe party planner, Marquis Florals & Event Design by Kim in Matawan, N.J., was interested in doing something completely off the wall, both literally and figuratively, and asked Brett if he could create a basketball court on the dance floor at the venue. Having worked with Photo Tex PSA repositionable fabric from LexJet before, Brett thought this material would be the perfect one-night dance floor material.

“The Photo Tex surface is not officially slip resistant, Michael Clementi [Brett’s personal customer specialist] made sure I knew that. However, when I discussed it with the party planner we both agreed that it was actually less slippery than the marble floor,” Brett says. “There were more than 100 kids and 50 adults at the event and the dance floor was packed all night. The floor held up great; the graphic didn’t peel off the floor and stick to anyone’s feet, and no one slipped on it. In fact, someone dropped a glass with liquid in it on the floor and it wiped right off.”

Inkjet printing floor graphicsThe total size of the basketball court graphic was 50′ x 20′. Brett printed it in 15 panels on his Canon iPF8300 44″ inkjet printer. Each panel was printed at about 38″ x 20′ and applied to the marble dance floor area, which is surrounded by carpet.

“I’ve used Photo Tex for our walls, as well as LexJet Aqueous Perforated Vinyl for our storefront windows, so this application was a breeze,” Brett says. “Now I’m getting requests for more of the same, and I say, ‘No problem…'”