Occasional Musings

What’s New at IGT America

Welcome to the first post of my new blog.  My name is Troy Breidenbach and I am President of IGT America.  Our primary business has historically been custom printed dry-erase boards.  These are both magenetic and non-magnetic in any size up to 40×84.  We sell some sizes in frames and some as just skins.  We also do a fair amount of business with the adult beverage industry.  We make those cool aluminum embossed signs that hang in bars and restaurants all over the country.

About a year ago, I found a love for photography.  I remember telling our graphic designer, Eric Meffley (who is a professional photographer), “I just want to be able to take good pictures of my kids playing sports”.  He talked my into reading Scott Kelby’s Digital Photography Book. Scott makes everything seem so fun and easy, I was immediately hooked.

Jump forward to last month…I decided to buy a new Epson GS6000 64″ Solvent printer that let’s IGT America start to print vinyl banners, posters, car wraps, and … CANVAS PRINTS. As soon as the installation was finished, I printed a 24×36 gallery wrap and a 16×20 gallery wrap. Its amazing how much better prints look at that size. In discussing possible uses, Eric and I decided that we could offer these to other photographers. If we were going to offer canvas, we thought, we should have more to offer. So we decided to also make our aluminum products available. We had been printing on those products for quite some time for our own purposes, but never considered selling them to others – weird I know. I had been following Jason D. Moore and noticed that he had photo of the month contests pretty regularly. I decided we would see what other photographers thought of our products. I offered to give a 16×20 aluminum print to the winner of the November 2009 contest. When the winner was announced, I decided to give a total of five away so that each of the honorable mentions could have one also. So far, we have shipped three…all to stunning reviews. We are very excited.

Eric is updating the website so that we will be able to take online orders…look for it in the next 2 weeks. In the meantime, feel free to contact me through the contact link and we can discuss pricing and whatnot.

I hope to use this space to discuss, miscellaneous thoughts and concerns,  IGT America stuff and also show off some of my mediocre photography. I feel that showing my photos to others in a public forum will force me to make better shots…at least in theory.