As part of the initiative, PD has formally established two 
core service divisions – PD Tempo™ and PD Solid™.  The PD Tempo team will manage services related to temporary displays and seasonal visual merchandising, while the PD Solid group will support clients with permanent store fixtures and semi-permanent solutions.

“We’ve simply outgrown our name in its literal meaning,” says Peter Strommen, PD’s president.  “Our service offerings, coupled with the needs of a diverging retail industry, have expanded well beyond what we first offered back when the company was established by our grandfather.”

However, according to Strommen, there are many things that have not changed with this family-owned and operated business.  “We continue to cherish our longstanding relationships with some of the nation’s most respected brands and retailers,” he says. “By maximizing the retail environment, we’ve been able to help these clients form a unique connection with their shoppers that they can’t find with many other instore partners.”

Some brands/retailers utilizing PD’s expertise include RadioShack, Reebok, Garmin, Disney, Under Armour, Lego, Best Buy and many others.  In addition to leveraging PD’s temporary displays and fixtures, many of these brands take advantage of PD’s DesignLab and its high-security fulfillment center.

To learn more about PD, call 800-233-5012, or visit pdinstore.com.

For over 70 years, PD has been innovating high impact instore display solutions for many of the world’s category leading retail brands. This pioneering spirit was most recently demonstrated by its acquisition of the JetScreen DX, a new laser driven system that revolutionizes the way screens are made for the company’s ultra large format screen printing division.

“We’re proud to be the first U.S. company to use this technology. We’re already passing the benefits on to our customers,” said Peter Strommen, President of PD. The JetScreen’s revolutionary exposure head offers the highest image quality and resolution with remarkable efficiencies.

Benefits include:

• Time savings
• Imaging, exposure and hardening are performed in one step
• Faster proof and color matching
• Eco friendly operation: Eliminates the need for film-related consumables; JetScreenDX consumes only electricity
• Higher quality printing
• Higher resolution: optical lenses provide better, cleaner, more consistent dot shape
• Standardized tonal values and repeatability are virtually guaranteed by the consistent performance of the lasers

Large format graphics can be a retailer’s best friend, but they can also involve frustrating trade-offs on print quality, production speed, substrate options and affordability. PD’s new Durst Rho 800 HS digital flatbed printer, however, is rewriting all the rules while shattering old assumptions.

The Durst works with a seemingly endless range of substrates and surfaces, rolled or rigid, while using a wide variety of UV inks. Crisp, high-resolution output is made possible by vibrant UV inks and a radical increase in the nozzle count: a whopping 2,048 per color! The Durst’s versatility can handle not just big or small projects, but unusual projects that would otherwise have been impossible for other industrial digital printers.

The “HS” in the name stands for “high speed,” and this printer delivers a previously unattainable level of speed, quality and efficiency in large format industrial printing. With a top production speed that exceeds 1,000 ft/hr, PD can provide rapid, differentiated solutions on an unprecedented scale, whether you have 50 stores or 5,000 stores.

“There isn’t a printer that comes close to the Durst’s combination of inks, substrates, production capacity and innovation potential. Our clients are going to love this because it opens up large scale graphic opportunities that would have otherwise been impractical or impossible,” said Peter Strommen, President. “This is truly transformational technology that dramatically expands our capacity to innovate.”

The Durst Rho 800 at a glance:

• Prints on substrates up to 2” thick
• Maximum printing width: 96” (8’)
• Continuous sheet, board or roll-to-roll feeding
• Twice the number of nozzles as earlier printers (2048 per color)
• Exceptional production speeds
• Printing of light colors without loss of speed
• Exceptional registration on long boards
• Accepts all substrates PD currently prints
• Faster, greener, and more cost effective workflow

PD recently introduced a technology pairing that opens up exciting new possibilities for short run, quick turn displays. By combining the efficiency and quality of one of the industry’s finest digital flatbed printers with the precision of a new digital cutter, your innovation and speed to market are maximized.

It’s really this easy:

1. Discuss your concept with us
. Our DesignLab will then design engineer it for quick turn fabrication.

2. Print on a variety of substrates. You’ll be amazed by the print quality of PD’s new Durst RHO 800 HS digital flatbed printer.

• Prints on substrates up to 2.75” thick
• Max width of 96” (8’)
• Faster, greener workflow

3. Digitally cut and trim
. With its extensive modular tools and digital precision, no other cutting or routing machine is as flexible or adaptable as our new Zünd G3 flatbed precision cutter.