A PC Tech’s PC Tech – Why Consider A Fast Computer from SignBurst

Hi, my name is Earl

One of the funniest things about the show “My Name is Earl” is that he never took a photo where his eyes weren’t shut.

This seemed fitting in talking about another of my industry friends. Let me introduce you to a guy who opened my eyes to optimized PCs for the design and sign industry.

Casey Yonemura, the Graphic Design Computer Specialist at Signburst (http://signburst.com/).

Casey was working the SAI booth https://www.thinksai.com/) at ISA 2018.

The first time I met Casey was at a trade show, many years ago.

Mutoh was just focusing on car wraps and I had actually begun designing wraps for myself and Mutoh.

Mutoh is an industry leader in the car wrap field now and Mutoh sponsors Justin Pate’s Avery Wrap Classes around the country.  (https://www.mutoh.com/company/events/)

Justin’s an old friend of mine and I like to think I helped get these training classes off the ground in the early days.  (http://www.justinpate.net/)

What a Great Computer Can Do

So I was at a show and stopped by The Bad Wrap booth (https://thebadwrap.com/) where Casey was running a Photoshop demo using The Bad Wrap templates and full-size wrap designs.

It looked like a typical canned video commercial with images dragging in and being edited and popping up in the template. assumed this was all edited to look fast, because I had a pretty good PC at home and I knew my images took much, MUCH longer just to load, more to edit. was just about to keep walking when I overheard the conversation between Casey and the guy he was giving a demo to about loading another image, and I watched Casey load a full-size image into the template with a click of the mouse.

This was REAL TIME.

I had never seen anything quite like this.

And this was BEFORE SSDs and the like.

Yes, I built dozens of PCs over the years and thought I had pretty good insight on PCs, but nothing like Casey has. Stayed and watched the rest of his demo and quizzed him on how he was able to get this kind of performance out of a PC.

It boiled down to the ‘right’ quality components and his insights from contacts at Adobe and RIP companies that allowed him to optimize these PCs not only for design but for RIP performance as well.

What a Great Computer Can Do in Your Shop

I was impressed enough to do a testimonial for Casey:

Randy Anderson, Product Marketing Manager – Mutoh America Inc. – “I have to admit, when I first saw one of Signburst’s computers running Photoshop for vehicle wrap design at a trade show, I thought there was some trickery going on. I had never seen such large files open and process so quickly. I watched for about 20 minutes in awe as this system was working virtually in real time with huge files and many layers. We invited SignBurst to our demo room, and their computer RIP’ed files in seconds that took our in-house system minutes, truly impressive. The time savings and increased productivity for these systems can greatly benefit any production environment.”

His PCs are blazing fast, and can increase your productivity and Casey is a PC Tech’s PC Tech. Pair his computers with our already fast MUTOH printers and you just entered the good side of the Twilight Zone!