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S I G N & D I G I T A L G R A P H I C S • September 2014 • 103 directly to the acrylic and laser cut it out in different shapes and logos," Tamura says. The shop also makes templates for companies that don't have a big laser and want to use hand routers to create different products for their customers. Basically, the company's Kern laser engraver is "for us a very good asset. It is probably one of our biggest moneymaker machines that runs every day," he says. Lazer Image is a one-stop shop but it doesn't work with the public. It only works with people who know of them or are in the field. Most of the company's business has been through word of mouth. When one person leaves a large-format print shop to go somewhere else, "my name gets around to other places," Tamura says. "It gets to Disney and other people at other shops who hear of me and I end up doing work with them, and the work speaks for itself." SDG made in USA A Company of Western Engravers Supply, Inc.