Toronto’s Full Frame Signs has become the first Ontario company to install an Esko Kongsberg V table. The company uses the table to create a wide range of items for its business customers including items that appear on screen for the company’s film industry clients.

Sean Vizsy, Full Frame’s executive director, is a veteran of the film industry. He saw a niche in becoming a service supplier to the industry and, after founding his company, developed a relationship with Cinespace Film Studios. He’s even located his business in two of Cinespace’s properties, one on the east and one on the west end of Toronto.

Examples of Full Frame’s products used onscreen include taxi cab decals, coffee shop store fronts, flooring, car decals, apparel, posters, large and small signs and paint stencils. Previously, Vizsy says, his company was limited to doing signs because doing digital scenery or set pieces was just too time-consuming and labor intensive. The Kongsberg V now allows a much broader range of items his company can make while continuing to keep costs in check.

"Unfortunately, until recently we were basically cutting everything by hand and were very limited to the designs we could offer. They could only be square cut,” Vizsy says. “We would try using a belt sander to get rounded corners, but they are tough because it adds to the risk of introducing imperfections to the product.”

The company was also limited in the materials it could use, he says.

Vizsy says he shopped for a table for almost two years, often running into issues integrating the design software he was using. Since getting the Kongsberg V in November, it’s worked out so well that he has even added the words “Scenic Art” to the full name of his business, Full Frame Signs and Scenic Art.