About IAC

We help brands make a statement

IAC — Imaged Advertising Creations — has spent over a decade turning brand concepts into physical graphics people walk past, walk on and walk through. We are a Toronto production shop with a wide format print floor, a fabrication bay and a fulfillment team, and we behave like an extension of the agencies and brand teams we work with.

  • Toronto production facility at 550 McNicoll Avenue
  • Print production, hardware fabrication and fulfillment in one building
  • Five-metre dye sublimation — seamless fabric to 16 ft
  • G7 Master colour certification, requalified annually
  • Full Procura SEG frame range stocked in Canada
  • Retail, events and exhibits, and corporate interior specialists
  • Work produced for Nike, Zara, RBC, Samsung, Audi and Tom Ford

What we actually are

Calling IAC a print shop undersells half the building. We are a production partner. A typical project starts as a rendering or a rough elevation from a designer who knows what it should look like and not necessarily what it should be made of. Our prepress, fabrication and project management teams work backwards from that — choosing substrate, finishing method, hardware profile and pack format together, because those four decisions constrain each other. The answer for a two-week pop up is different from the answer for a lobby feature that has to survive five years of shoulder traffic.

Investing ahead of the market

IAC brought the first five-metre (16 ft) dye sublimation fabric printer into Canada, back when the industry was still designing graphics that needed a seam and pretending nobody would see it. Others have that capability now, which is rather the point — the reason to move early is that the market catches up. We carry the Procura frame system for the same reason — clients kept asking for profiles that were not stocked in this market, and the range we hold grew to match what they were actually specifying. Our newest fabric line runs roughly three times the throughput of the machines it replaced, which shows up as shorter lead times rather than as a spec sheet nobody reads.

How we work with your team

Most of our clients are marketing teams, exhibit houses, retail designers and creative agencies who do not want to project-manage a supply chain. So we hold the file library, the frame drawings and the store lists. We produce renderings and structural drawings so approvals happen on screen instead of on the floor. We flag the problems early — a gradient that will band across a sixteen-foot fill, a mount that will not pass a venue's rigging rules, a substrate a landlord will reject. Then we build it.

What we hold to

Culture over everything.

  • Customer centric

    We build long relationships, not transactions. Most of our work is repeat programmes for the same brands.

  • Collaboration

    Treat us as an extension of your team. We would rather solve a problem at the drawing stage than reprint later.

  • Education

    We push to be the resource the industry asks, and we invest in our team professionally and personally.

  • Safety

    Getting everyone home safe is a priority on the production floor and on every install site.

  • Innovation

    We buy the machine before the market asks for it. Five-metre dye sublimation was one; it will not be the last.

  • Integrity

    Straight answers on what is achievable, what it costs and how long it takes.

Who you deal with

How you'll work with us.

One point of contact stays with your job from quote to delivery, and picks it up again when you reorder.

  1. Account management

    Pricing, scope and specification

    Your first conversation and the one that sets everything else up. Sizes, substrates, hardware, quantities and where it all has to end up. If a spec can be built a cheaper or more durable way, this is where that gets said — before a quote is issued rather than after a proof is rejected.

  2. Project management

    The job, start to finish

    One person stays with your project from approval to delivery, and stays with it again when you reorder. They hold the schedule, chase approvals, and tell you early when something will not make a date. Repeat programmes matter here: the same person already knows your file, your dielines and your frame dimensions.

  3. Pre-press

    Files, colour and what happens before a press runs

    Artwork gets checked before it costs anything. Bleed, resolution, spot colours, fonts, dielines and whether the finished size actually fits the hardware. Colour is managed to a consistent profile so a reprint six months later matches the first run rather than approximately resembling it.

  4. Production

    Print and fabrication, in the same building

    Dye sublimation, UV roll and rigid printing, sheet fed, and the fabrication bay that cuts, routes and assembles the hardware. Because both live under one roof, the graphic is printed against the profile the sample was built on and the extrusion is cut to the size the graphic was made for.

  5. Fulfillment

    Kitting, packing and getting it there

    Picked to your store list or booth manifest, kitted so the right pieces arrive together, and packed so they survive the trip. For rollouts this is usually the part that decides whether an install day goes smoothly, and it is handled by the same team that produced the work.

Brands we produce for

Our work

Inside the shop

  • A row of large Care Bears character cardboard cutout standees lined up inside a warehouse fabrication facility.
    Feature Builds Care Bears character cardboard cutout standees in fabrication Large format print
  • A large-format banner featuring Markham and Brannn branding is being printed on an industrial wide-format printer inside a print shop.
    Banners Markham and Brannn banner rolling off wide-format printer Large format print
  • A corner trade show booth for Shopify Apps and DotDev features blue illuminated light box signage and pegboard display walls.
    Lightboxes Shopify Apps and DotDev corner booth with blue lightboxes Large format print
  • Shopify Selling and Online product booths display bold red illuminated signage and collage-style graphic walls in an event hall.
    Lightboxes Shopify Selling and Online booths with red illuminated signage Large format print
  • A DotDev2026 conference stage features wooden backdrop panels with circular cutouts, a black podium, and display screens on either side.
    Structures DotDev2026 stage with circle-cutout wooden backdrop panels Large format print
  • A bright conference session room for DotDev2026 is set with wooden folding chairs, a stage, and geometric branded backdrop panels.
    Feature Builds DotDev2026 session room with geometric branded backdrop Large format print

Partners

Who we work with

FAQ

Common questions

What does IAC stand for?

IAC is short for Imaged Advertising Creations, the company's original registered name. As the business grew past printing into hardware fabrication, display design and fulfillment, the shorter name fit better. Today we present as IAC — visual solutions, which describes the scope more accurately than any name with the word printing in it. The legal entity and the Toronto facility are unchanged.

What industries does IAC serve?

Three main ones. Events and exhibits covers tradeshow booths, stage backdrops, conferences and film and theatre production. Retail covers window graphics, in-store lightboxes, shop-in-shop builds and seasonal campaign rollouts. Corporate environments covers office branding, wayfinding, feature walls, privacy film and boardroom graphics. The capabilities overlap heavily — the same SEG frame system shows up in all three — which is why one team handles the lot rather than three siloed divisions passing work between them.

Where is IAC located?

Our production facility is at 550 McNicoll Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M2H 2E1, in the North York industrial corridor near Victoria Park and Steeles. That puts us within easy reach of downtown Toronto, Markham, Vaughan, Mississauga and Brampton for press checks, sample pickups and site visits. Everything happens in that one building — printing, fabrication and fulfillment — so what you see on a tour is what produces your job. Reach the office at 416.493.8888 or info@iacgobig.com.

Next step

Tell us what you are making.

Send drawings, a store list or a rough idea. We will come back with substrate options, hardware and a quote.

Request a quote→ 416.493.8888