Printing and Packaging

MADISON, WI - June 24 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Before you decide to cast your vote for the inhumane killing of feral cats, consider your alternatives. Large Format Digital's CollidEscape (www.lfdcollidescape.com) perforated window treatment is the safe, effective means to bolster our state's bird population without the unnecessary killing of cats.

Current legislation is unfairly targeting "feral" or "wild" cats as the sole cause of premature death to our state's songbirds. Research by Daniel Klem Jr., a biologist at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania, conservatively estimates that every year over 100 million birds die as a result of hitting glass in the United States alone. Klem's studies show that glass in any form - large windows or small, in tall buildings or modest homes, even a car windshield - is a potential killer. More of these beautiful songbirds die each year from colliding with residential and commercial windows than die from cat attacks.

Klem, who has monitored various types of buildings in different settings, and conducted field and laboratory experiments to better understand the problem, believes that the much-publicized loss of birds to cats, oil spills and pesticide poisonings accounts for considerably fewer deaths than windows and glass walls.

Seemingly innocuous structures such as houses take a considerable toll on birds. Add to that the fact that more and more buildings are constructed using reflective materials and you see why this becomes a serious concern.

Based on this research, a group of animal lovers with the cooperation of F.L.A.P (Fatal Light Awareness Program) devised an inexpensive, highly-effective and aesthetically pleasing method of saving these birds from harmful collisions. The latest innovations in digital-printing combined with great advancement in digital print materials has allowed CollidEscape to provide animal-lovers a low cost and stylish means to combat fatal bird collisions.

Through our patented process, any image can be printed on our perforated materials and then easily applied to the outside of any home or commercial window. This provides a decorative look from the outside while covering clear glass that causes bird injuries. This same material is see-through from the inside and acts as a privacy shade from the outside.

This film adheres to the exterior surface of a window. Thousands of small perforations in this covering allow ample light to pass through the window to the interior, while substantially reducing the window's exterior reflectivity and transparency, the two characteristics that cause birds to collide with windows.

Other advantages include solar reflective features, a decrease in ultraviolet radiation, and the opportunity to observe nature up close (such as birds at a feeding station) without being noticed and disturbing the animal's activities. CollidEscape can also be used as a substitute for window blinds which will provide privacy during the day, or as a canvas for bright images or advertising messages.

For information: www.lfdcollidescape.com or 608-241-9533


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