Abstract: An advertising system for a bollard includes a bollard shield that can be installed over a conventional bollard. The bollard shield includes a shield inner diameter greater than the bollard outer diameter, forming a shield gap between the bollard and the bollard shield. One or more compressible foam pads are positioned in the shield gap between the bollard and the bollard shield. A resilient bollard sheath can be rolled onto the bollard shield. The bollard sheath includes advertising or graphical materials disposed thereon. The bollard sheath is generally replaceable without replacing the entire bollard shield. A removable sheath panel may be detachably secured on the bollard sheath to provide additional advertising or graphical material. The sheath panel may be interchangeably and replaced with additional sheath panels having different advertising information.

Abstract: The present invention provides a composition and method for pretreating a natural, synthetic or blended fabric so that a colored image can be printed directly thereon by a printer. The composition of the present invention comprises an ink receptor, a surfactant, a flame retardant, a fluorescent whitening agent, and water. The method of the present invention comprises pretreating a fabric using a composition comprising an ink receptor, a surfactant, a flame retardant, a fluorescent whitening agent, and water, and drying the fabric thereafter.