Despite all your efforts to avoid it, there are times when every sign maker must apply for a sign permit. Regardless of your dislike of the bureaucratic jungle, the situation demands that you bite the bullet and get out your machete. Both you and your client want the process to go as quickly as possible,…
The banner, in some ways, might be considered the backbone of the sign shop. Banners is perhaps the most common sign shop application, yet they can be made from a perplexing variety of materials, qualities, densities, surfaces, sizes and coatings. To help sort it out, let’s look at some of the most common banner materials.…
A common problem experienced by many sublimators is dots — colored or white — seen on the final product or image. The following tips will help your final product appear dot-free. COLORED DOTS After a product has been sublimated, colored dots will sometimes appear. While it may seem that these tiny specks of color…
How a color appears is a result of its three basic characteristics: hue, saturation and brightness. The hue is the color’s position on the color wheel, the saturation (also called chroma) is the intensity of a color, and the brightness (also called value) is the level of lightness or darkness of a color. Successful color schemes are the…
Single or double-sided sign box illumination SignBOX™ RapidStick™ is a 360‑degree LED lighting solution for box signs. For fast field retrofits as well as new construction, SignBOX RapidStick replaces existing T12 fluorescent lamps and mounts directly to lampholders. The superior efficiency, longer life, and lower maintenance costs of SignBOX RapidStick makes this an ideal fluorescent alternative for box sign applications.…
