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Stand Out at Events with Custom 3D Standees

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Quinn Group Solid Waste dimensional standee

We offer completely custom standees, including 3D standees.  The graphics for these three-dimensional tabletop stands were designed by Quinn Group for Spokane Regional Solid Waste System, and they were printed, cut and assembled by Signs for Success.

For the best use of material, we suggested 32.5” x 23.5”-sized standees.  “They wanted 36” x 26” when we first started, but material usage had too much waste, and it saved a bundle to do six per sheet rather than only three per sheet at the bigger size,” Signs for Success designer Vanessa Bogensberger said.

We used three different materials to create the multi-dimensional look of the 3D standees.3D POP Display

First, the background was cut out of gatorplast, a material that is rigid and thick enough to stand on its own without the material bending. Next, the recycle can and grass graphics were cut out of .040 polystyrene.  Polystyrene is a slightly thinner material that can be cut in-house on our plotter.  The plotter gives us the ability to contour cut signage, and it can achieve both the curvy swoosh of the grass and the angular cuts of the trash can.  Half-inch pieces of polystyrene were used as spacers between each element to give the stands their 3D look.  Finally, we used corrugated plastic to construct the stand that was added to the back.  The stand on the back is angled slightly so the entire standee leans back.  “We did not want it to be too front heavy and fall on its face, so leaning back was a good solution,” Vanessa explained.

Whether we use one material or three, flat image or 3D, we will conceptualize and create the perfect look for your custom standee.  Signs for Success is a locally owned family business in Spokane, and we strive for excellent customer service, perfect color, and quick turnaround on every project.  Our large production facility allows us to design, print and install everything in-house.  Get quality service and a quick turnaround on custom 3D standees; See More Standees

Request a quote from Signs for Success on custom Standees, either desk top size or life sized, interior or exterior, Give us a call now for fast sign service in Spokane

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Advertise 24/7 with a Custom Truck Wrap Spokane

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At Signs for Success, we have designed, printed and installed hundreds of truck graphics and wraps.  This custom truck wrap Spokane was designed for Lewis Construction.  Simple logo graphics, phone number and address fade into full color artwork designed to catch the eye.  A modern, clean design makes a great vehicle wrap, and vehicle wraps give your business a professional edge.

In addition, truck wraps generate a 97% recall rate among viewers, according to Outdoor Advertising Magazine TACA’s market research.  Wraps generate more interest than a static billboard, and they travel all over town, bringing the advertising to thousands of more viewers.  Even driving through your neighborhood on your way home from work is valuable advertising time, and a custom truck wrap Spokane will truly work overtime to reach your audience.

To create a wrap design, we first take photos and measurements of the actual vehicle.  This allows us to create a design template that reflects exactly where any features of the vehicle may appear in the design.  For example, you don’t want your logo to be skewed or a phone number to be lost because it falls across two doors or a door handle.  Our designers send proofs for approval and may tweak the design as necessary.  After printing, our Avery certified installers expertly apply the wrap.  The finished result is a smooth, painted-on finish, and graphics that are uniquely your own.  Vehicles wraps offer excellent return on investment – a custom truck wrap Spokane will advertise 24/7 for at least 5-7 years!

Signs for Success is a locally owned family business in Spokane, and we strive for excellent customer service, perfect color, and quick turnaround on every project.  Our large production facility allows us to design, print and install everything in-house.  Get quality service and a quick turnaround on your custom truck wrap Spokane; contact us for a free quote today!

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Get more life out of Retractable Banner Stands Spokane

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Golf in the Northwest retractable banner stand

One thing we love about retractable banner stands is that they can be used over and over again, even if your message changes.  That’s one piece of hardware that will last all seasons and through different events or tradeshows – all you have to do is switch out the banner.

“In most cases, we can replace the banner on your hardware.  Just bring in your banner stand and any spec sheets you have on it,” Signs for Success designer Vanessa Bogensberger said.  We recently printed a replacement banner for a customer-provided retractable banner stand.  The banner was printed on 15oz Super Smooth banner material.  This particular material is great for retractable stands because it comes with a finished edge and keeps its form when pulled out.  In other words, the edges won’t curl in, obscuring your message.

There are many different models of banner stands out there, but most of them can be classified as either retractable or some sort of pop-up stand.  The two stands we stock (although we have many more that we can order in) are the Silverwing Retractable Banner Stand and the Grasshopper Banner Stand.

The Silverwing banner stand comes in a 33″ width with up to 8 vertical feet of visual space.  It can house your custom banner, making travel and storage safe and easy.  When you’re ready to display the banner, it pulls out and stands on its own.  The Grasshopper Banner Stand is a foldable frame stand with adjustable height and width.  When set up, the banner is placed upon the four hooks that stretch out and display the banner.

Whatever model you might already have, we can usually create a banner that will work with the hardware.  There’s no reason to let an old retractable banner stand or pop-up banner stand go to waste.  Let us help you update your message today!

Signs for Success is a locally owned family business in Spokane, and we strive for excellent customer service, perfect color, and quick turnaround on every project.  Our large production facility allows us to design, print and install everything in-house.  Get quality service and a quick turnaround on retractable banner stands Spokane; contact us for a free quote today!

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Best Technique for Backlit Signs Spokane

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Spokane First backlit sign

The term “triple strike” refers to the printing process we use to make the best possible quality backlit signs Spokane.  “Traditional digitally printed backlit signs look washed out at night.  One option is to bump up saturation, which makes the sign too dark during the day.  Our solution is three layers of ink,” Signs for Success owner John Bogensberger said.

Over several weeks of testing, we found that the best combination for cabinets lit with High Output Flourescent Bulbs, was printing the image in color,

See the difference our triple strike method produces, everyone else in town prints backlit like the frog on the right, Signs for Success produces full color like the one on the left, come see us now for a fast quote

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then a layer of 50% opacity white ink, and finally another layer of color. For LED (Light Emitting Diode) lit cabinets the opacity on the white ink gets set at 75%.  These three layers make it possible for the image to shine through no matter what direction the light comes from.  “During the day, the white backs up the outer color layer, and during the night, the second layer of color comes through due to the backlighting,” John explained. “This allows the sign to look great day or night.”

Signs for Success is a locally owned family business in Spokane, and we strive for excellent customer service, perfect color, and quick turnaround on every project.  Our large production facility allows us to design, print and install everything in-house.  Get quality service and a quick turnaround on backlit signs Spokane; contact us for a free quote today! See More Backlit Signs!

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5 Reasons to Advertise with A-frame Signs Spokane

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A-frame signs Spokane offer so many possibilities.  The A-frame sign, also called a sandwich board or sidewalk sign, holds two signs—one on the front side and one on the back side of the frame.  They’re great for street-side or sidewalk advertising at restaurants, small businesses, schools, or in shopping centers and malls.

Here are five reasons why a-frame signs Spokane should be part of your advertising strategy:

  1. Use them anywhere.  A-framesare lightweight and easily relocatable.  They’re attractive enough to use indoors, and sturdy enough for outdoor use. Durable plastic, MDO or coroplast a-frame signs, as well as custom sizing, are available.
  2. Simple storage.  The structure allows for easy storage at the end of the day or on off-seasons.  Simply grab the handle at the top, and carry it away.  The sign takes up minimal space when closed.
  3. Easy to switch out.  The coroplast signs are held firmly in place by the frame’s edge, but when you’re ready to change out the signage, they easily slide out and can be stored away.
  4. Inexpensive to replace.  Once you purchase your a-frame, we can easily design and produce additional sign faces depending on the season or specials you may want to advertise.  When you purchase your a-frame with initial coroplast signs front and back, the one-time cost for standard sized plastic a-frames ranges from $135-$225 depending on the size and type.  Additional sign faces for these a-frames are typically $100 per pair, but multiple pairs can be purchased at a lower cost per unit.
  5. Signs for Success’custom digitally printed a-frame signs Spokane will ensure no one else has the same signs as you.  We print full color directly to the sign face with photo quality results!  Our experienced design team will work with you to create the perfect one-of-a-kind artwork to complement existing graphics, logo, or colors.

Signs for Success is a locally owned family business in Spokane, and we strive for excellent customer service, perfect color, and quick turnaround on every project.  Our large production facility allows us to design, print and install everything in-house.  Get quality service and a quick turnaround on custom a-frame signs Spokane; contact us for a free quote today! See More Sidewalk Signs and A-Frames!

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2nd Harvest’s Aluminum Letters Spokane

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Stud mounted Aluminum Letters at 2nd Harvest’s Spokane warehouse

We enjoy working with non-profit organizations whose goals and contributions strengthen our community.  We have been able to create many different signs, banners and wraps for 2nd Harvest that help them achieve their mission.  Our latest project was for aluminum letters .  The ¼” dimensional letters were installed on site at the Spokane warehouse.  They beckon people into “The Kitchen,” where valuable cooking lessons, demonstrations, and recipe sampling will take place.

These dimensional letters have simple, clean lines and a polished metal finish that lends itself to a sleek modern look.  They’re stud mounted over the doors to the kitchen.  The doorway is actually situated on an interior wall, so UV rays and weathering will not be an issue.  Even so, aluminum letters are durable and can be used outdoors as well as indoors.  “The Kitchen is an area devoted to teaching healthy cooking and life skills to local people who benefit from the 2nd Harvest food bank,” Signs for Success designer Vanessa Bogensberger explained.  It’s just another way 2nd Harvest is contributing to the health and well-being of individuals and families throughout the Northwest.

We work with Gemini – a leader in dimensional lettering and dimensional sign supplies—to create our aluminum letter Signs.  Stud mounts, like the ones we used for this project, give greater impact by mounting dimensional letters off the wall.  You can even add lighting and use shadow to make your dimensional letters really stand out.  We offer professional installation, quick turnaround and a lifetime guarantee on all metal letters.  Contact us for a free quote today! See More Dimensional Signs!

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“Dusted” Acrylic Signs Spokane

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Restored arcade pinball glass with digital printing by Spokane Signs for Success

Restored arcade pinball glass

White ink has given us a huge range of options in custom sign printing, many of which we are still exploring and finding applications for.  This new technique using varying opacities of white ink gives custom acrylic signs a “dusted” or sandblasted look.

A “dusted” look, similar to sandblasted glass, is achieved when we print 10% opacity white behind a layer of color.  Dusted acrylic signs Spokane can also play with depth perception – when you back any part of an image with 100% white ink, the color will pop.  Softening the white down to 10% makes the image more transparent, and it appears further off in the piece.  We like to use 100% white behind the dominant objects in an advertisement to bring them forward.

One sign project we did recently using the “dusted” method was actually a restoration project.  A vintage pinball machine with cracked glass had to be recreated.  We achieved near perfect color matches with the original vintage images, and by using greater opacity white ink under a few key images, they really pop out when the machine is turned on.  Dusted acrylic signs Spokane look great in office spaces, restaurants and bars, lobbies, and as wall art.  We’ve seen them used as an artful privacy barrier with the look of sandblasted glass or dusted crystal vinyl.  We can print on Lexan or acrylic panels to replace a glass window or door.

Signs for Success is a locally owned family business in Spokane, and we are innovators in the sign industry.  We strive for excellent customer service, perfect color, and quick turnaround on every project.  Our large production facility allows us to design, print and install everything in-house.  Get quality service and a quick turnaround on acrylic signs Spokane; contact us for a free quote today!

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How to Get Perfect Color with Custom Signs Spokane

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Podium sign for Greater Spokane Valley with spot-on logo colors

As a high volume producer of custom signs Spokane, we have to make sure that color translates correctly from a customer’s vision to design, all the way to print.  Because color varies from device to device throughout the production process, there are several basic color rules that need to be respected in order to get the end result just right.  I sat down with Signs for Success Designer Will Oakley and Production Manager Denise Gillit to get their take on the importance of color in print.

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There are a few color basics that every customer should understand when beginning the sign buying process.  The colors we see on computer screens will never be exactly the same as colors we see in print.  This is because the colors we see on computers, digital cameras, televisions and other screen-based technology is produced by RGB (Red, Green Blue) light while the colors on printed materials are produced by light reflecting off of CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black) inks.

“When you see a color on your computer screen it is made up of RGB (Red, Green, Blue).  When we print a color we print CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black).  These colors translate differently from one format to another,” Will explained.

What would you want customers to know about color?

Denise: Different colors mean different things to different people.  If I say green, you may think of grass but what I meant was apple green.  If I say blue do you think of Dodger blue (05) or Pepsi blue (sapphire)?

Will: Color varies Printer to printer, screen to screen, material to material.  Even the terminology for color varies.  Like Denise said, when you tell me you want Plum that could mean any number of 30 shades of purple and magenta.  The other challenge we have with color is monitor calibration.  I could send you a proof for production and the red could be amazing on my screen but when you look at it on your screen it may be washed out and pink.  This is affected by the calibration of your monitor i.e.: the brightness, hues, contrast and even monitor type (LCD, LED, or CRT) all play a part in changing the colors you’re viewing.

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Custom Dry Fly Distilling bottle boxes on raw cedar

What kinds of things are important to consider when selecting colors for print?

Denise: What background color is your print going on?  Your colors can look different when they are put up against certain colors.  Lighting is also very important; is it fluorescent, incandescent, white white, blue white, red white?  All of these affect the final outcome.

Will: Denise covered most of this one.  Placement of the object and its surrounding environment are key.  The light reference the color will actually be viewed in is critical.  The laminate we place on the material can possibly shift the color, so it’s important to know if the customer picked the color from a laminated sample or an un-laminted sample.  “What is your long term marketing vision?” would be another good question.  Is this going to be the only car wrap you do?  Or do you want the banner we print next week to match your car wrap perfectly?

We print CMYKw (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black, white)…do we have other colors like Light Cyan that we also print with?

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Denise: On the HP Designjet 9000 we use CMYKcm.  We can use that on the HP FB500, but we prefer to use white.  Light Cyan (c) and Light Magenta (m) are taken out of the HP FB500 so that we may run White ink, allowing us to print on clear and non-white substrates.

Will: Denise nailed this one.

To sum things up, we can hit literally thousands of colors with CMYK printing.  Even if the color in a proof looks slightly off on your computer screen, to make sure we’ve got the color right, we will do test prints before printing an entire job.  That way, we make sure the color is perfect, and if it’s not, we can tweak the color by adding or subtracting one or more of the key components.  It’s important to check the sample in the environment it will ultimately be viewed in to make sure the color is still perfect in the correct lighting.

White ink can also make a big difference.  When we aren’t printing on a bright white surface, colors look different.  This may happen with slightly off-white materials, finished or unfinished wood, or colored or even black materials.  In such a case, we would print a layer of white ink first, then run the material through again to lay down color, thus achieving the same color as if we were printing on a pure white surface.

Once we’ve achieved your perfect color, we keep that information on file so we can match colors with future jobs.  Whether you’re looking for vehicle wraps, banners, or even business cards, we can make sure your marketing strategy is consistent across all forms of signage and large format graphics.  Get perfect color on custom signs Spokane; contact us for a free quote today!

How well do YOU see color?

FACT: 1 out of 255 women and 1 out of 12 men have some form of color vision deficiency.  Take the Online Color Test Challenge, based on the official FM100 Hue Test by X-Rite.

 

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How Effective are Vehicle Wraps Spokane?

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Market Vision Dishman Dodge Jeep for Mt. Spokane vehicle wrap

Marketing experts and business owners alike will agree vehicle advertising is incredibly effective.  It’s not just the sign companies talking about it anymore – check out the statistics from the Outdoor Advertising Association of America:

  • 96% of Americans travel in a vehicle each week and will be reached by moving vehicle advertising.
  • In fact, the average American has traveled 302 miles during the past week.
  • Pedestrians are another captive audience – 8 in 10 Americans have walked in a town, city or downtown area an average of 6.1 miles during the past week.
  • A single vehicle wrap can generate between 30,000 and 70,000 impressions daily.
  • Vehicle wraps Spokane and mobile advertising is the best form of outdoor advertising, reaching more consumers at a lower cost than any other form of outdoor advertising.

There’s a reason why vehicle advertising nearly doubled in terms of dollars spent from 1993 to 2003 and is continuing to grow each year.

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JRCC pickup truck wrap, custom design by Signs for Success

Vehicle wraps Spokane:

  • Boost brand recognition.  Many times, a business will have control over the route the driver takes.  Seeing a brand in one’s own neighborhood day after day will help that business stay in the forefront of consumer’s minds.
  • Create a positive impression of the business.  Having a full vehicle wrap or fleet wraps instantly raises your professional image.
  • Are memorable.  Vehicle wraps stand out and command more attention than stationary signage.  When you’re stopped at a light, you’ve got nothing better to do than read the message on the vehicle in front of you.  And speaking of memorable, vehicle advertising generates a 96% recall rate.
  • Generate curiosity and boost consumers’ confidence.  Seeing a company vehicle parked at your neighbor’s home will likely get you thinking, maybe I should have them take a look at my (fill in the blank), too.  A vehicle wrap shows that a company is successful, modern and business savvy.
  • Lead to sales.  If consumers have seen you around town and know your name already, you’re more likely to get the sale.
  • Work 24/7.  You can’t turn off a vehicle wrap like a television or throw it away like a newspaper.  Even when the vehicle is parked, it’s generating impressions.

We’ve designed, printed and installed hundreds of vehicle wraps including car wraps, truck wraps, trailer wraps, motorcycle wraps, boat wraps, and more.  Get quality service and a quick turnaround on custom vehicle wraps Spokane; contact us for a free quote today!  See More Vehicle Wraps & Graphics!

 

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