August 31st, 2010 by Jay Buckley
- Jeff’s Graphic
Here’s a fun job we did for Jeff at A-Bit computer systems, the people who make our computers and help us when we get stuck. The design, by Ethan of our company, makes it look like there’s a hole ripped in the side of the car to expose the name of the company. Nice design work, if we do say so ourselves!
The graphic is printed on 3M vehicle adhesive vinyl with a thin overlaminate. We used our HP-9000 printer to output the graphic. It was installed using spray and a squeegee. The only tricky part was the door seam, which required cutting in the center of the slot and running the vinyl around each side. Jeff says the proof will be when he take it through the car wash!
We put it on both sides of the car, and it’s a great advertisement for Jeff’s business as he drives around town!
July 14th, 2010 by Jay Buckley
NHMF Banner at Plymouth Roundabout
The New Hampshire Music Festival is happening at Plymouth State University this summer, and they wanted to let everyone know about the performances. We printed this banner for the festival, and Plymouth State was kind enough to provide two poles for us to hang it on.
The banner sits at the far side of our new roundabout, so it’s a perfect place to gain the attention of almost anybody driving into town.
If you can’t read the banner, the classical music performances are on Thursdays and Fridays, with chamber music on Tuesdays. There are Pops concerts on July 10 and 24, and August 7th. I went to the opening night concert on July 8th, and it was outstanding!
June 28th, 2010 by Jay Buckley
Vinyl Banner for an Event
Here’s a creative way to attract people to your event- put a banner below a sign on a busy traffic artery. In this case, the Hospice organization in our town was organizing an arts festival over Memorial Day weekend.
They have a sign along Tenney Mountain Highway, which gets traffic of about 25,000 cars passing every day. They put a couple of 2×4’s on the sign posts, and had a very effective banner to advertise their event.
June 9th, 2010 by Jay Buckley
DARYL CARLSON/CITIZEN PHOTO
Here’s an interesting way to use a banner. At Lakes Region General Hospital, they had a cancer survivors’s celebration event, and everyone signed a banner that we had made for the hospital. The banner was then hung in the Hematology/Oncology area.
The event was held yesterday for National Cancer Survivors Day. This picture and a story about the event were in the Laconia Citizen.
May 26th, 2010 by Jay Buckley
- Student with Display
Students in the History Department at Plymouth State University recently produced a group of displays commemorating the passage of the Weeks Act in 1911 that created the National Forest System we know today. The show will travel around New Hampshire this summer.
Of particular interest to those of us who live in the area is the wonderful job that was done in creating the White Mountain National Forest out of timberlands that had been ravaged by logging. Looking at them today, you’d never know! The forests are back, and we are enjoying over 2000 hiking trails that celebrate the outdoors. The vision of the people who created this public treasure is to be much admired.
We printed the displays for Dr. Marcia Blaine, whose students did the designs. They were printed on 13 oz smooth
vinyl so they can be rolled up for travelling.
May 11th, 2010 by Jay Buckley
- Campground signs
Here’s a job that struck me as it came through. Nothing special about the job itself, it’s vinyl on styrene that makes a durable sign for a local campground.
What hit me is that we quoted the same job last year as they were getting ready to open for the season, and they thought it was going to be too expensive to do the job this way. So, they printed paper signs. Now they are doing it the right way.
I worked in construction when I was in college, and one of the guys said “we always seem to have the money to do it over, but never the money to do it right.” I thought it was brilliant philosophy then, and timeless.
I’m a big advocate for doing it right the first time. It’s almost always less expensive, and less hassle, than taking a shortcut.
Sometimes that takes a year!
May 4th, 2010 by Jay Buckley
Banner for Fundraiser
When you are doing a fundraiser, there’s always the problem of letting people know what you are doing, and attracting them to participate.
Every June we have Bike Week in New Hampshire. People ride their Harleys from all over the country to attend. The Laconia Rotary Club made thisvinyl banner last year to attract people to their booth to buy a raffle ticket.
Hard to miss, don’t you think? They tell us they sold a lot of tickets!
Best of all, it’s usable every year. Our vinyl banners are durable as well as attractive.
March 22nd, 2010 by Jay Buckley
Retail Store Banner
Here’s a really good use of a vinyl banner in a warehouse-style retail store. Our customer wanted to let his customers know that they could also do installation, so they ordered a banner that would be hard to miss, and hung it right over the doors.
Vinyl banners like this are a lot less expensive than having signs made, they can be installed in a jiffy, and they look great!
March 19th, 2010 by Jay Buckley
- Youth Center Vinyl Banner
Here’s a banner we donated for the Pemi Youth Center road race, a half-marathon to be held this summer in conjunction with the Plymouth Community Fun Fair. For now, they are using it to generate the publicity for the race, and it will be strung across the start/finish line when the race is held on July 17. If you want to run the race, you can contact the Youth Center.
This is a standard gloss
vinyl banner with grommets around. It was designed by one of our graphics designers, and output on our HP 9000 eco-solvent printer. Production time was about a week from the beginning of graphic design to the customer having it in their hands.
March 18th, 2010 by Jay Buckley
- Vinyl Banner
Here’s a great way to announce a promotion or sale – hang a vinyl banner from a pole in your store. The banners can be double sided to be viewed from all over the store, and you can move them around to the best viewing area in the store. A piece of cord attaches to either end of the pole, and can be hooked to any good point on your ceiling.
Consider the vinyl banner option especially when you have the promotion annually. The vinyl lasts quite well, and if rolled up nicely will come back out of the box looking like the day it was made.
One trick we have is that we put a label on the box when we ship it to show the artwork that is inside. Instead of taking things out of a box, you just look at the label. It’s a big time saver!
