Flatbed Printed Store Signs

Every store has needs for retail store signage that lets the customer know where to go. If you are Home Depot, all that is done by headquarters store design. If you run a small store, you get to do it for yourself!

The picture shows signs we did for Rand’s Hardware in Plymouth NH. They needed store signs to let their customers know how their plumbing department was organized, and we printed them several two-sided store signs on styrene that do the job very nicely. They are durable and attractive, and they help people find what they need in the store more easily.

When you don’t have someone designing and printing your store signs for you, give us a call! We can do the typesetting and layout as well as the printing, giving you a store sign that’s ready to go. Best of all, it only takes a few days!

Historical Photo in a Bank

We really enjoy doing enlargements of historical photos. First of all, it’s fun to see how things looked all those years ago. People also find them to be interesting, and they’ll take the time to really examine them. This photo enlargement is from the collection of our local historical society, and hangs in the offices of MVSB, one of our local banks.

You’ll often see people looking at an historical photo like this, trying to see if their house had been built when the picture was taken, or talking about buildings that are no longer there.

Our new HP z6100 printers have three shades of black, and give us exceptional color depth when printing black and white photos, especially on glossy paper. Give it a try- you’ll be impressed!

We can either take your historical photo and scan it, or you can scan it locally and send us the digital file. Honestly, we would rather you send us the file, since very old photos can be pretty fragile. If you are sending the photo, be sure to put it between sheets of cardboard to protect it.

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Visiting Chef Banner Stand

Ever since they came on the market, we’ve thought that there’s nothing better than a retractable banner stand to travel around with a visiting expert. Here’s one we just did for a celebrity chef doing a tour of college cafeterias. In about ten seconds she can have signage that tells everybody what is going on and who is doing it.

The other great thing about the banner stand is that you can put it wherever it needs to go, move it around as needed, and never have to worry about how you are going to fixture it. It’s completely self contained. When the event is over, you let it retract into it’s canister, and put the whole thing into a handy nylon carrying case. Put it over your shoulder and off you go to the next place.

We like the idea for a visiting chef, and it works great for author book signings and visiting speakers just as well. We also see them used extensively at trade shows, in retail, and in public areas like airports and train stations. Whenever you have a need for portable signage, give a retractable banner stand some consideration!

Athletic Photos on Wallpaper

You would be amazed what we can do with a fairly ordinary digital photo. The photo wallpaper at the right was made from two separate 5 megapixel digital photos. The final photo wallpaper is 11-1/2 feet tall- notice the doorway at the right! They are stunning, and give this college’s new athletic center an exciting look.

It turns out that we can resample your photos up so that the pixels are small enough that you won’t notice them. There are some tricks in Photoshop that allow us to do this without causing problems with the photo.

Also, understand that you aren’t going to go right up to the photo and expect it to be as clear as one in a magazine. These photo murals are to be viewed from several feet away, and we don’t try to make them razor sharp up close. Nor could we! But they are spectacular, and we get wallpaper from digital photographs that will knock your socks off.

If you want to put a photo of your town, your last vacation, your kids, or whatever on a wall in your home or business, it’s easily done. Give us a call when you want to turn your digital photo into wallpaper.

Wallboard Vinyl for a Museum

One thing about museum displays. They change. So it becomes important to have the large format graphics done on a material that can be easily changed out. We suggest our Wallboard Vinyl for this kind of thing. It’s an adhesive backed vinyl with a special “sticky note” glue on the back that adheres nicely to surfaces like painted drywall.

Nautical Chart Wallpaper

We’ve done this a few times, and the results are spectacular! The Feds have all the nautical charts around the coast of the US available for free download at the NOAA website. The photo you see is an 8×20 foot nautical chart wallpaper from New York all the way past the Georges Banks. It’s on its way to a seaside home in Rhode Island where it will certainly be a topic of much conversation!

Printing a Special Shape

Rectangles are easy. Circles a little harder. Something like this- well, there’s a trick to printing special shapes. Naturally, the customer wanted it to be two sided as well, which made it trickier still.

Pop Up Booth

Pop-Up Booths are an easy and affordable way to do a trade show. The time will come, however, when you want to replace the graphic panels with up-to-date art. Whether it’s a logo change, new product photos, or just fresh artwork, it’s important to keep the booth looking great. They do get kicked around, and you are only going to get so many shows out your pop up booth panels before they start to look tired.

Bungee Cord Installation

When you put a good size vinyl banner outside, especially at this time of year, there are some things to know.

First of all, you usually fix the top of the vinyl banner with a cable or chain, as has been done with this banner. The bottom connection is the trick, however. It has a bungee cord that holds it taut when the wind is not blowing, but allows it to shed the wind when it is blowing. This keeps the forces down and your vinyl banner from blowing down the street.

We can also put wind cuts in the banner that reduces it’s face area to the wind. For all banners like this, we re-enforce the corners with an extra layer of vinyl.

Our last trick, and it’s an important one, is to use a vinyl with a low cold cracking temperature. Normal vinyl banners becomes brittle at -5 fahrenheit. Vinyls with lower cold crack temperatures are available, and we use an extra heavy 16 oz vinyl with a -20 cold crack temperature for our Across the Street Banners.

We even have a vinyl banner material with a -30 cold crack temperature, which we use for the ski areas. It got down to 20 below the night before last, and they need something a little better!

Flatbed Printing on Leather

OK, so this was a little different than your normal store sign. Our customer wanted to print on deerskin, and sent us a full deerskin.

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