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vinyl for signsVinyls

Vinyl is the mainstay of the signage business, being relatively cheap, easy to work with and flexible enough to suit most jobs. It is the material to fall back on when more exotic materials are either too expensive or impractical to manufacture to the required design.

Vinyl is available in a huge range of native colours from delicate pastel shades to bright and bold colours which grab the attention and provide in-your-face impact. Or use plain white and print your own bitmapped design onto it using any mix of colours on one of our digital printing machines.

 

Sharp Lines
Vinyl lends itself ideally to sharp lines and accurate shaping such as that required for lettering and logos and is used on a vast range of signs from agency boards to vehicle graphics.

 

vinyl is available in a wide range of colours and finishes Digital Images
It is also the medium of choice for digital imaging - printing out large bitmaps for application onto (usually) flat boards. Such bitmaps may be anything from a Van Gogh reproduction to a computer-generated artist's impression of a new shopping complex, and may range from the size of a match box to the size of a house. The point is, once the vinyl has been applied to the sign, it's practically impossible to tell that it's vinyl - you'd swear that the image had been painted directly on to the sign.

 

Advanced Techniques
Because vinyl is so flexible it can be used in applications you wouldn't at first appreciate. For example you may want stand-off lettering to give that solid 3D effect, but you want the lettering to be an unusual colour not available for 3D lettering... solution: print the unusual colour onto vinyl and apply it on to the 3D lettering. No-one will be able to tell that the colour isn't part of the solid material.

 

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