If you have leased industrial space there is a great chance that you have a sign over your front door.
These signs are generally all the same throughout the complex. They tend to be one of 2 types:
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- Aluminum Pan Signs. This are a sheet of Aluminum bent into a very shallow box. Normally the sides are about one inch. These fit a mount. The mount could be made from the same the same Aluminum sheet, and bent into a slightly smaller shape. Screws go through the top and bottom edges.
- The 2nd common kind of industrial park sign is a flat sheet of PVC or wood with a French cleat. A French Cleat is a board, cut in half the long way at about a 45 degree angle. One half in attached to the sign, the other to the building. When the sign is mated up on the back side, the top of the French cleat lays on top of the bottom and holds the sign to the building.
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The face of both of these sign types can be changes by applying a digital print of cut vinyl.
- Digital prints are a newer technology. Signs for San Diego uses an HP Latex jet printer. This is a wide format printer . The ink lays on top of the vinyl. We laminate a clear sheet on top of the vinyl. The advantage of this type of sign is a photograph or letters can be printed, the range of colors is wide.
- Cut Vinyl is a different technology. It is an older technology. It starts with a roll of colored vinyl, this is fed into a machine that uses a very small blade. Half of the thickness is cut, and the parts that are not needed pealed away leaving just the colored letters you want.
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