Capabilities
Materials, Adhesives and Manufacturing Processes
Every job we quote starts here. The right graphic is a combination of substrate, adhesive, print process and finishing, chosen against the environment it has to survive. This page documents what we work with, so you can specify accurately — or hand us the application and let us specify it for you.
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Every job starts with the application, not the product name. Tell us what it has to survive and we will specify the material to meet it.
Substrates
What we work in
- Vinyl
- General exterior and interior use; available reflective and pigmented; the workhorse for vehicle graphics and decals
- Polyester (Mylar)
- Overlays, labels and nameplates; brushed, matte and bright silver finishes; excellent wear resistance
- Polycarbonate (Lexan)
- Control panel overlays and durable labels; subsurface printable; 5 to 20 mil; exterior grades available
- Polypropylene
- Interior labeling where chemical resistance matters
- Polystyrene (HIP)
- Point of purchase and retail signage
- Expanded PVC (EPVC / Sintra)
- Rigid signage, interior and exterior
- Aluminum
- Long-service exterior signage, parking and identification
- Foam
- Displays and lightweight interior signage
- Paper
- Short-life interior applications and promotional work
- Foil
- Decorative and specialty finishes
- Polyurethane
- Doming resin for nameplates and raised-finish decals
Adhesives
Selection is driven by the surface
All-temperature, opaque, permanent and removable adhesive systems, including custom 3M adhesives at 2 mil and 4 mil for overlay applications. Adhesive selection is driven by the surface — smooth painted metal, textured plastic, stainless, powder coat, rough-textured polyethylene — and by whether the graphic needs to come off cleanly later.
Surfaces we spec against
Smooth painted metal · textured plastic · stainless · powder coat · rough-textured polyethylene
Print processes
Screen, digital and subsurface
- Screen printing
- Medium to large runs, small to medium formats, spot color.
- Digital printing
- Short runs, large formats, four-color process.
- Subsurface printing
- For Lexan overlays, protecting graphics behind the substrate.
- PMS color matching
- Matched to your brand or engineering standard and held on file.
Finishing
Finishing and value-added processes
- Die cutting
- Embossing
- Polyurethane doming
- Lamination
- Serialization and consecutive numbering
- Barcoding
- Translation and bilingual production
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Catalogue
Products and services offered
- Advertising specialties and promotional products
- Banners
- Cutting services
- Decals
- Displays
- Identification products
- Labels
- Nameplates
- Overlays
- Parking lot products
- Point of purchase products
- Printing and marking services
- Prototyping services
- Research, design and development services
- Signs
- Wraps
Artwork and run sizes
From a single prototype to a long production run
We accept AI, BMP, EPS, GIF, JPG, JPEG, PDF and TIFF files. Vector artwork is preferred for die-cut and small-format work. If you do not have production-ready artwork, our creative department will develop it.
Single prototypes through long production runs. Prototyping is available as a standalone service for engineering validation before you commit to a production quantity.
Accepted formats
AI · BMP · EPS · GIF · JPG · JPEG · PDF · TIFF
Questions
Answered directly
Specify it yourself, or hand us the application.
Either works. Tell us the surface, the environment, the service life and the standard it has to meet, and we will select the substrate, the adhesive and the process.