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Barry K. Brown

Barry Brown has been in the Sign, Banner, Decal and Display Business for over 30 years. It isn't what he thought he'd do with his life, but he says he knows too much now to do anything else!

Digital Electronic Traffic/Highway Signs vs. Illuminated Road Signs

Traffic Signs

While these two types can cross over, Illuminated and Digital Traffic Signs aren’t necessarily the same thing.

Digital Electronic and Illuminated Road, Highway, Traffic, Street Airport Signs

Digital traffic signs are typically lighted with LED’s (Light Emitting Diodes) and may have a small section that shows a number or series of numbers and letters, such as you might see at some airports, or may be an electronic reader board with messages for oncoming motorists.

Illuminated Traffic Signs

Illuminated Traffic Signs, on the other hand, may include digital kinds, but may simply be a signpost that is lighted from below with directional lamps,

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Custom Road Traffic Signs for Businesses or Communities

Aluminum Sign

Now, for those of you who think that custom traffic signs are ugly and barely a necessity, you may have a valid point as you wander around, lost, in the world you want without them. However, for the rest of us who like to know where the heck we are, they are the grandest invention for finding your way ever invented!

Just for definition sake, they are the kinds that are non-standard. Standard types, as discussed in the previous post, are the ones that include Stop Signs, School Zone signs, Novelty Street Signs, or Speed Limit markers.

Of course,

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USDOT-approved Reflective Road, Highway, or Street Traffic Signs

large format Reflective Signage

Today I’m discussing reflective traffic signs or road signs. As you drive down the various roads and highways, you’d certainly be lost frequently if you didn’t have them.

Back when I was a young man in my early 20’s, I spent a few winters in the Southern U.S. and was amazed at the lack of signage. Even more, I was amazed at how people knew how to get around without them.

One conversation I remember having with an old-timer went something like this…”ya’ll just travel yonda up Hwy. 357 and you’ll see a big old oak tree standin’

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Parking Permits – Hang Tags and Stickers or Decals

Custom Park Entry Tags

There are two basic types of vehicle parking permits – hang tags and stickers. Hang Tag types hang from the rear-view mirror and come in various shapes and sizes.

Hang Tags, Stickers, Decals, and Static Cling Parking Permits – Serialized Permits for Every Use

Parking Permits come with plain backgrounds, reflective backgrounds, prismatic backgrounds, and chrome backgrounds. In our area, they are used to identify cars whose owners are disabled or elderly.

Hang Tag Parking Permits

The advantage of a hang tags is that it can be removed as you leave or placed on the mirror upon arrival,

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Reflective Decals and Stickers – Advertising After Dark

Why reflective decals or reflective stickers? There are lots of uses for them…some of the main reasons to use them are emergency vehicles, such as police and fire department vehicles, but also as emergency graphics in buildings that point to a fire extinguisher or an escape route, cars, motorcycle helmets, bikes, horse trailers, clothing, hard hats, shoes, windows, and a whole lot more!

In the past twenty years, some of the uses our clients have used reflective decals and stickers for have been to place on the helmets of a US Navy Helicopter pilot squadron, as accessory stickers for bicycles,

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Advertising with Floor Graphics Decals

floor decals

Floor graphic decals and Stickers are a great way to promote events, products, or even use as a way finding device.

And, if you expand your thinking with this type floor graphic vinyl material, you can also use it on walls as well. Due to the tough over-laminates used on this type of decal, it can be used anywhere human (or otherwise) contact might be made.

Floor Graphic Stickers and Decals in Full Color and 3D – Floor Advertising at its Best

Any graphic design can be printed digitally or screen-printed, using a specific vinyl with adhesives that will stick to most types of floors including concrete,

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