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Car Advertising Decals & Stickers – Right Product for Your Market

Car decals, auto decal, auto stickers
March 16th, 2023
Decals

Permanent adhesives or removable? That is the question.

As you drive on the highways and through the towns of the USA, one thing that you will notice is that almost every vehicle has car advertising decals or car advertising stickers on it promoting something, whether it be graphics with a political message or telling which university the owner went to or  how many family members and pets are in the vehicle owner’s family!

How to Choose the Right Car Advertising Stickers, Decals, or Labels for Your Targeted Client Base

Adhesive and Non-Adhesive Types of Car Stickers and Decals

There are several materials and adhesives (or non-adhesive) printers have available for printing on.

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Printing On and Purchasing Vinyl Stickers for Advertising

Vinyl Stickers
March 16th, 2023
Decals

Sticker graphics can be used as labels, advertising, and industrial uses, to name a few reasons for printing on vinyl stickers. They come in a vast variation of sizes, from less than a square inch to 16 feet width rolls for semi truck trailers or storefront windows or transit bus graphic displays.

There are a few methods for printing but most smaller sizes, under 6 or 7 square feet, run in large volumes of 125 pieces or more are screen printed. Those larger than 7 or 8 square feet, especially smaller quantities, is now done on digital roll to roll printers.

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Professional Printing of Custom Vinyl Decals

Polyvinyl decals
March 15th, 2023
Decals

You can use vinyl decals for many different projects or advertising. It comes in a huge variance in sizes. And, they can be produced in several ways. Printing is commonly done with a screen print press if they are not too big and you need a large quantity.

Companies producing graphic vinyl decals will also be able, in many cases, to digitally print a very large size, such as the type that are applied to storefront windows or semi-truck trailers. The large format is always imprinted digitally, as roll to roll printers are now pressing graphics up to 16′

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Online Banner Digital Printing – Vinyl Banner Material

Polyvinyl Banners
March 15th, 2023
Banners

With the advent of the internet in the early 1990’s and the commercialization that followed, online purchasing, including online banner printing, has exploded, so much so that companies have been built or failed in the aftermath of the biggest development in consumer purchasing ever witnessed.

The production of custom vinyl banners exploded in the mid-2000’s, and several companies were responsible for the subsequent pricing collapse that still exists in this category today. But are consumers better off for the cheaper pricing? Maybe. Maybe not.

How Online Banner Printing of Vinyl Banners Changed in the Past 2 Decades

For instance,

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What to Look for in a Banner Printing Shop

Visigraph Client Terms
March 15th, 2023
Banners

Back in the early 1990’s when I went into the sign making business, all you needed was a vinyl plotter and you could open a banner printing shop. In fact, guys were making great money hanging out banners for their shops and making decent money.

One of these shops, in fact, was part of the reason my Father and I decided to go into this business in 1991. One frigid February morning, my Dad had to go pick up some cut vinyl from the store he did business with in Spokane, WA. It was about 8:15 a.m., and so he walked up to the glass entry door,

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A History of Signs and Printing - Part 5

Wide Format Printer
March 15th, 2023
Signs

In this final article on the history of signs and printing, I’ll show how the two came to be combined in such a way as to make the two categories as one. Flexography, offset printing, and lithography have all been magically combined into a new category (although the old categories have not completely disappeared) called digital imprinting.

Well, I thought I would be done with this series last time on signs and printing, and I did actually get into the late 20th century, but I didn’t really get to where they and makers crossed paths.

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A History of Signs and Printing - Part 4

lithographic printer
March 15th, 2023
Signs

In this installment of the history of signs and printing, I’ll talk about history of printing system in human civilization with the vast improvements from the mid-1800’s until late in the 20th century. And where the two trades intersected to create a significant change  for many sign makers.

To recap the previous three articles on this particular topic, we’ve talked about how signage came to be used in the West and the wood display gave way (mostly) to electrical and neon in the past 100 years or so. This history has never been so fascinating –

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A History of Signs and Printing - Part 3

Bullock rotary press
March 14th, 2023
Signs

The world is full of signage displays in the 21st century. Even in “3rd World” countries, there are lots of signs telling you where to go or marking stores or advertising. And while most of us may give passing thought to sign makers and printing, that’s probably the extent of your thought on the subject.

Recapping the previous two articles on the brief history of signs, we’ve now covered what they were used for and the standard media (wood) ones were made of up through electrical and neon in the past 100 years or so, hopefully this is somewhat interesting –

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A History of Signs and Printing - Part 2

Types of Signs
March 14th, 2023
Signs

In this second article on the brief history of signage, we’ve now covered everything up until the 18th century until the present, and my hope is that you’ll have a great handle, whether you wanted a handle on it or not, all about sign making.

Hi again…as I said last time, if you look around, or drive around, when you live in any industrialized country on earth, your locale is full of signposts. Most of us simply accept that sign makers are all about signs and printing and that’s the extent of your thought on the subject.

From Neon and Internally Illuminated Signs to Full Color LED Displays

18th to 19th Century

As I stated in the final part of the of the last article,

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A History of Signs and Printing - Part 1

History of Sign Makers
March 14th, 2023
Signs

If you’re like most people, you simply accept that sign makers are all about guide displays and printing, and that’s about it.

When you look around, or drive around, if you live in most industrialized countries on the planet, your world is full of signs. I’m going to give you a brief history so you’ll know, whether you wanted to know or not.

Where Sign Making, Printing, and Sign Makers Came From – A Short History

Stone Age

In the Stone Age, Grog and his wife, Groggette, sent a smoke signal invitation to Thor and his wife,

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