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A Basic Guide to Vinyl Express® LXi 22 Vinyl Cutting Software

If you want smoother performance, need the latest device drivers, or want to enjoy the productivity gains of the exciting new features, LXi22 is for you.

Design And Layout Sign College

College and Professional team colors guide

Sports Teams Colors Guide for College and Professional Football

SignWarehouse has produced a three-page, free, downloadable guide to help you find appropriate vinyl colors in indoor, outdoor, and heat transfer vinyl for collegiate and professional football teams.

Business Strategies Colors

Card Stock Crafts Made Easy with MUSE Cutters

Layer card stock crafts create a three-dimensional display Receiving gifts is a pleasure, but giving gifts is where the real thrill lies. When giving or receiving a homemade gift --...

Card Stock Craft And Hobby

Create Custom Items Using the Right Vinyl

We express ourselves both verbally and non-verbally. In fact, you can learn a lot about a person by their clothing and accessories -- their favorite sports teams, entertainers, companies, and...

Business Strategies Design And Layout

Up Your Game with MUSE Vinyl Cutters

Time for a riddle: What do the MUSE line of vinyl cutters and a popular outdoor game have in common? Individuality! Over the last couple of years, many people have...

Crafting Design And Layout

Lighten Up with Reflective Vinyl

What’s That Ahead? Traffic signs need reflective vinyl to be seen in low light Unlike owls, cats, and frogs, human vision is not better in darkness. In fact, it’s not...

Car Wraps Design And Layout

Lamination Protects and Preserves Important Projects

In the early part of 2020, much of the world's population made sure they were gloved and masked. Why? Gloves and masks were touted as protection. It’s not just we...

Cold Roll Cold Roll Lamination

HTX Drinkware Sublimation Blanks for Personalization

Why All the Reusable Cups? How fast have you found yourself drinking your morning dose of hot coffee or tea before it grows cold? And how many times have you...

Design And Layout Digital Drinkware Decoration

Multipurpose Corrugated Sign Blanks for Indoors and Outdoors

“And the Sign Said…” Under New Management Go, Broncos! Caution! Neighborhood Yard Sale! Right Turn Only Back in 1971, the song “Signs” was on FM...

Cor-Plastic Signs Coroplast

MUTOH Soft-proofing Webinar

If you’re not already using a large format printer, you probably will be as your sign business grows. One of the biggest challenges in the transition from vinyl graphics to...

Color Management Design And Layout

Basic Sign Design: Your Words Say One Thing While Your Design Says Something Else

I liked the video below, taken from one of his recent articles, because it concentrates on logo design, a basic element of a fine sign design. It's easy to just...

Design Design And Layout

Path Tools for Better OKI WT Laser Transfers

The OKI PRO 8432WT and 711WT laser toner printers produce soft, vivid full-color T-shirt transfers on light, dark, and colored garments. The white toner in the printers acts as...

Adobe Photoshop Tips Design And Layout

How to Apply Vinyl on Wood

One of the most frequently asked questions we receive deals with substrates. Just a few days ago a gentleman from New Jersey asked if he could put ORACAL 651 on...

Coroplast Coroplast Substrate

How to Create Chevron Text

We received a question this week that comes from the craft & hobby segment. A customer asked one of our technicians how to create "Chevron text". This is a...

Chevron Fonts Chevron Patterns

Cloud Computing Comes to the Sign Industry

Technically speaking, "cloud computing" is simply software or data that's housed in a location removed from users' workstations. Most CRM software used by small businesses fits this description. But in...

Cloud Computing Design And Layout

A Basic Guide to Sign Design for Signmakers

To succeed in the sign business, you need to build repeat business. To do that you need to create vinyl graphics that produce value for your customer by communicating effectively....

Design And Layout Kerning

A Basic Guide to Vectorizing and Cutting Raster or Bit Image Clip Art

This week, we’ll tackle an even more common and vexing problem; the ‘no cuttable object’ error message. This is the uncooperative reply you get from your sign software when you...

Clip Art Cutting Plotters

Choose the Right Fonts for Your Next Sign Job

Picking the right font can be difficult when designing signs. Either we tend to get in a rut and use the same font over and over again, or we pick...

Design And Layout Font

Quick Tip: A Better Way to Align Vinyl Layers on Your Vinyl Sign

Wondering how you can get a multi-colored vinyl sign to align? Here's an easy solution you might try.

Colored Decals Design And Layout

"So I said to myself, if some day I could become a good sign painter, that would be terrific!"

Mr. Steinweiss said he was destined to be a commercial artist. In high school he marveled at his classmates who “could take a brush, dip it in some paint and...

Design And Layout Sign Design

When a Signmaker Needs a Map for a Sign...

The OpenStreetMap project is a wiki for maps. As it is explained on its site, "OpenStreetMap.org creates and provides free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants...

Design And Layout Maps In Signs

5 Sign Making Design Do's

Our goal as signmakers is to make signs that brand companies, attract business, and are aesthetically pleasing. Essentially, signmaking is all about communications. Is your sign shop in the practice...

Design And Layout Sign Design

5 Basic Sign Design Mistakes You Don't Want to Make

The sign is part of every business' sales team; while it might not speak a word, it says volumes about their business, and when the rest of the staff clocks...

Design And Layout Sign Design

5 Tips for Designing Effective Signs

Signs are among the first things that customers notice, and should therefore make a good impression. Eye-catching signs with bright colors, vivid graphics and a clear, simple design and message...

Design And Layout Sign Advertising

What Happens to Old Neon Signs in Las Vegas?

Some of the most spectacular neon signs ever seen are or have been in Las Vegas. And wehre do they go when they are replaced? To the Neon Sign Boneyard...

Design And Layout Neon Sign Boneyard

Vintage Roadside's Neon Sign Collection

This time we are going to link to Vintage Roadside's neon sign collection of over 450 photos on flickr. You usually don't see these old neon signs any more, instead...

Design And Layout Neon Signs

Old Road Signs Bring Back Memories

I stumbled accross a Flickr collection of old road signs by PopKulture that I thought you would enjoy, there are over 300 photos posted here. As a kid, I remember...

Design And Layout Road Signage

"I’m not sure what kind of sign I want, but I’ll know it when I see it."

Have you ever made a presentation to a committee/boss/client who could not converse in words? It goes like this: “Hmm. Mm-hmm. I’m not sure what I want, but I’ll know...

Design And Layout New Sign Maker

Sign Making 101: Expert Tips on Creating Eye Catching Content

We all know that in the world of signs, less is more. According to artist Antoine de Saint Exupery,: "You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have...

Design Design And Layout

Basic Sign Design: The Trouble With Color Matching

Well, just another great tutorial/idea that you can use in your sign shop from one of my favorite design gurus: John McWade. In his Before & After blog, he writes...

Color Gamut Color Match

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