Sign Buyer's Guide
to Illuminated Wall Cabinet Signs
TURN-KEY Design, Manufacturing, Installation, and Service
Wall Cabinet Signs are also known as Can Signs or Box
Signs.
On
the detail pages that follow (¬tabs
to left)
discover
how we manufacture each wall cabinet sign to last;
including the use of CNC manufacturing,
structural-steel frames, rust-proof metal, high-end
automotive paint, high-impact plastics or strong
flexible-face materials, and most importantly,
sophisticated
Protective Coatings.
All our signs include these many hidden features, critically important to you but often ignored by competitors to lower their cost. We even add self-cleaning properties.
Cabinet
signs with color graphics and PinLights™
LED first-surface lighting is a
hands-down winner.
Signs Manufacturing™
incorporates a patent pending design into our unique new-look concept.
Visit our "LED
Wall Sign Faces" tab
to the left.
Photos of many varied sign
designs are interspersed on the detail pages tabbed on
the left.
Guaranteed Highest
Quality...
Guaranteed Lowest
Price™
As
detailed below, and on the pages that follow, everything
will be done to make your sign look better, and last
longer...Guaranteed.
Signs Manufacturing™ also guarantees that our price
will be the lowest price you can obtain on the products
described in this website; now or anytime during the next
90 days.
If you are
offered a lower price by someone else we will match that
lower price PLUS give you 10% of the difference.
"Fifteen years ago you made a lighted sign for me. It STILL looks new, but finally needs electrical service..."
Lawrence Badger, M.D.
Visit Our Unique Sign Lighting Laboratory and Demonstration Showroom with LED Video Displays
Unique in the entire sign industry, Signs Manufacturing™ built an 85’ by 50’ (over 4,000 sq ft) indoor sign lighting laboratory for testing the longevity, visibility, and effectiveness of all the lighted signs we manufacture.
We have opened our laboratory to the public, for FREE, adding a Sign Showroom that includes LED Video Displays because we realized how important one would be to consumers.
We invite you to observe all types of signage, viewing them up close as well as from a distance, under varying light conditions (and stay out of the weather while doing so!)
How will shadows affect my sign's readability during the day? Should the wall behind my sign be light or dark colored? Would a different type of sign look better on my brick wall? Should I consider a routed sign face with push-through letters?
Don't buy a sign from a drawing when you can actually see and compare real signs.
No one else, sign company or not, can offer you this unique opportunity. Be sure to take advantage. Your business will be better because you do. If you don't visit it could cost you thousands every year. Can you afford not to?
Cost and Pricing Information
Interested in the concept of wall signs, but
unfamiliar with their cost?
Click on the "Cost" tab to the left, then the "Pricing"
tab, to obtain general pricing and cost
information on various sizes and types of wall cabinet
signs.
When you do so notice how dealing directly with the manufacturer can potentially save you additional dollars in sales/use taxes!
The detailed construction and installation information below, and to the left, is very
important in developing a sign that will accomplish
your goals.
Please contact us to develop a plan to meet your
particular needs.
Our professional staff will usually have exact quotations, and exact scale
drawings of your signs installed on your building or property ready for
you the same day we meet with you. (Much faster than the 2 1/2 week
average in our industry.)
We sell our signs FACTORY-DIRECT, WHOLESALE to the
public.
If you are planning for the future, please bookmark
our website as a "Favorite" so you can find us when
you are ready.
Thank you.
Why Buy Factory-Direct from a State-Licensed Company?
Why not buy from a Sign Dealer (also called a Sign Broker or a Sign Store?)
Would you give a car dealer $10,000 and tell him to buy you the best car
he can for the money, sight unseen (or from a drawing?) Don't you think you would get the car that made
him
the most?
Do you think you
could meet your needs asking for the cheapest car he can buy?
Why would a sign dealer (sign broker or sign store) be any different? Remember, they are
merely buying a sign from a manufacturer to resell to you, usually to resemble a
drawing, making the most money they can.
You need to know
ALL of the details on how your sign will be manufactured, and how it will be installed.
It needs to meet YOUR needs, not the seller's profit goals. What is he
telling the manufacturer you don't need?
Believing "...a sign is a sign" gets you a Yugo instead of a Cadillac.
Remember the Yugo? They didn't last very long, either.
Also, most sign dealers, sign brokers and sign stores cannot legally install
or service an electric sign. Ask to see their license.
Ask to see a manufacturer's license also. A few are not licensed to do electrical work, either, they also have to hire other companies to install the signs they make.
Now, who provides the warranty? The manufacturer, the installer, the
salesman, anyone? If the sign was installed illegally
do you think they'll honor their warranty? Did they REALLY obtain your
City sign permit? Is the sign even safe?
As a large, both UL and ETL listed manufacturer, our name is on all our signs. Just like you,
we can't afford to have a bad sign destroy our business. We have to care.
Particularly with our Lifetime Warranty*.
Summary - Wall Cabinet Signs In a Nutshell
The
Special Features and Benefits of Signs Manufacturing Corporation's Wall Cabinet Signs
Lasting Quality – Your Sign will ALWAYS look good to potential customers
Structural steel frames with aluminum exterior skins – No rust and last forever. Virtually Hail-proof.
Computer-generated graphics – Perfect look, not handmade, much more impressive
Better Business Bureau Accredited Business – Others back our claims, too.
Construction
For
strength, durability, and appearance your illuminated
signs will be constructed of aluminum (#3003, H14 -
not the "soft" aluminum used by some) covering a
welded structural-steel inner frame.
Large metal areas
will be reinforced to prevent "oil-canning".
The
structural-steel frame inside the sign is separately
painted before the aluminum skins are installed; important to
prevent rust stains later.
Certified
Welding
We employ
Certified Welders. Horizontal, vertical, and
overhead.
We are virtually
the only sign company in the Dallas/Fort Worth
Metroplex employing certified welders.
The
Importance of Sign Thickness
The thickness of
a sign does more than impart a more prominent
importance to a sign, it affects the graphics.
The minimum
allowable thickness of a sign depends on the type of
internal lighting and the type and size of the sign
face.
Lighting and sign
face types will be discussed later.
The larger the
sign face the thicker a properly made sign cabinet
must be.
It is very
important that the sign be thick enough that the
lighting in the sign does not show as "hot spots" or
"zebra striping" on the face of your sign.
Either of these makes your sign look "cheap" no matter
what its cost. In some instances these can be so
bad that a sign is not readable at night. You've
seen them.
All of this makes
the use of extruded aluminum sign frames problematic
in building a quality sign, to say nothing about a
strong sign (no structural steel inner frame) since
extrusions are only available for limited cabinet
depths; however some sign companies continue to
attempt to do so. Signs Manufacturing™ does not
use extruded cabinets precisely for these reasons.
We calculate what
is required to make a proper and impressive sign for
you, and then we build it.
It is more
expensive to do the job right, but what is the value
of a "cheap" sign that gives potential customers a
negative impression of your business?
The Importance of Retainer Width
Equally important
to the appearance of the sign is the width of the
retainer (the ring of metal around the sign face that
covers the mechanism that holds the sign face in the
cabinet.)
This border plays
a very important role in the apparent quality of your
sign, and both size and color must be considered in
the overall design.
This makes the
use of pre-made extruded aluminum sign frames
undesirable.
Tabs to other components of a
cabinet sign are listed down the left side of this
page.
Be sure to
select the tab "Sign
Buyer's Check List" to the left. This
is a tool for your use to insure that quotations you
receive are for the same sign! Insist that your
bidders check-mark each line, then sign the document
when they give you their quote.
If you know all the details of the sign you wish to purchase, and desire to
buy it right now, click the following link to go to our online
Cabinet Sign Purchase Page.
Please stop by and see all of these products displayed in our unique Sign Lighting Laboratory and Display Showroom.
Free Factory Tour
Come and see the array of equipment
and tools, and the facility dedicated to making good
signs.
Contact a sales consultant to arrange a
plant tour, or just stop by. Click our "Contact
Us" tab for location and contact
details.
State Licensed Sign Installation and Sign Service
We are a full-service sign company.
We
provide
sign site surveys,
sign permits,
sign installation
and
sign maintenance
services for electrical and non-electrical signs for our customers as well as other sign
companies. We
provide this work in Dallas, Fort Worth (DFW), and ALL of
North Texas and Northeast Texas.
State Sign and Electrical License Numbers: TECL17503, TSCL18015, TSCL18016.
Our technicians are also
Quality Certified Signs™ certified. (Click the "Installation
& Service" tab for details.)
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Signs Manufacturing™ & Maintenance Corp.