A vinyl sign is a highly effective medium for conveying your message and creating a lasting impression. It works well on a variety of substrates such as foam board signs, metal signs, and of course, banners and window graphics. The use of vinyl signs is a cost-effective way to convey important information and promote your products and services.

Aside from an application, cutter, software and weeding tools, you’ll need a few other items to get started. These include substrates, transfer tape and a vinyl cutter. Substrates are the surfaces upon which you will apply your graphic. They may be rigid, such as aluminum sign blanks and license plate blanks, or flexible, like banners.

The best vinyl graphics are created using vector applications such as CorelDRAW, Adobe Illustrator and AutoCAD. Raster based applications such as Microsoft Paint, Corel PhotoPaint, and Photoshop print images in dots that your vinyl cutter can’t translate to shapes and letters. You’ll need to convert them to a vector format in order for your vinyl cutter to recognize them as shapes and lettering. The built-in Vector Tracing feature in our LXi Expert, Master and Master Plus packages does this automatically and quickly for you, but converting them by hand is an alternative as well.

Once your vector shapes are cut from the face film and adhesive of your vinyl, you’ll need to remove the negative space around them, a process known as weeding. Once the weeded graphic is stuck to transfer tape (also known as app tape), it’s ready to be applied to its intended surface.

Whether it’s a large-scale video wall at Flamingo Point, or an interior wall mural for a business or home, a signage company in Fresno can design and create the perfect vinyl graphic to fit your needs. We’re skilled at heavy-duty vinyl floor graphics, privacy films for windows, and a wide variety of other indoor signage solutions. Contact a local signage company in Fresno today to learn how they can help you stand out from the crowd with a unique visual display solution.