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All types of business and every organisation needs to display staff announcements, health and safety notices, information and direction signs, rules and regulations, office door signs, advertising notices and many other types of sign. Instead of outsourcing these there are significant cost savings to be made from producing such signs in-house using a regular office printer. All you need for a professional end result is the right changeable sign holder, notice board or poster frame.
The traditional sign company approach to producing short-run signs is to use vinyl lettering stuck to a panel or sign substrate. This involves significant labour costs plus the cost of materials, as well as the sign company's overheads,profit and delivery costs. In some cases the biggest problem is the time it takes to get the sign produced. You need a fast, low cost solution.
While vinyl cut lettering is a great way to produce shop fascia signs or to get your vehicle sign written, it is not the optimum solution for many everyday signage requirements. Instead great results can be achieved in-house using an office printer - either an inkjet or a laser printer. With basic word processing skills, or with the assistance of page layout software for more sophisticated projects, it is relatively easy to produce an effective design for the message you wish to convey.
Even the most basic office printers can produce smaller signs up to A4 size (or Letter size if you are from USA or Canada). However a printed sheet taped to the wall looks rather amateurish and when posted outdoors it won't survive for long. Help is at hand in the form of our many affordable print display systems.
The notice board is widely used and well understood. The variants worth considering are whether it should be open fronted, have a hinged door, be lockable or waterproof. The back panel can be suitable for pins or hook-fasteners, with magnetic options also available.
To display an individual printed sign there are again many options. Firstly decide if you want the notice displayed permanently. In practice this is rare as messages have to be kept up to date, people move offices, new policies come into force and so forth. This is why the changeable sign holder has become so popular. With some styles of sign holder the paper is simply slipped into the frame though a slot in the top edge. In other styles the poster frame opens from the front so a new page can be inserted quickly and easily.
The snap frame is a particularly effective type of a front-loading poster frame. The surround is made of aluminium, usually with a brushed finish called anodised, which has a matte silver appearance. Because the snap frame itself looks smart and professional, so too does the finished sign. Smart presentation is important whatever your business.
For printed signs to be displayed outdoors there are also plenty of options. There are waterproof snap frames and waterproof framed notice boards for displaying multiple sheets of paper simultaneously. For a large single poster a hinged door poster frame offers a prestige look with the advantage of being waterproof as well.
Another practical approach is to run your print-out through a laminator to seal the paper in a plastic pouch, thus rendering it waterproof. However be sure to choose a laminated size poster frame which will accommodate the extra border without needing to trim - which would destroy the water-proof properties. All these poster frame options are readily available from Green Magic and the cost of a changeable poster frame which can last for years will be less than a single vinyl-cut sign. So the potential for savings is clear.
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