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Plastic faces are typically enclosed and illuminated by the electric cabinets that house them. Try not to limit your clients to the old, boring, flat lexan face inserts used so often in our industry. Give them options for smooth PAN faces, which project 2” more than flat faces, stay 2” farther away than flat faces from bulbs and help make hot spots and decrease shadowing much more than flat faces. They hold better in retainers and tend not to blow out of cabinets as much as flat faces due to their increased formed rigidity!
You can also take smooth pan faces (smooth text) another level and offer EMBOSSED pan faces. Embossed pan faces contain projected or raised copy instead of flat elements. They add a dimension to your sign face, add more rigidity and add POP to your message. In addition, embossed copy can also be ‘return’ or ‘depth’ cut to show even more dimension. |
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Add pizzazz to your design to help sell the job! Incorporate outlines and drop shadows to help get your clients’ visual impressions recognized. Use highly contrasting colors to grab the eye…and think about the night: When your sign illuminates, the layout changes. We can make your backgrounds opaque at night to mimic channel letter appearances or just help the layout show up better. Consider halftones, watermarks or even full color process designs to make your client stand out among the rest.
Adding digital qualities to your layout will only help make potential customers take notice. Layers of dies can yield 3-dimensional tiered embossing to impress passers-by accustomed to seeing 1 and 2-dimensional displays. Shapes are also eye-catchers, even if you don’t have a shaped cabinet: We can opaque the areas outside of your main design in a non-shaped cabinet so the sign looks like a shape at night…b/c only the shape lights up!
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Residing in Times Square, this unique installation demonstrates how we can help you deliver anything your client can imagine. This sign contains ten plastic pan faces making this sign impressively 3-dimensional. |
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Dear Valued Customer,
Here is your copy of the Hanson Sign Companies, Inc. Summer 2010 Newsletter. Enjoy! |
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On the Cutting Edge...How Cool Are You? |
Vacuumformed lexan pan face backsprayed with 5-colors, double masked three times and embossed to create cone relief.
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Now that summer is finally here; what are you thinking of? If you are like most people, you are thinking about getting outside. You are thinking about going to a BBQ, working on your garden, or looking for a cool treat or a venue where you can hang outside. If you are in the sign business, summertime essentially means: SIGNtime!
What better way to attract a customer to your scenic outdoor or pleasantly air-conditioned indoor venue than with a plastic sign face that stands out among the rest.
For over 60 years, Hanson Sign
Vacuumformed lexan “seamed” pan face backsprayed with 5-colors and embossed on 2-different layers to create depth.
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Companies, Inc. (HSC) has been doing just that—standing out among the rest. You have seen our signs in every location possible, because we believe in providing quality products and quality service.
Full color smooth pan faces decorated 1st surface with direct flatbed print. 6cp solvent inks used with solar grade clearcoat sprayed on top, utilized in an 8’x 8’ pan face w/horizontal seam and lock joint.
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To ensure our clients receive quality products, we make sure our customers have options. HSC offers three types of plastic sign faces: flat faces, smooth pan faces, and embossed pan faces. With superior digital printers and master-level spray painters on staff, HSC will deliver a product you and your client can believe in and be proud of for years to come!
Our state-of-the-art equipment and staff allow us to recreate the image your client wants on sign faces of all shapes and sizes. HSC uses Solar-Grade Polycarbonate for all plastic sign faces, which is the preferred material for most wholesalers. Polycarbonate is impact resistant and will not break as easily as acrylic. Solar grade also prevents "yellowing" which often occurs within 3—4 years after installation using acrylic.
Embossed pan face backsprayed 2nd surface, embossed on 3-different layers, thermoformed and cad-cam routed to custom shape. All colors are translucent!
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Because HSC uses top quality materials to build your client’s signs, creating signs with unique shapes and intricate paint designs is no problem. The skilled sales and production staff can handle almost any detail you throw at them.
If you are looking to make an impression during the summer, or any time throughout the year, choose Hanson Sign Companies, Inc. for your client’s next project. With all of the services and features that HSC provides, the only hard choice that you have to make is when to get started. Click here to get a quote now or to contact your sales representative today.
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Showcase Sign |
 This layout demonstrates just how many choices a client has when designing a plastic sign face. This lexan pan face was vacuumformed from clear .150” thick solar grade clear material extruded by GE. It is currently installed with its mate within a double sided electric sign cabinet, internally illuminated. The design was created by a sign company who ordered the embossed pan faces from us. To achieve maximum dimension and visual impact, several production techniques were utilized in the making of this sign.
All of the letters, logo and logo panel were embossed and projected, giving it a three-dimensional impression. The actual text and outlines are raised and embossed, and then backsprayed with grip flex translucent paints on the inside of the pan (2nd surface). The background is also backsprayed with translucent paints on the 2nd surface. The ice cream cone and the bear were digitally printed directly onto the 2nd surface of the sign face before vacuumforming, while the drop shadow and snow flakes were digitally printed on clear h/p translucent vinyl, then applied to the outside / 1st surface of the clear pans. Both pans were installed in an existing double sided electric sign cabinet with radius corners.
If you have an intricate layout / sign face req’d., we can produce it! Please visit our gallery of signs to see more examples of our work. And don’t pass up opportunity before asking if we can do it!
| Noteworthy Hanson Sign |
 LEGO project entailing (30) flat and embossed decorated lexan faces, dispersed throughout the country. All signs backsprayed with pantone colors and stringent quality requirements for up-close viewing. Hanson Sign Companies completed the units painting specific translucent colors with clean, crisp color separations in a timely fashion!
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 Hanson Sign Companies, Inc. is a sign shop owned by real people. Our production manager, Jay Young, has been employed with Hanson since 1992. During his 18 years of service, we have had the chance to learn a lot about Jay and would like to share with you why he is so special to us.
Jay Young was born and was raised locally; he now resides near Bemus Point a small town nestled on the shore of Chautauqua Lake. As a former sign shop owner, Jay has a perspective on the whole process in creating signs. Jay knows exactly the time constraints our clients are under when they place an order, and he knows the optimal production speed of the shop. He is the oil in our production machine. Jay also oversees all manufacturing operations in our shop.
In addition to keeping the work moving through Hanson, Jay is an artist. As a graduate of the Pittsburgh Art Institute, Jay is a highly-trained professional, who works in many mediums, including paint, sculpture, wood, and graphic design. He has a wide variety of sign craft and technical knowledge, and he is a builder extraordinaire.
Jay is a family man; he is married and is the father of three girls. As a sports fan, Jay always has something to chat with the folks at the shop about. He has the bragging rights of being the HSC ping-pong champion. Jay is also a geo-caching aficionado. Plus, he serves as our backup network technician when a need presents itself. Needless to say he wears many, many hats for us! We are so pleased to have him on our team and know that you will like having him on your team too. |
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Contact your account representative today for more details.
Sincerely,
Hanson Sign Companies |
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