Resources
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Tools
& Accessories
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Vinyl Application
Instructions ( see below)
Wet Application
Dry Application
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Lettering
Size & Visibility Guide
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Guides to promotional
products and news articles on the use promotional items
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Other helpful
information
Tools
& Accessories
for Signs, Vinyl Lettering & Installation
For easy self-installation of signs, banners and other products
sold by us and on this site, you may find the tools and accessories
used by our office and other sign/graphics people use for
installations below:
| Squeegee |
$5.00 each |
| Spray Bottle |
$5.00 each |
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| Banner-Ups |
$5.00 pair |
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Vinyl
Application Instructions
There are 2
ways that we recommend installation of vinyl lettering/graphics:
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Wet
Application
Less
chance of errors/mistakes. You can move or remove application immediately
only (within about 5-10 seconds before it sets) if position
is undesirable. Added installation time to allow for
drying. This application is for Most Beginners, plus it's
used for the installation of intricate or layered vinyl by
Intermediate & Advanced Vinyl Installers
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Dry
Application
Skilled
Installers; it's a peel-n-stick, "no going back once it's
down" type installation. It's fast and immediately dry.
This application is for Some Coordinated Beginners, and most
Intermediate & Advanced Vinyl Installers
Wet
Application
6 Easy Steps for
Vinyl
Lettering Wet Application
For our easy, near-perfection 5-step
vinyl installation, you will need the following tools:
Your vinyl lettering, a squeegee or credit card (or
something with a straight sturdy edge), a tape measure, a
32 oz. (1 QT.)
spray
bottle with a slight squeeze (about a
teaspoon) of dish soap and fill the
rest of the bottle with water, and some masking tape.
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First, put masking
tape on the 2 top corners and then, use your tape measure to perfect the positioning by measuring and repositioning the
tape used to stick the vinyl to the surface until it is exactly where
you want it.
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Second, use one
long piece of masking tape to tape the top of the
entire vinyl imprint to your mounting surface (the
tape will hold it in place while you bend back the vinyl to peel &
remove the paper backing). Be sure
to have someone ready to help you if it is windy because you might
need someone to help hold the vinyl or to spray the dish soap mixture
onto the exposed sticky part of the vinyl while removing the backing
so that it doesn't stick together or stick onto anything else while
you are preparing it to stick it to your surface.
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Next, flip the
image upward, upside down, and peel off the paper backing.
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After
removing the paper backing (the sticky part of the vinyl should be
exposed at this point), use your dish soap spray mixture in the spray
bottle to wet the sticky back
of the vinyl and the mounting surface you are attaching it to and flip
the image back down to lay down the
vinyl correctly onto the mounting surface.
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Use either a squeegee or a credit card to smooth out any water or air
bubbles under the image until you are sure all are removed, starting
from the top down.
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After allowing the
vinyl to dry a few minutes, you may then remove the masking tape and transfer tape
(which holds it all together) from the top of your vinyl and pat
dry.
The installation is now
complete.
Dry
Application
5 Easy Steps for Vinyl
Lettering Application
For our near-perfection dry installation, you will need the following tools:
Your vinyl lettering, a squeegee or credit card (or
something with a straight sturdy edge), a tape measure, and some masking tape.
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First, eye out as
closely as possible where the vinyl will be installed and then use
tape to adhere the vinyl to your surface as close as possible to where
you want it.
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Then, use your tape
measure to perfect the positioning by measuring and repositioning the
tape used to stick the vinyl to the surface until it is exactly where
you want it.
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Then, run a line of
masking tape down the middle of the vinyl lettering/logo to hold it in place while you bend back the vinyl to peel &
remove the paper backing.
3a. Be sure
to have someone ready to help you if it is windy because you might
need someone to help hold the vinyl to prevent the sticky part of the vinyl
from sticking together or sticking onto anything else while
you are preparing it to stick it to your surface.
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Next, after
removing the paper backing (the sticky part of the vinyl should be
exposed at this point), hold the 1/2 of the vinyl image you have
exposed out slightly from your application site and using either a
squeegee or a credit card to smooth it down onto the surface (removing
any air
bubbles), starting from the masking tape in the middle until you reach
the end of your image.
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Then, remove the
masking tape and repeat step 3a & 4, followed by removing the transfer tape
(which holds it all together) from the top of your vinyl.
The installation is now
complete.
Lettering
Size & Visibility Guides
Our Lettering Size & Visibility Guide below shows the
approximate size of lettering to be visible/decipherable from a
certain distance based upon the information provided by Pennsylvania
Transportation Institute, Penn State University and the United
States Sign Council (USSC). c1998.
Viewing Distance
Min Req. Letter Height
50
ft.
2"
100
ft.
4"
250
ft.
10"
360 ft. (city
block)
16"
500
ft.
22"
750
ft.
33"
1000
ft.
43"
1320 ft. (1/4
mi.)
57"
Additional Information or Questions, please contact us.
