Graphic Design
Sign-Ups is a full service sign, banner, marketing and promotional products company. In the sign business since 1990, it has its own production facility in central Houston. Products include signs, banners, lettering services, site maps, floor graphics, decals and labels, vehicle wraps and much more. The Sign-Ups team prides itself on its dedication to customer service and quality products.
File Preparation
TRUST THE PROFESSIONALS AT SIGN-UPS AND BANNERS TO ENSURE YOUR IMAGES, AND ARTWORK ARE READY FOR HIGH-QUALITY PRINTS.
Preparing Artwork, and Images
To ensure the highest quality output, save your images at 100 – 150 dpi (dots per inch) at the finished size. Pixel files are .tif and .jpg. The preferred format is .tif.
Files for vinyl output need to contain a Vector image of your sign and/or logo. This means your text and graphics should have no strokes (in case they need to be scaled). Most programs offer an option to save or export text as vectors, curves, paths or outlines. Vector files are .ai, .cdr, .pdf or .eps; Convert all fonts to curves or paths to avoid possible font substitution. This rule goes for all types of files.
Save photographic images at 100 percent of the actual size (when possible). If you are using Adobe Photoshop, we recommend the RGB color mode for raster files. In Adobe Illustrator, we recommend the CMYK color mode for vector files. (We do not recommend CMYK files for any files, but recommend allowing the rip software (Versaworks) to convert colors, unless the logo calls for a specific PMS color). If you are using Quark Xpress, please save the file as a .pdf (File«Export«layout as .pdf).