Manufacture - Install - Service
Signs Manufacturing
manufactures each wall cabinet sign to last;
including the use of CNC manufacturing,
structural-steel frames, rust-proof metal, high-end
automotive paint, high-impact plastics or strong
flexible-face materials, and most importantly,
sophisticated
Protective Coatings.
All our signs include these many hidden features, critically important to you but often ignored by competitors to lower their cost. We even add self-cleaning properties.
Cabinet
signs with color graphics and PinLights™ LED first-surface lighting is a
hands-down winner.
Signs Manufacturing™
incorporates a patent pending design into our unique new-look concept.
We champion energy-saving signs solutions that save our customers money while protecting our environment. PinLights™ can even economically be solar powered.
The Special Features and Benefits of Signs Manufacturing Corporation's Wall Cabinet Signs
Doing business with Signs Manufacturing™
ImageKrafters™ Design Consultants and The Design Tank™
No matter what types of signs you are interested in, our sales team, consisting of 11 highly-trained individuals, is at your beck and call.
Let us meet with you in your office, or at your new signs location, or home, or anywhere.
You will probably have a firm quotation, not a non-binding "estimate" like most competitors provide, for what you want during our meeting; certainly no more than a day later.
Unique in the entire sign industry, Signs Manufacturing™ built an 85' by 50' (over 4,000 sq ft) indoor sign lighting laboratory for testing the longevity, visibility, and effectiveness of all the lighted signs we manufacture.
The Laboratory is open to the public, for FREE, adding an LED Video Display Showroom because we realized how important one would be to consumers.
We can take your normally static sign, with a fixed message, and add movement using our programmable LEDs. Different speeds, "frames" if you prefer more subtle movement, multiple colors, etc. We can even have it programmable so that you can change the colors of the LEDs!
As an added effect, you can program the moving LEDs separately from the rest of the sign. So, using the video above as an example, they could have the rotating record be green on St. Patrick's Day!
How's THAT for eye-catching?
To learn about our Sunburst LED Signs™™, which we can include in wall sign designs, click here.
If you would like to see if an LED sign is will be beneficial to your business, and how much it will cost, Contact Us for a free, no obligation quote and analysis of your business, projected increase in sales (based on Small Business Administration numbers), traffic counts in your area and the cost of a new sign.
For strength, durability, and appearance your illuminated signs will be constructed of aluminium (#3003, H14 - not the "soft" aluminium used by some) covering a welded structural-steel inner frame.
Large metal areas will be reinforced to prevent "oil-canning".
The structural-steel frame inside the sign is separately painted before the aluminium skins are installed; important to prevent rust stains later.
The thickness of a sign does more than impart a more prominent importance to a sign, it affects the graphics.
The minimum allowable thickness of a sign depends on the type of internal lighting and the type and size of the sign face.
The larger the sign face the thicker a properly made sign cabinet must be.
It is very important that the sign be thick enough that the lighting in the sign does not show as "hot spots" or "zebra striping" on the face of your sign. Either of these makes your sign look "cheap" no matter what its cost. In some instances these can be so bad that a sign is not readable at night. You've seen them.
All of this makes the use of extruded aluminium sign frames problematic in building a quality sign, to say nothing about a strong sign (extruded signs have no structural steel inner frame) since extrusions are only available for limited cabinet depths. Signs Manufacturing™ does not use extruded cabinets precisely for these reasons.
Equally important to the appearance of the sign is the width of the retainer (the ring of metal around the sign face that covers the mechanism that holds the sign face in the cabinet.)
This border plays a very important role in the appearance of your sign, and both size and color must be considered in the overall design.
This makes the use of pre-made extruded aluminium sign frames undesirable.
When our founder was very young he managed a supermarket, a grocery store.
He discovered that he could affect the store's business by simply turning “on” the store's signs on less-than-sunshiny days. Cloudy and/or rainy days would have a higher sales volume than bright days, IF HE REMEMBERED TO TURN THE SIGNS ON.
And with the tinted window glass so prevalent in the South it is often-times hard to tell if a business is even open.
These are lessons every business person should be aware of. And, with today's modern LED illuminated signage, it costs practically nothing to make your store really stand out!
What is the main reason our Sunburst™ LED outdoor digital signs increase a store’s business so dramatically? Lighted signs draw much more attention than unlighted signs, even during the day!
Because we recognize how important this is, we will now install automatic electronic lighting controls on every lighted sign we manufacture*, for free if you participate in our BETA TEST, factory calibrated to turn the sign “on” and “off” at times when lighting will help you do more business. Over the past 40+ years, we have documented EXACTLY when a sign’s lighting should be turned “on” to increase visibility on dark and/or rainy days, overcome shadows, and exactly when at dusk a sign should be turned “on.” The whole purpose of the sign, after all, is to attract attention to your business. We make your sign both more attention-getting AND more legible.
The setting varies for signs pointed East, West, North, or South, and varies for signs containing neon, HID lighting, fluorescents, and/or LEDs. It also varies by how the sign was built. Our automatic electronic lighting controls also sense shadows making signs less legible, and turn “on” the internal lighting accordingly. Optimum settings are custom-set for every sign.
Another example of our doing everything we can to insure that our signs make your business the most successful. As far as we know, no other sign manufacturer does this, for free or otherwise, for their customers.
If possible, have your electrician also wire a time clock to control the power supplying your signs. The time clock should be set to keep the sign “off” at times they should never be lighted, say 2:30 AM to 5:30 AM, the rest of the time whether the sign is “on” or “off” should be determined by our automatic lighting controls. USE ELECTRICITY WISELY TO MAKE YOUR BUSINESS THE MOST VISIBLE, BUT CONSERVE ENERGY.
Regarding “Energy Consumption” note how little energy our SolarBrite™ LED lighted signs use in a year!
Recognize that Intermatic and Tork time clocks, used by most electricians, are not finely adjustable, and at certain times of the year dawn and dusk occur at quickly-varying times, gaining or losing over 15 minutes of daylight each week. If you only have a time clock controlling power to your signs, savvy business owners must reset their time clocks constantly and carefully, and manually override them to turn “on” their signs on dark days. Good luck getting your employees to do this religiously – THIS IS ALSO WHY WE INCLUDE CALIBRATED AUTOMATIC THERMAL LIGHTING CONTROLS ON EVERY OUTDOOR SIGN WE MANUFACTURE.* Incidentally, we DO NOT use photo cells or photo eyes. They are neither precise nor reliable.
Anecdotal data suggests that increased profits resulting from this feature alone more than pays for the entire cost of most signs EVERY YEAR.
Unconvinced of the importance to you? View our control system in operation, and our supporting testing, in our Sign Lighting Laboratory and Showroom. Then you can decide if you agree that this is a critically important improvement in signage effectiveness.
*Dependent on size and design.
The failure mode for our automatic electronic lighting controls is “always on.” You will never be without an attractive sign if something should break; you’ll spend a little more on electricity until we get it fixed.
Knowing that our signs will be illuminated during the day we design our signs and lighting for daylight effectiveness; to take full advantage of our daytime lighting.
For instance, we pack backlighting to create a subtle glow during the day. If you are going to light a sign during the day the lighting better look good!
This is easier to accomplish when we incorporate our SolarBrite™ LongLife™ LEDs which are so much brighter than competitive LEDs.
If we didn’t use SolarBrite™ LEDs we couldn’t design and build signs that offered such an advantage when compared to competitive signs (Both our competitors, and your neighbor’s signs.) We don’t waste electricity, simply because our signs always stand out, even when both are lighted.
“We prosper because of our sign. Signs Manufacturing’s unique understanding of the use of colors and light both day and night causes our business to always be the most visible. No one else could work their magic!” - the 407 club
We are a full-service sign company. We provide sign site surveys, sign permits, sign installation and sign maintenance services for electrical and non-electrical signs for our customers as well as other sign companies. We provide this work in Dallas, Fort Worth (DFW), and ALL of North Texas and Northeast Texas.
State Sign and Electrical License Numbers: TECL17503, TSCL18015, TSCL18016.
Serving Collin, Cook, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Fannin, Franklin, Grayson, Henderson, Hill, Hood, Hopkins, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman, Lamar, Navarro, Parker, Rockwall, Somervell, Tarrant, Titus, Van Zandt, Wood, and Wise Counties in Texas.
We also have signs in 43 different states, and 6 other nations.
Let our experience help you. Come to our showroom and see for yourself which sign works best.
No one else can offer you this unique opportunity. Be sure to take advantage.
Please contact us to develop an exact plan to meet your particular needs - for free.
Our professional staff will usually have exact quotations, and exact scale drawings of your signs installed on your building or property ready for you the same day we meet with you. (Much faster than the 2 1/2 week average in our industry.)
Virtually ALL cities, as well as the State of Texas, adopt the National Electric Code as law.
The National Electric Code (NEC) requires that for electrical, structural, and installation safety all electrical signs be "Listed" (tested and labelled with an appropriate Listing Mark.)
Certification (testing and labelling) organizations acceptable in the USA to test to the multitude of Standards signs are required to meet are determined by OSHA.
If the sign you are purchasing does not have a ETL or UL Listing Mark label the sign is probably not legal to install, anywhere in Texas.
We are the 9th oldest UL Listed Manufacturer in North Texas. (File #UXYT.E149959)
Incidentally, ISO (International Organization of Standardization) Standards, such as ISO 9001, are NOT electrical Listings (similar to a UL or ETL Listing) that allow a sign to be installed in Texas. That said, components in our electronic signs also meet ISO 9001, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and RoHS standards.
"All sign companies do the same thing!" This is a common claim by other sign companies.
Through years of research we have introduced many quality products and procedures to use on signage. Most remain unused by other sign companies because they have no idea how to do it. Some of these products are:
To purchase sign and neon parts and components, please go to TexasSignSupply. How's THAT for an easy-to-remember website?
Would you like to be seen on our SignDawgsTV™ Show?
Season 8 of the reality TV documentary series about Signs Manufacturing™ featuring the signage we create, and the customers we serve in the DFW Metroplex area of North Texas, is currently being filmed.
Co-star with William, James, Robert, and the whole SignDawgs™ crew. Every business ever featured on SignDawgsTV™ continues to operate successfully. If your business, church, or school, are interested in appearing in this project be sure to tell your salesperson so we can immediately arrange for the producers to contact you.
SignDawgsTV™ is one of YouTube's most successful series, with 2,000,000+ viewers (we've officially gone viral.) Older episodes continue to be viewed over-and-over.
This could be valuable free advertising for you.
SignDawgsTV™ debuts bi-weekly on Tuesdays at 5:00 pm.
You can view all SignDawgsTV™ episodes @ SignDawgsTV.com
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