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Home › Sign Types > Cabinet Signs Click HERE, or Call, to Request a FIRM, Installed, SAME-DAY PRICE QUOTE (NOT just a simple, non-binding "Estimate") TURN-KEY Sign Design, Sign Manufacturing, Sign Installation, and Sign ServiceNorth Texas' (DFW's) Largest Custom Sign Builder What Is a Marquee Sign?A Marquee Sign is not a cheap, portable, lighted or unlighted Changeable-Letter Sign like you see along the roadside in some places, usually with Arrows atop (which, incidentally, are banned in most DFW cities!)
Historically they sometimes included flashing or scrolling lights to draw the eye to the signage. However, today, most cities do not allow flashing or scrolling lights on signage. Historically the changeable message portion of the sign would simply be a plastic face with track added so that either plastic 3-dimensional letters can be clipped on, or letters individually printed on thin clear plastic can be slid into the track.
That said, we manufacture all of these sign designs options, including our Sunburst™ LED Signs. Links down the left side of this page will take you to learn about the pertinent features of these type signs, and how they are constructed. For information on the permanent letters on a Marquee Sign, usually installed atop the sign, use our "Channel Letter Signs" link. These options are also viewable in our Showroom, to help you make an informed decision. Full-Color & Monochrome Digital LED Electronic Message Centers & Video Displays in Marquee Signs
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. WHOLESALE TO THE PUBLIC!Summary - Marquee Signs In a Nutshell
The Special Features and Benefits of doing business with Signs Manufacturing™
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Hundreds of years combined experience. Creative sign designs that
make our customers more successful.The Signs Manufacturing Your-Location Sales Team's Personalized ServiceNo 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. We can design and build your next sign while maintaining Social Distancing guidelines
Our Showroom is open and sanitized so you can safely review the different options available for your new signage. Also, we have many options to help design your new look, from collaborating remotely (from your own home bridged to our design team) to designing with you in our Projection Room, which is large enough to maintain Social Distancing. Are You a "Visual" Person?It is difficult to picture what a sign is going to look like. What do you picture when we say "triple-layer multi-colored lighting with a textured backplate?" Our showroom is designed to solve that problem. Most people are visual ... they need to see something firsthand to understand what it is and whether it has value to them. Seeing is believing!
Visit Our Unique Sign Lighting Laboratory and Demonstration ShowroomAre you a "visual" person? Is seeing believing? 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. Thousands of visitors have learned about sign design, materials, construction, lighting; and their effect on a business. We invite you to also observe all other types of signage, viewing them up close as well as from a distance, under varying light conditions (and stay out of the weather while doing so!)
Will your Sodium Vapor or Metal Halide parking lot lights affect the colors of your sign at night? How visible will your pylon sign’s border neon be during the day? Should you consider PinLights™, LetterLites™, SpectraLites™, or Trembler™ signs? Brighter Signs™ neon or SolarBrite™ LED lighting for channel letter signs? Fluorescent or HID lighting for your monument sign? Do Daylight or Cool White fluorescents make your sign’s colors look best? What are the differences between a flex-faced, a Lexan™, and an acrylic-faced sign cabinet? How will shadows affect my sign's readability during the day? Should the wall behind my sign be light or dark colored? Would a different type of sign look better on my brick wall? Should I consider a routed sign face with push-through letters? Live Showroom Demonstrations of Products that Improve Your Marquee Signs
No one else can offer you this unique opportunity. Be sure to take advantage. Your business will be better because you do. If you don't visit it could cost you thousands in sales every year. Can you afford not to?
Guaranteed Highest Quality...Guaranteed Lowest Price™As detailed below, and on the pages that follow, everything will be done to make your sign look better, and last longer...Guaranteed. WHOLESALE TO THE PUBLIC! Signs Manufacturing™ also guarantees that our price will be the lowest price you can obtain on the products described in this website; now or anytime during the next 90 days. If you are offered a lower price by someone else we will match that lower price PLUS give you 10% of the difference. "Fifteen years ago you made a lighted sign for me. It STILL looks new, but finally needs electrical service..." Why Buy Factory-Direct from a State-Licensed Company?Why not buy from a Sign Dealer (also called a Sign Broker or a Sign Store?) Would you give a car dealer $10,000 and tell him to buy you the best car he can for the money, sight unseen (or from a drawing?) Don't you think you would get the car that made him the most? Do you think you could meet your needs asking for the cheapest car he can buy? Why would a sign dealer (Car Wrap company or sign store) be any different? Remember, they are merely buying a sign from a manufacturer to resell to you, usually to resemble a drawing, making the most money they can.
Also, most sign dealers, Car Wrap companies and sign stores cannot legally install or service an electric sign. Ask to see their license. Ask to see a manufacturer's license also. A few are not licensed to do electrical work, either, they also have to hire other companies to install the signs they make. Now, who provides the warranty? The manufacturer, the installer, the salesman, anyone? If the sign was installed illegally do you think they'll honor their warranty? Did they REALLY obtain your City sign permit? Is the sign even safe? As a large, both UL and ETL listed manufacturer, our name is on all our signs. Just like you, we can't afford to have a bad sign destroy our business. We have to care. Particularly with our 5 Year $0 Cost Warranty and Lifetime Guarantees. The State of Texas does NOT allow the installation on non-Listed electrical signs, and a Texas Sign Contractors License (TSCL) is not evidence of an OSHA approved Listing for electrical signs. Additional approvals are required. Why are “Listed" Marquee Signs Critical to You?Virtually ALL cities, as well as the State of Texas, adopt the National Electric Code as law. For you the Listing Mark is insurance. It means that the sign has been tested to insure that it is structurally and electrically safe, and will be installed properly. You benefit from the knowledge that it is not solely us telling you that our signs are safe, this is what the testing laboratories and the US Government says also. W 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. There are a few local city ordinance exceptions. Buy carefully. For more detailed information on "listing and labeling" click on the "Labeled & Listed" tab in the Knowledge Tree™ tab in the left column. Marquee Sign ConstructionFor 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. A Warning About Some Very-Substandard SignsSome companies use plastic, Dibond and ACM-type products for their outdoor sign cabinets. Your Texas sign gets heated! Dibond and ACM Sheets (Aluminum Composite Materials) which sandwich polyethylene between two thin sheets of aluminum are especially subject to warping. Plastics and metals expand and contract at different rates. With Dibond and ACM-type sheets used outdoors, because they are made of two dissimilar types of materials (plastic and aluminium) warp with temperature, hot and cold. They are not designed for this application, but some sign companies manufacture outdoor signs using them. They shouldn't. The Importance of Sign ThicknessThe 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. Lighting and sign face types will be discussed later. 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 (no structural steel inner frame) since extrusions are only available for limited cabinet depths; however some sign companies continue to attempt to do so. Signs Manufacturing™ does not use extruded cabinets precisely for these reasons. We calculate what is required to make a proper and impressive sign for you, and then we build it. It is more expensive to do the job right, but what is the value of a "cheap" sign that gives potential customers a negative impression of your business? Retainer TypesThere are two different retainer types, 3-D "Picture-Frame" retainers, and "flat" retainers. Which one you choose can dramatically affect the appearance of your sign. View these retainer styles in our Showroom to understand their differences. The Importance of Retainer WidthEqually 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 apparent quality 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. Tabs to other components of a cabinet sign are listed down the left side of this page. Be sure to select the tab "Specifications" to the left. This is a tool for your use to insure that quotations you receive are for the same sign! Please stop by and see all of these products displayed in our unique Sign Lighting Laboratory and Display Showroom. The Safety Feature of a Fixed Bottom RetainerUnlike virtually all other manufacturers, we realize that if the bottom retainer, which is simply screwed in place on most signs, falls off, a plastic sign face also falls off; probably breaking. Our bottom retainer is a fixed part of our sign, and is not removable without disassembling the entire bottom of the sign cabinet. Much safer. Soften Your Signage if you CanWhile it usually costs more to manufacture a rounded-corner sign than a square-edged sign, you should allow us to do so if your budget will allow. Why? Because your sales will probably improve! In the mid-1960's Procter & Gamble changed the labeling on their Tide® detergent. The new design eliminated the round "target" in their logo. Sales immediately dropped. They immediately redesigned the logo to add-back the round "target" and sales immediately jumped back up, then increased. This revelation caused a revolution in car designs as well as everything else. Learn from this; it is now a proven marketing fact that softer, rounded, less "sharp" logos psychologically create a more favorable impression. When Head & Shoulders® hair shampoo was first being developed, samples were distributed to college students in both rectangular and in rounded containers. Test results were that students loved the product in the rounded containers, but thought that the product in the rectangular bottles made their scalp itch. Have you noticed the round "swirl" in the Head & Shoulders® logo? Visit our Showroom to compare multiple examples of signage with both "squared" and "rounded" corners and "looks." Decide for yourself before committing to a sign design that can determine the success of your business. Automatic Electronic Thermal Lighting Controls*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!
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 are installed not only to recognize light levels, but also to 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. What are Day-Light Designs™?
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 Free Factory TourCome and see the array of equipment and tools, and the facility dedicated to making good signs. Contact a sales consultant to arrange a plant tour. SignDawgsTV™ Studio TourCall us if you would like to tour the Sea King Productions™ Studio building. State Licensed Sign Installation and Sign ServiceWe 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.
ZIP Codes 75001 thru 76958. Area Codes 214, 254, 430, 469, 682, 817, 903, 940, and 972. 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. The Quality Certified Signs™ Difference - People You Can TrustQuality Certified Signs™ is a training, certification, and continuing education program designed to train all sign company personnel to take better care of their customers utilizing knowledge-based performance. Certifications are available in:
ALL our personnel are Quality Certified Signs™ qualified because we also want the job done right.. The organizations that assist in developing and monitoring Quality Certified Signs™ training programs:
Using Our Website to Learn | The Knowledge Tree™
Your sign forms that very important "first impression" your potential customer has of your business. Your sign must always look nearly as good as it looked the day it was installed so that you don't give potential customers a worsening impression of your business as your sign ages.
An example of our dedication to helping our customers succeed is this website. It IS the definitive source on signage information, ranked by Alexa® in the top 0.05% of ALL websites in the world, the top 0.01% in the USA! We call our website The Knowledge Tree™. Online since 1997, this website is full of information regarding signs. Our database to create it requires over 8,000 pages; more information than some "encyclopedias." The Knowledge Tree™ tells you how we manufacture our signage, and why. Knowledge Tree™ links are on the left side of every page. For instance, click our "Types of Signs" button, then pick any of our products, and explore that page's tabs and discover how we make each sign to last; including the use of CNC manufacturing, rust-proof metal, structural-steel frames, high-end automotive paint, high-impact plastics, and most importantly, sophisticated protective coatings. Go to our "About" page and select tabs to learn about the history of Signs Manufacturing, and many other subjects. Unsure, or unconvinced about the importance of signage to the survival and success of a business? Click our "About" page's "Importance of Signage" tab. Please use and enjoy this 550+ page website with over 3,000 images, the largest information resource about signs on the internet, created so you can learn about all types of signs and how you can control their affect on your image and business. Consider "bookmarking" our site as a "favorite" for easier reference later. We believe that if you're a knowledgeable purchaser there's a real good chance you'll become our customer. Signs are Like BoatsThere are $50,000 boats and there are $400 boats. Technically both are boats, but don't expect that $400 boat to keep your business afloat. The devil is in the details. If a company goes to the cost and effort of adding value to their product (types and amount of lighting, paints, protective coatings, etc.), they're going to talk about it. Pay attention to what they aren't telling you. Our websites, literature and proposals describe in detail what we are quoting, and why we are doing it.
Have you had a different experience? Consider how important a quality sign, being the first thing your customers see of your organization, is to your success. Buyer Beware! Nothing hurts a business more than bad signage. LiteratureWe believe we are the only sign company that offers informative literature on signage, our "Sign Buyer's Guide" series. Our most popular Guides are:
FCC Statements: · Signs Manufacturing™ does not provide any compensation for testimonials. · None of the photographs in this website, or in our brochures, are “photo-shopped.” · All images in this website, and in our brochures, are of signage we both manufactured and installed, unless identified as bad/funny examples. Some competitor’s websites contain pictures they’ve taken of our product. Buy carefully. Free AdvertisingWould 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. SignDawgsTV™ is one of YouTube's most successful series, with 2,000,000+ viewers (we've gone viral.) Older episodes (over 100) continue to be viewed over-and-over. Every business ever featured on SignDawgsTV™ continues to operate successfully.
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 Ask if you would like to tour the Sea King Productions™ Studio Building.
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