Signs & plaques
All signs made by Trans Stamp except brail signs are laser engraved on high quality plastic unless mechanical engraving is requested. We do not do sublimation or printed paper because in our opinion it does not provide the quality or look of engraving. Engraved content does not wear off, does not become illegible due to scratch marks or fading. Brail signs are mechanically engraved.
All signage can be customized to fit your needs as to shape size and engraved
wording. Any image which is recognizable in a black and white format can be
engraved on these items as long as a clean image is available for scanning into
the computer.
Small signs are made in a number of ways:
1. Mechanical engraving - a rotary bit machine is used to cut away portions of
plastic or metal
to form the name and/or logo being placed on the plate or
badge. a sheet of plastic with an
upper and lower color are used. The engraver cuts thru the
top layer exposing the second color
on the bottom layer, thus for example giving you a red background
with white letters. This
normally leaves small ridges in the engraved area if it is
larger then the bit being used.
2. Sublimation - the name and/or logo is printed on a clear material and then
bonded to a plastic
or metal backing. This is perfect print or logo reproduction
as seen from a laser printer. It is
normally less expensive then engraving because it requires
less time.
3. Laser Engraving - A laser is used to burn the name and/or logo into the
backing material. As
with Mechanical Engraving, a two color plastic is normally
used. However, since the laser is
burning very small pixels from the material it does not have
the ribbed appearance in large
areas which the mechanical engraver gives.
4. Cutting vinyl letters or pictures out and placing them on a plastic, wood, or glass sheet.
5. Cutting the letters or picture out of a sheet of material which is glued to a
different color
background.
6. Printing on paper and encasing the paper in plastic or in a frame.