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Where Do I Start?

At Advanced Signs and Graphics, we do our best to make the process of designing and building

your custom signs as easy, convenient, and enjoyable as possible.The process begins with your

phone call, fax, email, or visit to our shop. We’ll respond by asking you a number of questions to

help us understand what the signs need to accomplish and what other requirements, restrictions,

needs, and desires we should take into account.

We’ll also discuss the design of your signs, to give us a better understanding of the time required to

design them and the production time needed to build them. Our clients come in with a full range of

design needs, from those who want us to design their signs entirely from scratch to those who have

their artwork completely finished in electronic form.

Once we have a clear idea of your needs, we’ll send you a written estimate describing the signs we

will build for you and giving you the exact price and a delivery date. For many clients, all you need

to do then is sign and return the estimate and send us a deposit (by mailing a check or phoning in

a credit card number), and we can begin designing and building the signs. For other clients, the

estimate might need a round or two of refinements and revisions before we’re ready to move on.

Whether we design your signs completely or base the signs on art that you provide us, we always

make sure that you review and approve proofs of your sign layouts before we begin construction.

The approval process often takes place via fax or email, but some customers prefer to come in to

the shop to see the proofs in color, either on printouts or on our computer screens.

Once the sign layouts have been approved, we begin to build your signs. Sometimes this requires

ordering special materials, but most of our suppliers provide prompt delivery, and we’re certain

you’ll be pleased by our turnaround times. Your completed signs can be picked up at our shop, or

we can ship them to you. And we also provide a full range of installation options at reasonable prices.

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Submitting Artwork

We work with a broad array of artwork formats, including everything from hand-drawn sketches to

vectorized files that you email to us. The most efficient (and therefore most cost-effective) format is

vectorized artwork, in an .eps or .ai format. Please ensure that all text is converted to outlines. If

you are not able to convert text to outlines, check with us to see whether you’re using one of the

hundreds of fonts we have on file. If not, you can always email us the font. In most cases, we can

reproduce your design without artwork in this format, but such a sign will require more art time and

will therefore incur an additional charge.

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