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About Us
Background / Products / Custom Sign Center Process / Surveys / Teamwork
Feedback / Design / Final Touch / Maintenance / Care / Co-Branding
Variable Data Printing / How, What and When? / Custom Sign Center Capabilities
Capacity / Location, Location, Location / Variety
"Custom Sign Center is now celebrating our fortieth year in business. Customer service and Teamwork have been the keys to our longevity. Let us bring our experience and expertise to your next project."
-- Tim Sheehy
President
"Signage is often the only visible clue that a business exists. The goal is to attract the eye of potential customers and convince them to stop."
- Custom Sign Center
Of the many ways you communicate with your customers, few are as powerful as the face-to-face language of signs. They attract, they direct, they inform and advertise. They enhance your business image and promote awareness of your products or services 24 hours a day. Custom Sign Center, Inc. (CSC) appreciates the powerful statement that good signage makes. So, when your business image demands first-rate quality in design and construction, we speak your language.
Located in the heart of Columbus, Ohio, Custom Sign Center has been providing signage and service since 1969. When choosing a company that can meet and exceed your needs in all aspects of your project from initial concept to final installation and maintenance, Custom Sign Center is your choice for superior service. Utilizing cutting-edge design, graphic engineering, fabrication, and installation technologies - including highly specialized mobile equipment capable of installing signs with minimum disruption of normal business activity, Custom Sign Center
stands ready to assist you with professional counsel, experience, and job-proven knowledge. Expertise in graphically pleasing design, properly engineered illumination, cost-efficient installation techniques, proven maintenance procedures, industry safety standards and a thorough knowledge of zoning and building code requirements are all available.
Passion
Successful entrepreneurs all seem to share one thing in common... passion. A passion for what they do and the industry they're in is a prerequisite that determines who will be around for the long-term. The passion that drove company president Tim Sheehy to found the firm is still evident, in both himself and the firm's employees.
To enhance your company's image and the image of your facilities, Custom Sign Center can design, engineer, manufacture, install and maintain a broad spectrum of corporate imaging products:
Products include:
| SIGNS | |
| - Pylon Signs | - Directional Signs |
| - Channel Letters | - Wayfinding |
| - Neon | - Architectural Identification |
| - Dimensional Logos | - Directories |
| - Menu Boards | - Wall Signs |
| - Flat Cut Out Letters | - Awnings |
| - Interior Signs | - Message Centers |
| - Monument Signs | - ATM Surrounds |
| - Reverse Channel Letters | - ADA Signs |
| - LED Letters | - Vinyl Lettering |
.... and MORE!
| DIGITAL GRAPHICS | |
| - Banners | - Fleet Graphics |
| - Static Cling | - Temporary Signs |
| - Decals | - Cashwrap Graphics |
| - Site Signs | - Floor Stands/Standees |
| - Digital Wallpaper | - Yard Signs |
| - Category Graphics | - Building Wraps |
| - Magnetic Menuboards | - Window Graphics |
| - Banner Stands | - Counter Mats |
| - Floor Graphics | - Vehicle Wraps |
| - Translites | - Aisle Identification |
| - Posters | - Point of Purchase |
| - Event Signage |
.... and MORE!
Nothing is left to chance when you work with Custom Sign Center. Every phase of our development process is both well-defined and complete, so you can rest easy knowing that every possible detail is taken care of.
Site Evaluation, Project Management, and Manufacturing.
Site Evaluation
- Survey site for current condition
- Investigate local sign codes to assure adherence
- Obtain necessary permits
- Negotiate with landlord for optimal square footage
- Evaluate environmental issues/opportunities
- Recommend value-engineered design options
Project Management
- Establish overall goals for sign program
- Identify action items
- Develop timelines
- Take pictures/detailed measurements
- Determine budgetary guidelines
- Establish quality assurance/satisfaction reviews
Manufacturing
- Employ state-of-the-art CAD software to optimize production process
- Recommend best materials for durability, appearance, and
cost-effectiveness
- Establish client review schedule prior to installation
- Apply distribution logistics to ensure efficient, on-time delivery
- Ensure professional installation using only experienced technicians
Comprehensive Site Evaluation
No matter how artistically designed or well-built your sign is, it must be optimized for its location to have impact. A good survey addresses design, illumination, and placement up front, eliminating delays and unpleasant surprises down the road
We begin by profiling your existing sign program. This includes evaluation of noteworthy site conditions, the relationship of the existing signs to the facility and roadways, and a survey of traffic patterns.
Then, if needed, we create a comprehensive site survey to assure that no detail will be overlooked. Our detailed, professional surveys explore:
- Specific site-related questions
- Applicable code regulations and ordinances
- Dimensions of existing tenant panels
- Type of fascia surface and mounting considerations
- Site photos to determine correct sizing and placement
- Additional observations, traffic conditions, and other special
considerations
Finally, we determine the best signage solution to meet your needs. Our proposals recommend locations for the new signage and drawings, including measurements, construction specs, color call outs, cross section views, and installation notes. If needed, we will create a banner to simulate the proposed signs for proper size and location.
From start to finish, you will have a devoted team, headed by a single contact person, with complete responsibility and authority to manage all aspects of your project or program. Working closely with you, they coordinate with our internal departments to properly assess and plan your signage, and to ensure that everything is completed on time and on budget.
Custom Sign Center uses a quantifiable, systematic approach to communicate with your organization and address your timetable, key issues, and unique needs. Whether you prefer e-mail, phone, fax, postal service, or face-to-face meetings, we will work with you to establish the actual reporting format and frequency to satisfy your information needs.
From concept to reality, we have the resources in place to make sure your brand image is executed flawlessly and consistently - from the first sign to the 10,000th.
To that end, we offer you computer renderings of your signage superimposed over your property before manufacturing begins. Whether our designers develop your signage solution or we work with your design or architectural firm, our goal is your complete satisfaction.
Final Touch
Our professional installers and service technicians finish the project process with an installation that is both safe and attractive, using the best tools and equipment. Our UL listed signs are installed with long term satisfaction in mind and shipped or installed anywhere in the United States. We provide sign and permit service and engineer certification to ensure your sign meets local sign and safety codes. Our in-field installation teams are fully licensed and insured.
Maintenance
It takes a major capital investment to build a corporate identity. Very often the signage, a vital marketing link, is forgotten about after the installation. What kind of "value" are you getting from your investment if your signs aren't in proper working order? Custom Sign Center offers a variety of options to protect this valuable capital investment. Literally, millions of advertising impressions are made daily by point-of-purchase advertising. How you care for your signs and lighting can play a key role in the success of your business.
Care
Many of our customers come to Custom Sign Center after experiencing frustration with missed delivery dates, poor response times, inadequate communications, inferior program management or similar issues with other suppliers. Do any of these kinds of problems seem familiar? Custom Sign Center takes pride in providing a unique partnership experience for our customers. We simply get the results desired.. WE CARE!!
Whether your program is large or small, we can design, manufacture, install and maintain the elements that will proclaim your important messages loud and clear. So let's talk it over. We think you'll discover that our sign language will improve your business.
There is more to a sign than just slapping your name and logo on something and hanging it out front. Color, design, location, finishes, and a variety of other elements all go into your signs and graphics to make sure they are an accurate reflection of your company.
Because Custom Sign Center manufactures pylon signs, channel letters, awnings, menu boards, and wall signs along with digitally printed graphics such as custom banners, interior decor, POP signage, and fleet graphics, we can cover more of your needs more consistently.
Each of these capabilities on their own would be impressive but the combination, all by a single company, is what truly makes us unique in our industry. Of course, being in business since 1969 helps too.
Co-Branding
Mass Customization has changed the way business is done. From dealer communications and graphics to POP displays, it's all about convergence. You have a global or national brand; your dealers have the local recognition. Custom Sign Center allows you to combine the two to create affordable, customizable design protected graphics.
Your network can now create graphics such as banners, posters, ceiling danglers, floor and window graphics, standees or any type of showroom or retail graphic based off of your pre-designed templates with just internet access. We set up the templates with only certain fields or graphics that can be modified or uploaded, protecting the design and the brand integrity, but allowing your network to have exactly what they want.
Variable Data Hits the Big (Print) Time
The power of variable data printing and 1:1 convergence marketing is the hottest trend for companies that are aggressively driving their brands. New printing processes and small format presses are capable of doing brochures and direct mail. But what about convergence marketing at the retail or showroom level?
Custom Sign Center is at the forefront of grand format digital variable imaging, allowing for mass customization of graphics and POP signage. Not only can entire programs to your entire network be rolled out, but also single prints can be ordered and printed on demand.
It's not just for little prints. Think big. No, really big. We can do 10' x 50' banner vehicle graphics, wall murals, life size standees and posters. But it doesn't have to be big, because sometimes, less is more.
How, What and When?
Digital printing and the revolution it has created in marketing and branding is amazing. Print speeds are climbing every day, and the media choices are almost endless. The options for banners alone includes, fabric, mesh, vinyl, Tyvek, polypropylene, scrim, canvas, and the list keeps going. Some applications demand one material, while another demands something completely different... for the same print. But who is going to print and manage all the variations, and more importantly, who can afford it?
Throw in that the graphics may be short term for an event, or long term for a showroom or retail setting. Oh, and they need it now.
With Custom Sign Center's Web-2-Sign tool, you can select the right media, the right image, personalize or customize the graphics, and get them printed quickly and shipped out. Print on Demand and quick fulfillment eliminates or at least alleviates having to stock a bunch of big bulky graphics, because nothing is more frustrating than owning pallets of useless, out of date printed materials.
Custom Sign Center Capabilities
If you can think of it, not only can Custom Sign Center print or manufacture it, but we can fulfill it as well. Custom Sign Center's extensive experience in sign and display production and distribution ranges from simple banners in a tube to complete graphics kits and even entire facility branding packages.
Custom Sign Center's fully-integrated capabilities include:
- Large and Grand Format Digital Printing
- Illuminated Signs and Light Boxes
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3 Dimensional Letters and Logos
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POP/POS Materials Fulfillment
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Graphics Kit Packaging and Assembly
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Re-branding/Identity Roll Out Project Management
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Web-2-Sign Graphics Tool
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Site Surveys and Facility Branding Analysis
It's Not Just About Capability. It's Also About Capacity. Custom Sign Center Has Both.
You can have great capabilities, and some really smart people on your team, but if you don't have the capacity to get the job done, then you are going to miss the deadline. Period.
Custom Sign Center employs state of the art equipment and world class processes at our 95,000 square foot manufacturing complex in Columbus, Ohio. But even more important is the stuff we do in those 95,000 square feet. Like automated face painting, CNC milling and boring that does an entire sign cabinet or menu board in one session, or robotic welding units that increased our production capacity over 300%!
And digital graphics? Custom Sign Center has the latest UV digital flatbed technology, allowing us to compete on everything from single prints to hundreds of images, even with variable data! In addition, we have high-speed roll-to-roll printers for banners and vehicle graphics, and digital die cutters that are so fast, and...
Location, Location, Location
Custom Sign Center's 95,000 square foot manufacturing complex in Columbus, Ohio offers you state of the art manufacturing, printing, and distribution services.
Columbus is also home to many national distribution centers, which means our strategically centralized location allows us to offer money saving shipping to each coast and all corners of North America. Add to that, we have ready access to a trained, professional workforce and a strong industry affiliate network, and it really makes us stand out.
For a no-cost evaluation of your sign and graphics program, call your Custom Sign Center representative today at 800.522.2934 or go to our Contact Us page and discover how Custom Sign Center can make your brand stronger.
Variety is the Spice of Life. It Also Makes Your Brand Stand Out and Can Make You Crazy...
In some cases, you want all of your signs and graphics to be uniform. Yet, other times, it is necessary for them to be different. Bigger, smaller, spectacular, subdued, illuminated with neon, fluorescent, or L.E.D., or 100 standard posters and 25 that have a different message or are personalized to a specific city, event, or dealer. And you need them done with the same quality assurance as everything else. That's what we do every day.
Custom Sign Center is all about the custom and the production runs of signs, graphics, and branding elements that help our clients build their brands. We can handle the roll out of 200 locations with the standard family of signs or graphics packages, as well as the 25 locations that will be totally different, be it due to code, demographics, or your CEO's whim... with that one location that is absolutely, without question, so far from the standard that it can truly be a white elephant, and all we will ask... what shade of white?