Wooden A-boards – 2 sided 1 to full color

Product Description

A-Boards sandwich boards from Instant Sign Factory come with factory melamine faces and plastic feet.

These effective portable advertising signs are great for attracting attention to your business or event. Available with choices of color or full color graphics. A-boards are an inexpensive means of expanding your message beyond your building. These listed are our most popular sizes and of our highest quality.

Instant Sign Factory has put together our most popular types and sizes of A-Board rigid signs most often ordered into easy to order formats. All you need do is select the type, size and a few other easy to select details such as colors etc, and then upload your artwork, design and layout to us! Need a size or shape not offered? Our production is not limited to these, see below.

After we receive your order, we will provide you with a proof for review of possible changes and a final proof approval form. Production will commence upon receipt of signed proof approval from you via fax or e-mail. A notification confirming signed proof approval will be forwarded to you with the shipping date and cost.

If these listed sizes do not meet your specifications or application needs, remember we can manufacture any size and type A-boards for any specification or application needs.

Product information / features:

•Lead time 3-4 days from approval of artwork.

•Sold individually.

•Minimum one.

•1 or 2 – sided (only available on “Blackout” banner material).

•1 color to full digital images.

•Quantity discounts available, call for quote.

If your artwork requires rework for production it will be billed at $65.00 per hour upon approval.

Art Guidelines:

Our professional Art Department will be happy to work with your design or layout.

An art example of the different art Charges:

$15.00 = Simple (small changes to your art)

$35.00 = Medium (Create small graphic or more involved changes to your art)

$65.00 = Complex (Larger graphic creation or extensive changes to your art)

Call us TOLL FREE :: 877-778-7446 (M-F 8-5 PT), or fill out our  quote form.

Upload Information

Important -
The area to upload your art is located in the "View Cart" area. After chosing the type of product, and size you "Add to Cart". Once added to the "Cart" you then "Click", " View Cart" and there you will see the prompt to upload art work.

Before you upload your artwork or work order file please review our file formats and artwork guidelines below as to allowable formats. Please use the same file name you submitted with your order or quote request.

Our Processes:
• Gerber Edge Print - direct film transfer to vinyl: heat transfer.
• Mimaki CJV Print - 4 color process solvent base print (indoor & outdoor application).
• Screen Print - silkscreen printing.
• Vinyl Cut - vinyl appliqué signage.

Acceptable Programs:
• Adobe Illustrator - any version up to CS5 files supported .ai .eps. pdf.
• Indesign - up to CS5, Package all art and fonts being used

• 4 Color Process printing is used for reproducing high quality graphics with photo type images. Digitally created process images should be created in or converted to CMYK format (cyan, magenta, yellow, black). Some programs, such as Photoshop, default to RGI3 format (red, green, blue), and must be converted to CMYK. COLOR WILL CHANGE when converting from RGB to CMYK and ADJUST COLORS AS NEEDED.

Both created & scanned images must have a resolution of 125 dpi or higher at final print size. Resolution cannot simply be increased in the program if working from a low resolution file. This merely spreads the original pixel information across a greater number of pixels and does not improve image quality (most internet images are a low resolution 72 dpi).

Scanned Images cannot be manipulated. Text, logos, borders, etc. should be created in a drawing/layout program such as Adobe Illustrator, Freehand or Corel draw (this allows us to make necessary adjustments to the digital file such as adding trap).

Convert all text to paths, curves or outlines. If this is not possible send PC Truetype, Opentype, or postscript 1 or postscript 3 (truetype preferred).

Send a copy of all supporting files used to create the image.
• Photoshop files - leave the art in layers (do not flatten or merge layers).
• eps files - Adobe Illustrator save as illustrator eps. Freehand save as editable eps.
• Tiff files - Photoshop save as 125 DPI actual size.
• Bitmap Raster Image - 300 DPI actual size.
• PDF - file must contain vector art, high resolution images and fonts converted to outlines or provide fonts.

Color proofs are made from the digital file and may vary slightly from your computer monitor & printer. The final printed product may also vary slightly from the color proof due to the differences between printing & proofing methods.

Files submission options:
Files up to 10 megs can be emailed to artwork@instantsignfactory.com

When requesting a quote or when placing an order use the upload utility provided in those forms to send your files.

For production ready files 100 to 200 megs call us TOLL FREE (877) 778-7446 (M-F 8-5 PT) for ftp permissions.

Overnight files "300 megs to one gig" on a CD to this address:
Instant Sign Factory
721 West 2nd Ave
Spokane, Washington 99201

If you have any questions about submitting your files call us TOLL FREE (877) 778-7446 (M-F 8-5 PT).

Accepted File Extensions through our upload utility:

.gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .pdf, .doc, .txt, .eps, .ai, .psd, .tiff, .bmp, .zip, .sit, .pkzip.

All other file extensions are disallowed from uploading and attempts to do so will result in a failed upload. We log all IP addresses.

Files may be bundled using:

WinZip or Stuffit file compression programs generating these extensions: .zip, .sit, .pkzip.

If your work order artwork consists of several files we recommend using a compression utility to bundle them before uploading. This avoids confusion as to file ownership if several customers are uploading more then one file at the same time. Files with the same name can not be over written.

Click here to download WinZIP compression utility.