Sign Services.

Start with one question: how long does it live outside?

Everything else about a sign follows from that. A sign for a weekend is a different product from a sign for a decade, and the most expensive mistake in signage is buying the wrong end of that range. Either replacing a cheap sign four times, or paying for a decade of durability on something you’re throwing away after the event.

Days to a season → coroplast at $9/sq ft: yard signs, campaign signs, open houses, events, directionals. Indoors only → foam board at $10. A real stretch outdoors → PVC at $11. Years in Valley sun → aluminum composite at $13.50. Listing panels, site and parking signage, anything you don’t want to think about again. Large, flexible, coming down eventually → vinyl banner at $6, hemmed and grommeted.

The full material guide is here if you want the reasoning rather than the summary.

Signs that go on glass, vehicles and buildings

Window graphics at $7 per square foot cover everything from hours and a phone number on the door to a full storefront wrap you can still see out of. For most small storefronts this is the highest-return signage there is, because it’s at eye level on space you already pay rent for.

Vehicle graphics are the same $7 rate and the same idea applied to a work truck you already own. Lettering (name, phone number, trade, license number) does the job for most trades; a full wrap is for when the vehicle is the brand. Which one you are, explained.

Building, monument and pole signs are the permanent end. These are fabricated and installed rather than printed and collected, and our crew installs up to and including boom-lift work: the lighted school sign in the photo wall went up that way.

Permits, landlords and the parts that aren’t printing

Permanent building, monument and pole signs typically require a permit from the city or county, and most commercial leases and shopping centers carry their own sign criteria on top of that. Permitted sizes, materials, illumination, sometimes colors. Temporary banners and yard signs on private property usually don’t need a permit, though most jurisdictions limit how long a temporary sign can stay up.

Rules differ between the City of Sacramento, the county, and every neighboring city, so check the jurisdiction your address actually sits in. We print and fabricate to whatever the permit and the lease criteria specify; pulling the permit is between you, your landlord and your installer.

The practical order of operations: read the lease criteria, check with the building department, then design. Doing it the other way round is how a grand opening ends up under a banner.

Same-day, and what it doesn’t cover

Order by 10:00 AM Monday to Friday with print-ready art and most banners, yard signs, rigid signs and decals are finished that afternoon. That’s genuinely most sign orders.

What it doesn’t cover, honestly: vehicle application (printing is fast, application can’t be rushed without showing), building and monument signs (fabrication plus install plus permit), anything laminated, and very large runs. On those you get a real date instead of a hopeful one.