Changeable Signage

Everyone wants to save money on the office signs but still keep a high quality. This makes sense and actually the changeable signage allows you to do just that.

No matter how fancy your interior and exterior signs are and how much money you’ve invested in them, most signs need to be changed eventually, whether we are taking about office nameplates, bathroom signs or exterior signage.

Obviously, when we are referring to office signs and name plates this issue is more visible. After all, when you have interior sign with someone’s name on it, that person may be promoted and someone else will replace him. A door sign that identifies a room or a space may need to be changed after the room is used for some other purpose and a wall sign that give directions that may never change (like “stairs” or “exit”) may need to be replaced because the office is undergoing renovations and the colors will not match the design.

Advantages of Changeable Signs

A changeable sign is basically a frame that holds a changeable insert that can be replaced by the sign owner. Changeable signage is a hybrid of custom signs and mass fabricated signs and has the advantages of each type.

Mass produced signs are very cheap. Usually they are low grade plastic signs and they are not unique nor can they be customized. Custom signs, on the other hand fit your office environment perfectly because they are made to fit. They are one of a kind and usually look very posh. The downside is the price – they are expensive and not practical as office nameplates as they cannot be altered.

 The Sign Maker Heaven

When you order signs, you don’t want to go with signs that are cheap and look cheap so you order custom signs from the local sign maker. It is not cheap, but you want the best for your office. But a year later you want to replace a sign and there is where it starts to be complicated.

It is less economical for the sign guy to make 1-5 custom signs than to make 50 (like at the time you ordered), but in addition to it he has to come take the sign down, make a new one and come back to install it again. It will all be calculated in your price.

As you cannot do it yourself, you will have to use him and he has recurring income from your office.

Do-It-Yourself Signs – Changeable Signs

Your solution is changeable signage that you can modify by yourself whenever you need. The sign frame is holding a paper insert that can be printed in your office or in a printing facility as any local office supply store (like FedEx Kinko’s, Office Depot, Staples, etc.).

With those signs you don’t have to worry about each time you need to update the signs and some of them look great. You can have flat design or a curved one, plastic or aluminum, the choice is yours.