 
Full Color Graphics
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The power of color is unmistakable - its depth and dimension commands your attention, instantly bringing focus to your product or service. Full color graphics (also called large format digital graphics) from Category 5 can enhance your professional image and credibility, build customer awareness in record time, increase message retention and draw a dynamic distinction between you and your competition. Among the many marketing messages we encounter each day, only a few have lasting impact. With full color graphics, your message will cut through the clutter.
Color makes a bold and impressive statement. Short run point of purchase displays or prototypes used to be complex and expensive to produce. Not Anymore! Graphics underfoot turn your floors into valuable marketing space. Color lends clarity to your materials, enhances message retention and lends credibility to your presentation.
Large format graphics turn your vehicles into rolling billboards.
Use color to gain buyer attention and show off your product or service offerings.
Custom Lettering & Professional Graphics
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With Category 5 "ready-to-apply" professional graphics, you can transform an entry door, a wall, a window, or just about any smooth surface. Whatever kind of custom lettering you need, your Category 5 center will take the measurements you provide, create professional graphics and show you how to position and apply them accurately. You can even achieve the look of etched glass, in an adhesive graphic! If you’re not ready to install them yourself, let Category 5 install it for you.
Window lettering makes a positive impression as people enter your facility.
Use custom lettering in colors and typestyles to coordinate and reinforce your image. Can be applied to almost any smooth surface.
Specialty window graphics show off your facility and provide a professional image.
Custom Labels & Decals
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Category 5 makes it easy to put your company name, logo or message on almost any surface. We can create an unlimited variety of labels and decals in various sizes and die-cut shapes - in large or small quantities. Category 5 uses vinyl, static, adhesive and pressure-sensitive materials to fulfill needs for labels and decals. Whether you need labels and decals for property identification, point-of-purchase displays, packaging or even for identifying your company vehicles, our state-of-the-art computer technology enables us to fulfill all of your communication needs. Contact the experts at Category 5 and learn how labels and decals can help identify, protect and promote your business.
Vehicle Graphics & Fleet Graphics
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Your car, truck, van or your entire fleet can be advertising for you at all hours of the day and night. During rush hour, in the parking lot or in a driveway, vehicle graphics are a smart advertising investment. Did you know that the average delivery truck makes 16 million visual impressions in a single year according to the American Trucking Association? Let Category 5 use full color digital vehicle graphics to turn your vehicle into a rolling billboard, building awareness for your company with every trip.
Vehicle wraps from Category 5 make efficient use of all of your vehicle’s surfaces. Let Category 5 use full color digital vehicle graphics to turn your auto into a rolling billboard, building awareness for your company with every trip.
Truck/Van Panel Graphics
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A graphic covering the entire side of your truck or van becomes a moving billboard, attractively announcing your business. Let your local Category 5 experts help you design a panel graphic that speaks for you with style.
Vehicle Lettering
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Don't just drive it, jazz it up and make it your own with bright, colorful custom vehicle graphics and car decals. With today’s technology, a car graphic solution can cover most of your windows if you desire, and the driver can still see out.
Put your logo on your vehicle from fender to glass.
Full color digital vehicle graphics make a lasting impression as you drive.
Reflective vehicle graphics and lettering give you instant visibility around-the-clock. Make a strong statement on glass while maintaining visibility within with perforated window film.
Make sure your message appears on every side of your vehicle for more visibility.
Magnetics
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Choose magnetics when you’re looking for temporary car graphic applications. “Auto mags” can match your vehicle’s color, so people won’t even know they’re temporary. Don’t want to advertise your business after hours when you’re driving around on your own time? Magnetic signs are the way to go.
Banners
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Good designs and custom full color graphics work to enhance visual impact. A banner provides a flexible, portable way to put your message in many places. The versatility of full color banners, whether displayed horizontally, vertically, indoors or outdoors, make them the ideal choice for just about any message you wish to convey.
Use big, bold custom banners to generate excitement for special events.
Full color trade show display banners are a convenient and interesting way to catch visitors' attention.
Whether you need one custom banner or hundreds, when your full color banners are printed by Category 5, they're bound to make a big impact.
Bold vinyl banners draw attention from a distance, promoting new products and special pricing programs. Expert installation ensures your banner receives the proper attention it deserves.
Yard Signs
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Put your name in front of prospective customers with eye-catching yard signs, complete with stakes and frames. Small directional yard signs point the way to new residential and commercial developments. Curbside yard signs promote the attributes of rental properties or let you "sign your name" to a service well done while advertising your business.
Promote your business on your job sites - your next customer may be right next door.
Make a great drive-up impression with colorful yard signs.
Site Signs
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Let them see what you’re offering with a site sign. Large site signs provide the information prospective tenants or purchasers need. Ideal for construction sites or commercial businesses, large site signs convey your message and inform prospective clients of availability.
Use Full Color Digital Graphics to create interest and show off your property before and after your construction has been completed. High impact, high visibility signs draw attention to your property. Site signs can direct your customers to your property or sales office.
Architectural Signs
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Architectural signs can greatly enhance the look and image of your property or business site. Category 5 offers a variety of attractive and lasting architectural sign solutions that can incorporate your logo, colors and graphics in a professional, visually pleasing manner.
Directional Signs
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Tenant directories improve traffic flow by directing and informing customers. Guide people through your space with directional signs that reinforce the architectural elements.
Illuminated Signs
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Illuminated signs make a bright and colorful impression, day or night.
Graphics placed on light boxes are ideal for environments with frequent message changes.
Edge-lit signs are a unique and elegant way for illuminated signs to convey your message.
Illuminated monument or entryway signs attract drive-by customers both day and night.
Increase your sign's visibility with internally illuminated sign graphics.
Point-Of-Purchase
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Colorful logos and graphics inside your place of business encourage a purchase decision, direct attention and improve message retention. Your Category 5 consultant can design and produce a wide variety of attractive point-of-purchase signs and displays to motivate your customers to purchase.
Interior Signs
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Interior signs help your customers find what they're looking for and inspire impulse sales.
Menu Boards
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Make selecting your products or services easier with well-organized menu boards. Menu boards make product, service and pricing information clear to your customers.
Cut-out Displays
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Life-size cutouts make a great impression, no matter where you place them. Foyer or in a well-trafficked area, cutouts get noticed every time.
Dimensional Letters
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Dimensional letters stand out, literally! With dimensional letters, your business name or logo is out in front, making a striking first impression. Permanent signs using dimensional letters prominently display your company name and promote your image inside and out.
Dimensional letters for outdoor use are made from materials such as acrylic, wood, and aluminum to ensure years of durability and service. Able to withstand the elements, outdoor dimensional letters are a great way to instantly enhance your business’ “curb appeal".
Category 5 can help you design outdoor dimensional letters to meet your budget.
Combine dimensional letters with other signs to promote your image day and night.
More visible from the road and more likely to catch the eye of passers-by.
Dimensional Letters and graphics help project an established image.
Promotional Items
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Attract your next customer with promotional items at your next tradeshow or major event. From cups to shirts to stress relievers, promotional products are used by companies of all types to reinforce their image, build sales and foster goodwill with customers and employees.
You know Category 5 as the one-stop solution for all your sign and graphic needs; now get to know us as the single-source solution for all your promotional product needs. Think Category 5 the next time you need promotional items for a trade show, a sports or charity event, an employee recognition event, a sales meeting or as customer gifts.
Installation
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How To Install Your Vinyl Graphics
Storage
Store unapplied graphics in a clean, dry, cool room. Never subject the graphics material to moisture, excessive humidity, direct sunlight or temperatures above 100 degrees. Graphics should also be stored flat.
Tools Needed
Plastic Squeegee, credit card or driver's license.
Tape Measure or Ruler
Masking Tape (1" or wider)
Marking Pen or Pencil
Lint-free paper towels
Plastic Spray Bottle
Surface Cleaner (409, Windex, Soap & Water)
Surface Preparation
Before installing any graphics, you must clean the surface on which the decal will be applied to. Using a soft cloth, wash the surface thoroughly. Residual grease, soot or tar should be further cleaned with a solvent. Be sure to clean the surface several times if it was extremely dirty when you started. To avoid adhesion problems, be sure that all liquid has completely dried from under vehicle panel seams and around rivet heads.
The surface you are applying the decals to MUST be in a 60 to 85 degree Fahrenheit environment. If it is too cold the adhesive will not work. If it is too hot the vinyl becomes extremely flexible which makes it very difficult and at times, impossible to apply.
Installation Procedures
1. Carefully study your installation diagram. Measure the location of each graphic element and tape it into position. Taking this step will ensure that all of the elements fit properly within the design space.
In planning the installation sequence of the graphic elements, you will usually work from top to bottom.
2. Tape the graphic into position with small pieces of masking tape positioned at the top of the graphic. After rechecking your measurements, simply apply masking tape along the top edge of the graphic. (See FIG. A.) With this method you can remove the backing gradually as you apply the graphic.
In a variation of the top hinge technique, you can cut between large individual letters or between sections of your graphic so that each letter or section is independently hinged. (See FIG B.) Remove the sections of backing and install letter by letter or section by section.
To make a center hinge, apply masking tape through the middle of the graphic. (See FIG C.)
Using this technique, remove the backing from one half of the graphic, cutting the backing at the tape hinge. After you squeegee this section of the graphic, working from the hinge to the outer edge, remove the hinge and the remaining backing. Compete the application, starting where the hinge used to be and working toward the other outer edge.
3. Typically your first squeegee stroke begins at the center of a graphic. This first movement is straight to the left and right or up and down, depending on which procedure you decided to use. (See FIG D.)
All of your subsequent strokes work off the initial center stroke. Each stroke must overlap the previous one. You can angle your squeegee slightly away from the center line. Imagine that you are pushing air out from under the vinyl. Never angle the squeegee toward the center line...you will only produce bubbles and wrinkles. Always work from the center outward.
4. If you need to reposition the vinyl graphic on the surface give the material a sharp jerk with a snap of your wrist. This movement should be perpendicular to the surface.
Never use a slow pulling movement to reposition the graphic. This will only stretch the material causing more problems.
5. To remove the application tape from the graphic, pull the tape against itself at a 180-degree angle. (See FIG E.) Do this slowly.
If the graphic does not stick to the surface (it stays stuck to the application tape) carefully place the graphic back onto the surface and squeegee again. After removing the application tape, be sure to re-squeegee all of your edges and overlaps. Using your finger or thumb works best for this.
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