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TURN-KEY Sign Design, Manufacturing, Installation, and Service
The Special Features and Benefits of Signs Manufacturing Corporation's Pole Signs and Pylon Signs
Lasting Quality – Your Sign will ALWAYS look good to potential customers
The Special Features and Benefits of doing business with Signs Manufacturing™
ImageKrafters™ Design Consultants and The Design Tank™ Digital Design Studio – Hundreds of years combined experience. Creative sign designs that make our customers more successful.
Exclusive Automatic Updates System - Keeps our customers informed, so they know where their sign is in production, when the permits were approved and when the sign is scheduled for install.
Let our experienced Representatives explain about our Sunburst LED Signs™, which we can include in pole sign and pylon sign designs
If you would like to see if an LED sign is will be beneficial to your business, and how much it will cost, Contact Us for a free, no obligation quote and analysis of your business, projected increase in sales (based on Small Business Administration numbers), traffic counts in your area and the cost of a new sign.
Recognize that there is documented evidence that simply adding a Digital LED Sign increases a businesses entire sales volume 15 - 150%.
If you have a choice, install a pole sign! You will be glad you did.
Pole/Pylon Signs: Tall, freestanding signs (often 20–100+ feet) designed for maximum visibility from a distance, making them ideal for businesses along highways, busy roads, or in areas with fast-moving traffic. They’re particularly effective for attracting motorists and can be seen over obstructions like buildings or trees. Studies cited by sign companies (e.g., Custom Sign Center) suggest that well-placed signs can increase business traffic by 13–35%, with pole signs excelling in high-traffic areas due to their height and illumination options (e.g., LED displays).
Monument Signs: Shorter (typically 5–12 feet), ground-level signs that blend into the landscape. They’re less visible from afar but excel at creating a prestigious, professional impression at close range, such as at a business entrance. They’re better suited for slower traffic or pedestrian-heavy areas and are often used by single-tenant properties like offices, hotels, or luxury businesses to enhance brand image.
Value Implication: Pole signs offer greater value for businesses needing to attract distant or passing customers (e.g., retail, gas stations, or multi-tenant plazas). Monument signs are more valuable for establishing a strong, localized brand presence in areas with existing foot traffic or where aesthetics matter.
Pole Signs: These prioritize functionality over aesthetics. Their height and size allow for larger displays, digital boards, or multi-tenant listings, but they can be seen as commercial or obtrusive in residential or mixed-use areas. They’re less about blending in and more about standing out.
Monument Signs: These are often designed to complement a building’s architecture or landscape, using materials like brick, stone, or stucco. They convey permanence and professionalism, making them ideal for organizations like schools, community centers, or corporate offices aiming to project a refined image. Their aesthetic appeal can positively associate a brand with quality.
Value Implication: Monument signs add value for businesses prioritizing brand prestige and local recognition, while pole signs are better for broad market reach and brand visibility.
Pole Signs: Generally more expensive due to their height, structural requirements, and installation complexity. They’re cost-effective for advertising due to high visibility and low ongoing maintenance (e.g., durable materials, swappable panels).
Monument Signs: Typically cheaper. However, they may require more frequent cleaning or landscaping maintenance to maintain their appearance.
Value Implication: Pole signs have a higher upfront cost but significantly better ROI in high-traffic areas due to increased customer reach. Monument signs are more budget-friendly for smaller businesses or those in low-traffic areas but may incur higher maintenance costs over time.
Pole Signs: Often restricted by ordinance due to their height and commercial appearance, especially in residential or mixed-use zones. They’re best for businesses near highways, large parking lots, or industrial parks. Our Sign Experts will let you know if they are allowed in your area.
Monument Signs: More likely to comply with zoning regulations in residential or mixed-use areas due to their lower profile and aesthetic integration. They’re ideal for entrances or areas with slow traffic.
Value Implication: The value of each sign depends on local regulations and location. Pole signs are less versatile in restricted zones, while monument signs are more universally accepted but less effective in high-speed traffic areas.
McDonald’s says that, on-average, simply replacing a monument sign in front of one of their restaurants with a pole sign increases that store’s sales volume 15%.
It is difficult to picture what a sign is going to look like. What do you picture when we say "triple-layer multi-colored lighting with a textured backplate?"
Our showroom is designed to solve that problem. Most people are visual ... they need to see something firsthand to understand what it is and whether it has value to them. Seeing is believing!
Don't buy your sign from a drawing, a slick website, or photo-shopped pictures,
when you can actually see and side-by-side compare Real signs and designs.
Are you a "visual" person? Is seeing believing?
Unique in the entire sign industry, Signs Manufacturing™ built an 85’ by 50’ (over 4,000 sq ft) indoor sign lighting laboratory for testing the longevity, visibility, and effectiveness of all the lighted signs we manufacture. The Laboratory is open to the public, for FREE.
Don't buy your sign from a drawing, a slick website, or photo-shopped pictures, when you can actually see and side-by-side compare Real signs and designs.
Thousands of visitors have learned about sign design, materials, construction, lighting; and their effect on a business.
We invite you to also observe all other types of signage, viewing them up close as well as from a distance, under varying light conditions (and stay out of the weather while doing so!)
Storefront Lighting.
both neon and LED lighted.
Will your Sodium Vapor or Metal Halide parking lot lights affect the colors of your sign at night? How visible will your pylon sign’s border neon be during the day? Should you consider PinLights™, LetterLites™, SpectraLites™, or Trembler™ signs? Brighter Signs™ neon or SolarBrite™ LED lighting for channel letter signs? Fluorescent or HID lighting for your monument sign? Do Daylight or Cool White fluorescents make your sign’s colors look best? What are the differences between a flex-faced, a Lexan™, and an acrylic-faced sign cabinet?
How will shadows affect my sign's readability during the day? Should the wall behind my sign be light or dark colored? Would a different type of sign look better on my brick wall? Should I consider a routed sign face with push-through letters?
Don't buy your sign from a drawing, a slick website, or photo-shopped pictures, when you can actually see and side-by-side compare Real signs and designs.
No one else can offer you this unique opportunity. Be sure to take advantage.
Your business will be better because you do.
If you don't visit it could cost you thousands in sales every year.
Can you afford not to?
"I almost made a huge mistake by not listening to you and visiting your showroom prior to buying my sign. I thought I knew what I wanted, after listening to so many salespeople...boy, was I wrong. My vision of the sign did not jibe with what it would really turn out to be, even after viewing so many drawings. It was obvious the moment I entered the showroom. If I had stuck to my guns my sign would have been a disaster. I would have wasted a lot of money." - Cecil Drake, Drake Communications
Sometimes it really pays to shop.
As an additional enticement to coax you into our showroom, and also smooth our manufacturing flow, we periodically have limited Specials only available "in-store;" even unannounced to our team of Sign Experts.
They are based on opportunities in our production scheduling. If we tell our Sign Experts in advance they collectively sell too many, causing other problems!
Specials are always for a specific type of custom-built sign with a large variety of available options, but a very limited quantity, and first-come-first-served.
As detailed below, and on the pages that follow, everything will be done to make your sign look better, and last longer...Guaranteed.
WHOLESALE TO THE PUBLIC! Signs Manufacturing™ also guarantees that our price will be the lowest price you can obtain on the products described in this website; now or anytime during the next 90 days.
If you are offered a lower price by someone else we will match that lower price PLUS give you 10% of the difference.
"Fifteen years ago you made a lighted sign for me. It STILL looks new, but finally needs electrical service..."
Lawrence Badger, M.D.
Why not buy from a Sign Dealer (also called a Sign Broker, Car Wrap company or a Sign Store?)
Would you give a car dealer $10,000 and tell him to buy you the best car he can for the money, sight unseen (or from a drawing?) Don’t you think you would get the car that made him the most?
Do you think you could meet your needs asking for the cheapest car he can buy?
Why would a sign dealer (Car Wrap company or sign store) be any different? Remember, they are merely buying a sign from a manufacturer to resell to you, usually to resemble a drawing, making the most money they can.
You need to know ALL of the details on how your sign will be manufactured, and how it will be installed. It needs to meet YOUR needs, not the seller’s profit goals. What is he telling the manufacturer you don't need?
Believing “...a sign is a sign” gets you a Yugo instead of a Cadillac. Remember the Yugo? They didn’t last very long, either.
Also, most sign dealers, Car Wrap companies and sign stores cannot legally install or service an electric sign. Ask to see their license.
Ask to see a manufacturer's license also. A few are not licensed to do electrical work, either, they also have to hire other companies to install the signs they make.
Now, who provides the warranty? The manufacturer, the installer, the salesman, anyone? If the sign was installed illegally do you think they'll honor their warranty? Did they REALLY obtain your City sign permit? Is the sign even safe?
As a large, both UL and ETL listed manufacturer, our name is on all our signs. Just like you, we can't afford to have a bad sign destroy our business. We have to care. Particularly with our 5 Year $0 Cost Warranty plus Lifetime Guarantees.
The State of Texas does NOT allow the installation on non-Listed electrical signs, and a Texas Sign Contractors License (TSCL) is not evidence of an OSHA approved Listing for electrical signs. Additional approvals are required.
Virtually ALL cities, as well as the State of Texas, adopt the National Electric Code as law.
The National Electric Code (NEC) requires that for electrical, structural, and installation safety all electrical signs be "Listed" (tested and labelled with an appropriate Listing Mark.)
Certification (testing and labeling) organizations acceptable in the USA to test to the multitude of Standards signs are required to meet are determined by OSHA.
For you the Listing Mark is insurance. It means that the sign has been tested to insure that it is structurally and electrically safe, and will be installed properly. You benefit from the knowledge that it is not solely us telling you that our signs are safe, this is what the testing laboratories and the US Government says also.
Will your sign be tested and approved for safe use in a Wet (Outdoor) location? Not if it’s not Listed!
If the sign you are purchasing does not have a ETL or UL Listing Mark label the sign is probably not legal to install, anywhere in Texas. There are a few local city ordinance exceptions.
Buy carefully.
For strength, durability, and appearance your illuminated signs will be constructed of aluminium (#3003, H14 - not the "soft" aluminium used by some) covering a welded structural-steel inner frame.
Large metal areas will be reinforced to prevent "oil-canning".
The structural-steel frame inside the sign is separately painted before the skins are installed; important to prevent rust stains later.
We commonly build pylon signs with real and artificial brick, stone, and stucco exterior finishes. View our "Bricks & Masonry" page, tabbed to the left.
Our signs are properly engineered to withstand the winds of North Texas (140 m.p.h.); signs attached to poles are welded, not bolted, in place.
We employ Certified Welders. Horizontal, vertical, and overhead.
We are virtually the only sign company in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex employing certified welders.
When our founder was very young he managed a supermarket, a grocery store.
He discovered that he could affect the store's business by simply turning “on” the store's signs on less-than-sunshiny days. Cloudy and/or rainy days would have a higher sales volume than bright days, IF HE REMEMBERED TO TURN THE SIGNS ON.
Plus, with the tinted window glass so prevalent in the South it is often-times hard to tell if a business is even open.
These are lessons every business person should be aware of. And, with today's modern LED illuminated signage, it costs practically nothing to make your store really stand out!
What is the main reason our Sunburst™ LED outdoor digital signs increase a store’s business so dramatically? Lighted signs draw much more attention than unlighted signs, even during the day!
Because we recognize how important this is, we will now install automatic electronic lighting controls on every lighted sign we manufacture*, factory calibrated to turn the sign “on” and “off” at times when lighting will help you do more business. Over the past 40+ years, we have documented EXACTLY when a sign’s lighting should be turned “on” to increase visibility on dark and/or rainy days, overcome shadows, and exactly when at dusk a sign should be turned “on.” The whole purpose of the sign, after all, is to attract attention to your business. We make your sign both more attention-getting AND more legible.
The setting varies for signs pointed East, West, North, or South, and varies for signs containing neon, HID lighting, fluorescents, and/or LEDs. It also varies by how the sign was built.
Our automatic electronic lighting controls are installed not only to recognize light levels, but also to sense shadows making signs less legible, and turn “on” the internal lighting accordingly. Optimum settings are custom-set for every sign.
Another example of our doing everything we can to insure that our signs make your business the most successful. As far as we know, no other sign manufacturer does this, for free or otherwise, for their customers.
If possible, have your electrician also wire a time clock to control the power supplying your signs. The time clock should be set to keep the sign “off” at times they should never be lighted, say 2:30 AM to 5:30 AM, the rest of the time whether the sign is “on” or “off” should be determined by our automatic lighting controls. USE ELECTRICITY WISELY TO MAKE YOUR BUSINESS THE MOST VISIBLE, BUT CONSERVE ENERGY.
Regarding “Energy Consumption” note how little energy our SolarBrite™ LED lighted signs use in a year!
Recognize that Intermatic and Tork time clocks, used by most electricians, are not finely adjustable, and at certain times of the year dawn and dusk occur at quickly-varying times, gaining or losing over 15 minutes of daylight each week. If you only have a time clock controlling power to your signs, savvy business owners must reset their time clocks constantly and carefully, and manually override them to turn “on” their signs on dark days. Good luck getting your employees to do this religiously – THIS IS ALSO WHY WE INCLUDE CALIBRATED AUTOMATIC THERMAL LIGHTING CONTROLS ON EVERY OUTDOOR SIGN WE MANUFACTURE.* Incidentally, we DO NOT use photo cells or photo eyes. They are neither precise nor reliable.
Anecdotal data suggests that increased profits resulting from this feature alone more than pays for the entire cost of most signs EVERY YEAR.
Unconvinced of the importance to you? View our control system in operation, and our supporting testing, in our Sign Lighting Laboratory and Showroom. Then you can decide if you agree that this is a critically important improvement in signage effectiveness.
*Dependent on size and design.
The failure mode for our automatic electronic lighting controls is “always on.” You will never be without an attractive sign if something should break; you’ll spend a little more on electricity until we get it fixed.
Come and see the array of equipment and tools, and the facility dedicated to making good signs.
Contact one of our Sign Experts to arrange a plant tour.
We are a full-service sign company. We provide sign site surveys, sign permits, sign installation and sign maintenance services for electrical and non-electrical signs for our customers as well as other sign companies. We provide this work in Dallas, Fort Worth (DFW), and ALL of North Texas and Northeast Texas.
State Sign and Electrical License Numbers: TECL17503, TSCL18015, TSCL18016.
Our technicians are also Quality Certified Signs™ certified.
We serve and have installed signs in the Texas cities of Addison, Aledo, Allen, Alvarado, Anna, Argyle, Arlington, Athens, Aubrey, Avalon, Azle, Balch Springs, Bedford, Benbrook, Blue Mound, Bonham, Briar, Bridgeport, Buckingham, Burleson, Caddo Mills, Canton, Carrollton, Cedar Hill, Celina, Cleburne, Cockrell Hill, Colleyville, The Colony, Combine, Coppell, Corsicana, Crandall, Crowley, Dallas, Dalworthington Gardens, Decatur, Denison, Denton, Desoto, D/FW Airport, Dido, Duncanville, Eagle Mountain Lake, Edgecliff, Ennis, Euless, Everman, Farmers Branch, Farmersville, Ferris, Flower Mound, Forest Hill, Forney, Fort Worth, Frisco, Gainesville, Garland, Glenn Heights, Granbury, Grand Prairie, Grapevine, Greenville, Gun Barrel City, Haltom City, Haslet, Highland Park, Hillsboro, Hudson Oaks, Hurst, Hutchins, Irving, Italy, Itasca, Jacksboro, Joshua, Justin, Kaufman, Keene, Keller, Kennedale, Kleberg, Krum, Lake Dallas, Lake Worth, Lakeside, Lancaster, Las Colinas, Lawson, Lewisville, Little Elm, Longview, Mansfield, Marshall, Maypearl, McKinney, Melissa, Mesquite, Midlothian, Milford, Mineral Wells, Mount Pleasant, Mount Vernon, Nevada, Newark, North Richland Hills, Ovilla, Palmer, Pantego, Paris, Parker County, Pelican Bay, Pittsburg, Plano, Ponder, Princeton, Prosper, Quinlan, Quitman, Red Oak, Rendon, Richardson, Richland Hills, Rice, River Oaks, Roanoke, Rockwall, Rowlett, Royse City, Sachse, Saginaw, Sansom Park, Sanger, Seagoville, Sherman, Silver Creek, Southlake, Springtown, Stephenville, Sulphur Springs, Sunnyvale, Terrell, Texarkana, Trophy Club, Tyler, University Park, Van Alstyne, Valley View, Watauga, Waxahachie, Weatherford, Wedgewood, Westlake, Weston, Westover Hills, Wheatland, White Settlement, Whitney, Wichita Falls, Willow Park, Wills Point, Wilmer, and Wylie.
ZIP Codes 75001 thru 76958.
Area Codes 214, 254, 430, 469, 682, 817, 903, 940, and 972.
Serving Collin, Cook, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Fannin, Franklin, Grayson, Henderson, Hill, Hood, Hopkins, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman, Lamar, Navarro, Parker, Rockwall, Somervell, Tarrant, Titus, Van Zandt, Wood, and Wise Counties in Texas.
We also have signs in 43 different states, and 6 other nations.
Quality Certified Signs™ is a training, certification, and continuing education program designed to train all sign company personnel to take better care of their customers utilizing knowledge-based performance.
Certifications are available in:
Certified Welding TechnicianALL our personnel are Quality Certified Signs™ qualified because we also want the job done right.
The organizations that assist in developing and monitoring Quality Certified Signs™ training programs:
No middle-man profits.
Use our Payment Plan Calculator™ to estimate YOUR lease cost, and our Sign Cost Calculator™ to estimate your after-tax cash-purchase sign cost. They are located on our "Cost" page. Or, ask our salesperson to run the numbers for you.
When you do so notice how dealing directly with the manufacturer can potentially save you additional dollars in sales/use taxes!
But, please, contact us to develop an exact plan to meet your particular needs - for free (see our "Design Center" page!)
Our professional staff will usually have exact quotations, and exact scale drawings of your signs installed on your building or property ready for you the same day we meet with you. (Much faster than the 2 1/2 week average in our industry.)
If you are planning for the future, please bookmark our website as a "Favorite" so you can find us when you are ready.
Click our "Customers & Photos" tab on our "About Us" page to view a partial list of our customers, photos of their signs, and comments.
"Look at that sign, it's like made out of plastic!" - Jon Taffer, Host of Bar Rescue
"If they put that little effort into their sign, I'd hate to see what they put in their food." - Nick Liberato, Celebrity Chef and Owner/Operator of Calidelphia Catering
"...but look at that sign, it only faces one way! They're turning their back on 13,000 cars every day!" - Jon Taffer, Host of Bar Rescue
There are $50,000 boats and there are $400 boats. Technically both are boats, but don't expect that $400 boat to keep your business afloat. The devil is in the details.
If a company goes to the cost and effort of adding value to their product (types and amount of lighting, paints, protective coatings, etc.), they're going to talk about it. Pay attention to what they aren't telling you.
Our websites, literature and proposals describe in detail what we are quoting, and why we are doing it.
Nobody ever includes quality and features in their products that are not described in their literature and quotations.
Have you had a different experience?
Consider how important a quality sign, being the first thing your customers see of your organization, is to your success.
Buyer Beware! Nothing hurts a business more than bad signage.
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4610 Mint Way, 75236
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