Lightbox with their hands

Outdoor advertising is one of the most effective ways of promoting goods or services on the market.It is with billboards, signs, citylights, facades, storefronts, finally, advertising slogans on the pavement facing your potential buyer has to explore your products or services provided.So what kind of accommodation, "outdoor advertising" you choose, and will largely depend on your sales and thus profit from them.

Variety of outdoor advertising

There is a large variety of outdoor advertising, it and billboards, and electronic scoreboards, and pillars, and various advertising installations on the roofs, and, of course, light boxes.Thanks to the constant illumination advertising information placed on the lightbox is clearly visible in the dark.It is the production of light boxes (light boxes) and will be devoted to this material as of today - is one of the most popular and the most common elements of outdoor advertising.

Lightbox: modern types of effective advertising

Lightbox light - a kind of advertising signs, illuminated inside neon, fluorescent or LED bulbs.The luminescence may be either static or dynamic.The size, shape and thickness of the lightbox can be arbitrary.They can be placed inside and outside of buildings - facades, roofs, shopping centers, offices.Light boxes, photos of which can be seen below, is interesting advertising course and, most importantly, they really work.

Light boxes can also be divided into single-sided and double-sided.They differ in that in one-sided light box, or image information applied with only one hand, and on the bilateral - on each side.Single-sided sign is illuminated from the rear side of the box, while the double-sided luminous element is in the middle, between the two posters, providing uniform illumination of both sides of the lightbox.

By appointment light boxes are:

1. thin.Mainly they are used for internal window dressing.
2. pendant.They are placed in large supermarkets and shopping malls.
3. outdoor.They are used in large spaces, in the aisles between the trading pavilions, mostly for better orientation passing potential customers.
4. outside.They are used to place the advertising information on the facades of buildings.

Make a light box can be using different manufacturing techniques using different materials.Its front part can be made of vinyl fabric banner, acrylic or polycarbonate honeycomb.Frame - aluminum or plastic profile.The image or text is applied to the cloth banner with the help of powder paint.

Pros Lightbox

1. relative cheapness of manufacture.
2. Over time, the ability to change one poster to another, or one panel to another, ie,reusable light box.
3. Fast manufacturing.
4. Easy maintenance.
5. Lightbox Possibility of various shapes and sizes.

Cons Lightbox

1. lamps in light boxes can burn.
2. between the front panel and the design profile accumulate dirt and dust that noticeable when highlighting.

Lightbox own hands

There are many methods of manufacturing light boxes.We consider one of the simplest.For installation of the light box does not require a lot of skill and effort.The size of the finished product will be 125h74 see

What is needed for the work

First you need to stock up on the necessary materials, such are:

1. film Oracal sliced ​​plotter - 1.5 m2..
2. Assembly film MT80P F099 - 1,5 m2.
3. Aluminium U-shaped profile of -130 mm - 4 PM
4. connecting corners - 4 pcs.
5. Screws with a drill JPMT 16, 3.5 * 32 - 36 pcs.
6. Fluorescent lamp 36W (included in each lamp ballasts, 2 holder, starter holder and 2) - 5 pcs.PVC
7. 5 mm - 1 m2.
8. Equipment wire PV1 0.75 (1.0 mm) - 9.5 lm
9. glue COSMOFEN CA 12.
10. SHVVP wire 2 * 1.5 - 3 PM
11. Plexiglas Plexiglas 3mm milky - 1 m2.

What need tools

tools for the job:

1. rubber scraper.
2. Felt or plastic scraper.
3. Garden sprayer - volume of 0.5-1.5 liters.
4. Giprorochny stationery knife.
5. screwdriver.
6. End saw.
7. Circular Saw.
8. Jigsaw.
9. Metal ruler.

How to Lightbox: manufacturing process

1. With «Corel Draw» program in the computer draw the layout of the product on a scale of one to one.File under cutting is ultrathin circuits vinyl plotter.
2. Cut plotter using the image applied to the film Oracal.
3. Remove excess film (around graphics or letters).
4. applied over the letters or graphics from the center to the edges of the foil, cut off the excess.
5. Cut corners and taking into account the length of the tubes (with a margin of 5 cm.) Aluminum profile (a profile for light boxes and plastic can take, it is cheaper but less durable and difficult to paint), which will serve as a frame construction.
6. Collect 3 of the 4 parts of the profile with the corners.
7. drilled holes for the screws in the profile and corners.Fix the screws 3 of the profile.
8. Following this construct heel: PVC is cut with a knife or a saw to size and clipped corners.
9. Backdrop inserted into the light box.
10. We put the cartridges in the lamp, insert the starter and check the resulting device.
11. Make markings denoting locations for fixing the bulb holder and chokes.Cut "Chopik" PVC and glue them on the heel by means of glue.Self-tapping screws fixed on the holders for lamps and chokes.
12. Cut wiring for lights, stripping the ends and set the lamp holders.We connect the wiring inside the box.
13. Print the wiring through the hole and out zaizoliruem it.
14. After all the work done check how our product will glow, and whether the future Lightbox mount technology compromised.
15. Cut litsevik Plexiglas, rounded corners at the corners.
16. Remove the protective film from litsevika and wash it with a spray gun and rubber scraper.On the line to place images or letters.
17. Remove the base film.Smoothes the film a felt or plastic scraper and remove the foil.
18. drilled into the bottom shelf of 2-3 holes of 6-10 mm in diameter.This is necessary for removing moisture.
19. then created their own hands Lightbox checked for operational readiness.To light box is not dusty, it can be packed in stretch.

Possible errors in the manufacture of boxes and their correction

1. not light the lamp - the network is not connected or is not closed.It is necessary to check the correctness of connection and reliability of fastening cartridges and starters, as well as their operation.
2. Under the film of air bubbles or dust points.In this case it is necessary to remove the film, carefully remove dust accumulations by wiping the surface and apply a new film.If bubbles under the film, it is possible to squeeze out the air, piercing the film in these places with a knife.
3. Lightbox does not close or converge the angles - litsevik trim or heel of a few millimeters and a little stronger chamfer angles.

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