Wholesale & Custom LED Neon Signs

Artwork Files: What Makes a Design Production-Ready

Most of the back-and-forth on a wholesale neon sign order happens before anything is bent, and it is nearly always about the file. Send outlined vector artwork rather than a screenshot or a flattened photo, because the tube path is traced from the outline and not from the pixels. If only a raster file exists, say so on the request and our own drawing desk redraws it as part of the proof stage.

Three things in a design decide whether it can be built as drawn:

• Stroke width and letter height travel together. Silicone tube has a fixed bend radius, so very fine hairlines and tight interior loops have to be opened up or the letterform closes on itself. The proof shows you where that happens instead of leaving it to production.
• Connected script is easier to build than disconnected script. Letters that already touch need fewer lead-out wires, and every wire removed is one less line crossing the backing.
• Counters set the smallest usable size. The enclosed hole inside a lowercase a or e is the first detail to fill in when a design is scaled down, so the floor on size is set by the tightest counter in the word rather than by the overall width.

A free to-scale proof drawing comes back before anything is tooled: tube path, color breaks, backing outline, wire exit point and mounting hardware, all on one sheet with dimensions. Approve it or mark it up. Nothing goes into production off a verbal description.

Destination Power, Drivers and Spares on a Bulk Order

A sign that lights up on the bench at the workshop and stays dark in your warehouse is almost always a power problem rather than a sign problem. Custom LED sign bulk orders are built to a destination, so the market has to be named on the request instead of assumed: nominal mains supply runs about 110 to 120 volts across North America and 220 to 240 volts across most of Europe, the UK and Australia, and plug patterns differ again inside each of those groups.

Name the destination and these get quoted with the signs instead of chased afterwards:

• Driver or adapter matched to the local supply, with the cord and plug pattern for that market.
• Control method: an inline on-off switch, a remote, or a dimmer where the piece is sold as ambience rather than as signage.
• Spare drivers packed into the shipment. The driver is the part most likely to need swapping in the field, and spares riding in the carton save an air freight later.
• Multi-market splits. One run can be part-built for one voltage and part-built for another, declared per carton so your warehouse is not opening boxes to find out which is which.

Mixed destinations on a single purchase order are normal here. Put the country split in the quote request and the electrical package is quoted per project against it.

Packing an Acrylic-Backed Sign, and How a Bulk Order Runs

The acrylic backboard is the fragile part of this product, not the tubing. A cut-to-shape panel with narrow letter connections flexes in transit and can crack at its thinnest point, so pieces are packed to the shape of the sign rather than to a standard box size: corner protection on the panel, the sign face isolated from the carton wall, and the wire and driver bagged apart so nothing hard rides against the tube.

Large formats travel better split into sections that join on site, and that call belongs at artwork stage, because the split line is designed into the lettering instead of cut through it later. Tell us the ceiling on carton size at your end and the layout is drawn to it.

How an order actually runs

• Send artwork, sizes, destination market and the mounting method for each design.
• A to-scale proof comes back, with tube path, color breaks and wire exit marked.
• You approve or mark up the proof. Pricing is quoted per model against the volume on the request.
• Sampling runs about 15 days, and the sample fee is refundable against the production order.
• Production runs on our own neon bench in Foshan, then export packing, documentation and consolidation with anything else on the same quote.

Repeat programs work the same way with one difference: an approved proof stays on file, so a reorder of a design already built skips the drawing loop and goes straight to production scheduling.