Product Brochure

SignLab™ is a CADlink™ product designed to help the professional signmaker create any type of sign or poster required by his customer easily, effectively, quickly and with the highest quality. SignLab™ represents the pinnacle of sign software in the world today. CADlink™ has been developing sign software since 1987. SignLab™ is s full suite of text, vector and raster design tools and support for vinyl cutters, sign printers, thermal ribbon printers, engravers, routers, and dye sub printers.

With the advent of inexpensive and fast sign printers and cutters used for long term indoor and outdoor signage, many vinyl only sign shops have begun to bring their sign printing in-house. Professional sign makers require sign-oriented production software to successfully integrate high performance sign printing into their traditional vinyl cutting workflow, and SignLab is designed to do exactly this. SignLab is the ideal tool. SignLab seamlessly integrates traditional sign design with both vinyl cutting and print and cut workflows for ink jet and thermal foil printers from the smallest to the largest sign businesses.

SignLab Version 9 is the culmination of 3 years engineering work and carefully considered feedback from hundreds of dealers and thousands of customers worldwide. Version 9 is not just a collection of new features, it is an enhanced way of doing things for Signmakers. New application plug-ins from often-used design applications, such as Corel, Illustrator and PhotoShop ensure quick, easy and error-proof ways that Signmakers can work with files and applications of all types during the design stage. A similar type interface with Visual Production Manager offers a seamless and centrally controlled production hub for all print, cut , print and cut jobs not only from SignLab but also these popular design applications. It’s all about combining the strengths of all your design applications and enhancing them within SignLab.

Signlab 9 is available in various editions, each tailored toward different end-user requirements. These include:

Signlab Print & Cut - Signlab Vinyl - Signlab Vinyl Pro - Signlab Cut Pro - Signlab Design Pro - Signlab for VersaWorks - Signlab for Mimaki - Signlab 00Bling Pro

New SignLab Version 9 Feature Highlights

True value to our existing upgrading customers and unmatched sign software features to new customers. What can we possibly add to a software product that is now at Version 9? SignLab 9 provides streamlined workflows that Signmakers specified, and new processing speeds that are faster than anything the market has seen to date. Extremely large bitmap files are not only processed faster during the design application but also during the entire RIP process for either print or print and cut output.

A completely interactive, simultaneous multiple queue and printer system. Leading edge job management technology that saves time and comsumable costs. VPM addresses all print, print and cut workflow scenarios that a sign maker comes across. A powerful job management/production tool that pays for itself in no time. Signlab 9 also includes various software plugins for extended compatibility.

Create ready to use labels and stickers by applying contour cut to an object followed by a HalfCut line which allows the entire decal or label to be easily removed from the sheet.

What use is sending customers .pdf proofs via e-mail if the colors on their screen don't match your design screen? We embed a color profile so that when customers open up the file in Acrobat or Reader, they see exactly what you intended them to see.

New scaling/interpolation feature that maintains sharpness of an image simultaneously. Excellent for preparation of images to vectorize.

Well worth the cost of the upgrade on its own! Using our new wizard, quickly prepare and vectorize even the most challenging low resolution bitmaps that you take right off the internet!

“Total Solution” modules are unique to SignLab. In many cases, new business opportunities arise from existing customers. Often times, these new opportunities are either turned away due to lack of equipment to address them or sometimes out-sourced to another supplier. Either way the end result is no revenue gained or marginal revenue gained as the “middle-man” in an outsourcing situation.

SignLab Total Solutions modules provide the signmaker with the ability to take advantage of new opportunities. Each individual module facilitates the addition of specific, new software tools required for the design and production associated with these new opportunities. Simply add the new module to your existing SignLab package and the software solution to your new opportunity is resolved and without having to learn a brand new software workflow. Add another revenue source from your existing customer base. Create additional revenue from new customers. Avoid buying and learning a new software application- you already know how to use SignLab, simply add this new module to it. Available modules include:

- Professional Vehicle Graphics Module(3D package only)
- Garment-Decorating Module
- Rhinestone module
- Sign-Routing Module
- Engraving Module
- FluidMask Module
- PANTONE™ colour-matching module

Now in SignLab 8, you can apply the same effects to images as you would with vector and text objects! The complete bitmap transform list is as follows:

Over 75 added! All the special effects a designer needs are now accessible right from SignLab. We have integrated some of the industry's most popular filter plug-ins right into SignLab. No need to jump back and forth between design applications to get that “WOW“ factor into your designs! Examples of special effects in version 9 include: