Read From Across The Room
Sign stand and display rentals
The hardware that holds a message up where a venue will not let you fix anything to a wall, a window or a pillar.
Three kinds of stand
Sized by how far away the reader is
Floor sign stands
Two stands. What separates them is a reading distance: a letter-size sheet works on somebody who has already arrived, a 22 × 28 in poster works on somebody across the room still deciding which way to walk.
Boards and easels
Three ways to stand something up at eye level. Two of them take a message that arrives already printed; the third is the one people write on while the meeting is happening.
And the one that is not a sign
A rack holds what a guest takes away rather than what they read on the way past, so it sits on its own rather than inside either group above.
Before we can quote it
Every item here holds artwork you supply.
None of this is printed to order — we rent the frames and the stands, you bring what goes in them. So the useful request names a size and a count rather than a design. The four things below are what turn a question into a number.
Say which sheet size
Letter at 8.5 × 11 in and a 22 × 28 in poster are two different products, not two settings of one. Tell us the size you are printing and the stand follows from it.
Count the faces, not the frames
The A-frame and the poster stand each read from two sides. One graphic repeated reads either way; two different graphics turn one stand into two messages. Both are the same rental.
Rigid or loose
An easel needs a board stiff enough to hold itself between two clips. A poster stand will take a 3/16 in board and a bare sheet equally. Paper on its own works in one of those and curls in the other.
Indoors or out
The A-frame is the only item in this category rated for outdoor use as well as indoor. If a sign is going outside, that is the one to ask about — and tell us the surface it has to stand on.
Rooms these end up in
Six rooms that need a sign standing in them.
A hotel lobby with a conference in it
A poster stand inside the door naming the event and a second at the lift landing pointing at the floor, so nobody has to ask a concierge who is already answering somebody else.
A registration desk at 9am
Letter-size stands along the front of the desk splitting the line by surname or by ticket type. Small signs, close range, several of them rather than one big one.
A wedding reception
Easels carrying the seating chart at the room door and the order of service further in, both of them boards a stationer has already mounted and neither of them taped to anything.
A shop-front activation
An A-frame out on the pavement doing the work a window vinyl would do if the landlord allowed one. Two faces means the street gets the invitation and the doorway gets the detail.
A trade show booth
A literature rack on the open side of the footprint so a visitor can take a brochure without committing to a conversation. Behind it, a poster stand carrying the headline.
A queue that has just split in two
A stanchion run with two mouths on it and no way to tell them apart. A letter-size stand at the fork is the fix that can be made on the morning without moving any posts.