Brand your business with a fabric awning or canopy.

With a vast color palette and a myriad of design options, fabric awnings and canopies enhance visual appeal. Incorporate your logo, company colors and other distinctive architectural details into your building design with the help of an awning or canopy.

A multitude of customization options afford you the ability to create an iconic image for your exterior as well as provide shade and shelter.

Your awning professional can help you design an awning that fits your corporate image, helps you promote business and sets your building apart from the competition.

Awnings help to promote your business

Signage – Color – Customization – Quality – Durability

Take advantage of the visibility of your fabric awning or canopy to provide commercial signage for your business. Using advanced technology, a PAMA professional can provide complex multi-color logos and detailed fonts and text to add special affects to your awning.

Awning graphics can be applied through a variety of methods:

Digital
Digital printing is the method of using computers to create and manipulate digital files with the use of one or more of the many graphics software programs available. Pixels (dots) on a field are arranged, colored and manipulated until the desired image is perfected and then is reproduced on a physical surface such as paper, film or cloth using any one of a wide range of printers specifically designed to accept and transfer (inkjet, laser, etc) such images.

There are two types of digital printing: direct and dye sublimation. Dye sublimation printing is performed by first printing the image onto paper and heat pressing it into the fabric. Direct digital printing is printed onto paper backed fabric, the color is set with steam, then the fabric is washed and dried. Some printers are now available to print onto fabric up to π-inch thick, eliminating the need for paper-backed fabric.

Painting
Handpainting is the most traditional and often the most economical method of applying graphics. Handpainting the graphics directly onto the awning, with materials selected specifically for fabrics, can provide a customized effect to any awning. When two-color effects are required, many manufacturers recommend spray-on air brushing methods, which can achieve color blending or shading. Typically graphics are drawn onto the awning and then blocked out with a masking compound. The entire awning is then spray painted in one or more colors, while the awning is on the frame. This method produces an even consistency of paint application and a smooth finish.

Heat Color-Transfer
Awnings can be decorated through the use of a heat color-transfer method, which utilizes a vacuum applicator to adhere color to the fabric. Any number of colors can be applied simultaneously, as pigments and resins are embedded into the fabric. Colors are actually baked into the fabric, creating bold color separation.

Pressure-Sensitive Graphics
Simple to moderately complex graphics can be applied with great accuracy through the use of pressure-sensitive vinyl films. The films are cut by hand or by computer to a desired design and then placed in the proper register on the fabric.

Eradicating
Eradicating is usually used for illuminated awnings. It involves eliminating, with special chemical, an existing color from a white vinyl fabric that has been precoated at the factory with eradicable inks.

Fabric awnings and canopies provide flexible design options for building owners and architects

A wide variety of appealing colors, styles, structures

Numerous design options enhance visual appeal and create beautiful focal points. Unifying elements or eye-popping contrast provide flexibility and easy functionality.

• Walkways
• Entryways
• Dining Areas
• Patio Areas
• Pool Areas
• Bars