SignLab

If you want to know what is the single best feature of SignLab 9, it’s the ability to create more time. This may sound like a bold claim, but every minute you save in the design process is a minute that you can use to generate and close more business, output and finish more work and manage your business. These are time savings you will benefit from every single working day.

By talking to our customers, we have examined the difficult design tasks that they encounter, and SignLab 9 has specifically tackled the way these problems are handled to make your life easier and less time consuming.

But it doesn’t end there - Every copy of SignLab we sell comes with free lifetime telephone technical support. So whether you are a new or existing user, you should definitely check out the benefits of the new version of the industry standard - SignLab 9.

Menu Board Editor - The new menu board editor takes the tedium out of creating menu and pricing boards. Simple yet powerful alignment tools, including currency justification, make creating and tweaking complex menus and pricing layouts a breeze. Video

Transparency Tools - Transparency in images has always been a challenge to achieve the results you are looking for. SignLab’s new powerful transparency engine provides you with powerful tools to create stunning images with a simple interface. Video

Round Trip Editing with Industry Standard Applications - Now when you install SignLab, you are also installing direct file transfer tools so you can quickly, easily and reliably move you designs between Adobe Illustrator®, Adobe Photoshop® and CorelDRAW!® and SignLab.

Faster Than Ever - SignLab 9 has been heavily optimised and the results are impressive. SignLab 9 is now faster than ever and can edit the most complex designs with ease.

PDF 1.7 Support - If you’ve ever opened customer supplied files and found items that have moved, or are missing or misaligned, you’ll know how annoying and time consuming it can be to fix. SignLab 9 now supports the latest Adobe PDF® 1.7 standard.

New Filters - SignLab 9 now comes with dozens of new effects and filters, so you can make stunning designs without breaking a sweat. Video 1 Video 2

Supersize - We’ve all been there - the customer supplies a low resolution JPG and wants it printing out at a larger size - and it looks just terrible. Supersize uses the latest intelligent algorithms to scale images and keep smooth crisp edges, vibrant colours and minimise pixilation. You’ll wonder how you managed without it !

Instant Replay - Create macros of your favourite combinations of effects and filters, and apply them again and again with a single mouse click.

Power Weed - The ultimate timesaver - power weed can make weeding out the most complicated and intricate cutting files fast and easy.

Badges & Serialisation - Creating multiple designs using variable data has never been easier or more powerful. SignLab’s powerful database tools allow you to merge in data from text editors, databases and spreadsheets, and lay them out directly into your designs. You can even do this with barcodes !

Advanced Contour Cut Generation - Creating contour cut lines around your designs can be difficult, tedious and time consuming. SignLab 9’s advanced contour cut generation tools make creating these a cinch. Any combination of vector, bitmap and transparency elements can be selected, and an accurate contour cutting path can be generated with just a few mouse clicks.

Advanced Vectorisation - The creation of vector graphics from bitmap images has always been awkward, time consuming and normally ends up in a mammoth node editing and clean-up session afterwards. SignLab 9’s Advanced Vectorisation tools generate crisp clean vectors with the minimum of effort.

SignLab 9 introduces some new powerful modules that you can add to SignLab to give you the competitive edge:

Advanced Vehicle Graphics - Create Stunning 3D images of Vehicle liveries which you can send to your customers as still images or full blown 3D animations. Stunning presentation can make the difference between winning or losing the contract. More Info

Engraving - Produce engraved signage, plaques, labels, etc. quickly and easily without the need for a full fledged engraving package. More Info

Garment Decoration - Create great looking garment decoration quickly and easily with the brand new garment decoration Module. More Info

Sign Routing - Create and edit time efficient toolpaths with advanced nesting tools for your CNC router. More Info

SignLab 9 is available in 5 Versions

SignLab Design Pro - Our design package is for your design department.

SignLab Cut Pro - Our entry level cutting package supporting one cutting device - outstanding value.

SignLab Vinyl - Setting the bar for vinyl cutting software.

SignLab Vinyl Pro - Our top of the range cutting and graphic design software.

SignLab Print & Cut - All the features of Vinyl Pro, but with a fully featured software RIP and the fluid mask tool. Power, flexibility and value.

SignLab for VersaWorks - The perfect partner for your Roland Printer/Cutter

SignLab for Mimaki - The perfect partner for your Mimaki Printer/Cutter

To see what features are included in each of the versions, please refer to the SignLab Feature List. Not all of the features listed on this page are included in every version.

Upgrade To SignLab 9 - If you are already a SignLab user, then you should be a SignLab 9 user. You can upgrade to SignLab 9 and take advantage of the new features at a price that may surprise you. The cost of upgrading to SignLab 9 starts from £ 50.00 + VAT. Plus if you have an old parallel type dongle, we’ll swap it for a new USB one for free at the same time ! (normally £ 75.00 + VAT)

Cross-grade to SignLab 9 - If you have invested in a competing sign-making software package, but would like to move up to the next level, we offer special cross-grade pricing. Let us know what software you are currently using and we’ll let you know how much you can save.

SignLab Professional Vehicle Graphics Module The ultimate tool for vehicle graphics and wraps. Includes over 60,000 accurately measured, to-scale vehicle templates. Utilize the templates for your original design and layout directly within Signlab, then convert them to 3D quickly and easily for the best presentation tool you will ever use! Send a customer a 3D rendering of your proposed design in a simulated environment as a .pdf or better still send them a short video-clip via email that shows off each elevation of the entire vehicle. Powerful!

SignLab Engraving Module Enhance your existing text composition and design tools with a series of engraver-specific production tools, fill routines and support for the latest as well as the most widely used legacy engravers being used today. Produce engraved signage, plaques, labels, etc. quickly and easily. Exploit extensive file format support including .DXF, EPS, .PDF, single line engraving fonts as well as efficiency tools such as optimized sort routines, sort/ sequence jobs by color and instant tool path previews for all your engraving needs.

SignLab Garment Decorating Module Includes all of the software tools for direct to garment t-shirt printing that are bundled as part of the biggest selling inkjet t-shirt solutions installed worldwide! The pioneer in t-shirt printing software, CADlink has now made available our own brand product alongside all of the previous software packages we created for the best known solution providers. The software simplifies the entire process whether it be printing on white t-shirts or dark shirts using our unique underbase technology. This module also includes all of our widely used tools for rhinestone decoration. This truly makes it the most complete garment decorating package available today!

SignLab SignRouting Module Yet another CADlink product that can be found bundled alongside some of the most widely used routers worldwide. The SignLab SignRouting module provides our existing SignLab users the ability to add-on routing functionality to their existing product, eliminating the learning curve for new, complicated software solutions. Create simulated 3-D text and graphics quickly and easily using chiseled and beveled text and graphics with our powerful 3D chisel algorithm using v-carve technology. Produce stunning, high-value signs on multiple substrates quickly and easily with our tool path algorithms that are up to twice as fast as competitive products.... and all in a single package that takes you from design to final production.