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Hi Clark:

We do a fair amount of outdoor signage - while I'm not familiar with  
Porcelite, I did go to their website because we're always looking for  
better products.

The thing that jumped out at me was the 5 year warranty - two of the  
other companies I know about offer 10 year.

Our preferred product right now is from Fossil  http:// 
www.fossilinc.com/  .  Main advantage is in imaging - truer greyscale  
and colors, and type,  than we've seen with other products.  The  
material is 100% phenolic resin, so its pretty tough (think  
formica).  It wouldn't  handle a major impact, as in a hammer blow to  
the corner.   Although we use 1/2" and thicker, which is very heavy,  
it is available down to a postformable thickness.

We also got a sample from Rhino the other day.    http:// 
www.rhinopanels.com/index.html  They seemed to have improved their  
printer's resolution and they sample was quite crisp for both photo  
image and smaller type (down to about 18pt? - didn't measure).    
Nevertheless, the sample did show issues with color rendition,  
particularly in the whites.  Whether or not that's an issue with the  
calibration, or a result of their process, I don't really know.

One of these days, I'm going to ask all these companies to step up  
and produce sample graphics from a set of identical files because it  
is really hard to make a comparison with different images and text.

Hope this info helps.
	


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