Graphic Overlay MANUFACTURER Design Guide

A GRAPHIC OVERLAY IS THE AESTHETIC FACE USED ON ANY PRODUCT TO DECORATE, INFORM, OR ADD FUNCTION TO THE OPERATION OF THE PRODUCT. IT IS ALSO USED AS THE FRONT OF A MEMBRANE SWITCH OR FRONT PANEL DISPLAY, AND CREATES THE INTERFACE BETWEEN MAN AND MACHINE TO CLEARLY COMMUNICATE FUNCTION, KEY/WINDOW LOCATIONS, KEY TITLES, CORPORATE LOGO AND OTHER PERTINENT INFORMATION.

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There are a number of elements to consider when fabricating your graphic overlay. We are here to help you make the best decisions for your application.

• Substrates

• Overlay Materials Advising

• Custom Fabrication

• Color Control and Exact Graphic Matching

• In-House Embossing

• Gaskets, Lenses and Windows

• Adhesives

• Perfect Finishing

• Inspection and Testing

The features you choose for your graphic overlay can go a long way toward enhancing the overall usability (and satisfaction with) your product.

Making the graphic overlay easier to feel, operate, and understand, raised buttons and embossed features can dramatically enhance its functionality. Consider the environment the graphic overlay in will be in either outside withstanding sun light and harsh weather or challenges inside withstanding cleaning chemicals. All these considerations take part in what type of material option would be best for your project.

Don’t underestimate the visual impact of your graphic overlay. Just as you’ve invested in the industrial design of your product to meet specific objectives, so to can your graphic overlay support and reinforce those very same goals.

With these overlays, we can choose ink technologies and materials to deliver specialized textures, finishes, and colors. This allows you to create on-brand graphic treatments, powerful visual differentiation, and market-appropriate design cues. With specialized inks, we can match proprietary brand colors. With the right material, we can deliver the right texture and finish, from matte to high gloss. Add in transparent qualities and vibrant base colors, and you can start to see how may options you really have.

Digital printing gives us even more design freedom, in a very cost-effective way. With these technologies, we can reproduce photographs onto the graphic overlay, allowing you to specify any type of background pattern. Brushed aluminum or carbon fiber patterns for more sophisticated applications. Diamond plate patterns for a more industrial look.

As with most components and sub-assemblies, a clear understanding of your product requirements will help drive the right choices for the features of a graphic overlay. But you will always be well-served by understanding beforehand the options you have and the advantages you can gain.

ECI TAKES YOUR IDEAS AND BRINGS THEM TO LIFE.

ECI’S EXTENSIVE KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE IN THE MANUFACTURING OF GRAPHIC OVERLAYS ENSURES THAT YOUR OVERLAY WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS FOR THE LIFE EXPECTANCY OF THE PRODUCT. OUR PRINTING AND PRODUCTION CAPABILITIES ALLOW ECI TO OFFER YOU COMPETITIVE PRICING AND HIGH QUALITY PRODUCTS. WE OFFER BOTH DOMESTIC AND OFF-SHORE SOLUTIONS ON A REGULAR BASIS AND OUR QUALITY IS OF THE HIGHEST STANDARDS.