Give us your shop name, logo or artwork, and we turn it into a bright sign that keeps your shop easy to find every evening. We print it on premium backlit flex, stretch it tight over a closed steel box and light it evenly from behind with LED modules. What’s more, our own team fits the board on your shop front anywhere in Pune.
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Backlit flex glow sign boards · GSB · LED glow sign boards · Made and installed in Pune
A backlit flex board is the simplest way to make sure people find your shop after dark. We print your artwork on premium backlit flex, stretch it tight over a steel box packed with LED modules, and fit it above your shop. The whole face glows evenly, so your name, your photographs and your phone number read clearly from across the road.
What it is
A backlit flex glow sign board (people often call it a GSB) is a closed metal box with lights inside and your printed artwork on the front. Starting from the front, here are its four parts:
1.Your artwork, printed on Star™ backlit flex, which lets the light shine through.
2.Galvanised iron sheet on the sides, which closes the box all round.
3.A mild steel frame, which holds everything square and strong.
4.LED modules on the back sheet, powered by a weatherproof driver.
The Delrico Creamery board on the shop front by day: a crisp, bright print
The same board at night, lit evenly from edge to edge by LED modules
During the day, your board looks like a crisp, colourful print above your shop. When the sun goes down and you switch it on, the whole face lights up from behind, and your colours glow brightly enough to stop people as they pass.
That is why backlit boards remain the favourite shop sign across India: they work hard for you for twelve hours a day and twelve hours a night.
A backlit flex board costs about a third of the price of 3D LED letters, yet it lights up your entire board, not just the letters. It can carry your logo, your photographs, your services and your phone number, all on one glowing face.
This makes it a smart choice for clinics, coaching classes, restaurants, pharmacies and every shop that wants to be found after dark.
How it's built
Many low-cost boards look fine on the first day and dull and patchy a few months later. The difference lies in what goes inside. Here is how we build every board, part by part.
We print your artwork on original Star™ backlit flex, a premium Indian brand, 440 GSM thick. It is outdoor grade, waterproof and strong, and it reproduces your images in high resolution with vibrant colours.
Many sign makers use cheaper duplicate backlit flex, which is thinner, yellows in the sun and lets the lights show through as bright spots. We do not.
We print your artwork on UV and eco-solvent wide-format printers, using the original manufacturer's inks. These inks cost several times more than the cheap copy inks many low-cost boards are printed with, and they hold their colour far longer in the sun.
What's more, we print backlit artwork twice over itself. We call it double-strike printing. The extra layer of ink makes the colours richer when the lights are on, so your board looks eye-popping at night instead of dull and washed out, and it fades even more slowly.
In the video, a board for Delrico Creamery is being printed on our own machine in Pune.
We stretch the printed flex over the front of the frame with edge clamps, as tight as the skin of a tabla. Then we close the sides with galvanised iron sheet, 0.5 millimetre thick and powder-coated black or white, screwed on all round. The result is a neat, closed box with a flat, smooth face.
If you would like a crisp metal border around the face, like the boards we made for Jha Classes, we add an L-shaped metal strip on request, at extra cost.
Every board starts as a hollow frame of mild steel square pipe (0.75 inch, or 1 inch for very wide boards), which holds everything square and strong. We weld the base straight onto the frame, fix the LED modules on the base, and paint the frame so it does not rust.
Our standard box is 8 inches deep. That depth gives the light room to spread, so the whole face glows evenly, without bright spots or dark bands.
We light our boards with rows of bright LED modules fixed across the base of the box. They cost more than the tube lights many sign makers still fit, but they spread the light evenly over every square inch of your print and use very little power.
Tube lights leave darker bands between the tubes and dull the colours, as the illustration below shows. That is why we have moved our wall boards to LED modules.
A weatherproof driver (power supply) inside the box powers all the LED modules. We keep all the wiring inside the box, out of the rain, and every board comes with a 3-metre power cable.
We never simply twist wires together. We solder every joint and seal it with a heat sleeve, so the chance of a wire breaking, losing contact or shorting out is practically nil. We wire every lit sign we make in exactly the same way.
LED modules switched on inside a frame, before the print goes on
Rows of LED modules wired in, for a Jha Classes board
The same board lit by tube lights: dark bands and dull colours (illustration)
Project boards by day: sharp, colourful prints before the lights come on
Lit with LED modules: even light, rich colours
A finished box in our workshop, sides screwed on, ready for the site
Sizes
We build every board to the size of your shop front. Most shops choose a board about 8 feet wide and 4 feet high, and the length usually follows the width of your shop entrance: 8, 10 or 12 feet.
The smallest board we make is 12 square feet, for example 4 by 3 feet or 6 by 2 feet. We bill a smaller board as 12 square feet. The largest single box is 20 by 10 feet; for a bigger sign, we join two or more boxes and quote it after seeing a photo of the site.
A board does not have to be wide and short. Tall, narrow boards work beautifully on pillars, beside an entrance or along a boundary wall, like the row of boards we made for Jha Classes.
Rectangles only: for round or shaped lit signs, we make 3D LED and acrylic light boxes instead.
12 square feet, with no side under 2 feet: 4 by 3, 6 by 2 or similar.
About 8 by 4 feet, the size most shop fronts need.
20 by 10 feet in one box; bigger signs as joined boxes, quoted on request.
We bill the outside size of the board, which is the same as the printed area.
Two-sided boards
A lollipop board stands on a pole beside the road or juts out from a wall, so people coming from either direction can see it. Here we print your artwork twice, on the front and on the back, and stretch both prints on one steel frame.
Inside a two-sided board, we hang LED tubes between the two prints, so they light both faces at once. The tubes run straight on mains power, without a driver. We price a two-sided board on the printed area of both faces.
A lollipop board outside a Pizza Hut™ outlet
A two-sided board fixed at right angles to a building
A lollipop sign for Cocoa Patisserie, Pune
An oval lollipop board on a pole at Jehangir Hospital
A lollipop board outside a café (illustration)
Two-sided backlit boxes around the edge of a cafeteria
Price
Our backlit flex glow sign boards cost about ₹600 per square foot + 18% GST for the board: the printed flex, the steel frame, the galvanised iron sides, the LED modules, the driver and the wiring. Enter your width and height in the calculator above for an instant estimate.
Treat ₹600 as an indicative figure. Larger boards work out slightly cheaper per square foot, and small boards slightly dearer. Our team confirms the exact price with your quote.
Order
One shop board, 8 feet wide and 4 feet high
Area
32 square feet
Then
Transport and installation, quoted once we have seen a photo of your site
Board
32 square feet x ₹600 = ₹19,200 + 18% GST = ₹22,656 (indicative)
Your artwork printed twice over on Star™ backlit flex, 440 GSM
The mild steel frame and the powder-coated galvanised iron sides
LED modules, the driver and all the wiring inside the box
A check of your artwork and a proof before we print
Transport and installation, once we understand your site
Scaffolding above about 12 to 15 feet, or a crane
The wire or power point your electrician brings near the board
Permissions from the municipal corporation, your society or your landlord (yours to obtain), and 18% GST
Enter your width and height in the calculator at the top of the page for an instant estimate.
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Installation
We do not courier these boards. They are large and bulky, so our own team brings your board to your shop and fixes it on the wall with angle brackets and anchor fasteners, on brick, concrete, an ACP facade or above a rolling shutter.
We quote transport and installation once we understand the full scope of your job: how high the board goes, how easy it is to reach and how far it is from our workshop. For a nearby shop that is easy to reach, installation can even be free. A photo of the site and the board size are usually all we need.
Below, two of our recent jobs: the Dent @ Home clinic before and after, and the Delrico Creamery board on its way from our workshop to the shop front.
Before: a bare shutter, no sign at all
After: the Dent @ Home board, lit above the same entrance
Delrico Creamery: switched on and tested in our workshop
Our fitter fixing it above the shutter
Fitted across the shop front, ready for opening day
Our fitters work from ladders and A-frames up to about 12 to 15 feet. For a board higher than that, we put up scaffolding, which we charge extra, as we do a crane when one is needed.
High on a building, a flat board faces straight out and is hard to read from the road. For De-Novo Clinic, we built the boxes deeper at the top, so each board is fixed straight and safe on the wall while its face leans down towards the road.
Every board comes with a 3-metre power cable. Ask your electrician to leave a loose wire or a power point near the board, and our team joins the cable to your supply and switches the board on. If you prefer a plug on the cable, just tell us and we fit one.
If your board needs permission from the municipal corporation, your housing society or your landlord, please obtain it before we install. We can give you the board size and a drawing for your application.
Power, warranty and care
LED modules use very little power, a fraction of what the old tube-light boards drew. Once you order, we can work out the exact power load of your board for you on request.
LED modules last for years. The part that fails now and then is the driver, and replacing one costs about ₹2,000.
From the day we install, we cover the LED modules, the driver and the wiring in normal use. Storms, knocks, voltage surges and water entering through the wall are not covered.
For a board we made, our team visits for a repair at no visit charge, because our team is out in the city every day. You pay only for the parts.
New offer, new name? We can fit a new print on a board we made. The cost depends on the height and access, so we quote it when you ask.
As a matter of policy, we do not repair or re-skin boards made by other sign makers.
Applications
Use a backlit flex board anywhere you need a bright, colourful sign that works day and night, outdoors.
Your name, logo and products across the top of your shop, glowing every evening.
Doctor names, timings and services that patients can read from the road.
Your name and your best dishes in full colour, lit up for the evening crowd.
Toppers, results and courses on boards along your wall or gate.
Two-sided boards on poles and brackets, seen from both directions.
Lit brand panels for brands and franchises, inside stores and malls.
Lit boards for festivals and celebrations, like the gurdwara boards in our video.
Glowing project boards on site fences and name boards for housing societies.
Dent @ Home dental clinic, Pune
Jha Classes: six double-sided boards along the boundary wall
De-Novo Clinic: a board tilted towards the road
Project boards glowing on a construction-site fence
A tall pillar board for Pizza Hut™ in a mall
A lit JCB™ board on a hoarding
A vertical board beside a pharmacy entrance
Two lit boards on the parapet wall of an outdoor café
A family restaurant at dusk (illustration)
A saree shop that stands out on a busy street (illustration)
Diwali greetings at a temple gate (illustration)
A housing society name board (illustration)
The photographs show boards we made and installed. The pictures marked (illustration) are made with AI, to show more places where a backlit board works.
Our jobs
Jha Classes wanted their toppers to be seen by everyone passing their institute, day and night. We built six double-sided backlit boards along the boundary wall, each with a metal border around the face, and lit them with LED modules. Students and parents now read the results from across the road, long after dark.
See the full story on our Jha Classes Our Work page, and more lit boards for a dental clinic and construction-site fences.
A Jha Classes board lit at night
Rich colours from double-strike printing
Watch
Prices mentioned in our older videos are out of date; the price on this page is current.
Watch how we print your artwork at high resolution and fit it over a frame packed with bright LEDs.
We made these boards for a gurdwara in Pune for Guru Nanak Jayanti, printed, built and installed in time for the celebrations.
A short look at how a backlit glow sign board comes together: printed flex over a metal box with lights inside.
Which sign is right for you
Not sure a backlit flex board is the right sign for you? Here is how it compares with our other boards. Click any card to see that product.
Look: a flat printed face that glows evenly
Best for: shop fronts, clinics, classes, pillars
Where: outdoors
Price: about ₹600 per square foot
Look: raised acrylic letters lit from inside, on an ACP base
Best for: a premium, upmarket shop front
Where: indoors and outdoors
Price: about ₹2,000 per square foot
Look: a slim, frameless glowing picture
Best for: walls and ceilings inside shops and offices
Where: indoors
Price: ₹850 per square foot
Look: a sturdy flat board, not lit
Best for: a low-cost sign that people see by daylight
Where: outdoors
Price: see the product page
Laser-cut acrylic letters that glow from inside, raised off an ACP base. The upmarket choice when you want every letter to stand out in 3D.
See the boards →
Your picture printed on stretch fabric over a slim, frameless aluminium box. Perfect for a glowing wall or ceiling indoors.
See the product →
A weatherproof aluminium composite panel with your print on it. Sturdy and smart, for a sign that does not need to glow.
See the product →
Under 1 centimetre thick, with a glass front and a slide-in print. Made for indoor posters and menus, from A4 to 4 by 2 feet.
See the product →
Still not sure? Try the board finder in our sign board guide, or send us a photo of your shop and the size on WhatsApp, and we will suggest the right board.
Coming soon
Want a sign that changes its message by itself, plays videos or shows your daily offers? We are very soon launching digital LED screen solutions for shops, showrooms and offices.
Tell us on WhatsApp if you are interested, and we will let you know as soon as they are ready. Meanwhile, see all our sign boards.
Design files
Design your artwork at the finished size of the board, for example 8 by 4 feet. We add the extra flex that wraps around the frame ourselves, so keep text and logos a few inches in from the edges.
A big lit board shows everything, so send us large, sharp images, and send logos and lettering as vector files. Bright, strong colours look best when lit from behind.
Before we print, we send you a proof drawn to the finished size, like this one for a Delrico Creamery board, 140 by 54 inches.
Design at the finished size of the board; we add the margin that wraps around the frame.
Keep text, logos and phone numbers a few inches in from every edge.
Photographs at 100 to 150 dots per inch at full size; logos and text as vector files (AI, CDR, EPS, SVG or PDF).
We send you a proof on WhatsApp and start production only after your OK.
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CDR
EPS
SVG
TIFF
PNG
JPG
We prepare your file for printing, but we don't design artwork from scratch. If you need a design, we can recommend good designers in Pune.
FAQs
It is a closed steel box with LED lights inside and your artwork, printed on backlit flex, stretched over the front. When the lights are on, the whole face glows evenly. People also call it a GSB, a glow sign board, a backlit board or a light box sign.
About ₹600 per square foot + 18% GST for the board, as an indicative figure: larger boards work out slightly cheaper per square foot, small ones slightly dearer. An 8 by 4 foot board comes to about ₹19,200 + GST. Transport and installation are quoted separately.
Not in the board price. We quote transport and installation once we understand your site: the height, the access and the distance from our workshop. For a nearby shop that is easy to reach, installation can be free. A photo of the site and the board size are usually enough.
We make and install these boards in Pune. They are bulky, so we do not courier them. For a site outside Pune, talk to us first.
The smallest is 12 square feet (4 by 3 or 6 by 2 feet, no side under 2 feet); we bill a smaller board as 12 square feet. The largest single box is 20 by 10 feet; bigger signs are made as joined boxes.
Our wall boards use LED modules with a driver, which give even, bright light. Only two-sided lollipop boards on poles use LED tubes, hung between the two prints.
Very little: LED modules use a fraction of the power of old tube-light boards. Once you order, we can work out the exact load of your board on request.
We print on original Star™ backlit flex with the original manufacturer's inks, twice over (double strike), so the colours stay rich and fade far more slowly than on low-cost boards.
Yes: six months from installation on the LED modules, the driver and the wiring in normal use. Storm and physical damage, voltage surges and water entering through the wall are not covered.
Yes, on a board we made. The cost depends on how high the board is and whether it has to come down, so we quote it when you ask.
No. As a matter of policy, we work only on boards we made.
Some sites need permission from the municipal corporation, your housing society or your landlord. Obtaining it is your responsibility; we can give you the board size and a drawing for your application.
Usually 3 to 4 working days after we receive your artwork and payment. Our team fixes the installation date and time with you. This is a typical time, not a promised date.
Not yet. Watch this space: we are launching digital LED screen solutions very soon.
We check your file and prepare it for printing, and send you a proof, but we don't design artwork from scratch. We can recommend good designers in Pune.
At a glance
Product
Backlit flex glow sign board (GSB), made to measure; single-sided wall board or two-sided lollipop board
Face
Original Star™ backlit flex, 440 GSM, outdoor grade and waterproof
UV or eco-solvent with the original manufacturer's inks, printed twice over (double strike)
Frame
Mild steel square pipe, 0.75 inch (1 inch for very wide boards), painted against rust
Sides and base
Sides of galvanised iron sheet, 0.5 millimetre, powder-coated black or white, screwed on; base welded to the frame; 8 inches deep
Light
LED modules with a weatherproof driver; two-sided boards use LED tubes on mains
Wiring
Every joint soldered and sealed with a heat sleeve; all wiring inside the box
Sizes
12 square feet (4 by 3 feet) to 20 by 10 feet in one box; rectangles only
Price
About ₹600 per square foot + 18% GST for the board, indicative
Delivery
Made and installed by our team in Pune; not couriered
Installation
Quoted for your site (can be free for a nearby, easy-to-reach shop); scaffolding above about 12 to 15 feet extra
Power
Low consumption; 3-metre cable joined to your supply, plug on request
Warranty
6 months from installation on the LED modules, the driver and the wiring
Lead time
Usually 3 to 4 working days after artwork and payment; not a promised date
Artwork
You supply it at the finished size; we prepare it for print and send a proof
Ordering
1. Measure the space for the board (width by height) and take a photo of your shop front. Enter the size in the calculator or send both to us on WhatsApp.
2. We send you an estimate for the board and a quote for transport and installation.
3. Send us your artwork at the finished size. We check it and send you a proof.
4. Approve the proof and pay through the link we send you. We build your board and fix the installation date with you.
Our own team delivers and installs your board in Pune. We do not courier these boards, because they are large and bulky.
You can see our work and talk to us at our shop in Shaniwar Peth.
We take 100% payment in advance. All prices exclude 18% GST, which we show separately on the invoice.
Pay by UPI or bank transfer (NEFT or RTGS) through our pay link, and share your GSTIN so you can claim input credit.
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