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October 19, 2026
From a Blurry Logo File to a Sharp Acrylic Board: Trendani Recording Studio, Tamil Nadu
A record label in Tamil Nadu sent us a logo too blurry to cut. We cleaned it up, printed the gradient, laser-cut two boards and couriered them over 1,000 km. Here’s how.
Behind the scenes · Trendani Recording Studio
A logo board for a recording room, over 1,000 km away
Trendani Productions is a record label in Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu. They found us online and asked for one thing: their logo on a board for the studio’s recording room.
The board itself is simple, and we make boards like it every week. The file it started from was not. This is how a blurry logo became a crisp 3D board, and how it reached a studio at the other end of the country.
Size
30 in wide, 24 in high
Build
Raised acrylic on a white base
Colour
A printed gradient, cut with the letters
Delivery
Couriered from Pune to Tamil Nadu
The problem
A logo that looked fine on a phone
The logo file the client sent was low-resolution. On a phone screen you would never notice. Blown up to 30 inches wide, every edge goes soft, and a laser follows exactly what it is given: a soft edge gives a rough, wobbly cut.
So before we could cut anything, the logo needed clean lines.
Before
The client’s logo file, zoomed in CorelDRAW: every edge is soft and blurry.
After
The logo traced again, at a similar zoom: crisp edges, with the laser’s cut line around it.
Screens from our CorelDRAW files.
The clean-up
We traced it again, and didn’t charge for it
We redrew the logo’s shapes in CorelDRAW, line by line, and applied the blue-to-purple gradient to it again, so that the laser had sharp edges to follow.
To be clear: we don’t offer design as a service. This wasn’t a new logo, just the client’s own logo, cleaned up so that it could be cut. It took real effort and we could have charged for it. We didn’t. Sometimes going out of the way is how you make a client smile.
Ordering a logo board? Send a clear vector file: .AI, .CDR or .PDF. It goes straight to the laser, with nothing to clean up.
The trick
Print first, cut after
The logo and the name TRENDANI carry a gradient that runs from sky blue to deep purple. Here’s how we got it onto raised letters, all in-house.
We printed the gradient on vinyl and pasted the whole sheet onto 3 mm white acrylic first. Then we laid the letters out on that sheet and laser-cut them, vinyl and acrylic together.
So the colour runs seamlessly right to the edge of every cut, with crisp white sides below it, and the gradient flows across the word instead of restarting on every letter.
Illustration: how the gradient goes on before the letters are cut.
Up close
Colour on top, white on the sides
Under a macro lens: the gradient face, the clean white sides of the letters, and the black tagline.
TRENDANI
The gradient face sits on white acrylic: you see the white of the letter’s side under it.
RECORDING STUDIO
The tagline, laser-cut from black acrylic.
Real photos of the finished board.
The build
Three layers on a white base
The base is a 5 mm gloss white acrylic sheet, 30 inches wide and 24 inches high, with a stud hole 1.75 inches in from each edge at the corners.
On it sit the logo and TRENDANI in 3 mm white acrylic with the gradient face, and RECORDING STUDIO in black acrylic. Each piece is bonded onto the base, so the letters stand off it and catch the light from the side.
Illustration: the layers of the board, pulled apart. Not to scale.
On the wall
Four chrome studs, and the client fixed it himself
The board hangs on four chrome stud caps, one in each corner, about an inch off the wall. A barrel screws to the wall, the board sits on it, and the cap closes it.
We sent the studs with the board. All the client had to do was drill four holes, fit the barrels and put the board in place.
The cap
A chrome stud cap in one corner of the board.
The barrel
From the back: the barrel that screws to the wall.
Real photos of the finished board.
Then he ordered another
One board became two
The client liked the board enough to order a second one, the same as the first. We cut both from the same files, and the whole job took about a week from file to dispatch.
Below: our cutting files for the two boards. The printed logo and name, the two base plates, and the white acrylic letters and logo laid out for the laser.
Our cutting files for both boards, from CorelDRAW.
Delivery
From Pune to Karaikudi, by courier
Karaikudi is a long way from Pune. We packed both boards with their protective film still on and couriered them to Tamil Nadu.
That’s something we do often: we deliver acrylic boards, even large ones, anywhere in India. You don’t need to be in Pune to work with us.
Watch
The whole job, from the blurry file to the board
The before, the clean-up and the finished board: our video of the job.
The specs
What we made
Client
Trendani Productions, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu: a board for its recording studio
When
April-May 2026; about a week from file to dispatch
Size
30 in wide x 24 in high; two identical boards
Base
5 mm gloss white acrylic, a stud hole 1.75 in from each edge at the corners
Logo and name
3 mm white acrylic, with a gradient vinyl printed in-house and laser-cut together
Tagline
RECORDING STUDIO in laser-cut black acrylic
Fixing
Four chrome stud caps, sent with the board; fixed by the client
Delivery
Couriered from Pune to Tamil Nadu
Planning a logo board?
What it costs
Non-lit acrylic logo boards like this one are ₹800 per sq ft + GST, with studs included. The minimum order is ₹3,000 + GST. For Trendani, each board was billed at 6 sq ft: ₹4,800 + GST per board, plus courier to Tamil Nadu (2026 price).
Good to know
Send a vector file
.AI, .CDR or .PDF, so it can go straight to the laser. We don’t design logos.
Time
Usually 3 to 4 working days to make, plus courier time.
Outside Pune
We courier anywhere in India; shipping is charged extra.
Brand colours
Solid colours, metallics and printed gradients on the letters.
See the options and order on our non-lit acrylic logo board page, or read how to choose the right sign board.
More logo boards
Acrylic, cut on our laser
See every photo on the Trendani job page, all our acrylic name boards and logo boards, or what we make for studios, media and entertainment.
More logo boards we’ve made
Case study
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Want your logo on a board?
Send us your logo file and the size on WhatsApp. We’ll quote, cut and courier it, wherever you are in India.
Looking for any specific product?
Drop us a line. Send us your query. And we’ll get back to you with solutions and answers.
Mitesh Sanghani
Mitesh lives, mostly for Saturdays.
But when forced to work, you’ll find him heading Orchid Digitals – a printing press in Pune.
If it’s an emergency, try looking for him in the hills behind his house. You’ll almost certainly find him… lazing under a tree, with a book in hand.
