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Brian and Tammy Daley stand in the showroom of Expect A Lot Visual Images on East Country Vista Drive.
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Time of the signs
8/4/2010 9:49:10 AM
By Joe Pflueger
Splash Intern
Brian and Tammy Daley recently opened Expect A Lot Visual Images, which electronically makes large prints of photos for everything from walls to vehicle wraps.
The new branch expands the couple's sign-making business from one store in California to a second in Liberty Lake.
The Daleys operate the new branch out of a 2,500-square-foot leased space at 21980 E. Country Vista Drive. Since moving in, Tammy Daley said the office complex has filled up with four other businesses.
Expect A Lot Visual Images offers everything from vehicle wraps around trailers to business banners and retail window decals. The Daleys are the only two employees working the Liberty Lake branch, but they plan to expand and hire in the near future.
"I think we will do really well here," Brian Daley said. Advertisement
The business uses latex water-based paints for printing, and the machines use recyclable materials, the Daleys said. Since banners can be recycled, a discount of 10 percent is given on orders after returning a banner, the Daleys said.
Some of the Daleys' customers have included racers of all kinds, such as drag and motorcycle racers. The Daleys aid they made vehicle wraps for legendary drag racer Don Prudhomme and motocross racer Travis Pastrana.
The Daleys left their original business in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., under the management of Brian Daley's brother and four other longtime employees.
"We came up the area to semi-retire," Tammy Daley said. "After exploring, we decided Liberty Lake was the nicest area to open our business."
She said they looked for a spot in which they wanted to live and work.
"It's really a clean community and friendly," Tammy Daley said of Liberty Lake.
The California branch takes orders from the Daleys and produces large projects with machinery used to make prints 10 to 12 feet long. To do more of their work in-house, the Daleys plan to retrieve large machinery from California this week, bumping up their original timeline.
"Business has been better than we expected," Tammy Daley said. "This area has a need for a business like this."
Brian Daley started making signs in the 1970s, when the work was hand-painted. He's watched the industry move into the digital age.
"Back then you had to be a painter, but now everything is electronic," said Tammy Daley, who has been involved in the business for 25 years. "Even the pin stripping that used to be done all by hand is now done electronically."
Now, businesses like the Daleys' can enlarge photos to put on sides of buildings instead of having to hand-paint everything.
"We kept up our technology and slowly, finally, the technology reached our industry," Brian Daley said.
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