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Who We Are

Blue River Digital Inc. is a US-based supplier of backlit display lightboxes and backlit signs, Duratrans backlit graphics, and related large format graphic display hardware and printed media. Founded in 1987 and headquartered halfway between the Redwood Forest and Lake Tahoe in Northern California, Blue River Digital enjoys a long history of serving nationally-recognized business and institutional clientele with the finest commercial graphic display products and services. Blue River Digital is a California corporation, and remains under its original ownership.

What Do We Offer?

Blue River Digital boasts the world's largest selection of backlit display lightboxes for indoor and outdoor, LED and fluorescent, and mini to jumbo backlit signage applications, — and now offers exclusive, high-quality yet lower-priced lightbox fabrication in the Pacific Rim, as well as plant locations in New York, California, Florida, the Midwest and Canada. We also image Duratrans and Economy Inkjet backlit graphic films at Internet-discounted rates well below industry average, and also the new LyteStretch™ backlit fabric for lighted tension frames — all with no minimums and no setup charges. We also offer an extensive library of free stock naturescape and cityscape murals, custom-sized to order and with no setup charge, as well as a wide and aggressively-priced line of retractable banner stands for just about any portable messaging, conference or trade show application.

Why Us?

Blue River Digital's "Internet-discounted wholesale" pricing model is open to all customers, and is unique in the industry. Unlike many lightbox fabricators, Blue River Digital requires no minimum quantity for custom-sized lightboxes. Don’t see the size you need? Send us your lightbox details here and we’ll rush you a customized, discounted proposal based on your specifications. Blue River Digital is recognized as an industry-leading authority in the art and science of reference-grade backlit graphic media (aka 'Duratrans'). Numerous Internet-based display fabricators crop up and fade out every few years. The dedicated team at Blue River Digital is your reliable, deep-knowledge source for quality frontlit and backlit display graphics, and we were here before the Internet, serving the same customer base, and we will be here long after flash-in-the-pan discounters run their course. Skim our client list below for a few of the thousands of quality organizations that have relied on Blue River Digital over the course of our 30-year history.

35

Years of Excellence

45

Lightbox Models

17,000

Orders Filled

Our Clients

Blue River Digital is proud to serve these recognizable clients, plus thousands of others large and small, since 1987:

Blog

  • 8 tips on ordering jumbo lightboxes
    8 tips on ordering jumbo lightboxes

    Thinking about super large lightboxes? At Blue River Digital, we’ve designed and built every conceivable size and shape of lightbox — but the really big lightboxes over 10 feet or larger — these are our favorite! There’s nothing quite like a vivid..............

  • Which color temperature is best for a backlit graphic lightbox
    Which color temperature is best for a backlit graphic lightbox

    Color temperature is an important yet often-overlooked detail, when ordering backlit display lightboxes. Blue River Digital offers quite a few different color temperature options, depending on the lightbox model you’re looking at. But before we discuss which models offer which color temperatures, first let’s chat about what color temperature means on a basic level.

  • 7 tips on how to improve diffusion in lightboxes
    7 tips on how to improve diffusion in lightboxes

    In a perfect world, every backlit display lightbox that’s being used for back-lighting posters and promotional messages would deliver perfectly uniform brightness from one corner to the other. But the reality is – light intensity always varies to some degree across any surface, including a lightbox or backlit menu board. So the next question is – how can we get the light to be the most uniform possible, within a reasonable budget? Let’s look at seven things you can do to help your lightboxes deliver the best possible diffusion:

  • What is the difference between lumens and lux?
    What is the difference between lumens and lux?

    In commercial lighting, sometimes you’ll see different units of measurement when it comes to the brightness of the light source. The two most common units of measurement for light intensity are lux and lumens. Let’s take a look at each of these approaches, and see how they relate to graphic lightboxes for displaying duratrans backlit film.