Zip specialities was a wonderful company to work with. They did some Special Olympics work for us…read moreand I couldn't be happier with the product. I would highly recommend!

From the owner: ZIP Specialties Your Recognition and Promotions Partner With…read moreover 35 years of experience we can fulfill all of your needs in recognizing employees, customers and advertising your business. Bob and Karen Haskin started ZIP Trophy in 1974 in Morton Grove, Illinois as a trophy and engraving store. Soon after customers started asking about promotional items which they began supplying and we became ZIP Specialties, Inc. Moving to a larger facility in 1987 in Wheeling, ZIP was able to grow with technology for imprinting and engraving. ZIP now has state of the art color imprinting in house as well as laser engraving/marking and computer engraving machines. ZIP has continued to grow with a showroom and sales office in Crystal Lake to serve the northwest suburbs opened in 2010. ZIP Specialties, Inc. Your Recognition and Promotions Partner

I love this place for Monogramming. I had 8 gorgeous scarves monogrammed as Christmas gifts…read more Everyone loved them. It's great for baby gifts and a little something for yourself. The ladies are super sweet and turnaround time is pretty quick, even at the holidays.

Out-fricking-standing. Some of the best customer service and value in the retail industry. I use…read morethem often for both my personal requests as well as my business needs. Friendly, hard-working, and honest. Great value with outstanding turn around time on their work. Highly...then highly again, recommend this fabulous home of needlepoint assembly!!!

Diane did an amazing job on my grandson's christening gift. It was a Noah's ark pewter bank with a…read moreslanted roof. I wanted his name & birthdate on one side & christening date on the other. Every place I called (jewelry stores, trophy engravers, etc.) was unable to do the work. Diane was able to hand engrave the bank. She has a large amount of antique & varied engraving equipment. You can tell she is skilled & passionate about her craft.

Diana is amazing! Was able to book her at last minute for two offsite engraving events. She is a…read morevery talented artist who takes a ton of pride in her work so you can will be happy with her engraving work! She is extremely reliable, easy to get in touch of and very talented. She worked very well with my sales team and made my customers super happy! One event was very high volume but Diana killed it! Very cool, and calm. Definitely will hire her again for any engraving event in the future!

Our baseball organization needed outfield banners and of course we needed them quickly. Fastsigns…read morewas not only able to meet our crazy fast deadline, but they also cleaned up the logos we provided and made sure that each banner looked amazing from 300 feet away. If you need quality signage at a reasonable price, this is the place to go in Crystal Lake.

We worked with FastSigns Crystal Lake after calling around for a few quotes, and found them to be…read morevery competitive with pricing, and all around great to work with. They created vinyl decals, temporary signs and our large outdoor LED sign, all turned out even better than we imagined. They provide excellent customer service and are genuinely interested in their customer's success. Would highly recommend.