Recent content by DanL 57703

I and others use to joke about California and everything in the state has cancer. But I stopped and actually took a look at their website and I was blown away. I can't believe we as Americans allow corporations to poison us daily for the sake of dollar and they knowing do it. The government...

Are you cutting this out of vinyl or ACM? If ACM, we make a 2" aluminum "U" channel that frame and paint it to match the wall color and mount the letters onto the frame. You will see sections of the frame do to shadows but still looks great and much easier install. Sell them that there won't be...

As far as squeege marks, wet the felt with water or RapidTac and if they are going outside the sun would remove them otherwise use a heat gun.

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That is funny lol

Hi everyone, I'm turning 52 years old this year and I started in the sign business in 1992 as a sign painter. After 25 + years I've noticed that we don't see anyone anymore stopping by our shop looking for work or just to stop by and say HI and share their experience in the business. The sign...

Have a Roland Take up system at the bottom of our printer, was wondering if any one has a trick to attach something to the print vinyl quicker, rather than waiting for it to print out and finally attach it to the take up reel?

Curious what others use when installing let's say channel letters. We seem to just rest them on the bucket, but sometimes the trim cap gets damaged.

I thought of using an online calendar for each department. Something everyone can check at any time even at home to see what tomorrow will be like. have one main person that enters the information? The manager didn't come up with the idea so we never tried it.

I agree, I see it not as a blame meeting because we should be a team. One fails we all fail. One of the main problems is the person running the place has never worked in a sign shop, there is no one main person in each department. Instead it starts with 3 salespeople who also do design...

Just curious, when you have a large project that has problems whether in production or installation. Do you have a meeting when the project is completed and go over those issues and try to prevent them on the next project?