Recent content by OmegaSpecter

I just caught the same one twice about 3 weeks ago from some lead from a client as well as direct through our request form on our website. It's always something generic, sometimes using faith as the in, something like: Hi, I saw your work at a recent tradeshow. Can you print me the following...

100% agree with unclebun. Sherwin William Low VOC comes to mind as one giving issues, you end up having to go with something more aggressive if you want it to stay in place.

Solar is not great for signage. There are solar suppliers you can buy the necessary parts from. Batteries are just deep cycle marine batteries, solar guys will sell those too. If it gets cold where installing, the battery enclosure will need to be heated. Use as low power of an LED as you can...

Seeing the top and bottom 2" x 4" stringers make me hopeful there's an actual sign coming. We usually mount our stringers to the uprights and the sign direct to the plywood so it doesn't dance in the wind though.

That's the thing, no shipping company turns up lol

Does it need to be mounted flush to the wall? By PVC I'm assuming expanded PVC, you can likely get away with 6-8 10/24 pins around the perimeter (I wouldn't bother with a center pin, nightmare to line up at install) and silicone on the fasteners and back of the sign (this is obviously permanent...

Yup the banner scam is real, don't fall for it. I had an excited salesperson come with one years ago, same deal, something that uses up about a roll of material and shipped through their own shipper. The end game is as Solventinkjet mentioned, usually paid on one or various stolen credit cards...

One day I shall convince our designer to spec that beautiful Holo perf you sell

We had stopped using Grimco for years, but old Ken got us back on for the Hanley line. They had some supply issues when they opened a new local branch, and i wouldn't solely buy from them, but as far as the reps I have, they take care of us. That being said, it's never a bad idea to keep your...

From Asbestos yet, I remember watching that series years ago. Or rather, Je me souviens ;P

Welcome from Winnipeg

We picked one up at our shop a couple years back and they work great for mounting to substrate and laminating. I haven't masked off of it as i'm still used to manual application, but i would imagine it shouldn't be any different than laying print or vinyl. I know it come with a bar from which to...

3M reps We had some 3M reps over at our shop in the recent few weeks and we got onto the subject of window decals (more with dusted crystal and such, other issues we were having in-house) and they did advise against the usage of any dark coloured vinyl being applied to window surfaces for...

Good Morning everyone, Just dropping a line in the new members forum to introduce myself. I've been working in the industry for 7 years now, having touched on all aspects our shop has to offer, with the bulk of that experience in the graphics department (5 years). I've been using this forum for...