Recent content by tulsagraphics

I prefer to avoid laminate too, but sometimes it's required for safety purposes (e.g. passenger vans for daycare facilities). Certain situations become more dangerous when a rainy day blurs everything. For those jobs I'll use optically clear laminate.

I bet so. Where I am, there's one main orange everyone uses (021), so I only need to keep a few profiles on hand for that. On the flip side of... the S80 almost does too good of a job (especially with the color depth achieved on IJ175/180). You bring a finished piece to someone's office. It...

Ah, I gotcha. Makes sense. Thanks!

Update: I was able to get really good white for this job. My customer and I are very happy with the results -- but holy crap, white is way more expensive than I thought -- more than just "cost per liter". The ink gets depleted soooo fast. :o This morning I ran the numbers: (1) 600ml...

+1 for finding someone with an S80600 or similar. I print a lot of stuff for OSU -- Pantone 021. No CMYK printer can hit that -- but with the S80600 (and custom profiles), I can nail it, no problem. I have no idea which trade suppliers are offering eco-sol printing these days -- seems like...

That "upper" sign looks like an old cabinet, but it's actually a really deep retainer trim. If you notice the Alumalite face in there, it has no support behind it -- it just flaps back and forth in the wind. The plan is to get rid of all the red retainer and go back with new. Upper sign is...

By the way, what's the point of having double channel retainer trim? I can't see a use for it. Maybe some old school letter board or something? /shrug

I could do that for the sides and bottom, but that probably won't work for the top and middle sections. Check out these pics (yep, it's janky. lol)

Awesome, thank you! Have a great weekend!

Yeah, this sign has been beat to death over the decades. And whoever fabricated these cabinets... it seems like they built everything using scrap from their cabinet bone yard because all 4 cabinets are different thicknesses. lol. I don't have to do anything with the top 2 cabinets, however...

Yeah, I would probably do that for a single cabinet if I could access all 4 sides, but this sign has several sections stacked on top of each other so I need trim that attaches to the front. It's a funky build.

While replacing some sign faces I discovered this really old retainer trim. Much of the trim is beat up pretty bad. Missing pieces, twisted from sign face blowouts, etc. Not sure why they used a double track profile, but it's certainly not needed. I think these cabinets are at least 40 years...

Your post asks specifically about 4x4 coro signs, but your numbers don't add up if you're saying that you spend $70,000 on 180 signs per year. Don't conflate your numbers. You might be spending that much per year, but that includes a lot of other signage you failed to mention. If you're...

Precisely. Ditch the Canva (search for Canva on signs101 -- we frown on it for a reason. The output is 80% garbage). There are no easy buttons here, easystar. Designing on screen is one thing. Producing a design is a totally different animal. This industry requires a lot of learning, time...

Thanks for the info. I did find a few guides out there for working in Illustrator and attempted a few tests in Caldera. I created a custom profile for it (I have a spectro), but wasn't sure how many passes to make. I just went with 16 for a quick test. Pure white is fine -- but the output...