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Does anyone know of a wholesaler of Cartoppers? I have several political candidates here that would like to use them ,but I cant find a supplier that has them. I just need a basic one, that I can apply vinyl to. Nothing lit, just something really simple. Thanks!

Got a bad virus-malware on my shop computer yesterday. Antivirus soft is what its called. Takes over your computer so that nothing will open up except your browser, but it wont let you download anything. It looks like an ad for antivirus software, but its not. Just keeps popping up like its...

Im doing some 4x4 coro signs for a local high school, baseball shaped. They want to install the signs on the fencing in a way that they can take them down after every game or so. Apparently they saw another school that did it that way, but didnt ask what they used to attach in such a way that...

I did this for a local town where this country music songwriter grew up. The blasting was done by Blue Ridge Fabrication, and they did a great job. This was finished with latex paints and one shot on the lettering. Little bit of gold leaf on the hat. The sign is backed with mdo glued on with...

Did this for a local steakhouse owned by two fellas named Ken and Paul. I drew the cartoon of them as a gift, they liked it so much they want it on everything, lol. This sign is 6' tall, made of two pieces of mdo and attached to the wall with tapcoms. Everything here is paint. Latex for the...

One day, it would be nice if customers would get over the perception that we are just sitting there, twiddling our thumbs, doing nothing but waiting on them to come in with a banner they need by in the morning. Ill bend over backwards to help a customer, but why do they wait until the very last...

Does anyone know where Coca Cola type art can be purchased. A friend of mine has a garage he is fixing up old style, and he has a breaker box he would like covered with a digital print of one of the old style signs Coke used to put out. I was just wondering if the images could be bought to...

I have always wanted to learn to fly a RC plane. I have a nephew who is very good, but stays busy with his job. Was thinking of buying the Waco Biplane RTF from Hobby Lobby. It lists as a intermediate plane, but my nephew (hopefully) can help me out with some lessons or whatever. Any of you guys...

I have a job to price that requires something to be printed on reflective vinyl. I need 4 prints, all 45" by 36". Anyone here do these? If you do, please send me a price via pm or to my shop email at johnd@deatondesigns.com Thanks...

Any of you router owners ever cut coroplast on your router? I have an idea for some Christmas ornaments, and need something light for backing. They will be shaped, not just square or round, etc. I was just wondering if it will cut well on the router. I have a guy who does all my cutting, and he...

For those of you that use Oracal vinyls, you can download the swatches for most programs here: http://www.oracal.com/knowledge/oracolor.asp\ Very helpful to me and should be to others also.

Heres a few new jobs I completed lately. The ATV park sign is 8' by 16', with the logo on seperate mdo, along with the digital prints of the vehicles. All hand painted except the lettering.The four back sheets were installed first, then the logo which was in eight pieces. The words Black...

Heres a cool little tutorial for creating a traffic light in illustrator. This is one I did using the tutorial. Pretty neat exercise. http://vector.tutsplus.com/illustration/create-a-detailed-vector-traffic-light-with-simple-shapes-gradients-and-glows/

I have a computer here at the shop that I do all my signwork on, and it has did well for about 8 years. But, I need to put in a bigger hard drive. What is the best way, or program, to clone the old hard drive over to a new one, system software and all. The old hard drive is only 60 gb, and Im...

My computer started doing this yesterday. Once I booted it up, it would get to the desktop, almost loaded, then all of a sudden, it restarted itself. It would do this continuously if I let it. I went in and turned restart on failure off, and when it did it again, the error message I got was...

I need to know the name of the font on this webpage, at the top left, where it says Ryholland Fielder, Inc. I cant find anything with their logo on it, or I would post it here. www.ryholland.com Thanks for any help guys!

Friend of mine does tshirts, and they use a roland plotter for the one offs cutting the thermal material. They've been having a problem with the plotter leaving areas when it cuts. In different spots, it will almost cut all of the letter, etc. then just jump and leave an area uncut. Would this...

How do I copy and paste from Illustrator to photoshop in layers? I have a design in illustrator that I want to paste into photoshop and be able to add effects and such to each layer, without having to copy and paste each layer one at a time. Seems like someone told how to do this on here before...

Any Vista users out there? Thinking of upgrading to a newer computer in the future, and wondered if I should stay with XP, or go to Vista. Is it a buggy OS, or have they got it all worked out now. Thanks....

I just recently bought an Epson Stylus Photo RX595 printer for my shop computer. THe problem I am having is that when I turn it on, it freezes up my computer. It has worked a couple of times, but eventually this happens. I have tried hooking it up to the computers USB, a USB hub, and a powered...