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Hey guys! It's the slow season and the owners are upgrading our old warn out awning for a mounted 4x16 foot rectangular sign with new overhead lights. We're brain storming how to mount it to the building because we don't want to go with the standard 2x4's and drilling through multiple spots of...

This is purely for curiosity's sake - I was wondering why you might choose to use a vehicle template over taking pictures and measurements of the vehicle itself? For my company, we rely solely on taking various measurements and proportionally resizing pictures in Flexi; however, we don't touch...

This is turning into the bane of my existence... A client has created 52 individually designed name plates in PowerPoint and we can not get these to import over to either CoralDraw or Flexi. We have tried: - copy and paste the page or slide directly out of PP to Coral or Flexi: there are png's...

Any ideas what this is? (not Goudy Handtooled or Algerian, so out of ideas haha)

Another 3rd party ink question! Our shop owner is debating between Triangle or STS inks Triangle has some good reviews backing it and three of our distributors caries it. STS Inks, I can't for the life of me find reviews on (mostly I think Signs101 doesn't like the search criteria, ha) but...

Hi all! We've had some terrible experiences with 20/20 Color inks for Roland - mostly the cartridges wont communicate with the printers when they are empty and frequently dries out the heads. Our shop owner is curious if anyone has experience with this brand and what people suggest as a...

Hi all! Hopefully simple question! I can't seem to find the setting in my export file that is sending my artboard with the selected graphic. I've attached a couple tests to show you guys what I mean No matter where in my file I move the graphic, the artboard shows up in the PDF. Obviously one...

Hey all! We are currently working with our go-to tech guy, but this issue is a pretty big mystery with a lot of back and forth, so I'm just throwing it on here in case any of you have experienced this before. Our Roland 54 no longer cuts consistently from day to day and even job to job. Here's...

This is probably a silly question, but I recently ran into the issue of being unable to send a client a high res raster copy of their file due to the size. They are going to be creating a large back-lit sign from a previous 4x12 foot banner design (something we can't create for them and are more...

Hey all - we have a laminating table from CWT that's a pretty heft piece of equipment and are looking for materials regarding maintenance. Not so much an issue as possibly the start of one - the rolling arm of this beast is gradually getting harder to push and pull as well as making more...

A client has brought us a colored ribbon of very thin (plastic?) It has the same sort of feel and flexibility as Trade Show material but colored and cut into 1.25 inch by 48 inch strips. This will be a fairly large order if we can find a comparative material, but we have no experience with this...

We keep getting real estate signs with oblong holes and are asked to match them. Unfortunately we only have a heavy duty Heinrich Company hole punch that creates 0.25 inch circles. We're hoping to find a similar hand-operated punch that can create roughly 0.5x0.25 inch holes. This would need to...

I can't find a font even close to the one used for "massage" Any ideas?

This site is amazing for finding new ideas so I figured we'd all benefit from a show-and-tell thread on simple tools or programs that make a big difference :) So tell us your favorite tools of the trade - no restrictions and all ideas welcome! (Maybe you'll see something new to use or help...

So we generally follow the rule of "less is more" - keep it simple, keep it clean. Our clients on the other hand... they tend to not share the same ideas when they first come in. I just sent out a logo design to a particularly... fastidious client who requested a great deal of complication that...

Hey all! So we all know that you can't add quality to a terrible image but clients give us low res images time and time again. For us, when a client doesn't want to alter the image (no sharpening and film grain funness) our only options have been to pick the lesser or evils and either leave...

Hey All! I was just perusing a solvent vs latex thread and came across a great number of comments on eco-solvents being able to actually dry quickly. I'm curious, what all are you guys using? We use 20/20 Color, 440 ml for our Roland SolJet Pro III and SolJet Pro IIV, then Valuejet ultra eco...

Hello Everyone! I am one of the worker bees for a local sign shop and am trying to think of ways to increase my company's revenue. One of the requests that we get and are unable to supply are for hard, reusable stencils. We tried using our engraver once, but it caused too much wear and tear on...