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Ah, ok that makes sense (we use eco-solvent printers - Roland and Mutoh - those are the only ones I personally have had experience with, so wasn't sure how big of a difference the inks made.) Thank you for taking the time to break it down for me!

So this is an honest question directed at everyone else in this thread, not the OP: I'm a little confused as to why that printer would have trouble with the task. We print on vinyl, laminate, then adhere to magnetic material - sticking to simple shapes since we cut by hand. Even though the ink...

Have to admit, that gave me a good laugh - not the smirk and laugh in your head kind, full blown laugh out loud for all the office to wonder what the hell. Whenever we are requested to create something we find less than appealing, we conveniently "forget" to put our contact info sticker on the...

I got a house! Kidding... well about getting it for Christmas anyways, haha. We closed on our first home beginning of December, so the running joke with my husband and I has been that we bought a house for the holiday since we didn't spend any money on gifts this year

Update time! Four days later, got my answer in the form of an email that only contained a picture - literally that was it... After a couple inquisitive emails and a quick call, my client tells me they also had another designer working on the logo as well... don't know how to feel about that...

oh god, I'm sorry. I completely sympathize! We shudder any time a client pulls the "you're the professional, just send us a bunch of mock ups for us to look over." We have a strict, one design at a time policy because we don't want to waste time or our clients' money (again, unless it takes...

Haha! It was either use "fastidious" or use "particular" twice in one sentence - I seriously pondered that sentence structure for a while :D This is probably a big faux pas on my part, but personally, I've never really put much effort into articulating design concepts for two reasons: one, I...

Tricky - we don't have as much of a problem where we are. Clients come in looking for price-matching to what they found online and we just explain the difference in quality. The clients that choose the online path, they usually come back to us because the cheap option ended up breaking in one...

We personally use Activity Software (AS Activity Software - Home) I'm not the accountant, but we use this for our invoicing - we set up customers under their company names and it will log and track everything from each company. I believe it works well for the accounting side of things too since...

Haha! You're just like us! If a customer design is easy enough, we'll usually create it along side "our recommendation" (clients will usually choose the later.) We are 90% sign and design though, so logos and branding are a bit outside of our scope. We still create quality work based on simple...

This is probably a dumb question... what's a Job Production Board?

We use a Gerber Edge FX - can either print on a 15 inch roll of chrome vinyl, or print chrome as a color. Be prepared for getting creative to work around limitations though - both in size and in colors

probably not what yer looking for, but Morenthya Script is pretty close, though the W isn't quite right...

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...

I second the vote on sublimation - we use JDS Industries for that stuff. We just order the material, but I think they print as well

Like others have said, they need to dry longer before cutting. We recently had a set of decals with a full black background - set the dry time for 20 minutes before our roland did its thing and cut the contour. 10 minutes later the edges all curled and rolled in on themselves. We let those sit...

Holy crap, yes please! Showed our shop owner the product and a youtube video of a similar machine. Fingers crossed for getting it!

Oh please tell me this is also in a state like California that has strict no phone in hand laws...

We live in a city with a couple of other sign shops who we have good working relations with - when we hit the same issue in the past, we were permitted to borrow the space from one that had a larger hanger than we did. We also do work with various shops and airports that we might have been able...

Ooo! I'll definitely have to test that out! I have one project where the client is using a tiny webpage png of a historic photo... the results... not awesome, but they insist on it. Anything to clean that bad boy up is a massive help!