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Because it's not what the customer specified and uses on their signs routinely

Okay, so all the information about not painting treated lumber until it dries out is bogus and I won't have the customer coming back in a few months because all the white paint is peeling off?

Doing a job making some v-shaped for lease/for sale signs for a developer to install on some outlots around a shopping center. 5x10's mounted on 3 4x4's in the ground. Normally I'd use treated lumber 4x4's and stringers. But they want the 4x4's exposed all the way up at either end of the signs...

I don't think 6mm really provides a lot more strength from tearing. The faces are the same. Screws etc. cut into it just as easily. If they want really windproof material you're talking .080" aluminum. Then again, the highway signs I saw torn off were 0.125" aluminum. I've also dealt with many...

You won't convince them it's their mounting technique, but it was. And even if they were mounted perfectly, with the kind of winds these storms have had no sign is invulnerable. The storms that went across Missouri, not counting the tornadoes, had straightline winds exceeding 80 mph. That's...

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I don't see how anyone can think Corel Draw's UI is intimidating--especially if you have used Illustrator. Illustrator's UI is so opaque and illogical.

Stacey! I'd never have taken you for one of those people who leave the plastic film on the back of the sign. It doesn't "save" the back for future use. It looks tacky. If and when the customer is ready to replace the sign, it will be nigh unto impossible to remove the film from the back. Plus...

Given that Good Friday is this week my statement "tore from the bottom to the top" made me think that's the opposite of what happened to the curtain.

Poorly drawn fonts. In Corel they display properly and print OK but if you have to cut them, you end up cutting the overlapping shapes.

If the bottom was loose they were probably whipped around by the wind and tore from the bottom to the top. Doubt the premium/economy would make any difference except maybe in the speed of wind required to do this. The wind from the storms this spring have been very high. You're up north so it...

When lettering a trailer like that you have to decide how to deal with the rows of screws. When doing cut vinyl or print and cut vinyl, our preference is to remove the screws where the vinyl will go, install the graphic, then reinstall the screws. The screws use a #2 square bit. They are very...

The real reason Adobe is considered the graphics industry standard is not because of Adobe. It's because of Apple. Back in the dark old days of computing the Apple Mac became capable of handling graphics manipulation before the Windows computers could. So it became considered necessary to use a...

She just needs to learn to use Corel Draw. Spend a couple of hours doing basic sign layout. Like the quintessential No Dumping, For Sale, etc. Start each as a new layout, with a fictional set of instructions from fictional customers. If she cannot come to grips with designing signs in Corel Draw...

The R is slightly different but Xscale is very close.

What you have to do depends on what you mean by "ghosting". Sometimes it's a ridge of dirt dried into adhesive at the edge of the letters that doesn't come up with solvent and a paper towel. Sometimes it's fading or dulling of the vehicle finish around the letter that doesn't happen behind the...

Put a piece of application tape over the rear media sensor. Just bear in mind that you no longer have a working rear sensor if you are running low on media. And take the tape off when you're done.

It looks like that one with such an out of focus and blurry photo that the corners look rounded even though they aren't.

There is a high tariff like that on dairy products. But it's only after a certain amount of dairy product has been exported without any tariff. This is according to the USMCA. That limit has never been exceeded since the treaty was negotiated. So I guess that's proof that tariffs work. Nobody...

The big reasons manufacturing was offshored was overregulation (too much red tape, too many restrictions, extra things you have to do compared to third or second world countries) and unions (too high pay, benefits, pension programs, etc. compared to income and compared to said second and third...