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I've never done this! Does vinyl stick to vinyl siding? I don't see why not? They would like the building address and the words Community Center on the vinyl. Please advise...thank you!

I have a customer that ordered an outdoor sign. It's printed and laminated. Now he wants to add a saying on the bottom and asked if I can just add it with cut vinyl instead of re-printing. Of course the sign is double sided and 48" x 65". I've never had this come up before, I'm thinking I should...

Not a happy day today. Police came in the shop today and warned me about a protest taking place outside my business tonight, or on my street. We have a few thousand people.Will it get out of hand? Probably not but still makes me nervous, I have a large glass window and a glass entrance door. And...

New business would like a quote for this lighted sign box. Box appears to be in good repair and lights work. I've done lettering on existing boxes but I have not replaced the substrate yet. I think this looks like a good project to tackle for me as a first timer. Size is approximately 9' x 22"...

Hi, I have to order some vinyl. I'm wondering if anyone has a minute to help me decide which color vinyl best matches this blue? Pantone 2387c It's not in my pantone guide, maybe because it's like 20 years old. Going on a black truck with bright orange. Thank you! Oracal Azure Blue? 3M Olympic...

New business would like old letters from previous business removed from this sign and a new signboard cut and placed with their logo. I do not manufacture this type of sign with stones, not sure what it is. The green seemed almost spongey to me when I pressed on it. The letters are currently...

When you make boat registration numbers using Impact font do you single out each letter/number and individually make each letter and number 3" tall or do you just type it and make the whole thing 3" tall as one unit? Got a complaint that the W and V in this font are just short of 3" and wants...

So, with all this Covid stuff I obviously couldn't let anyone in my store. I started doing customized Senior signs and banners and had a great deal of people needing to pickup. Curbside works OK but coordinating times with working people was a PITA. I have a small breezeway area with a small...

Thinking of buying a laptop so I can do some design work from home. I also need a new desktop at home so can bring my work one home. I currently have a desktop at the shop and use LXI and Corel. Looking to bring the laptop home so I have all my fonts, and files at my fingertips. It's been a...

Just designed up some signs and banners for our local seniors and got a request for same thing, different school. My clicking finger is in overdrive trying to beat the other sign shops in the area LOL HOT item now people! Jump on the train! Thanks to FireSprint for some great ideas :) will...

Just curious if anyone who is in "shut down" or doing work for just essential business is looking at their business differently? Since my door is locked, there are no more walk-ins...which means no more people looking for little jobs, no "personal" jobs. I am taking orders only electronically...

Just makes me mad. I’m a one person shop who can lock the store and do curbside pick up. Police chief sent out a statement stating he WILL be enforcing the law if anyone doesn’t follow it. However, every bar and restaurant in town is doing take out. Customers in the bar paying, cooks breathing...

Helping out the school with some artwork. A local company is cutting a circle and the outline of our team mascot. If I save it in Corel as an Auto Cad file, is that correct? I've attached just the rough file, not finished yet. The gray is metal, the purple will be vinyl. One big circle for the...

Nylon kite - I'm not spending a lot of time on this. It's for a friend. He wants some wording on this nylon license plate. (you will see he tried to use a sharpie) Vinyl - didn't stick Heat vinyl - $256 kite, I'm not sticking this on my heat press Screen print - I don't screen print plus...

I have a customer looking to put 4 alumalite panels on his shed that are each 5x10. He plans to make one large "billboard" out of this and sell to advertisers. He asked me for a price to put printed vinyl each panel to make one large billboard. I have not done anything this large before nor have...

Just received an email for some banners with a total of 34 different sponsor logos...all Jpegs or Pngs. Some I can use, some I have, some I can quickly recreate. How do I handle the ones that I can't use? How do I charge for this? There's probably 20 of them that look like crap. She wants me to...

A while back I had posted a question about some signs for the local grade school. Well, I made the signs and my boyfriend who is a welder made the brackets. We did not want to drill into the poles - but wanted them to be sturdy. I used .080 aluminum with cast vinyl. I'm not sure the specific...

Disclaimer...I don't do a ton of installations. If the customer installs, we go over the best installation techniques...no issues or disagreements so far. Went out for an estimate last night and the husband suggested aluminum with zip ties. Obviously this is NOT going to work. However, I'm not...

Maybe if they had a nicer sign they wouldn't have been under suspicion o_O

Hi All, I have two requests over the weekend for "fat heads" of graduating seniors. This is something I haven't done before. Any specific advice on dpi and materials would be appreciated. My assumption would be that they would like it on card board or something similar. Thanks!