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One of my good customers who owns a roofing and construction company asked if I could give him an estimate for a lighted sign box approximately 13'x7'. His guys would hang it and his electrician would hook it up. I just need to purchase it and letter it. Being that I'm the only sign shop now I...

I still don't have a panel saw. This exact saw is on silent auction, still in the box, at a local factory. 1. Is this going to work for me to cut down ACM and .040 aluminum? Of course there will be no warranty. 2. It's purchase price was $1800.00 - what would you bid? (one guy bid so far and...

When I first started 6 years ago a gal "Sara" was in business in the next town. She got sick of the fast pace and customers and locked the door and put it for sale. A girl opened up a new shop down the road from her and she did beautiful work - way better designs than me. I really got scared she...

Well, I have a bad head so I changed it. It's still doing this where it prints fine then suddenly starts smearing. I also changed the maintenance cartridge as it was almost ready anyway. I'm guessing there is something caught under the cartridge, maybe a piece of paper or soemthing? I did't...

I want to really make everyone cringe today. My son bought this race car and he's racing just 2-3 nights this season before we tear off the sheet metal and start over. Now, since I have a sign shop, how would it have looked if I sent him out there with duct tape over the number? Had to overcome...

Hi All! How do I do a fade like this so the bottom is clear when printed on clear window cling? Would I need to use a halftone screen?

Anyone know this font? I can't find it, I thought for sure it would be an easy one!

Every time I order from Sticker Mule I get free hot sauce and a bunch of little stickers - I love it! I used to give can coozies and recently started giving American Flag stickers and a business card magnet with every order that I just put with the invoice. Sometimes if a customer orders Gildan...

I just got pretty snippy with a salesperson from a larger commercial printer about 30 miles away (35 employees). I am a one-person shop. She was first asking if I ever needed any large format printing done or high volume. I said sometimes and asked if they do wholesale pricing. She said no -...

I went to the Elkhart Lake Vintage Night Friday. They have about 120 vintage race cars that line up in the downtown area then they "start their engines" and drive around the town and back out. It's really a cool thing, thousands of people and the ground shakes. Anyway, I touched almost all the...

Piggly backing off my other post....So, I got the police car 2023 Ford Explorer handles off and I wrapped the side successfully (thank goodness!) now to remove side one and rewrap. I can't get the handles back on from side two!! I watched a video on how to remove but he didn't say how to get...

So, I accidently bought 3M IJ35 and not the 3M IJ35C - there are no markings on the backing paper indicating it is 3M and it jammed my printer up 4 times within 8 feet! The backing paper seems to have a wax or something on it so I'm thinking it's sticking to the bottom. I chatted with a rep...

I'm trying to match ink colors for shirts. They send me a vector file with CMYK. The colors look weird. I convert it to RGB - they still look weird. She said it's purple and light blue. They look purple and teal. I asked if they had a Pantone color I could quick match to. She has her designer...

Never ordered these before so I'm looking for some ideas. Do most people do the UV gloss 2 sided paper with the little slide in stake? Or coroplast with a single stake - I can't find a wholesaler that cuts them small enough. Looking for probably 4"x4" or 5"x5" Something like this?

Is anyone able to do this and ship them to me in a mailing tube? I need them next week. Thank you for looking!

I recently made a sign for a church and they wanted to install it themselves - which was fine. However, they used stand offs and they are stainless steel and right in the middle of black so they stick out like a sore thumb. What can I suggest to fix this? Nail polish? A vinyl wrap over the top...

Checked on What the Font - no luck for either of these

I got a new computer and reloaded Flexi. Now I can't drag and drop colors to the swatches! I can't move colors from one swatch to another. I create a color then click and drag it to the swatch bar and the mouse disappears or goes all crazy and it will NOT let me drop it in. I've tried all the...

The school district wants 200 yard signs but they don't like the metal sign stakes. I've never used anything else except the metal economy or heavy duty. Has anyone used the spider stakes and do they last longer? They complain the metal ones bend too much.

How do the ad's work on this forum? I just saw one of my customers local ads. I guess it surprised me...I'm not saavy with this kind of thing. Obviously I've seen a million things that I google throughout the day but was surprised to see a local company!