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Well, I'm an idiot. I ordered the material before seeing it in person because it was getting shelves put in - never thought to ask if it was glossy like 99.9% of other trailers. I just got back from looking at it...it's got a black satin finish. Here's the material I have... 3M 7125 Scotchcal...

Stuck on this one...

I've been talking with this guy about lettering his trailer. It's cut vinyl, mostly wording. The thing is the seams are metal "bars", I've never seen this before! Is the best way to letter this to avoid placement over the bars or go over them? If its a smaller number or letter I'm afraid they...

I'm now getting emails from other sign companies asking me to install signs for them. I had an email today from a nationwide company looking for an installer...I said no, I'm too busy with my own installs! I'm getting calls and emails from people in other cities for signs. The shop down the road...

I met with a new business today. She opens Thursday as in two days. She is looking to have me do some Gemini Letters, ASAP. Total comes to about $1000 COGS - which I would demand the deposit of $1000. She also wants 3 large windows with gold vinyl and a door, which I haven't priced out yet...

What should I charge for 1000 coroplast one sided white with red ink signs (pesticide application)? My unit price sending out to get printed is around 24 cents each. 4" wide x 5" tall. AND - where do I get the little PVC stakes? Thank you!

A CONVERSATION ABOUT PERCEIVED VALUE: A customer asked a contractor friend of mine how much it would cost to do this project. My friend gave him a proposal: $4500 The customer responded: That’s seems really high. My friend asked: What do you think is a reasonable price for this job? The customer...

I can't find any silver metallic Alumalite anywhere near me. I assume I can have a local painter paint it and then apply cut vinyl on it and it should hold up just as well? I'm not set up here to paint so I have to farm it out. In the past I have applied vinyl for the background to smaller...

I am re-doing 5 t-shirts for my boyfriend's trap team with his brothers. As you can see by the photo, he is in need of a new one. Anyways...I am working on the line art but what format should I put the photo in? I will send them out to Transfer Express for the transfers (I'm probably going to...

Darn...I know I've seen this before!

I'm no photo expert - get that out of the way first. I'm making 4'x8' signs for the baseball field. A designer sent me a file that was 74mb large. It's comprised of a banner across with the business info and 3 separate photos underneath. She also has another layer with all of it saved as one...

I received a call from the school looking for some window tint in their football press box. I watched a couple YouTube videos on this. It seems a bit more involved than applying vinyl, more time consuming with the cleaning. My gut is telling me to steer away from this because I would never do it...

I did a trailer for this guy last summer and I used black and Oracal Lime Green. He wants his truck lettered now similar to the photo, I didn't design his "logo" but it is what it is. My question is... Do I print the swoosh and use solid cut vinyl for the name so it matches the trailer exactly...

My high school son is buying a plasma cutter (cheaper one) and I was thinking...currently I get my aluminum sheets cut by local shop or I cut them with my circular saw. Will the plasma cutter make a nice cut on aluminum for him to cut me some blanks to keep around the shop? What about for half...

Some might remember my dog post from last winter. Many of you stated you have the same problem. Neighbors have an untrained coonhound in the city that is tied up 20' from my home office, 2 bedrooms and 30' from my patio. Last winter I nicely told them the dog was waking us up at night with...

Hi All - I have a customer looking to get new graphics on this trailer. Trailer itself is in good repair but they had chrome vinyl and its a little old to say the least. The customer wants me to print on sheet and go right over the top. I told him you are still going to see a ghost from the old...

One person shop here. As I try to be more efficient and more profitable I had been running into problems with placing more orders and sometimes paying more for shipping than I need to - and time wasted. This is due to not being organized like I should. I used to stack my job boxes in groups Art...

As I remove old signs from the baseball field that a variety of other signshops made and replace them with the signs I make - they sit in my shop for a couple days. Almost every one of them has something wrong enough for me to make sure I tell people I didn't make this sign! LOL Tagline is...

The last 2 weeks it's slowed down for me. I have several jobs in the works and some big installs scheduled for next month but the day to day phone and emails have slowed. It's been non-stop since April so it is nice to catch my breath and catch up a little bit. We are also going to visit my...

My latest review...I have no idea who this character is but I'd like to join in the fun and have a clever response. Ideas welcome...good or bad LOL