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The point, which seems to elude you, is that painting a sign differs from painting a picture, mural, or your toenails, not in degree but in kind. There is little to nothing in your experience painting 'art' that will be useful to you in an attempt to paint a sign. I speak from well over six...

I'm sure that you'll manage to get some paint up there, but it most likely won't be a professional looking sign. It'll probably be Yet Another manifestation of what's known in the sign business as 'nephew art'. There will be no doubt that you did it yourself.

Pounce patterns are not unique to signs. Simply because pounce patterns are used to layout paintings as well as signs does not mean the results are interchangeable. Hand lettering is a skill, actually a set of skills requiring no artistic ability whatsoever. These skills are completely different...

Sign painting isn't art, it's a learned skill and it takes some years to get it right. If you attempt to paint this you will fail. Even applying vinyl or pre-fab letters requires certain skills that you probably don't have. Either tell them to hire a competent sign company or sub it out yourself.

If you can lightly drag a fingertip across a print and cannot feel any difference between ink and no ink it's as dry as it's going to get. Generally a few minutes. Solvent, eco or otherwise, dries quickly via evaporation. Once dry, feel free to laminate. 'Out gassing', 'off gassing', or whatever...

Far more import to be consistent than to account for every minute of labor. Meaning that an X" x Y" sign on Z material costs the same regardless of copy and/or complexity. Your net may not be consistent for similar signs but if your pricing model is anywhere near correct it evens out. Doing it...

In general, specialized tools are superior to a multi-purpose tool.

Clearjet presents a solvent receptive surface?

Where would one find rabbit skin glue? How would it be applied? Water or solvent clean up? Why would this both seal the surface as well as be solvent receptive?

Yes, but for solvent and eco-solvent printers.

In general, what is the functional difference between a person looking at a picture and using the memory of that picture to reproduce it's style and/or its content and having a bit of software that does exactly the same thing?

I was just thinking, something always to be feared, that there really should be some sort of spray on, brush on, whatever on coating that would render most any media solvent and eco-solvent printable. Perhaps something already exists. Perhaps not. If not, it shouldn't be all that hard to womp...

Probably not graffiti unless the graffiti enthusiast is also an accomplished sign painter. This looks very much like some LHF offering.

Checking? A money market account by its very nature is a checking account. At lease all of those that I've held have been.

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If you were to visit a gallery, scrutinize someone's work, remember it, and then use what you've seen incorporating the style into your own work, do you think that the creator of that piece you saw and remembered can come after you in some way or another? Have you violated someone's rights? How...

There isn't any downside worth worrying about. ACM is cheap, strong, and will probably outlast the next ice age. You can cut it and drill it just like it was wood and any drop is great for making jigs. If you're into that.

On what media are you attempting to print this pattern?

No matter how cheap you are, the professional way is to roll up the prints and put them in tubes. Period. It doesn't matter a whit what the client might do with them, it's your image you maintain, not theirs. Whatever you end up paying for these materials, if you're not at least doubling it and...

Black is opaque and does not require a white point of any kind. You can print black on any receptive surface of any color and it will come out black. Printing any other color requires a proper white point in order to properly reproduce it. Rather than screwing around with laying down a layer of...