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  1. Anyone have these issues with laminated product?

    Too much tension in the laminator. Stretches the laminate while applying. Then it goes back to its original shape, pulling it up and curling the decal towards the lamiante.
  2. Better looking sign

    Perhaps, but that isn't what I was hired for. There's a time to suggest doing a whole makeover for a company but with this job making them have to change the dimensional letters on their entrance wall and all their marketing materials and in-unit signage and materials was way more than they were...
  3. Better looking sign

    Considered it, decided against it due to price. And it doesn't look off center at all when you can see the whole wall as you do walking down the seawall walk.
  4. Better looking sign

    The sign is 3'x24' MaxMetal mounted on treated 2x4 pieces mounted vertically that are Tapconned to the wall. Tough drilling because it's a hatchet finished concrete wall with native river rock, which means there's limestone, chert, quartzite, and flint in it. Sometimes the drill bit goes in...
  5. Better looking sign

    Here's a sign at a condo complex we did this week. When the management company called they asked if we could make a sign that would be better-looking than the one their HOA board did by themselves. Do you think we succeeded? BEFORE: AFTER:
  6. Bubbles with metallic vinyl

    Big squeegee will always leave bubbles with non-air-release material, especially with magnetic that won't ever lie flat on your table. To get the magnetic to lie flat you should keep a piece of galvanized sheetmetal to lay it on. However you can get a totally bubble free application if you put...
  7. Speaking of permits…

    Apparently they have done the same with regard to putting a new sign on top of the building. Makes you wonder about the sign company that made the giant X and installed it....did they forget to come to signs101 to ask about whether they should get a permit?
  8. UPS Strike

    I got an interesting call from FedEx about two weeks ago asking me what my plan was when UPS goes on strike. I told her I quit using UPS over a year ago when they screwed me over by forcing me to go to Worldwide Express, and I use USPS now. She then went on to say that they were trying to gauge...
  9. 35' RV Full Wrap Install Time

    Who is watching them and teaching them as they work? Sounds like you have a bunch on inexperienced employees who have never had hands-on instruction and supervision while doing a job. Ten days and they still don't have it wrapped? Are they spending all their time on smoke breaks (with that other...
  10. Looking for printable, no coating paper

    To be ecosol compatible it has to be coated. I've never tried crayons on it, but the Briteline photo paper we use seems like a crayon ought to work on it. If I had a crayon I'd try it. I'm printing a bunch of posters right now.
  11. Need Help Eco Solvent Ink vs Clear PSA Vinyl

    It's not vinyl. It's polyester.
  12. font id

    https://www.dafont.com/capsuula.font I think it has been thickened slightly with rounded corners maybe.
  13. EVERYTHING IS COMING UP WIREFRAME even my fonts

    Preferences, Tools, Show Fills tool
  14. Mounting glass panels

    If you're willing to have four small edge mounts visible, this is what they use to mount frameless mirrors...
  15. Sans serif with an interesting "4" character

    Aurora Bold Condensed
  16. Epson Surecolor S80600

    If sharpness isn't high enough look at head alignment and/or overinking in your profile.
  17. How Much should I charge?

    It's the Vietnamese sign shops. Fingernail salons around here always ask for a quote for their signs and then have them made by Vietnamese shops and shipped to them for maybe 1/5 what we bid. Using our design, of course.
  18. Hiring contractors - who sets the hourly rate?

    If I were providing a quote on a job that included removal of a too-old wrap I'd bid it really high too.
  19. Hiring contractors - who sets the hourly rate?

    Tell him it's too much and offer him what you think it should be. If he refuses, find someone else, do it yourself, or pass on the job. Or take his rate and mark it up and offer that to the customer.
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