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The Rhino tables are good quality and inexpensive (and adjustable for the best working height). I build my own from 2x4 lumber and .75" MDO (I use .25" plate glass on mine, but cutting-mat material or a sacrificial hardboard top can work, depending on your needs and workflow). You could...

I would think your current capability (based on the machines you own) would be significantly more profitable and easier to market than commercial digital printing. If you have an existing print business with established clients (whom you have catered to as the print industry has evolved), you...

The regular #1 X-acto with a #11 blade is the most useful cutting tool in our shop. It is particularly well suited for weeding, processing, and installing vinyl graphics. Works OK for cutting light substrate (I prefer a regular box knife for that). Because we buy these in bulk and they are...

Anybody can produce that print. Creating the art on a transparent background, however, will present a significant challenge.

netsol sez: "not sure if it is still the case, but the british do not allow kapersky to be used on government devices they recognize a bunch of russian hackers, masquerading as an antivirus company for what they are." Kaspersky was one of the guys on VIRUS-L in the eighties. He was either in...

They are all decent, but I find Bitdefender overall the best. Anybody who thinks Bitdefender is an inferior product probably doesn't understand how it works and its comprehensive capabilities. 50 years computer experience including experimental work on self-replicating software at the...

I don't understand how a small commercial sign printing shop can be viable in the face of current trade prices. Our printers and laminators were sold off years ago, along with the 8000 square foot shop. Now we concentrate on sales, design, installation and maintenance and our profit per...

Wow. I'm in Illinois. The colleges often have contractural relations with end users. The vocational schools usually do not have the liability coverage to offer services to the general public. They do have contracts with local businesses to develop prototypes and provide sevices in the...

Factor in your weeding time on the quote. If you didn't, well...

Wha...? No school metal shop would touch that with a ten foot pole because of liability concerns! There are professional solutions like the ones you pictured, but you will need to pay for them.

How do you know the engineer will cost $750.00? If he is just "running the numbers" based on your (or the customer's) drawings, it will likely cost considerably less. If you ask him to design a system that will work, it will likely cost more. Most of the time, obtaining a preliminary estimate...

Surveying the site and calling in the JULIE request is going to cost over $50.00 for an insured installer. And of course you would never hire some kid with a pickup to do this kind of work; along with getting injured or killed if he hits a power or gas line, the bill to fix it and all the...

I use artists acrylic (tube) for small dimensional signs (usually Golden brand) and liquid acrylic for larger signs. I'm usually painting over a latex base coat You need to know your colors and make sure you get opaque colors (and/or mix with white or other opaque colors). For flat painted...

1x 1" letter: $74.00 1x 6" letter: $74.00 1x 12" letter: $74.00 6x 1" letters: $74.00 24x 1" letters: $74.00 48x 1" letters: $74.00 144x 1" letters: $74.00 6x 6" letters: $74.00 etc. $74.00 sq. ft. for minimum 1" letters under 1 sq. ft. Add $12.00 sq. ft. for anything over 1 sq. ft...

This stuff works:

Find out who all the General Contrators are and send your bid to all of them. Contact all your suppliers to make sure (as best you can) all your supply chains are intact and give the GCs info regarding timelines. Often that kind of detailed information showing a willingness to work within their...

According to contemporary color standards, Pantone 2748 C is close. I would tend to ignore the WWW Consortium color.

Most of the "free fonts" downloadable from daFont have licensing restrictions for commercial use. Read the fine print.

Figure out your materials cost, then figure out how long it will take to do. Multiply your labor by your shop rate (what you need to make to stay in business), then double everything.

So I need to know HTML, CSS, client portals, CPanels, RHEL, plugins, CRUD, and JS? I suppose once I figure out what all that is it would be "fairly easy to do myself". Uh huh.