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The 'just rip it off' technique works just fine. Especially if you do the ripping in a series of sharp tugs instead of one mighty snatch and jerk. When possible I try to reduce frustration by running a weed line horizontally right through the center of the text. How you do this depends on what...

'Outgassing' may be something handy for scaring small children into going to sleep but for solvent of most any kind printing is't pretty much a myth. If a solvent print is dry to the fingertip glide test, then it's dry for whatever purpose. Do not confuse this with the actual physical changes to...

"...Our designer says it’s near impossible to center art work on a circle with small border..." Your 'designer', and I use the term loosely, should consider taking up some other line of work, it doesn't know it's a$$ from a warm cookie. "...It almost looks like your cutter is having issues...

It can't detect the media width because of either the reflectivity or color of the media confounds the optical sensor. Either put a length of masking tape on the media over the width sensor strip or remove a ~1/2"-1" strip of the media from the start of the roll and place that over the media...

Unfortunately the dimensions are rounded up to the next foot. That means you get to pay for a 5x9 print.

There's very little vinyl that a solvent or eco-solvent machine won't print on. I have come across one and only one vinyl that wouldn't print properly, an Arlon product if memory serves. The biggest difference between media that's designated 'printable and media that is not is that the printable...

A burger eh? I thought it was some sort of deranged rubber ducky.

If you find and use what you're looking for, do you really think that you'll have any actual effect on anything? If everyone on the planet did so would there be any actual effect on anything? I live here, I do the best I can, I take what need, I try not too take too much and I try not to leave...

For me it's faster to use a knife, a knife and a straight edge if necessary, or a knife and a T-square if needed. I have a 24" and a 48" drywall T-square. That's just me, your mileage may vary. I'd take $150.00 for it. Just so you know, it's not a KleenCut, It's a 60"+ Keencut Practik, sorry...

Knife and often a straight-edge. Part of being a sign maker is having the ability to pull a line. With brush, pen, or knife. I have a 60 some inch Kleencut that I haven't used in at least 15 years. I'd make someone a heII of a deal on it.

The only use I've ever had for Frog Juice is coating MDF so vinyl would stick to it. No question with the side of a building. Liquid. Used liquid laminate on a logo on a few sets of mud flaps for an outfit's flat bed trucks. Going on 4 years now and they seem to be holding up just fine...

Flame polishing is the proper way to dress the edges. Most people attempt to use way too hot a flame. A cool flame is what you want. Mapp gas usually is way too hot. I don't know if the still do this but in the armed forces it was SOP for the ground crews to polish airplane canopies with an old...

I admit to some curiosity, having never been around plotters that are actually intended to cut through backing, whether you call that 'die cut' or 'perf cut' or whatever. Do these machines use a different blade that the one used for vinyl cutting? Paper is extremely abrasive and will grind the...

Re calendared laminate turning yellow. Both cast and calendared vinyl will turn yellow, and then a hideous brown, after a few years in the sun. In the last 10 years or so I haven't used vinyl laminate of any flavor. Not worth the trouble and certainly not worth the cost. I switched to using...

Use the right tool for the job. Assuming the groove you need to cut is wider than 1/8" then the right tool in this case that would be a dado blade in a table saw. Failing that, a router mounted in a rigid router table. All other methods are stunts. Trying to cut a parallel dado with hand held...

There are so many different flavors of registration marks the it's difficult to make general statements about them. I know exactly how Graphtec marks work and it's not a stretch to assume that other styles use the same philosophy as well. Although with some of them it's beyond me how they...

Years ago it was said that inside of a one man sign shop is a starving sign painter. It doesn't seem to be all that different today. In a small operation the point in hiring someone is not to assume some of your burden but to make money for you. The criteria for hirng people is this; 'will this...

"...billable hour..." Are you running a law office or a sign shop? The differece beinbg that a law office sells time and a sign shop sells signs. In a sign shop there are no billable hours, there's only signs. One of the tasks in making a sign is laying out the sign. This is just a step in doing...

Looks like a rebopped version of Cooper Black. About as exciting as watching a haircut.

I figured you were jesting. Are there any other myths to which you cling?