• I want to thank all the members that have upgraded your accounts. I truly appreciate your support of the site monetarily. Supporting the site keeps this site up and running as a lot of work daily goes on behind the scenes. Click to Support Signs101 ...

Search results

  1. I am hating CorelDraw 2020!

    I found it to be far more stable than 2019. There are actually a lot of new features since 2016 that are useful. Perspective controls on photos. blend to nothing. Lots more. But if it's crashing, and your X6 had started crashing, it's more likely something wrong with your computer rather than...
  2. Creating a contour cut file

    In the Contour tool you can make contours To Center, Inside Contour, or Outside Contour. They are buttons you select before filling in the numbers. You should become familiar with the Contour tool. It's the best way to create outlines, and also part of creating relief shadows. Once you've...
  3. If you're missing a letter in a sign... just stand and pretend you are that letter

    I would guess they made them from steel. We did a project like that, but much bigger, for our community. It's not meant to have people go up to it; it sits on a hill along the highway into town. We did ours from aluminum with a mesh back. Initially they were going to have a local steel...
  4. Window perf lifting in corners... solutions?

    I have to say I've never experienced this problem, either with perforated vinyl I've printed myself, or when doing installations for stores that received the perforated vinyl from a supplier or from a national advertising company. We typically see the vinyl still stuck on the window long after...
  5. Is this REALLY how a sign cabinet should be built?!

    It would run afoul of the requirements in section 4.1 for a cabinet which has the strength and rigidity to resist the conditions to which it will be subjected in the environment where it will be used, and to not have any sharp things inside which could injure a person or damage wiring on...
  6. What to charge? Or not?

    The equivalent of the guy down the street doing routing for you is Stacey cutting the lettering for the fire department. If they want to get into using their plotter to make signs they can darn well order their vinyl and supplies from a sign supply store. And let him use crappy vinyl if that's...
  7. Is this REALLY how a sign cabinet should be built?!

    That actually looks a lot like some indoor signs we installed for a cable TV company's retail store. They were very flimsy until they went on the wall. Being that they are indoors it seemed sturdy enough for the use. I wonder if they accidentally built you an indoor cabinet. We've also ordered...
  8. Pantone color

    Pantone colors are only 3 or 4 digit numbers.
  9. Burnout Signs

    There's nothing wrong with marketing to people that you can solve a problem for them. The sign is faded/burnt/broken/bulbs out/falling down. You let them know you can fix that problem plus you can improve the image of their business in the community, reach more and better customers for their...
  10. Burnout Signs

    That comes from crappy laminate usually. If you're going to print signs, we find that Grimco's Briteline Shield UV lasts about 4 years for not burning like that, but depending on the adhesive of the vinyl it's applied to it can pull up the edges of the print. Using calendared vinyls, it's hard...
  11. Font Name Help Please!

    I put his image in that and it was unable to identify the font, which left only "Consult an Expert" which does the same thing as posting it here for someone to try to identify it. They have Technosomething or other as their expert, we have all of us and Tiki. So maybe before you suggest that you...
  12. Wanted EPSON SURECOLOR 80600 LEAK - REPAIR NEEDED

    Just call them and get it fixed. Your stubbornness is costing you time and money. I have only had one experience where Decision One didn't do it right, and that was because I got an old tech who refused to replace a head like Epson had ordered, and they had to send another tech two days later...
  13. Wanted EPSON SURECOLOR 80600 LEAK - REPAIR NEEDED

    They won't sell you the part. They won't sell anybody the part. Is this machine under warranty? If so, then there's no reason not to have them come. Even if not, having them out to fix it is not the end of the world, and it will be done by Monday if you call them now.
  14. Wanted EPSON SURECOLOR 80600 LEAK - REPAIR NEEDED

    There is nothing wrong with Epson service. It's just expensive and weird to use because you talk to Epson HQ who direct what will be repaired and then dispatch Decision One.
  15. Problem EPSON SURECOLOR 80600 LEAK

    The ink drain pad is probably oversaturated and clogged.
  16. Perforated vinyl puckering up and causing head strikes

    If it's tunneling it's faulty media. Window perf doesn't tunnel.
  17. Mounting Sign on Awning

    You can screw things to the frame that are lightweight. Usually the frame is 1x1 square tubing. The limiting factor for weight is how the thing is attached to the wall. I've seen a lot of pretty sketchy attachments on awnings. The real solution is a new "canvas" (whether it's polyester fabric...
  18. recovering deleted files

    Depends how you "deleted" it. If you did it in File Explorer, then it's probably in your recycle bin and can be put back from there. If you uninstalled it, you'd have to reinstall it.
  19. Font ID please

    Alexei Copperplate
  20. Exterior LED lights, do they need to be "inclosed"?

    I went through this with a customer. They had seen something on Pinterest with house numbers, and then there is an old guy near here doing steel ones with a torch, and using the light ropes people decorate their houses with for lighting (complete with extension cords for the power on the ones...
Top