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At $3/sf you are not turning a profit. You aren't even breaking even. $3/sf makes a 3'x6' banner $54. How long did you spend talking to the customer to take the order? How long did you spend laying out the banner? How long did you spend loading the material into the printer? How long does it...

Just remember when you are selling signs (which includes banners), the object is not to sell printed materials. Signs are not a commodity item. They are a custom marketing item. Their value is not in the materials from which they are made, but the advertising value they have to the purchaser...

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Yes, inkjet printers consume ink. Yes, they consume it whether you are using them or not. This is so the heads don't dry out, the lines don't get clogged, etc. I doubt there is a bulk ink solution for a small machine like that. The prices for the ink sound right in line with other sign printers...

This is the answer. It's just the sun burning up the sign. An important point to remember in deciding whether to print or to use cut vinyl to make a sign. Even calendared cut vinyl ages more gracefully than sunburned digital prints. They either turn black like this or disappear to white...

If you're trying to make something durable, why are you using Coroplast?

The way I would do a 10% discount would be that the first 9 are full price and the 10th is "free".

Convex chrome says it won't work on curved surfaces like helmets. Probably because it's a metallized polyester, just like chrome sign "vinyl". Football helmets are typically made of plastics like polycarbonate, so, strictly speaking, they don't need LSE adhesives. I suspect Convex uses LSE...

For the logo and DOT/VIN numbers, we'd be at $125. For the truck numbers on the fender $25. For the graphic stripes $780. So that's $930. Most I'd discount (if at all) would be 10% for 10 units. They are never available to do as an assembly line, there's always something that makes for a time...

I'm not sure I understand what you are saying the problem was, but it might be that you didn't weld the letters together in your software before you went to cut them from vinyl.

Correct. The jpg is natively RGB. Don't convert it to CMYK when you save it as a pdf or anything else. For that matter, you shouldn't have to save it as anything else to print it--just bring the jpg directly into the RIP. The RIP handles converting the image to the CMYK ink better than your pdf...

The first thing I would say is don't change his RGB photo to CMYK. Just send the original jpg or tif file or whatever it was straight to the RIP. That will most likely fix the color shift and contrast problems. The RIP is designed to handle the processing from RGB photos to the CMYK inks. Doing...

Had not seen that video. But Sedalia is full of signs like that. And LED display boards. That company may charge $15,000 for a flex face sign with a crappy design, but they sell LED boards really cheap.

Most of those look like the customer whose only question, when they had their secretary call all the sign shops in the phone book (or google search page), was, "How much for a banner....?" and they chose the lowest price. The only one that really amazes me was the channel letters. No matter how...

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This happens when you check the box in the pdf export to convert spot colors to CMYK. You need to have the colors correctly defined as spot colors in your layout, and then choose the dropdown box to export colors as "Native". Otherwise, even Pantone colors will get converted to CMYK.

For the pdf export, change output colors to "Native". Do not check the box to export colors as CMYK.

Blue Highway or Roadgeek 2005 C will get you 99% of the way there. The capital letters in Prairie Ridge would need slight modification.

1" application tape. Always keep it by every machine that runs vinyl. Most of the vinyl we buy has a label inside the core, so have never found a need for labeling.

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