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We had a small old motel approach us over a year ago. Existing vintage 50-60s neon sign, long story short the sign pole failed, zoning required a variance & they could not reinstall in the original location ( codes) So they had little or no place to install a new sign, we had to conform so...

Uhg, the font library...i hate that place, even more so the customer who has a logo (JPG) but has no idea what fonts were used or where it came from, likely the previous owner never passed any information along as to where it came from. Font research, oh yeah...so much fun. & the customer has...

Sad. Our shop has grown from hand painted truck doors & signs, gold leaf etc...We now do 35' tall electric signs, wraps, digital etc. My brushes (quills) are in the oil waiting for use. I am the only one in the shop that could pick one up & letter a nice script today. There was really something...

Grip flex sign paint, akzo coatings, its used for back spraying plastic sign faces from what I remember the thinner/ reducer is a vinyl product so its hot enough & chemically bonds to the vinyl. The product data sheet lists it for use on flexible vinyl. I used to do it a lot years ago, its...

Wow, I must be crazy. I wouldn't touch that for less than $600-$700 minimum, likely more. You guys must have some serious low ball competition. The cost of running a business doesn't justify 300-400. Maybe I'm in a different business, but with 25 years experience I would hope I know something. I...

WOW, you guys get insurance cheap...we are at about $4,100. this is just our commercial liability policy, Auto is about the same again putting total insurance at about $7,500.00 it goes up each year with annual audits. we do have bucket trucks, & do service, new installs etc I was told I won't...

just a side note, when we run into something like this we will sometimes create an outline say .002, seperate outline, delete original, then reusing our outline create an inline of .002, this will recreate the work as closed paths you can now use at will.

exactly... if your only selling the sign you charge the rate in your city. ( if they or someone picks it up, or it is shipped) but..... In Colorado, I KNOW If your installing a sign in another city you must charge the tax applicable to the municipality where the sign is located. ai...use tax...

Making signs,

We've done it both ways, left in & taken out, them re-installed. but we never use a calendered film, onlly air release, like 3M control tac CV3 You can go over them, but its slow & time consuming. I usuall give the cutomer the choice, telling them the install portion of the price goes up as much...

Oh, Come on, we all have bottomless pockets! "I DON'T THINK SO" I could really start ranting here!

very nice clean & effective, great work Jill

you can get loose leaf & if you want patent. get some wax paper & makeyour own patent. Palm the loose leaf with wax paper to create patent. The wax paper will not sick to the size like the rice paper used for patent. This way you can utiliize both loose & patent with bestter results & less loss...

nothing weird about the SS ute, its the El Camino chevy doesnt offer us over here anymore. I have a last gen 79 model El Camino with 420 HP & love it. I like the Ute, cool car/ truck!

OK, Ive been in the sign business for 20 years, started doing thing the old way ( push'n da brush) So for flexi. used since v6.9. & before that scanvec & inspire, if anyone remembers that software. Im using 8.1 & refuse to upgrade everything in the shop. Call me old fashioned but why buy...

Aluminum is hard to get paint to stick to. Ive used self etching primers alone with some success. There is an automtotive product called twin etch designed for aluminum. You scuff wash the parts with this and flush/rinse it completely. I always follow this with an automotive self etching primer...

very interesting current computers: flexi pro Intel, pentium 4 CPU, 2.4 GHz, 940 MB RAM OS: XP pro service pk 2 Printing, & design station Flexi expert X86 fam 6 model 8 stepping 6 384 MB RAM OS: Win 98 Hey it works, more reliable than my 2 other computers with XP had it...

Rep, SAi doesn't seem to even know their own software. back when 5.9 was around , I had a tech tell me he took notes on what I told them and they would address the issues in a future version. I used to document stuff, have them go thru the steps to create scenarios.. they were always...

again also why can't we add fonts on the fly? corel does it its a PIA to have to close the app just to add a font!

That sounds like a device/software interface issue to me. As for my problems, I know this software very well. Maybe I depend on it to much & should start just cutting vinyl from it only, or using it as a rip. Have you ever had ghost line positions on screen when zoomed in tight on nodes...