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Some people can make it work, some people end up divorced. From what I have seen, in a true family business, with husband, wife, kids, cousins, etc... 1 person is the boss, doesn't matter what anyone else says or thinks, when the boss speaks, they listen and do. Period. End of Story.

Sounds like a reason to close the shop on a friday, and take all your people out for a picnic, or fishing, or museum trip. Set up and sponsor a local art show for the local school. Or, craziest idea of all, walk into the shop, tell everybody you are bored and ask what they need help with...

Did your monitor change as well? If so, then it needs to be calibrated. Justifying profiling to the boss, figure out how much time and material it takes to pre-flight each print. Extrapolate what that will cost over a year. Compare that number to what the 1 time fee for profiling will be...

Here is my system: I print up my blank work orders every morning. Those are placed by the phone at the "customer receiving desk" Everything is written down on the work order and complete info is taken. (discipline is needed) The filled out work order is put in the inbox on the left of...

They are customers, so they get in line with the others. Rush job? Rush fee. Same as everyone else. If you are officially treating them as wholesale customers, then you have to decide the priority and set a time period for their order. Overnight would be a suggestion. As far as selling...

Well, you can always hang out a new shingle, "Graphics and O-Rings" I can almost hear the radio commercials now.

Converting to CMYK is the job of the RIP, you'll get a better gamut of color if you send RGB files, to put it the shortest non-technical way possible. Sounds crazy, but try downloading the profile from Avery, install it, and try printing it. If that does not work, then look into custom...

I've always taken the approach that wraps are for commercial applications. Puts me in the proper mindset to overcome sticker shock. Ask them how much a month do they spend on yellow pages. How much a month on billboards. A wrap is in the same price category as those 2 items, and that...

Can you turn it on and run a test print? Without that at least, be very wary.

I really like the royal sovereign 1400 way more than the Enduralam 53.

That first mortgage will bring up surprises. I had a report on the for owing 38 dollars to a business that had gone bankrupt 4 years before. Lucky I had a receipt.

Because they are too damn lazy to even look at the different settings of the profiles in Versaworks provided by Roland.

I think of those ink drops as battle scars.

Something that has weeded out 98% of the people that walk in the door and ask about a job is to tell them they have to pass a drug test. Lastly, I don't care if you worked in a sign shop for ten years, and you know that every day you worked you wore shorts and a t-shirt, the day you come and...

So make sure you run it over.

As long as the customer is willing to pay for this new requirement, I would take the option that causes the least disruption to the shop.

I'm trying to decide between an iPad, and a Martin 12 string right now. But I look forward to the day when I can use an iPad or an iPhone to tell Scotty to beam me up.

Jeans and t-shirt for "dirty" days in the shop, Jeans and button down shirt for normal days, and shorts and t-shirts for outdoor installs during the summer. Now I might not shave for a week or two, but I generally try to dress like an adult when customers will be seeing me.

That's going on a t-shirt.