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Into the pile that the accountant sorts through quarterly.

Riffing on iSign and Surfacesigns posts, Your sales person needs some kind of baseline pricing and markups. If your cost to push a banner out the door is "X", then sales needs to know that. If you expect sales to get at least 40% over "X", then that is the baseline for the commission.

I would just email the websites you have found, and tell them "best of luck!".

I thought that was the car window tinting business plan. For the sign shop business plan you have to add the following, 3. Drink a six pack of beer at lunch, smoke a joint and tell the customer everything will be ready by Thursday. 4. Don't go to work on Thursday. 5. Get mad at the...

NASA has all the cool toys.

At least you didn't transpose a measurement like 240 to 420! Mama Mia!

I asked another company in town to hang a banner for me, they have the truck with the reach. I told them the name of the business to hang the banner at. Next day, I find out the banner was hung somewhere else. At my customers biggest competitor. ouch. So, written instructions, with a...

It can be done, just not with your printer.

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You can also got to the printer company websites, and look for their FTP. Most of them have those cool pictures posted there for Non-Commercial use. Meaning, you can print them for display, but not for sale.

This attitude you speak of comes from dealing with racers over time. I think your attitude about this "vertical market" will change over time.

I started using matte materials for tradeshow pop-up displays. You just don't know what the lighting conditions will be like on the show floor, and I have seen what should be great looking gloss prints get washed out, or have horrible reflections from the ambient light.

It doesn't help that you can get almost the same thing cheaper from Sam's Club, Amazon, ebay, etc...

I'm so glad I got rid of my Falcon Jr. a few years ago.

If the power went out, I'd be happy that my letterpress can run by a foot treadle.

Too much ink being laid down. Your going to need to re-profile that material.

I get that question quite a bit, I automatically raise the price by 50% then offer a 10% discount. If they start to bother me, I usually explain that since they don't have to pay taxes, I feel I've already helped them out by paying higher taxes for my business.

Fastest way for the ink is to get a syringe and draw the ink through the lines. Or, look in the manual and follow the steps for filling the machine. Try a 60 degree blade.

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The conversation we would all like to have, "Yes, that is nitpicky, I bet your children hate you."