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When your supplier is buying from the PVC manufacturer they will be given a menu... a range of different grades of sheet starting with the cheapest and ending with solid, unfoamed 100% PVC. If you are using 3/4" (19mm) PVC I'm pretty sure you're dealing with a foamed product. If you've suddenly...

Ebay is your friend http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Summacutta-SummaGraphics-D760-/140636817210?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item20be9b873a A proper machine with no bids. This lad is in the West Midlands too.... fancy that? Hit Summa up for a driver, swing buy for a looksey... kick the tyres, suck...

Just out of interest what was his objection? I'm assuming you're the shop "nipper" so I'm struggling to see what the problem is? Clearly your boss is labouring under the impression that a Roland vinyl cutter is right up there on the cutting edge of British sign making technology... it isn't...

My advice is to concentrate on your strengths.... Find a good wrap shop and become their director of sales. Sign people don't make good salesmen but by equal measure salesmen don't make good sign makers. A good salesman is a fearless predator with a ruthless eye for the "kill". Sign makers...

Indy cars are $hite Indy car tracks are just not safe for such high speeds. Indy car promoters don't give a cr@p about safety. Dan should have followed his mates Jenson Button & Lewis Hamilton into Formula 1... a proper racing series which follows strict international safety standards.

Did someone ask for Brownie points? I believe these are freshly baked and freely donated by someone who's actually done business with Mike.... enjoy... they're still warm:smile: I find this thread quite hard to believe.... Merrit are clearly a very good company who find themselves inundated...

If we're honest at least 60% of the modern sign trade couldn't design their way out of a damp paper bag. Establishing an implicit value to creative sign design is made a lot harder when there is so much dross sold as "professionally designed" product.

F*cking hell... you're a merchant member to the trade and you volunteered this information right off your own bat... amazing.

Um... Cut the main graphic in Brown vinyl then float in a Lime Green insert. Printing something as simple as this makes absolutely NO sense to me whatsoever... talk about using a sledgehammer to pulverise a nut.

Is there not a different between dignified respect for the late Mr Jobs and a slightly sickening, over sentimental and oddly mawkish digital wake? The only person to have met the late Mr Jobs is Bob... his crass comments detailing the personality faults of the gentlemen serve no useful purpose...

I guess you're a lot more understanding than I am :smile: If I buy a 50m roll of vinyl I expect to find precisely 50m of usable product... if I only get 47m then I'm going to be asking some serious questions about the slap dash QC processes being used. I find measuring by weight is usually the...

I'm still reeling from the fact that anyone would actually PRINT what is, by any measure, an incredibly simple design.. cut vinyl will do the job a lot easier, a lot nicer IMO.

I hate to spoil your linguistic "member" waving session but could you direct me to the portions of your earlier post which meet the benchmarks for a "valid posting" as outlined in this second post. As is typically the case I find myself distracted by your horrible style of prose. Long winded...

Absolutely and utterly incorrect.

The timid, "oh my gosh I'll never be that good" mindset is more likely to kill you. I guarantee you that at least 40% of the members here are perfectly capable of handling large corporate projects. Offer a quality Signs101 member the chance to quote for a $200,000 project and you'd be surprised...

Competition will always be there and it's always going to be a battle to survive. In a real battle you don't lend the enemy your ammunition, you don't train them how to shoot at you with a greater degree of accuracy. Perhaps I'm anally retentive but I have a habit of giving each new skill a...

I'm quite sure your local butcher/ baker/ bicycle shop/ shoe shop/ hardware (insert any other local shop) felt the same way.... "That big supermarket won't affect me, what have I got to be scared of"? My question to you is; When Wal Mart with is huge resources and highly skilled and...

My collection of solid Gold money transportation wheel barrows... I hear there's a new tandem model out these days especially designed for Yard sign manufacturers.

Working within the big sign making industry is NOT as hard as you think it is... there is NO magic formula and you don't need a Harvard MBA in management b0llocks. What you need is a chance.... a lucky break which allows you to present you bona fides and your capabilities to a corporate buyer...

I wouldn't actually buy a digital printing machine at all... Lease a machine for 3 years... work the thing into the ground and then hand it back getting another new machine in return.... a machine which uses the latest technology and ink sets. I wouldn't even buy a brand new van... after 3...