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  1. Intellectual Property and Copyright Theft In Our Industry.

    Besides ripping off the copyrighted work, what the hell kind of business wants that image to sell their product? Somebody needs to put down the bong.
  2. flexi 8.6v2 upgrade

    Did SAI pee in your cornflakes? lol As much as I have days when I hate Flexi, it still does the best job of setting up contour cuts easier than any other program or method I have seen.
  3. Window Tinting

    I'm pretty sure there are window tinting forums similar to this.
  4. marketing

    Maybe I misunderstood your post a little bit, but you don't market the machine. You market the products you make with it. I think you probably could start by substituting the word "Printed" anywhere you use the word "Sand-Carved". Good luck!
  5. Quandary

    Sounds like apples and oranges. 2 different things Use your spec sheet to show them the difference between the two designs, materials and price points.
  6. Quest to expand my skills

    Corel has had horrible implementation of color workspace output for a long time. I think it has more to do with licensing issues than anything else. Might be why Corel is 600 dollars cheaper than Adobe products.
  7. Your design level...

    I'm a damn good production and sales manager. lol
  8. Apple "iSlate" tablet leaked

    I don't know how well it will replace school textbooks, you can drop a textbook and it still works.
  9. Roland Users ... Reviews Wanted

    Posted my review of the Roland XC-540 Soljet Pro III.
  10. Customers are reluctant to...

    Quote the art time as a separate line item, noting that revisions add cost. Have the deposit credited against the materials and labor only.
  11. Shop Bass Boat Sponsorship

    I used a bottle jack with a 2x4 piece to raise the boat off the trailer enough to clear the wheels. I don't do boats anymore, and I have done over 30 of them. Just for a reference, I charged $5000.00 for a 24 foot Ranger that was sponsored by Cabelas.
  12. Magnet problem

    Customer is full of beans. That magnet probably sat on the vehicle for 6 months, he finally got around to washing the truck and found the discoloration when he removed the magnet. Offer to make him a new set of magnets for half price, tell him thats all you can do. Then you need to take...
  13. How much printing will a set of inks do?

    No easy answer to that one. You should maybe get 2 rolls of material out of one set. But, you'll find that Magenta seems to go the fastest. What you really want to look at is printing cost per sq/ft, per material. Lets say the average cost for ink is 20 cents a sq/ft (so says the...
  14. New Back-up Computer / year 1986

    Remember the glorious days of charging the customer for rendering time?
  15. Start with the basics

    This is a little lesson I learned myself. Started printing on my versacamm and I noticed the color was wrong. Red was pink. hmmmmm.... Now, the machine the RIP is running on had recently gotten a new hard drive, everything reinstalled and the custom profiles reloaded as well. So I...
  16. Print on MDO sealing question

    I started using 1-Shot 3000 white for the edges of MDO and it has worked out great.
  17. Client's email leaves me at a loss for words...

    I can drop a jpeg into a pdf, not gonna change much there. Which is what I receive from some people and then I pretty much know they are trying to give me artwork that they didn't pay a release fee to someone else.
  18. Quest to expand my skills

    I receive files from a lot of different shops, from other sign shops, ad agencies, newspapers, printers, etc... You need to learn as many programs as you can, or at least how to output from them, that's where the money is. Every program has its benefits and drawbacks, most of which I think...
  19. New competition!

    Seen some flower shops try to get into printing banners. How they plan to make up the cost of a 20-30k printer by selling $15.00 paper banners is beyond me.
  20. New windows

    Vinegar and Bon Ami cleanser. Just stand back from the smell.
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