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we've been fortunate in the past because police love our industrial park for their breaks. couple of times have come across guys in our lot loading steel scrap into their pickup truck, and knowing that we're never working after sundown with all the lights off, and pop-in to inquire. both times...

i used to make my own cleaning/flushing solution and reload my carts with a syringe. saved a ton of $$$ throughout the years. costs something like $100 for two gallons (or 34 cleaning carts-worth)... sooo, 1/10th the cost? if you're running the ss21 solvent inkset, I believe the formula is...

seems like a job for a student at your local school of architecture. they handbuild these things out of cardstock & popsicle sticks all the time for assignments, I'm sure they'd love to get paid for one.

sh*t rolls downhill. the client will be to blame in the eyes of the inspector/lawyer, and they'll try to take it out on you for the damages they incur. that being said, I've only ever heard of people getting into trouble with ADA signage for hiding fake/"funny" phrases in the braille, but the...

if you can fit the whole design into a single plot, I'd save the extra time to re-level&apply individual pieces. just cut as one & apply as a full masked sheet.

specs are lacking. dimensions & materials used & qty & pickup/deliver/install info would be a good starting point. tamper proof screws are also pretty expensive as well. even without all the details, I'm thinking you're pretty low.

youtube vids are a great resource. this guy walks you through his process pretty well. biggest concern during replacement is making sure you keep ink from dripping into electrical components, as those ribbon cables LOVE channeling a drop of ink into an expensive part. i have, however...

there's "ultra smooth" versions of corrugated plastic panels avail for only $2-3 more per sheet through Grimco. https://cdn.grimco.com/Pdf/Home/Viewer?file=https://cdn.grimco.com/product/InteproCorrugatedPlasticPanelsUltrasmooth/datasheet/InteProUltraSmoothSellSheet.pdf

in the supplier's defense: a sticker will accumulate dirt, by nature of the product. ship them an edge-sealer pen, as part of the quote, and be done with it.

we just make our own by sandwiching the acrylic between two 1"x.5" aluminum angles

i use three tabs of red-lined acrylic tape: first, band your takeup roll with masking tape, Left Middle & Right. then, add tabs of the dbl sided tape to the bands then, tack your backing to this, making sure to get a full rotation or two of spooling the backing onto the core (so that it...

its a decal that's twice the size of a yard sign, printed on a more rigid substrate, and simply folded over the yard stakes like a cheap pricetag at a yard sale or a baggage sticker at the airport. cuts down on space required to transport hundreds of them, and less fill in the trashheap, ...but...

scissor lift with arms edited: oh, hoist through a narrow space and a glass wall? yikes. not much else you can do except cut access holes in the wall with intent to cover. ....or use a hoist with power-drill attachment like SignStein referenced above.

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sq.ft pricing will only work if you price it to cover the most exhausting routes, and then know how much you can walk it back if you want to be more competitive on a particular quote. a 4ft square could have a larger sq.ft. area than a 3sqft perforated panel, or a 1'x10' signature, but the time...

+1 to verifying permits for signage, if you're not pulling them yourself. things get hairy fast when/if can gets kicked to a sign guy to "just install it", and then the lawyers take over when the city fees start piling up. as for power: property owner usually has an electrician, as does the...

scuffs galore, and not just on the vinyl. where do these graphics sit on the boat? definitely looks like its rubbing against something. trailer? dock?

cheap & reliable would be to get a used mimaki cg130fx. I see used ones going for <$4k, but if you can come pickup in Wisco I'd let one of mine go for less. never been a fan of print&cut printers, for a number of reasons but I had two of these plotters and they worked wonderful for the past...

do not weed out the fine details, leave a ~1/4" border around them and use transfer mask to install the blobs and weed the remaining negative parts after it settles on the glass.

weight: weigh an empty core, weigh a yard of vinyl now weigh your roll and subtract the core and divide by yard weight. you have X.yards remaining.