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Great video! I know one other woman wall dogger besides me. We did a huge pictorial billboard in the 80's about 30' up using the swing stage concept, without the stage. Instead we tied together 2 extension ladders and cut MDO to put over the rungs and walked on that. In the middle I was about...

33 years. Started in '77 screen printing and hand painting. Bought the Gerber 4b in '86 for 10K, (can you believe it?) and haven't had a boss bossing me around since. I guess I qualify as a geezerette.... dee

Welcome from another Central Florida shop! I do mostly vehicles in Lake County. Orange is tough! Lots and lots of competition.

sorry but the going rate for this kind of volume is $4.75 printed and installed. your talking 12,000 s/f of print for this job.. even at that price there are many shops who will do that kind of volume even cheaper. if you think it is to low this kind of work is not in your arena.... nor will...

If you get a heavy material, 3-4 mil like busmark, it's not so hard to install. Won't like the ribs much, but for only a couple days, and cheap.....

Removed "big time cable co." logos and installed new "big time cable co." logos on 368 vans in 5 cities in 8 days with a crew of 5. All involved prospered. The vans came to each location in a steady stream, in most cases with drivers waiting. When the van was done, the guy changed his shirt and...

CJ I'm using a CJ converted to 1110 Ecosol Inks and am very happy with it. It does a great job. One long-term issue is that it is a legacy type machine and can't be driven with anything newer than Windows XP, and the choice of RIP is limited. Even though Roland won't support it, it's...

Mauve Metallic I have a 15"x 40 yd roll, pretty old, but the adhesive is still sticky and it hasn't shrunk at all on the roll. It is a Gerber HP Metallic Light Rose, and looks like mauve to me. FDC has it as well. If you're interested, let me know. dee

Thanks for the input. The only answer I could get was to use CMYK profiles, as stated. What other rip would work? I sure don't like ColorChoice... On the plus side, the printer is working on a paying job, (printed and contour cut photo tex 40 peices) and is doing a great job at it! I'm so...

Hi! Can anyone tell me how to install a profile into ColorChoice 4.5V2? I just converted my CJ500 to 1100 mild solvent, and it's printing fine, but I want new profiles since the existing ones are for waterbased. We have built a profile for 3M ij180-CV3 using X-rite, and can't get Color Choice...

I'd love to see an answer to this as well. Color Choice does NOT rock!

The solution is clear, get a $100,000 UV flat bed and churn them out at cost until all the signmakers in your area are gone, then jack up your prices. (don't forget to turn out thousands of bandit signs saying "banner $1 per foot"). Yeah, That's the only way to make money on the &^%$# things...

I get the whole pricing issue for the coroplast (cor-x) signs and chose a long time ago not to give them away for "free" in hopes of acquiring other profitable orders from the potential client. What worries me is these things are the opening conversations for so many calls and since they...

Does anyone else feel like they are losing new potential customers because of these cheap signs? I get a few calls a week about these, and after explaining that I don't have a cheap way to provide them for $2 or $5 each and giving my best price I get a polite "thank you" and never hear from the...

Cj 500 I'm also interested in converting mine, but afraid to ruin it.... dee

My understanding is that the only program that will run the CJ 500 is ColorChoice or "possibly" Flexi. If I could buy the program of my choice it would not be flexi. I'd love to have a better rip for this machine but don't believe there are any other options. I've managed to work around it...

No, it's not. I spoke with the Roland techs (2) at my suppliers and he (they) was going to ask around and see if he could find an answer. Last week. And the week before. Maybe I could try to call Roland direct. Thanks!

I'm running a CJ 500 with ColorChoice 4.5. Just bought a brand new Lenova CPU with XP Pro. I can print, and print & contour, but when I send a contour only job ColorChoice crashes each and every time. I've done all the usual things such as reload the program, changed everything that could be...

The Amazing Formula Tools: Millimeter ruler, calculator and layout. Premise: You know you want the logo on the layout to be 6" tall and need to know how long it will be. 1. Measure the height of the logo in millimeters. (Let's say that comes to 14 mm.) 2. On calculator: 6 divided by 14...

We have the 4B, and it's been running everyday for the last 20+ years. No boat anchor here lol Me too. Bought mine used (5 yrs. old) in 1990 and that machine still runs every day, linked to my 12 yr old 64 bit generic CPU with GA 6.21. We routinely cut 10 yd. rolls into stripes with it while...