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A piece of advice....and FWIW. NEVER put your brushes into anything that you wouldn't put in your mouth. Good brushes are made from natural hair. They require a 'natural' product to form them, help keep their shape and to PRESERVE them. Motor oil, transmission oil, and the like...

From an article in Sign of the Times (many years ago) about engineering banners. "Vent holes do not reduce wind load to any significant degree and should be avoided unless reinforced and can be done w/o detracting from appearance." We have previously hashed the wind slit topic to death...

Admittedly I haven't done many awnings and the ones I have worked on were installed and in the field (and dirty). I took the advice of a sign guy who has had more than his share of awning work and we lettered with Ronan Aquacote. If there was a way to properly dry the stuff, I'd paint...

Thank you one and all. The responses were enlightening and as expected from a cross sample of industry professionals. I think it should go w/o saying that reproducing copyright material (sans legit permission) or a bit of forgery would not fall into the censorship catagory....lol. It's...

Today I got a call from an old colleague asking about an editor of a political blog. That "editor" was one of the very few folks/entities I have tossed out of my shop and banned for life. Anyway the blog itself was interesting and one of the topics was of Clear Channel rejecting some...

Not exactly sure what the post really says but regardless whether the 'proof' is merely a PDF or comes off a color proofing press, once the client ok's it, it then becomes their sole responsibility....for grammatical, spelling and layout errors. If our colors are off (from the approved proof)...

Hey, learned the hard way, what price was gas back then? When I was a kid and doing all that it was 21¢ a gallon but because of a price war I pumped at 18¢ a gallon a time time or two. Not only Green Stamps but we'd give you a glass coffee mug with a fillup at times as well. When folks...

Hello, Gino. YES - it was BC. Mostly lino setting, some hand type (headlines) and I remember we got a composer unit that would set type on paste-up paper using a chemical fixitive. I think the first one was blind in that it didn't have any sort of read screen. Later models had a one-line...

Direct emulsions can be a bear at times and your post shows it. Have you ever considered indirect? Such as Ulano and others provide? We gave up scoop coating many, many years ago. They are messy. There is no real way to determine the true thickness (over the entire screen). An...

Before getting into the sign trade I was in the printing trade and this issue was a common, everyday occurrence. At least it was if you read all the trade mags. Universally accepted print industry std. is once it is proofed by the customer and the customer has signed off - it is no longer...

You need a hot stamp foil press. You can buy anything from a table top hand operated model all the way to high speed air-operated presses. There can be drawbacks because you need either some Linotype slugs for the names or metal type and know how to manually set type (ugh). We were...

Thomas Register is your friend here. We are lucky in that we have a local supplier who has numerous bags and boxes available that they sell to the boutique store retail trade. We get the high luster paper shopping bags (with handles) we need from them to screen print for a few of our...

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I have a merchant who runs a local neighborhood store who is having a bit of a problem. He purchased a single-line LED message sign for his store and the folks (sign shop) he bought it from installed it and everything went well for a while. Then, one day, they vanished. literally. His...

It is something we do as we have the costs for everything at our fingertips. Only takes a few seconds to add that to a quote. Translucent isn't always an option if the client demands a particular color and some clients could care less how it looks when illuminated as they only care what they...

I just love reading how everyone else would handle it. You are really going to know their budget. Price one: Strip, clean, re-letter with cast. No Guarantee aside from workmanship. Price two: Strip, clean, re-letter with translucent. No Guarantee aside from workmanship. Price three -...

As Gino said there is a most definite front and back side to Lexan. Luckily, it is usually color coded. Be sure to ask your dealer WHICH SIDE IS WHICH and do not remove the front side protective film until the install or when you do the decoration, assuming front side is decorated. The...

If you have some weak paint but not all the paint is weak then the first thing to try is applying your adhesive all around the perimeter and then in a letter X or vertical stripes | | | | | in the open areas. Really, all you need is but one top centered screw (small lag bolt or even a...

Lexan is a good choice where damage is expected...but you need the proper grade. My first choice, due to costs and availability, is high impact Acrysteel. If I were ordering Lexan, then I would get Super Impact Lexan or Lexan SG depending on what was available. Also, the thicker the...