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hey wes....yeah! ,lol....if you read my post i don't say i'm making that! i wish! just i know several people personally in our area and thats what they are making currently and continue to do so. hay, they are doing something right.....theres business out there still, even in this economy.

i know sign guys in our area are making upwards of 75k a month...yeah, a month! no joke!! the taxes they pay are unreal!! i know of another sign guy whos making 3 mill + and hes so busy hes turning business away! man....would be nice eh!

cast without exception! we had a client recently who wanted his box truck doing, a mix of prints and cut lettering. he said he would be painting it so i told him he needed to ait at least 30 days for the paint to out gas. so thats where were at now. do not put any graphics on a freshly painted...

we also use epoxies etc and have been using the hard epoxy and have had 2 samples to try ont he softer one but everytime we try the softer one its always sticky/tacky around the edge!! i really need to get a softer resin for some stuff i need to do for a customer. anyone have any ideas as to...

and 1/2" forged steel will build muscles and protect employees from bullets! lol...thats funny!! so you guys think coro will do then yeah? i mean its cheap enough and easy enough to swop over the message when needed i guess.

yeah i'd thought of that in the beginning but wasn't to keen on the idea as corro does have a habit of bending and they throw these things around in the air all day.

we've been asked to quote on one of those boards you see people twirling at the side of roads to grab your attention, you know the ones they throw up into the air and twirl them around... they want an arrow approx 5ft long. now having never done anything like that before what kind of substrate...

as a rule we do 13oz for "normal" short term banners and 16oz for longer periods. as mosh says, make sure you inform the customer that banners as really not ideal for long term. i know in our town you can only have banners up a certain time before they need to be removed.

make sure your using the correct media clamps for the banner material, you need to use the longer ones and also up the head hight to. if your material is in crocked that will cause it to buckle after a while and you will get a slight hump/bump on one side, that will cause a head strike. make...

yeah, mesh banner. fellers do it, advantage do it if i remember correctly also.

+1 to what gino just said.....well said gino.

we just lost a bid on a 14ft box truck today, we came in at just under 1800 bucks and another sign shop quoted them 1100 bucks. customer asked if we could beat that price and i said no chance!! you want the right materials and the job done correct, thats our price.

we've used graphityp many times for stuff in europe. but as fitch says, there HAS to be suppliers in sweden! you can go to the graphityp website and i'm sure they'll ship to sweden but it would be much cheaper finding a supplier from your nearest town/city.

what fitch said...i was going to post that kinda thing but he beatme to it...real easy buddy.....just take your time.

we have used orbus acouple time lately but not for banner stands. we had the regional rep out to us on tuesday, really nice guy and was very inpressed with there banner stands and prices. great company so far to deal with and they seem to have some really good products, so like insignia says...

bluefish, which banner stands were they if you don't mind me asking??

thanks boomer, great advice and appreciate your offer for a chat. need to see whats the "package" will include and what price they want. i'll checkout those other sites and see what the "average" price should be. thanks

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thanks for the info boomer, appreciate it. i've looked online at what digitizing involves etc and as you say looks to be a learning curve with it. do you know what sort of price a good used one of these would or should be going for? the person hasn;t told us a price as yet so want to know a ball...

anyone have or had one of these machines? any good or bad points? were looking at maybe getting into this market and we have someone we know who is going to be selling theres in the near future as they are changing there business. comes with aesign shop or design shop,....sorry can't read my...