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  1. A chance to make a banner! Need a favor

    Show them the cut vinyl ones and a printed one and they will prefer the printed ones... As long as you lay off the carbon fills as Jill advised! Hey Jill... that white text in yours reminds me of Mario Puzo "The Godfather" for some reason. Here is a quickie using a juicedrop &...
  2. Platten heater 077

    can you replace just the bad element?
  3. how does the "little guy" compete

    Probably a soccer-mom with a shiny new cricut that wants to make wall words and heat press transfers onto baby onsies through her etsy website.
  4. 65* in PA

    The more likely scenario is that I have to work in a restaurant to pay the bills because the sign business sucks.
  5. how does the "little guy" compete

    anyone can make a cheap sign and plenty of them do... so it is hard to compete unless you have a big bankroll and can buy in bulk quantities to get lower pricing on materials. Competing on price is a losing battle that you cannot win in the long run. There is ALWAYS going to be someone...
  6. 65* in PA

    You can use your oven at home, cranked to 500. But it will not cook right... It will take 20+ minutes. Some pizza weenies jimmy the latch on their oven door so they can set it to auto-clean and get temps in the 750° range. Some guys fool the themostat in the oven by making a tin foil...
  7. 65* in PA

    I wing it.. no recipe. Even if I had one I doubt most people would do it! I am one of those compulsive obsessive foodies in my other life. It is essentially a 3 day process starting with a high hydration foccaccia dough. A scant 1/8tsp Yeast (IDY), water, flour (00 Caputo Blue), and salt...
  8. 65* in PA

    no bbq today... fajita pizza! Grilled skirt steak, chicken breast, onions, bell peppers, chipotle powder, sharp cheddar, mozzarella. Garlic Herb Parmesean buttered crust. Cooked in a Lodge cast iron pizza pan in my komodokamado smoker at 600°F for about 9 minutes. Delish!
  9. 65* in PA

    I didn't read it until AFTER I wrote mine! I use that one alot (BBQ forums) and also ALT + 0162 for the cents character. Faster than the symbold map.
  10. 65* in PA

    ALT + 0176 is the code for typing the degree symbol on a PC 63°F high in AZ today
  11. Newbie question about T-shirt printing

    Sometimes those are printed on the roll of fabric first and then cut & sewn. If the shirt is already sewn then you can do it on a belt printer, BUT you then have to flash the 1st side, then flip the shirt over and deal with registration to do the back side. Not an easy thing, and easy to...
  12. Serial cable?

    you can also buy some db9 female connectors and a length of cable and make your own. You need a wire stripper, and a cable crimper to attach the pins on the end of the wires. The pins then attach to the db9... some are just clip on, and some are solder on. If you have ever made an ethernet...
  13. Laser cut vinyl?

    cutting pvc (like sintra, etc..) and cutting vinyl now & then is completely different! If you are cutting so much vinyl that it messes up your printer then you need to buy a vinyl cutter! The acrylic smoke will kill your lens alot faster than the thin later of vinyl will.
  14. Cheap Vinyl Shrinking

    LOL! 3651 with 210 Lam IS the cheap stuff! It is calendared vinyl. It will crack like any other, maybe not as fast as the SUPER CHEAP STUFF you have been buying. To avoid it you have to buy CAST, and CAST Laminate Try 3951RA with 290 Lam... a buck sixty three a square before you...
  15. How to proceed

    Why don't you know how much material youwill be using? If you know the car make/model/year then you can get the sqft needed from your design software (like PVO) From that base estimate you can quickly come up with a price for a given area. You can generalize by type... Mini's/Compacts...
  16. How to proceed

    Then quit doing it! What you should do is have a nice portfolio of work that you can show them. If they like your style and body of work then they will buy. You explain the workflow... you start working after they place an order, then they approve the proof, you schedule install date...
  17. Graphtec coming out with a new plotter?

    At a show!?
  18. Material Advice

    Then order the print from a wholesale vendor that carrys the material. You can pay for just the print without having to shell out $1k for a roll that you will only use a fraction of. I'd use Chris at AZProSigns! </shameless plug>
  19. Poster Printing Paper Recomendation

    I have been using Solvex 9 mil 220g gloss.... fellers Customers like it.
  20. Golf Flags..

    Anyone know where I can buy wholesale poly tubes for golf flags?? I need the 14x20 and the mini ones for putting greens. We got some golf tourney jobs coming up, so we are going to start sewing some flags... Probably sublimate some, heat press vinyl some, and screen some... depends on the...
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