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On the Epson you can start the print with the vinyl advanced about 1.5" beyond the pinch rollers. With some materials I like to advance it about 3-4" because there is a groove in the platen that curly materials can go down into and then pop up, causing head strikes or misfeeds. This doesn't mean...

Print from the pinch rollers..... what does that even mean? Printers print from the print heads.

We do laminated window graphics all the time. Have never had that happen. Perhaps your installer is stretching the material and/or squeegeeing too hard--perhaps with a chiseling technique? Any places where we see that immediately after installation, it goes away on its own with exposure to heat...

I just got a postcard in the mail from Express Sign Products Inc. offering PROLink chain link fence sign fasteners. 95 cents each in a pack of 150. Cheaper than three 2x4's and nuts and bolts per sign and hold more securely.

Cheaper to buy a cedar 4x4 and stain it than treated lumber and a post sleeve. Post sleeves require a cap too which changes the look of the sign.

It's in Chapter 12 of county ordinances. Definition of abandoned and/or obsolete sign at the top in 12-31. The Division 4-Abandoned or Obsolete Signs in 12-106 and 12-107. Not new ordinances. Passed in 6/15/21. Allows 6 months for business changes in properties (or after permit lapses). But...

Because it's not what the customer specified and uses on their signs routinely

Okay, so all the information about not painting treated lumber until it dries out is bogus and I won't have the customer coming back in a few months because all the white paint is peeling off?

Doing a job making some v-shaped for lease/for sale signs for a developer to install on some outlots around a shopping center. 5x10's mounted on 3 4x4's in the ground. Normally I'd use treated lumber 4x4's and stringers. But they want the 4x4's exposed all the way up at either end of the signs...

I don't think 6mm really provides a lot more strength from tearing. The faces are the same. Screws etc. cut into it just as easily. If they want really windproof material you're talking .080" aluminum. Then again, the highway signs I saw torn off were 0.125" aluminum. I've also dealt with many...

You won't convince them it's their mounting technique, but it was. And even if they were mounted perfectly, with the kind of winds these storms have had no sign is invulnerable. The storms that went across Missouri, not counting the tornadoes, had straightline winds exceeding 80 mph. That's...

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I don't see how anyone can think Corel Draw's UI is intimidating--especially if you have used Illustrator. Illustrator's UI is so opaque and illogical.

Stacey! I'd never have taken you for one of those people who leave the plastic film on the back of the sign. It doesn't "save" the back for future use. It looks tacky. If and when the customer is ready to replace the sign, it will be nigh unto impossible to remove the film from the back. Plus...

Given that Good Friday is this week my statement "tore from the bottom to the top" made me think that's the opposite of what happened to the curtain.

Poorly drawn fonts. In Corel they display properly and print OK but if you have to cut them, you end up cutting the overlapping shapes.

If the bottom was loose they were probably whipped around by the wind and tore from the bottom to the top. Doubt the premium/economy would make any difference except maybe in the speed of wind required to do this. The wind from the storms this spring have been very high. You're up north so it...

When lettering a trailer like that you have to decide how to deal with the rows of screws. When doing cut vinyl or print and cut vinyl, our preference is to remove the screws where the vinyl will go, install the graphic, then reinstall the screws. The screws use a #2 square bit. They are very...

The real reason Adobe is considered the graphics industry standard is not because of Adobe. It's because of Apple. Back in the dark old days of computing the Apple Mac became capable of handling graphics manipulation before the Windows computers could. So it became considered necessary to use a...

She just needs to learn to use Corel Draw. Spend a couple of hours doing basic sign layout. Like the quintessential No Dumping, For Sale, etc. Start each as a new layout, with a fictional set of instructions from fictional customers. If she cannot come to grips with designing signs in Corel Draw...