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I have a customer that has one of those thin backlit led signs and the print is held in place by the front glass and is sandwiched in. We have the artwork almost ready but cannot find a printer here in canada that prints on a translucent film that does not have adhesive on the back. We have...
I am working on building a light table for layering vinyl and I am looking for options on what to make the top from. Would anyone recommend glass or acrylic and what do you do to diffuse the light?
I am wondering where everyone purchases their alcohol for cleaning cars prior to wrapping. I was getting 99% from a vet and diluting it down to 70% but it seems the price keeps going up. What other options is there to get it?
looking for a font that resembles lettering on trucks that was done by hand. I have a customer that wants lettering like that on his truck, I have an idea what hes looking for just cant find the right font. Any sugestions would be great
We are going through our old files and cleaning up space and have some old Signlab files that the old owner used and since he is no longer here we dont have Signlab any longer. Is there a way of converting them to a PDF so we canopen them or any tricks to do this. I really dont want to shell...
I am going out on my own and am going to sub out the printing for now until business picks up but would like a cutter in the shop. In a perfect world I would have a Roland or a Graphtec but $4000 right out the box isn't an option. I see Master or GCC America Expert cutters for sale and they...
We have a Roland VS-540 print and cut and use it daily to print a job with marks, lam and reposition to cut the graphics out. I would like to know how to put in regular Avery A9 vinyl and have the printer just cut the design. I assume it has to look for crop marks to start cutting but I dont...
Im working on a design for a store sign and the plan is to print a background with the logo on alupanel and then route the store name out of something thick. What is a good material to route letters out of, Komatex, Komacel? I thought acrylic but I want a thick look.
On a separate note, can...
We always price sign boxes we build buy taking each component such as ballast, lamps, sockets etc taking the cost adding our markup percentage added to each component so lets say we buy a ballast for $50 markup to $80, lamps for $10 markup to $15 and so forth and add all that together with the...
I am slowly taking over more and more responsibilities at the shop and one thing im ready to tackle is to bring in more business. Customers coming in and looking for a sign, thats no problem what im after is going out and getting the business from business's that don't know about us, that want...
We have a plan on building a 16ft high pylon sign and are stuck as how to mount the top sign and we need to figure this out in order to quote the job. We want to put a 10 foot wide by 6 foot high box on top of two 8 inch steel post. My question is how would you mount the top box? We have a...
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