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Either your material isn't loaded square, you don't have the dots lined up with your cutting strip and basepoint set. Did you print the "print/alignment" crop marks onto your prints?

For the most part, I think it's all true, but as with everything, outliers exist for a variety of reasons. Big cities or small towns, there have always been those that think they can outsmart the laws of economics and underbid others and not have it catch up with them eventually. Wait, so...

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I don't deny the rule and certainly factor in those higher than normal costs when trying to understand why so many of my competitors seem to defy it on a daily basis. While material costs are fairly close nationwide, nearly everything else is skewed to the LCOL. We have shops here using...

I'm sorry, I should have been clearer. Put the level or something really straight on platen across as much of the length as you can. Then have someone go to the back of the printer and shine a flashlight at it so you can see from the front if there are any gaps between the platen and the...

The knife carriage doesn't really have a lot of up or down play in it, or at least it shouldn't. If it's cutting through in some areas and not even touching in others, it doesn't seem like a cutting pressure issue. Have you placed a level of something really flat on the platen right over...

Correctimundo. The original quote does show a QUANTITY discount.

I just used the wrap example to try and wrap my head how he can justify that price per square foot. Depending on the grade of ACM used, it's not some throw away material like Coroplast. The construction industry uses it for cladding and other purposes. If using 651 or intermediate vinyl, his...

$22.00 per square foot for a sign on a substrate that costs you less than $2.00 per square foot? What kind of media are you using on this stuff? Even IJ180 is less than $3 per square even with laminate included. A 4x+ markup is pretty high.

Fred nails it just the good old days.

At first glance it looked like Meta Bold Italic, but it's so pixelated, I'm not sure now.

How do we do it? Practice my friend. Practice. If I was doing this door all by myself, I would place a tape hinge across the width of the masked off graphic about a quarter of the way down from the top. I'd then peel back just that much of the decal, slice off the backing, VERY lightly spritz...

We've gotten away from homemade application solutions. There are just too many unknown additives in dishwashing soap and depending on the quality of your local water, it can produce cloudiness on clear decals and other undesirable effects. The folks who manufacture RapidTac have a formula...

Maybe you should follow your own advice. You're just as much of the situation as anyone else. One freaking morning out of ten years without your buddy and you and Texas had to make a huge drama queen affair out of it, yet you've got the gall to tell others to chill out and watch our panties...

It's a huge part of the problem both here and out in the culture at large. Toxic masculinity, black and white thinking, lack of nuance, whatever you want to call it. I worked under the baddest ass, most fearless, cantankerous, grouchy, straight shooting, tell it like it is, set in stone, world...

In a real pinch, we've used do it yourself sprinkler system tubing.

Yes, it's a nice idea except one thing is wrong with the sentiment. When something IS an attack, folks tend to prickle up and get tired of slapping their foreheads and turning the other cheek day after day as the same person careens through life "telling it like it is" to anyone near them.

This is the first post in that thread that I added. I challenge you to pick out where I "antagonized" anyone. "I'm on many other forums from one's about my favorite musical groups to sports teams, to politics, art and multiple SIGN related forums and don't see the same people attacking...

Me too. I've been a signmaker for over 40 years and love our craft and have worked in lots of different shop types from gigantic billboard down to one person all hand lettered custom signs. I'm fiercely loyal to it and strive to have our trade represented properly and more than just as a quick...

I'm not "screeching" anything. I'm responding to false characterizations being made about me with calm, well thought out rebuttals to his and others false aspersions and accusations. There are several threads going on right now that several of the same people engaged here are on and there is...