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The $1 per square foot is only the outsourced price for the banner itself. Several of us pointed out all the additional factors that drive the retail cost of the things we produce and sell. Our customers routinely pay at least $48 for a 2'x3' banner. Based on a $80 per hour shop rate and our...

That is a boatload of rationalizations and "what ifs" just to justify what appears to be an exorbitant rate compared to your local cost of living and the specs of the OP's original criteria. Remember him or her? They actually are your client on this job. Nobody is questioning your...

Nice cherry pick.

I didn't say that. I said his hourly rate is $125, there is a difference. IF our installer was doing another job near a site that we just needed a couple of faces slid into a cabinet and it only took an hour, he would only charge us his normal hourly rate. I also stated in a separate post that...

Wow! On another thread you stated that you charge $5.75 per square foot for banners but suddenly your shop rate jumps to over $200 per hour including travel time for an interior installation into a material you could almost drill with a punch and a hammer? For the sake of any of us who work...

An answer to that with any relevance to your situation would demand having information about your local cost of living, local shop rates, number of competitors, etc. Unless the job is located next door to your shop, I can't see how ANY installation would take just 30 minutes. There is time...

First of all, my response wasn't even to the OP, it was to visual800 who presumed that anyone who might have issues with the font choice are idiots. I'd add that most people offering opinions on the logo design questioned the font choice for the exact reasons I did. Go attack them. Obviously...

Given the per capita income and average cost of living there, you're probably in the right pricing range if commercial property rents are similar to housing costs.

I guess the advice a few of us have offered has had little or no influence on you at all? You have to accurately calculate your entire overhead in order to determine what hourly rate and pricing you need to command. Even if a one person business working in your home basement, you still have...

Maybe your eyes are more finely tuned to something up on a 27" monitor or due to your age, visual acuity, etc. To presume those who take issue with a font choice are that for one isn't a display font typically used for the primary impact message in a logo, but also letterspaced too widely and...

If you're really serious about entering our craft and want to survive over the long haul as well as prosper, get yourself a subscription to SignCraft magazine and honestly use the overhead calculator tools available to figure out what your true overhead is and what your hourly shop rate needs to...

Does the clear not have anti-UV properties in it? I'm mostly curious because we will be replacing our ION Solara in the next year or so and the JFX200 is one of the printers we are considering.

Even if the job calls for a specific pure blue, try and fortify that color with small percentages of the other 3 inks and that will greatly enhance longevity. A couple percentage points of the other three ink colors will not be noticed by anyone but the most skilled eye and it really makes a...

Without knowing your equipment or the ink longevity on your flatbed, its kind of hard. We're running an old Gerber ION Solara and have lots of work out there in a hyper UV setting that is five years old or older and still holding up without much fading. What direction will the signs be facing...

Leave the job of moderation of who says what to the moderators. I for one can't believe all this needs to be spelled out to an 80 year old man who appears completely tone deaf to the fact that the new guidelines were mostly put in place because of your inability to accept responsibility for...

Please define "mess". All I'm seeing is the ownership and moderators taking a much needed stance on enforcing their guidelines and refusing to let the inmates run the asylum. By holding people's posting privileges in the balance if they post inflammatory, insulting, threatening, overtly...

I'm not sure its worth the extra effort. The Coroplast is going to deteriorate and start breaking up before your print starts to fade, so why even bother? Just because an inferior product was present or chosen before doesn't mean we shouldn't at least try to upsell the customer into a better...

You came to ask advice and get some encouragement, but end up insulting someone who you know nothing about or how good he or she may be at our craft. Yes, its a craft. One of the oldest on earth and not to be taken lightly if you are at all serious about practicing it. All any of us have to...

When the intrinsic value of the ADVERTISING is forgotten or ignored by the vendor and everything is commodified down to a simple mathematical equation based on expenses and desired profit margin, we see the race to the bottom take over. I applaud and have the utmost respect for my peers and...

I don't see the choice between software preferences being an either/or dilemma. I think a lot of it depends on the company one keeps and the type of signs one MOSTLY does. If designing, engineering and preparing working, scaled drawings for mostly electrical signage permitting, fabrication...