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I would say for install only jobs you would normally charge an hourly or daily rate. If you think the job will take you a day and a half, charge for two full days and base the price on that and that would include travel time. $1100 a day sounds quite a lot to be honest

We have all been there. When the customer sends a 72dpi one inch tall copy of their logo, and when you ask for a better ones they just resize it or save the 72dpi as 600dpi !

If you set up the cutting on the printer though correctly strips should last a long time without getting damaged

Make sure you order the correct size ! A lot of the chinese sellers advertise strips for various machines, but they aren't correct. Also the cheap ones don't have the adhesive on the back

Try a carpenter. That would work well made from plywood with an internal frame to support it, and any decently skilled one should be able to produce it.

I would try the other things first. Not sure if you can get the springs seperately, it may be worth taking them off and bending them a bit so they give more downwards pressure. I would look at the problem being more around the actual cutting carriage or blade holder though if you have already...

No problem, also give the grit rollers under the vinyl a good clean. Sometimes a stray bit of vinyl can get stuck to them or the pinch roller and cause the vinyl to slip. Another thing that can help is lowering the cutting speed on older machines

Normally it is down to the cutting strip, when this wears it can get a groove in it that deflects the blade and makes the cuts wavy. If not, check your blade holder, Make sure the blade can spin freely in it, and that it solid in there with no side to side wiggling. The other option is dirty or...

Ah yes I can see how for your main work it would be ok if printing straight posters. It sounds more like for the OP they also need to have a cut function though rather than just printing onto vinyl and cutting out by hand

That's the risk. Prints 'may' last ok with aqueous ink and laminated, or they many not, and do you really want to be replacing them after 6 months and losing your reputation ? Solvent inks are tried and tested for outdoor use, and we all know they are suitable for this. They also don't need...

Yes, if you are printing logos rather than jpeg / photo type images, and printing in high quality with overprints you can get results the same as screen printing with solvent inks. I'm not saying water based inks can't produce some good prints, but I have never seen any that are comparable for...

If you are using it for that, do the design yourself and just get a local print shop using solvent printers to print them out for you. Would be cheaper and you would know exactly what you are getting without having to adjust colours from the sample. Water based printers give a very different...

The originals would have been machine printed using printing plates, then die cut in large sheets. This was only suitable for making large amount due to the cost of making the plates and die. Smaller runs may have been screen printed. This is pretty much how all decals were made until the first...

Or if you have the space, one of the various 300 Roland printers. They can be picked up for a good price used, and put some new heads in and you basically have a new printer. Even if you are printing from a spare room at home, they don't need that much space They are good quality and will...

I think we all know that person that whatever you have done, they had it done first, twice as well and for a quarter of the price. :D If it really was $1000 was possibly just someone using very cheap material ( $500 - $600 ) then doing a days fitting for the rest and not charging for the...

Possibly if only used indoors and never in any direct sunlight, but certainly not for outdoor / vehicle use etc... Topcoats can help, but they aren't really a proper way of doing it compared to printing with non water based inks and you don't have any real guarantee of how long it is going to...

Not unless you are already have customers wanting thousands of stickers at a time. They are very limited in size so only really have one use

Dekstop printer ink will also fade very badly in quite a short time. You couldn't sell customers work done with a desktop printer.

Looking at your values on that you are actually printing a slightly greenish shade of yellow ( the cyan element ) rather than pure yellow. Printers that use CYMK inks are never the best when trying to print green tones, so what you are getting is pure yellow from the yellow head, then the...

The next step would be to replace the servo board. out of all the boards on the printer those and the print carriage boards are the ones that develop faults most often. The servo board controls a lot of the functions on the printer so a faulty one can cause problems with other parts of it. Avoid...