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  1. Price check: Install 4 posts along a hillside

    This x 1000!! We also don;t do wraps for the same reason, there are shops out there that do wraps all day long who can knock out a transit van in a day, and it will look better than my attempt which would take 4 days, In the time it takes me to wrap a car, i could produce 5 times the profit...
  2. Price check: Install 4 posts along a hillside

    My advise is to know your shop rate, quote your price at what you need to in order to be profitable. If you get it great, if not, oh well.
  3. Price check: Install 4 posts along a hillside

    So with the cost of everything on the rise, your advise is to lower your prices...
  4. Thinner acrylic or alternative substrate?

    We do not flatbed print on acrylic, but we do reverse print on vinyl and apply to second surface quite a bit. Depending on the overall size of the pieces, I can see why someone would want panels thicker than 0.25", when we do lobby signs over 48" long we use 0.375" or 0.5" to give it enough...
  5. Discussion What specific systems or strategies does your company employ to enhance productivity?

    We had a custom program written in filemaker for us to track the status of jobs and to quickly create work orders, it's been working really well for us, definitely better than the old paper copy floating around the shop! As for inventory, we've tried various ways of tracking inventory, but...
  6. 700w alternatives ?

    A little blue pill you give your printer so it lasts longer
  7. Nix Color Sensors

    I had one about 8 years ago, I found it not to work well for large format printing, it didn't work with pantone, you could scan something and match it to a paint or Vinyl colour, but that's it. I ended up returning it.
  8. 3m etched vinyl won't pick up with transfer tape

    Yeah we had similar issues with the 3M dusted crystal film, the vinyl sticks too well to the synthetic liner. We asked 3M about it and we were told we needed to use 3M transfer tape...
  9. Sharpcut Debris Vacuum Alternatives?

    add a cyclone system before your shop vac, it will capture 95% of the debris in a bucket before it gets to the vacuum. we had issues with our shopvac loosing power as it filled up, now it runs at a consistant power and clean up is very easy. we put this on a 5 gallon bucket and it works great...
  10. Routing acrylic w/ applied vinyl faces.

    Try cutting with an up cut bit, with the vinyl facing the bed of the router, that's what gives me the best results.
  11. Customer left large deposit, went MIA

    It sounded like she was looking for ways to "cleanse her soul" of this money, I offered a solution. Ask your CPA how long you need to hold onto this money before it becomes yours, after that time expires do whatever you want with it. If he comes back looking for it, I would return it though...
  12. Customer left large deposit, went MIA

    I would wait a year and if you don't hear from him, donate the money to a charity supporting survivors of sexual abuse.
  13. I know I've seen it before...

    Thanks Pat!
  14. Facebook Marketplace anyone?

    I never have, I always associate FB marketplace with low ballers and fly by night shops,I would never buy something that needed to last from there.
  15. I know I've seen it before...

    Anyone have any ideas what the attached font is? Thanks in advance!
  16. How do you Mounting Pads to ACM ???

    I had a similar project a few years ago, I used this stuff: https://www.homedepot.ca/product/sika-anchorfix-1/1000684214 and it worked very well, scuff the acm with a scotchbrite, clean it with alcohol and use a generous glob of this stuff and you should be fine
  17. Epson s80600 - will disabling one of the heads effectively sentence that head, its cap tops, and lines to death?

    Oddly enough, I was having bad banding issues from some dropped nozzles on head 1, so I turned head 1 off and kept printing for a few weeks, then I had a job that needed to be printed quickly and quality wasn't a concern, so I turned head 1 back on and somehow the original issue was gone and it...
  18. Epson s80600 - will disabling one of the heads effectively sentence that head, its cap tops, and lines to death?

    No it won't damage anything, I've had to disable one of the heads on mine for a few months with no issues.
  19. 5x10 work tble. where did you guy get that 5x10 sheet??

    Jesus, if this is the state of AI learning I'm not impressed.
  20. Someone to take over production?

    Where are you located?
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