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Just wanted to share some lessons learned about recently shutting down a sign shop. Making the decision to shut down or sell your shop should be made as dispassionately as possible. After a few years you can tend to forget to make a business decision, you start to think about how the business...

"Do you make prints of documents?" Are you asking if I make copies? "Yes." Sorry, I don't make copies, I am not a copy shop. "Do you know where I can get copies made?" At a copy shop? Maybe Office Max? "Can you guarantee they make copies?" You're asking me if I can guarantee what Office...

So I posted a want ad for a graphic artist. Specifically in the ad stated to apply in person. I don't want emails from somebody 3 states away. I don't want phone calls. I want somebody to Apply In Person. Of the ones that have walked in the door to apply. Wife beater t-shirt and gym shorts...

When you didn't invite me to the BBQ? :noway: /just venting

Is it possible for profiling software to build in an expiration date? Say a profile is done on Jan 1 2013, can it set the profile to expire on Jan 1 2014 requiring a new profiling be done? Nothing dramatic, like no print output, but maybe shift the output noticeably. Just a new conspiracy...

My XC540 threw up an error code that isnt in the "book" Internal error 1822326 This happened when the printer could not find cropmarks, havent had this error before.

Just having a thought that is starting to come together and wondered what y'all might think. I have hired school trained graphic artists, some have had Fine Arts degrees, some have had Graphics Arts degrees. It seems that I get better creativity from the Fine Arts graduates vs. the Graphic Arts...

Can't believe it took me so long to figure this out. Need to remove a mirror or a light from a vehicle for wrapping and don't know how to do it? You Tube! seriously, search it on you tube and it is probably there. This tip brought to you from my friend the car stereo installer!

Contracts, contracts, contracts. Much like location is everything in Real Estate, Contracts are everything in business. I took on production of another shop. I was to produce signage, they were to sell it. I was to take on equipment, they were to maintain a storefront. I was becoming the...

Car pulls up in front of the shop, older woman driving, young man in passenger seat. Young man comes in the shop and asks if we are hiring. I ask if he has any experience in sign making or graphic design. "Nope." Sorry, not hiring at this time. "But my mom is gonna kill me if I don't get a...

Been having an interesting issue with electric in the shop. I am running a shop vac and a panel saw on the same circuit. Nothing else on the circuit. Turn on shop vac, then saw, poof! circuit breaker blows. Replaced the outlets, they were very old, everything worked fine for 2 weeks. Today...

Screw it! I'm tired of getting the run-around and being blown off. I have been using Triangle bulk inks since 2006. I have been very happy with them for all of that time an I have wholeheartedly recommended their bulk inks to anyone that has posted here asking about them. Check my history...

Long story short, the shop I used to send the "unprofitable" work to has shut down. And it seems that most of the other shops around town were sending "unprofitable" customers that way also. So, how do you find that low balling vinyl cutter in a garage shop in your area?

Ok, Roland XC-540, I set it up for a print job and apparently I did not seat the right hand media clamp correctly, it started to print, and knocked the media clamp loose, dragged that about 3 inches and stopped with a motor error. I shut the power off, removed the media clamp and did not find...

Could anyone point me in the right direction?

Long story follows. I print wholesale for a bunch of local small sign shops. One of the shops was sold and the new owners knew nothing about the sign business. They asked me to help them, and I did. I literally helped them learn how to use a squeegee to lay vinyl, how to cut vinyl, etc... I...

Customer walks in, looks around the shop at the signs and banners, asks if I paint walls. I tell him no, I print on vinyl and then apply to walls. If he needs a sign painter I can put him in touch with one. No, he already painted the wall. He starts telling me that he primed his wall with...

Roland SC-540V, I was getting some banding, none of the usual fixes are working. So I do a Calibration test print and get what you see in the picture. Normally those boxes should be within millimeters of each other, I'm really at a loss here, what am I missing?

I can't believe it took me this long to figure out. I started this about a month ago. Never promise anything will be done on a Friday. It's so simple. It's too simple. But it works. It took me about 2 weeks to get out of the habit of taking an order, (especially on a Thursday) and...

So this is what it has been for the past 6 years. It's not really a logo, and 3 different fonts is getting on my nerves as well. I'm just kind of stuck with what to do to change things, I'm going to be needing to print new promotional materials, cards, brochures, etc... in the next few weeks...