software

To make this more interesting, read in the voice of Morgan Freeman. I've been in the sign industry for 20 years. For most of those years, I've watched us all complain about our software. Everybody knows the workflow can really SUCK! Everybody does it anyway because there's nothing better. Or...

Hi, just got approved, and this seems like the right place to ask. I'm building a simpler alternative tool to ShopVOX for small sign shops. I'm in an early phase, and before writing any code, I genuinely want to understand how shops run day to day from hands-on people. Specifically, I'm curious...

Hello, Sign Industry! I'm 3toed. I make web apps that let us work with AI on our sign projects. TWO TOOLS I THINK YOU'LL LIKE ADA Sign Designer — a visual design tool for ADA-compliant signage. You build the sign on a canvas, and it helps you handle the parts that are easy to get wrong...

We have used Shopvox as software management for years. Pretty much every year they have increased their fees, which is understandable, but we have 5 accounts and it is becoming a little bit too much for us now. I have been reading and searching for options that works similarly to Shopvox, and it...

Hey y'all - I grew up in my dad's sign shop since I was 9 (20+ years ago) and realized how inefficient the order fulfillment process has always been. Some things drove me crazy: orders scattered everywhere (email, paper, asana), approved files impossible to find when you need them, no proof...

What do people use as a note taking app. I take my iPad to site visits. I like to take pictures, draw, and take notes. I’d like an app that directly communicates back to the office what I’ve recorded. Maybe even send a link to everyone involved of the site notes easily right after.

Hey everyone, I'm Matthew, and I run a small print shop. I've been lurking here for a while, learning a ton from you all, and figured it was time to actually introduce myself. Like most of you, I got into this business because I love the work. But after a few years, I found myself spending...

Does anyone know how to reduce/remove the number of paper sizes in this list? I don't know why I have to scroll through all of them trying to find the 5 sizes I uses.

Hey all, I have a software related question and was wondering if anyone has any insight into this topic. We are looking for a way to take all of our sign orders and divide them by material type to make nesting our jobs more efficient. For example, 2 orders come in. Order 1 has signs on High...

I've been a signmaker for 8 years, owner for 5. And I was sick of all of the quoting software out there, so I developed my own. It's been two years in the making. Personally I have been using it in my shop for almost a year. Now I'm looking to take it public this year. But I need some beta...

I'm looking for advice on how to configure the hot folders for multiple Zund machines. Currently we are sending the cut files to each machine individually. Both machines are running the same version of the software. We would like to be able to send the file once and have it accessible by each...

Does anyone have a link to a good economical electrical design software? We would be using this for mapping out our electrical systems and show disconnects, powersupplys, RGB control systems etc. It greatly helps our install crews on creating a cut sheet for the install as well as help develop...

Hey guys! New to the forum. I work for the leading commercial printing company in Chile, South America. Currently working on getting some of our product offerings online through a Web-to-Print solution. South America is really behind in terms of technology and things you might see in the...

Hi I’m currently running myob for our sign business but I need something better that can create delivery dockets etc As that seems to be so time consuming. Also something to manage our purchase orders and be more efficient. I’m in Western Australia if that helps

Has anyone heard of or used infloprint ? Pros? Cons?

The owner of our sign shop took over a couple of years ago and we just adopted the software that the previous owners used: Estimate Desktop Software and Quick Books Desktop. Putting our feelers out to see if there is something better that we could be using, or if we are in the right ball park!

Hello friends, I have a vehicle branding company (cars and motorcycles) and we would like to offer adhesive decoration kits for motocross bikes. We already know about the ccvision software for obtaining car templates, but do you know of any software that can provide us with templates for...

Hi , I am using cutting master 4 - I have two Graphtec plotters connected and they both work fine when I change plotters it remembers the two ticks on the left selecting the perf cut and the sticker cut only and this works well. What it doesn't do is remember the settings/conditions for the...

Hello guys! Bill here from Greece.. 2 days ago i got a mimaki cg61 cutting plotter <<Dinosaur>> . unfortunately the working pc has been toss to garbage by the wife of the owner who died . i have the plotter and its cables plus a CADlink adapter on the serial port side (to pc ) , i went at a...

Does anyone know where I can purchase 3D vector artwork to create signage drawings for raceways, channel letters, etc. or if there is software out there to do this? We typically use CorelDraw and Illustrator for our drawings, but was hoping there was something out there pre-made that we could...