Doug Allan
New Member
I'm not exactly a new member, but I put this inquiry here because I am sorta new here...
...some folks here know me from Letterville, or from Gary's old Gerber Edge user site 4Edgetalk,com and briefly even that colorcut.com site Roland had before that. Some knew me as my evil twin iSign here for awhile.
Anyway, by the time I hit 60, next February, I'm liking the idea of not doing signs anymore... at least not full time, & not the same way I used to.
In the last 5 years, I've downsized significantly from 4,000 square feet of shop space, 2 or 3 employees, tons of shop tools, and sign equipment, and warehousing an extensive inventory of inks, thermal resins, vinyl colors, print & lam media & a plethora of sign panel & CNC substrates.
Now I am a one man shop, I sold my CNC to the local "maker Space", so I can still rent time on it, and after 15 years of in house digital printing, I'm outsourcing all of that. I've always had others do my redwood glue-ups, and the actual blasting. I would even sub out more of my install work, if I were staying a little bit busier.
Now, I want to find a source to sub out cut vinyl, because I've downsized so much already that I want to almost sidestep production work altogether, but without the headache of an employee.
I've been far more satisfied with outsourcing my printing work, than I ever thought possible. For cut vinyl jobs, I used to have a huge wall full of color choices, but I've let that dwindle, and now I have so few colors & when I only need a small amount, the freight kills me, here in Maui!
So that's my (sorta) new member intro, and my big ask.
Anybody know a good cut vinyl wholesaler?
...some folks here know me from Letterville, or from Gary's old Gerber Edge user site 4Edgetalk,com and briefly even that colorcut.com site Roland had before that. Some knew me as my evil twin iSign here for awhile.
Anyway, by the time I hit 60, next February, I'm liking the idea of not doing signs anymore... at least not full time, & not the same way I used to.
In the last 5 years, I've downsized significantly from 4,000 square feet of shop space, 2 or 3 employees, tons of shop tools, and sign equipment, and warehousing an extensive inventory of inks, thermal resins, vinyl colors, print & lam media & a plethora of sign panel & CNC substrates.
Now I am a one man shop, I sold my CNC to the local "maker Space", so I can still rent time on it, and after 15 years of in house digital printing, I'm outsourcing all of that. I've always had others do my redwood glue-ups, and the actual blasting. I would even sub out more of my install work, if I were staying a little bit busier.
Now, I want to find a source to sub out cut vinyl, because I've downsized so much already that I want to almost sidestep production work altogether, but without the headache of an employee.
I've been far more satisfied with outsourcing my printing work, than I ever thought possible. For cut vinyl jobs, I used to have a huge wall full of color choices, but I've let that dwindle, and now I have so few colors & when I only need a small amount, the freight kills me, here in Maui!
So that's my (sorta) new member intro, and my big ask.
Anybody know a good cut vinyl wholesaler?
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