Prowraps nailed it. We occasionally do contract installs for AllOver Media. It is extreme low budget transit stuff. The contract install rates are so low to the extreme that you have no choice but to nearly slap the prints on with your bare hands as fast as possible and move on to the next one. The only way to make any money is with volume.
That being said - I'm NOT advocating or saying the worst of those wrinkles are acceptable. But bubbles and big tented rivets is the way it goes with contract transit installs. This stuff is intended to be seen from a distance and generally will only be up for one to three months and it's pulled right back off. It has to be printed on low cost material, generally low resolution, and generally with no laminate at all, and definitley not getting app tape. They do ice boxes, ATM, fleet, etc. If you get a request from them you have to beat on them hard to get more money and it's generally only going to be somewhat profitable if you are getting multiple units to do. We have turned them down at times and have also done quite a few installs for them. Depends on what they are offering financially and what we have going on in the shop. If I can spare the internal staffing at $xx per hour and send them out and get $xxx per hour in return I'll often bite. If I'm swamped internally I'll tell them flat out that we cannot do it. We actually have a tiny install I'm sending one of my guys out to do the first week of April. He will be gone from the shop less than an hour, literally a 15 minute install.
Shame on the installers who did this and those who find this acceptable.
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