Recent content by CanuckSigns

America is the only country I've ever seen that associates prices of daily items with whoever was president at the time, as if the president has any say in the price of gas at the pumps, or the price of strawberries in the store. Most presidents are in office for 4-8 years, prices change a lot...

I usually get a list of sign types from architects, but the GC's never give me an actual list, or a design, they want me to go through their floor plans and make a list and design a sign system as well, and they will send this to 10 shops, who all come back with completly different prices and...

There is an AI service that will create vector graphic files from your prompts, i tried it out with something simple like " draw me an illustration of a duck" and what it came back with looked like something my 5 year old would draw, I wouldn't be worried just yet.

3651 has a tinted adhesive, so it is not the correct product for a backlit sign, but yes you can use rapid tac on it no issues.

That sucks, I'm sorry this happened it looks like a good job you would be proud of otherwise! Unfortunatly there is no such thing as a laminate that is going to hold up to a utility knife, there are some that are anti- graffiti and allow you to clean off sharpie and spray paint, but these...

Metric is leaps and bounds better than imperial, however I was taught imperial and it's what I use as well. I do wish we used the A standard for paper/print sizes here, everything is the same aspect ratio, makes scaling artwork a breeze! no more clients sending you a 8.5"x11" flyer and wanting...

what about the people with a round/square logo that want it to fill their rectangular wall... I'm amazed by how many people can't wrap their head around proportion.

I find that is usually a metric conversion somewhere along the line, sometimes the spec is designed in metric, converted to imperial, back to metric, then back to imperial before it gets to you, each time it's rounded up or down a bit, it's like a game of telephone from when we were kids

I was wondering what units of measurement some of you have gotten from clients before, I just got an email from a customer for some engraved tags that "need to match" the previous ones (which we didn't make), I asked for a size and he emailed me a photo of an existing tag next to his lighter, so...

I used carbonate in the past, in fact we had a massive fire at the shop and lost everything, but carbonate had our data MOSTLY backed up. Their desktop program sucks, it's constantly failing to backup and needs to be manually updated in order to proceed, but there are no warnings about this, so...

I have no idea what resilvering is lol. Like I said in my post, I feel the synology is a great solution for 99% of shops, it's a great "set and forget" machine, that is leaps and bounds better than what most small businesses are currently doing, which is nothing.

Honestly, this is the best option for 99% of small businesses, the synology NAS boxes when configured correctly are incredibly resilient against being hacked, and the automated backup options included just work, period. We have a 4 bay synology at the shop that serves all our files to 10...

I disagree, when we had the same issues with our roland, roland refused to speak with me, all communication had to go through the dealer,.and.ebentually they stopped responding to the dealer. Roland is now a shell of their former selves, and I am.far.from alone in thinking that.

Ask him to paint your house, then point out the imperfections in his work... But seriously, explain to him that this is a moving billboard, much like the bit of lint under paint on a wall, it will not affect the durability and no one will notice it. If you post some photos of the issues...

I'm convinced they were just trying to run out the warrantee period on us, they were sending our tech out 1-2 times a week to get a fresh peck report, that was all they did, our local tech had a few ideas but roland refused to pay him to do them because they didn't believe it would fix the...