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Recent content by ddarlak

  1. Timely: Any experience with customer disputing a charge for an order that was produced correctly and that he picked up?

    You send them 3 pages of crap and expect that to cover a mistake you made.... Have fun beating your head against the wall.
  2. How many one man shops are there? How many things do you do?

    I had processes and excel spreadsheets to quote/price jobs but I've been doing this so long I just look at it for a minute or a day and barf out a number that seems too high. Then I mull it over for a minute or another day and make it higher.
  3. Bleed printing on HP Latex

    Tell the sales guy to sell 47" instead of 48"
  4. Buying A Sign Business

    Don't let his lack of retirement planning affect your money spent buying the place, really has zero bearing.
  5. Buying A Sign Business

    He owns a sign shop now, so he's super busy, stressed and took up drinking...
  6. HDU Sign reinforcing

    It's small enough not to worry about, if posts are sunk deep enough for your area you will be fine.
  7. Small run vinyl prints needed ASAP

    I need 100 banners, SAVE THE CHILDREN. I'll prepay the shipping!
  8. Large Picture For Wall 24' L X 10' H Where To Start?

    Roodle 6mil wall vinyl, no laminate
  9. Large Picture For Wall 24' L X 10' H Where To Start?

    Did you really just recommend calendared vinyl with calendared lam for a wall??? You will have shrinkage and glue lines, it will be a mess in 6 months. Use a wall product on walls...
  10. Flexi 22 and missing HP Latex 335 Driver

    You are having an IP problem. You need to find someone who understands routers and they will fix your issue in about 3 minutes.
  11. Pricing 420sq/ft of Vinyl Lettering

    Sq Ft means absolutely nothing here. You have to use your best guess on how long it will take. Always guess high.
  12. HP 315 Magenta fading as it prints

    Before changing any heads you need to check run the FORCE DROPLET DETECTION, this tells you how many heads are clogged. Once you run it, write down the numbers for each head and then run a cleaning on all heads and run the test again. This will tell you what's really going on with your heads...
  13. Freight for largeformat printers?

    I have bought and sold about a dozen LF printers in my day, the best results I have had were furniture movers and Uship
  14. Customers in production areas

    Or just don't worry about it...I've had my own shop since 1996, haven't lost one customer do to them dying or getting hurt in my shop. Insurance guys get paid to worry about everything, doesn't mean you have to.
  15. Is this an Arkansas thing?

    I shoveled 18" snow today in driveway then went to shop to snow blow the parking lot. Took me 4 hours. Go Bills!
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