Recent content by Kimberly Hiles

^agree with this 100% but also know that's just not how it is going to play out sometimes. If you have to hire "just a warm body" off the street, do your best in the crash course mode (I'd keep it basic, pros/cons of materials, with lots of example jobs), then make it very clear to them that...

Would recommend the thinnest cast vinyl you can find with a long outdoor life. The thinner it is the more it will conform to the pads but I doubt anything would last permanently.

You could easily test it, but from the samples I've seen in the past EcoSol inks tend to be very thin & saturated but transparent, meaning they wont give you the same hazy effect that a thicker UV ink would. Think you would get a similar result to the latex photos attached earlier on in this thread.

What kind of printer are you working with? As others mentioned white ink can give you something along the same line, though it's not really a frost. Clear gives more of a true frosted look. But any UV printer, even those without white or clear ink, can give you a kind of "frosted" look because...

Have you had issues with the raised ink curling and chipping off the the signs from DCS like this?

We export the files back to Illustrator and set them up from there depending on the process we're using the produce the signs (Photopolymer, Drilled Braille Beads/Applique, or UV Printed) We have the Mimaki JFX200-2513EX

We do all of our braille for ADA signs in Flexi. It's expensive and clunky software but the auto-serializing makes setting up large batches of signs much easier.

Doesn't prevent every problem, but, boy does it help + the building a relationship thing is important, if your designers are too intimated to go ask someone how to set up a job, you're going to have a lot more issues come production time. Now if we could just make this standard for our project...

I run the art dept at a sign shop and we have this issue every time we look to hire on new designers. Finding designers with any type of signage experience is hard. Best advice I can give: For the add itself: Consider looking for candidates is associated trades - our go to is to list in the add...

Lots of close fonts, can't find an exact match - any help appreciated. Nevermind, I'm convinced it is Skinny Jeans, just modified to look like this. *sorry I don't think there is a way to remove posts?*

We got an order for yeti decals about 6 or 7 years ago, wound up using thin supercast (think it was Avery) and applying it with heat. But we didn't wrap the whole thing, just the front flat section under the yeti logo. Hate working on that textured plastic material

"Home of the" looks like Honey Script "Hangar" looks like Constructa ExtraBold (you have have issues tracking that one down though)

looks like Yeseva One https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Yeseva+One?preview.text=SIGNATURE&preview.text_type=custom *sorry page didnt update before i hit post, not sure how to delete comments

looks like Sectar https://www.dafont.com/sectar.font?text=DRAGON&psize=l&back=author

Our shop has the Mimaki JFX200-2513EX. We jumped on it pretty early and I'm now way more cautious about any of these printers that claim to print braille signs well. We liked it well enough for "2.5 D" printing but started having failures pretty early on and gave up using it for braille, opting...