Recent content by Shaun S

Regardless of what that is in the pictures, the customer ordered the signs for a purpose and they fulfilled that purpose for the needed 2 months...they owe you 100% payment. This will be the outcome should you end up in court. There is no way to determine where those "spots" came from. It could...

We use Arlon 8000 for things like this. Strong cast vinyl. If this doesn't work for that particular material, anything meant for brick or stucco will hold well. We use General Formulations 285 Roughmark in those cases. Any materials rep should be able to get you some small sample rolls to test.

Would never use it for a vehicle wrap unless it was for a 1-day event or something very short term.

Buy one that has LOCAL service available. Best piece of advice that I can give!

There's your answer right there whether this is a legitimate charge or not. You told them to split the shipment so the boxes aren't heavy for the additional UPS charge and his response was that you still need to pay to box them. Find them somewhere else.

If you're using a credit card to float your customers' payment terms, there is nothing better than the American Express Plum card. 0% interest for the first month. If you still haven't been paid by your client, you can make a partial payment and receive an additional 30 days with no interest...

We do this all the time with 0.5" and 1" gator. Use an O flute straight bit...not a spiral. The spiral bit will chew up the foam no matter what your speed is. A high speed steel bit will work fine for the soft foam and only cost around $20. 1 pass for 0.5" and 2 passes for 1".

Cut your teeth selling the wraps for a while and outsource EVERYTHING to a larger shop for a while. Then start taking larger and larger roles in the production process until you are comfortable doing it solo. Way too much money to lose should you botch an install or have a customer not like the...

What the Font has a GREAT app if you have an iPhone. You can take a picture of a word, even if it is on a computer screen, and it will give you a bunch of fonts that are it's closest match. You're stuck with me using the website tool if you have an Android.

We have a Shutterstock membership for things like vehicle wraps. It's not that difficult to find decent images online but we decided that the last thing we want is for someone to recognize a stolen image. Not so much from the creator or photographer but from the customer seeing it somewhere else...

We use General Formulations 252 Wall-Tux for this. It's a 6 mil polyester fabric with adhesive back. It feels a lot like wallpaper. If your client wants something other than standard vinyl, check it out. It's also cheaper than materials like Photo-Tex. We've covered a lot of retail stores in...

I had this and it turned out the hard drive didn't have enough memory to finish writing the file.

Any tiny bit of color that you add to pure yellow is just going to make the yellow darker. T_K is absolutely correct. The best you can do is to print 100% yellow on a pearl or metallic material in order to get that "pop" that you're looking for.

MEK works for most of the inks in this industry. A can of it is cheap and I always have some in the shop. Pour a little bit on and let it sit and dissolve the ink away.

I think this is very subjective and is more pushed by material manufacturers to cover their butts. I've even had a rep for Transferrite tell us that we need to allow our UV prints to gas for 24 hours in order for their tape to work better lol. It's really going to depend on your climate, shop...