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I don't really mind when folks watch me working. I guess that being an old-school sign painter before I somehow morphed into a vinyl-slinger prepared me for the spectators. Lettering boats on the dock always drew a crowd. Same with hand lettering storefront windows. But the mahl stick was good...

If you think you have headaches now, just wait 'til you have customers....

Hi Colin - Is that the issue with an interview with Ross Ireland? I think I still have that one kickin' around here somewhere also.

I like 3m blue - the green is harder to tear off the roll one handed when you are applying.

If you are not familiar with Poutine, you will never know true love. It has a months worth of calories and cholesterol all in a single bowl.

No Worries! I haven't been back there since 1972, so I imagine a few things have changed.

I grew up there so I know how you feel. But they did invent Poutine.

We don't have problems with transfer tape causing clearshield to separate from the print as long as we print on matte vinyl. I don't print latex though, we only have an eco-sol machine.

"We're Vancouver area based, second largest city in Canada." I'm pretty sure Vancouver is Canada's Third largest city, after Toronto and then Montreal. Just sayin'....

I don't think charging by the document perimeter makes much sense. If two different clients are in your shop and one wants the Lords Prayer in Old English in a 1 sq ft panel and the other asks for the word "NO" in arial in the same size panel, do they each pay the same price?

Mit Sauerkraut? I know him. He was in my Remedial English class back in high school.

I am sorry i can't help with your printing issue, but your thread title sums up post #2 perfectly.

I wonder what he would have had to say about "modern typestyle designers" like the guy responsible for comic sans or the genius behind bleeding cowboys.

This customer is the type you should try to hang on to IF you have NO other jobs at all, and maybe not even then. If he is messing up other scheduled tasks then fire him and feel good about it!

I mix cut vinyl, printed vinyl, and 1Shot all the time. Mostly I use handpainting to shadow or highlight cut vinyl text now. A hand painted element really can add the "human feel" to an otherwise sterile sign. And I can get those element on the sign faster than digitizing,cutting, weeding and...

This thread remined me of some drama that played out here on S101 a bunch of years ago. I had designed and lettered a clients vehicles for a number of years when a new signmaker in town approached him and told him he could letter his trucks and excavators for less than I was charging. He...

I think you are trying to get into the business too quickly, without paying the necessary dues. Maybe take a job as a Pool-Boy for a couple of seasons first. You know, to get your feet wet, so to speak. Also, how do you look in a speedo?

These can also lose magnetics at highway speeds.

Ski boats are notorious for having magnetics fall off.

I do a lot of boats. I did 3 boats just yesterday. Two were in the water and 1 was indoors at a yacht factory we regularly do work for. Simple 1 colour jobs are priced at $320 (Canadian) for transom only, and it goes up considerably if multiple colours, shadows and outlines are involved. Add...