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  1. Question Vehicle Wrap Labor , Costs & Installers

    Why don't you install them until you can justify a full time employee?
  2. Wayfinding signs with lots of small acrylic letters best production method to adhere?

    Would a little dot of lexel or a similar adhesive work in conjunction with the adhesive back or maybe a higher tack adhesive sheeting?
  3. 2023 Wrap Up. First Year Doing Sign Printing Business, No Experience, Gross 800K, Net 0, Need Advice!

    So you're suggesting to do it on a job by job basis as opposed to a customer by customer basis? That would be pretty easy. What about if your business model took the approach of being selective on what customers to take rather than doing it by job? Do you make a profile of what type of client...
  4. acrylic display wall

    that's like trying to convince someone to ditch their diamond plate idea on their wrap
  5. Laminating Bubble Issue

    I still wouldn't use heat. You all have more experience that I do but IMO, you do not want the laminate to stretch unless you're cool with your stuff being all curled up and pulling off of whatever it's stuck on. This whole thread would have been more productive if the OP mentioned that they...
  6. 2023 Wrap Up. First Year Doing Sign Printing Business, No Experience, Gross 800K, Net 0, Need Advice!

    So that is the tricky part. How do you set the parameters and train an employee as to what jobs you take and which get turned down? That can either go really good or really bad depending on who you have in place. A savvy business owner can do this quite well but I can't wrap my head around how...
  7. acrylic display wall

    mirrored acrylic
  8. Suggestions Bringing banner finishing in-house

    I'd want to have both a welder and sewing machine with the expectation that the welder would be suitable (and faster) for 90% of the banner jobs you get. Netsol brought up sewing machine brands the other day but don't recall the one that he considered the cats ass. I'd also be looking at a...
  9. Paint Systems

    We have 3 paint lines and would highly recommend going with a system that is geared towards your industry. The color database is different for each line so going with a brand geared to automotive may leave you lacking in pantone access. I don't know if Matthews offers a camera but the quality...
  10. Dry Ice vinyl removal?

    It's used a lot in fire remediation. It doesn't make a massive mess.
  11. Graffiti Remover for Window Graphics

    The magic eraser is mentioned here quite a bit, might be worth a try. Be careful where you leave or trash the rags that are soaked in mineral spirits, it is not uncommon for them to spontaneously combust
  12. Lamination problem

    It's not the roller, its operator error. When I first did roll to roll I got the exact same thing, lines of air and random small bubbles. It's been too long to remember but it was either how I loaded or it was from cranking down on the roller. Doing it sheet by sheet wastes too much time. If...
  13. Discussion Boudica...................................

    Sounds like Les Claypol picked up some of his style from him. Was this all considered funk?
  14. Discussion Boudica...................................

    Hey Gino, what music genre or group main streamed the prominent bass lines? I have an idea in my head but that's assuming it was late 60s or early 70s.
  15. Canva purchases Affinity

    I think this industry is in the beginning of another huge change and it's gonna be tough on the small shops. It is quite possible that in house design/layout go away from this industry as people shift to wholesale volume printing and fabrication.
  16. Canopy Fabrication

    Structural steel or awning company. You don't want that falling on someone's head and that thing looks really chinsy.
  17. Lamination problem

    So roll fed laminate does it but individual sheets don't? I'd definitely look at misalignment when you're setting it up. The heat could be compensating for it by stretching the laminate. If that's the case, you don't really want that. I only use the weight of the roller, no extra tension.
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