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Yeah I believe the writing is on the wall for corel, the engraving industry has been using coreldraw for almost 20 years as the standard, as a result when we started in signage we understood corel and just kept using it. I'm now concerned I'm going to have to switch to something else and also...

That's impressive, I can't keep my place clean for longer than 30 minutes. He must spend hours a day cleaning the dust everytime he uses that panel saw, I imagine he would have a heart attack if he saw my place lol!

We use onyx with our summa 1624, it works very well, there are a few minor hiccups we have found along the way, but for the most part it works great. Now we were using onyx before we got the summa, if I was starting fresh I would download a trial of each and see which I liked best. There is...

I wish there was a grant that paid my rent and payroll, anyone have any ideas?

I would make the sign double sided to hide the ugly framework, I always thought it was an unwritten rule in this business to try to hide any framework, supports or screws as much as possible.

If you were not made aware of any PMS colours before you printed the job, I would say it's the clients responsibility to eat the cost if it's that important to them. It sucks but the best way to deal with this is to send the client a proof, call out any PMS colours that are in the file and...

Yup, use a cast vinyl on any vehicle, especially a vehicle with rivets. If you don't have a ton of experience use a cast vinyl with air release.

If you are looking to attach an acrylic face to the letters the heat generated in cutting through the acrylic would melt the foam, they would need to be cut separately then stuck together.

I had a tru vis roland, nothing but issues, Roland completly changed the entire internals, heads, ink delivery system etc from their old workhorse printers for some reason and they brought it to market far before it was ready and let their customer base QC the machine on their own dime, horrible...

I would charge double your single installer rate, and make sure you have a minimum number of hours per job, We have a client who is 15 minute drive from our shop, by the time you pack your tools, drive there, unpack, install, re pack, drive back and unload you are at a minimum of 2 hours, even...

I'll just remember what my parents taught me when I was 10, if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is, and a fool and his money are soon parted.

Someone selling software for what I assume is well below the regular price with a Gmail address is running a scam?!? Consider me shocked!

I get the arlon from em plastics, check them out. The cost of everything has gone up, it's not suprizing the cost of vinyl is on the rise too. Clients seem to be understanding of price increases right now.

I assume you are talking about the GB stuff from allgraphicsupplies? I used to use it but had lots of consistency issues with it. I switched to 510mt from Arlon, it's around $160 a roll but it's great stuff for temporary signs. Otherwise reach out to BigfishDM he has some very reasonable...

Start off by calling them and calmly explaining that these extra charges were a direct result of their mistakes and you will not be paying them to fix their own mistakes, you already remade the face they ruined at no cost to them, if they insist on charging for this, you will be sending them a...

Good ol' Roland, screwing over their customers once again. If the printer is printing there should be no need to clean as the heads are constantly firing, cleaning is only needed when the printer is not in use. Our epson will occasionally clean itself in the middle of a long job, but always...

I use a program called bitwarden, it stores all of your passwords and generates passwords for you that are secure, I only need to remember the master password. I don't k ow any of my passwords anymore, each one is unique and I have no concerns about my passwords being compromised. You can...

I learned a while ago, if someone is complaining about the quality of something and wanting a redo, we always require the originals back so we can "investigate how this happened" There are certain people who have absolutely no shame and will do stuff like this because in their minds it's some...

It's tricky, I've had a few occasions where I've done a sign layout that the customer started using as a makeshift logo, when they ask for the file to start using on other items I will generally ignore them for a few weeks and hope they go away, if not I will send them the layout as a 72dpi...

I have a summa flatbed, so I print, laminate, apply then router them out and I can nest it with other jobs on the same material to make it even more efficient. I was worried about them bending or getting damaged, but after reading a few comments I realized that they won't get damaged unless...