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I don't print DTF myself, but I order it and apply it to garments. So my statement about using transparent png files for printing has to do with print providers who are taking automatic orders on the internet, mostly from screenprint t-shirt shops or others who are usually somewhat computer and...

Arlon, Avery 3M, Oracal all make hi-tack vinyls that will stick.

ESG scores don't really mean anything except to the people who run in the CEO circles.

This is verbatim from Missouri's regulation. Every state has a similar requirement: Though the numbers have good form, they are not of sufficient stroke, and the capital letters will not be satisfactory. The skill of being a signmaker is in finding a font with similar character that meets the...

Please don't do the license number in a script font. If you read the state law on the regulations for number, you will see it is not acceptable.

Locally in food is supposed to be a good thing among the hip Gen Z-ers. As in grown locally or shop locally. Pop-Up is also a hip thing, as in Pop-up restaurant where a famous chef will book a venue and for one weekend only run a restaurant for "those in the know" to pay outrageous prices to be...

That's a logo you can find online.

It said Demonology.

Got a call from a Fast Signs in a city several states away asking if I could do a site survey. I said sure and gave him my email address. Got the request and it stated the location was Fxxxxxxxx Demonology Clinic. Should I go do this survey or just pass on it?

Too much tension in the laminator. Stretches the laminate while applying. Then it goes back to its original shape, pulling it up and curling the decal towards the lamiante.

Perhaps, but that isn't what I was hired for. There's a time to suggest doing a whole makeover for a company but with this job making them have to change the dimensional letters on their entrance wall and all their marketing materials and in-unit signage and materials was way more than they were...

Considered it, decided against it due to price. And it doesn't look off center at all when you can see the whole wall as you do walking down the seawall walk.

The sign is 3'x24' MaxMetal mounted on treated 2x4 pieces mounted vertically that are Tapconned to the wall. Tough drilling because it's a hatchet finished concrete wall with native river rock, which means there's limestone, chert, quartzite, and flint in it. Sometimes the drill bit goes in...

Here's a sign at a condo complex we did this week. When the management company called they asked if we could make a sign that would be better-looking than the one their HOA board did by themselves. Do you think we succeeded? BEFORE: AFTER:

Big squeegee will always leave bubbles with non-air-release material, especially with magnetic that won't ever lie flat on your table. To get the magnetic to lie flat you should keep a piece of galvanized sheetmetal to lay it on. However you can get a totally bubble free application if you put...

Apparently they have done the same with regard to putting a new sign on top of the building. Makes you wonder about the sign company that made the giant X and installed it....did they forget to come to signs101 to ask about whether they should get a permit?

I got an interesting call from FedEx about two weeks ago asking me what my plan was when UPS goes on strike. I told her I quit using UPS over a year ago when they screwed me over by forcing me to go to Worldwide Express, and I use USPS now. She then went on to say that they were trying to gauge...

Who is watching them and teaching them as they work? Sounds like you have a bunch on inexperienced employees who have never had hands-on instruction and supervision while doing a job. Ten days and they still don't have it wrapped? Are they spending all their time on smoke breaks (with that other...

To be ecosol compatible it has to be coated. I've never tried crayons on it, but the Briteline photo paper we use seems like a crayon ought to work on it. If I had a crayon I'd try it. I'm printing a bunch of posters right now.

It's not vinyl. It's polyester.