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There is absolutely no reason to overlaminate cut reflective vinyl. It will, in fact, degrade the look of the sign because the laminate will bridge at the edges of letters, leaving essentially a line of air bubble around every letter. The reflective signs you would laminate are the printed ones...

I think CWAD refers to women who are assertive and run the show. Sort of like the wife who wears the pants in the house.

We don't stand on ladders to wrap a box truck. We use a walkboard between two stepladders. And they have these handy notches in the edge of the plastic on the top that you can run your cords through so they don't pull your tools down. But we never set a heat gun (or torch for that matter) down...

Although the letters were probably based on some font or maybe even letraset letters, the way these letters look it is most likely that back in the 1930s or 1940s somebody hand drew this logo, and screenprint companies have just rephotographed it over the years to degrade the letters to the form...

We use Avery MPI1105 EZ RS with DOL 1360Z. It is currently available from Grimco. I wouldn't mix brands of film and laminate.

Ahhh, the electro-pounce. Source of much hilarity when you could get a newbie to shock himself with it.

I started in 1993 and for the first few years we were mixing the old ways with computer cut vinyl lettering. The shop I worked in was already using PCs, but we also painted pictorials and lettering on billboards, did some custom painted backgrounds on signs, and also wall murals. We used an...

I think there is a belief that they can print some two sided 18 oz banner material and somehow laminate static cling to it that will cause the banner to adhere to the window.

It's just cut on a plotter ("kiss cut") and not weeded away. Anybody can do that. Pretty sure that when they put the sticker on the gas pump the part inside that cut is left on the paper, and the yellow rectangle goes around the card reader device.

Not sure what you are asking. You'd just make them. Unless you had an order for 1000 of them and didn't want to tie up the shop with them. Then you'd order them from a wholesaler.

Don't worry. You won't get any business from a radio ad. TV either.

That's the key to when layers are actually useful. Locking and hiding. I almost never use layers in Corel, but there are a few instances where it's useful. If you are using vehicle templates for wrap designing, the ones which have everything in layers with a gray mask layer are great. All the...

I certainly understand how painting it would give a better result. But there is nobody in our area who does that. At any rate, I told him it would be $13,500 and he decided not to do anything because it's too much. Not really sure why he wasn't anticipating the price. He runs offshore racing...

So if I go back to the same price I charged 15 years ago, $8/sq ft, I would be at $13,344. There are no freelance installers here for vinyl. It means leaving the shop and stopping all other work for 4-5 days, plus the 2-3 days it will take on the printer. After checking around, it appears...

I am trying to do pricing on a wallcovering job. It will be a dividing wall in a shop building. The wall is painted sheetrock, flat except for lightswitches and such. There are two 12x12 garage door openings in it (which don't have to be covered). The wall is 90' long. At the ends it's 16' tall...

Just say no. They can buy them from someone who sells it: https://www.websticker.com/blog/sticker-back-printing/ It will be cheaper than trying to figure it all out. Unless everyone at your business is sitting around with nothing to do, or if you are trying to develop a process that you will...

That is the W. It's nesting for maximum use of space on the vinyl. When people ask me to give them this font, I just use a better looking casual brush font and they are happy when I email a proof. If they insist and you do find the actual font, be sure to use uneven latter spacing and get them...

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Did 28 windows at a resort hotel earlier this month without a scratch. I've seen people get plenty of scratches using standard 2" blades in the standard retractable holder because it lets the blade wobble and with a short blade it's too easy to dig a corner in. But if I had not been careful I am...

You cannot get the part that has lifted to stick back with anything. You can cut away the part that has lifted and it will slow the peel.