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  1. Rush Fees: do you charge them?

    Gotta love the rush jobs that set in the shop for days and you have to hound to get them to pick it up.
  2. MDO Price Hike

    All wood-based products have gone through the roof. Look at a 2x4x8 at your local box store. they are up over 70%.
  3. Rant Hating UPS this morning

    I think Amazon is rolling out by regions and or cities. I have seen their trucks but all my deliveries from them come USPS UPS and rarely FedEx. Amazon has certainly shifted the majority to USPS in my area. I imagine it also has to do with the seller your buying from as well. Anyways, my point...
  4. Corel gurus - I need you! Gradiants on edges

    Double-check your blend on screen and with a proof before you go live. Sometimes the transition from one color to another will have an odd color in the middle. You can minimize it by using your gold color and adding 100% K for your black. If your black has lots of blue in it, it will get muddy...
  5. Scam-Harlan Hales is back

    Hey, that's my home town... Don't know him though. https://findwhocallsyou.com/2148148036?CallerInfo
  6. Corel gurus - I need you! Gradiants on edges

    Nice simple solution, just like a drop shadow on a negative shape.
  7. Corel gurus - I need you! Gradiants on edges

    I think I have what you are looking for. 1. Create your vector shape 2. Create a contour where you want the final color and assign the interior and exterior shape target colors. 3. Simplify the nodes in the contour so they match your original shape. If you don't the blend tool gets out of wack...
  8. Jester1167

    Comment by 'Jester1167' in media 'EBC'

    I think I have what you are looking for. 1. Create your vector shape 2. Create a contour where you want the final color and assign the interior and exterior shape target colors. 3. Simplify the nodes in the contour so they match your original shape. If you don't the blend tool gets out of wack...
  9. Rant Hating UPS this morning

    I always send the tracking number to the client when I ship something. Then they know it has been sent and know what is going on. I have lots of installs that are 2 or 3 hours away and always request tracking for the same reasons. They have all gotten worse because of COVID. Lots of people are...
  10. What's your recipe for Application Fluid?

    Gino, do you figure how much alcohol, rags or paper towels each job will take and charge accordingly? How about pro rating blades and squeeges on a per job basis? That would be counter productive and cost more than its worth. Instead, most consider consumables when determining a shop rate...
  11. What's your recipe for Application Fluid?

    When your installing 1000 square feet of second surface windows it makes sense.
  12. What's your recipe for Application Fluid?

    Baby shampoo as a surfactant has the least amount of additives that could affect long term adhesion. Water Alcohol 70% The alcohol content changes based on the conditions. The more alcohol the quicker is dries/flashes. Never used more than about 30%. The same with the baby shampoo except its...
  13. Discussion Turn down work

    If this type of job is one of your core business, turning it down would be extremely rare. Many of us have stories of a client that started out just like this and now brings in several brand new trucks and trailers every year. It is your business and it's always ok to say no in my mind but your...
  14. Discussion Not exactly logo......................................

    Is this enough color? LOL.
  15. Discussion Not exactly logo......................................

    Could you divide the sign and put the Century 21 logo in the appropriate colors on one end and all info on the other much larger end.
  16. New project - need help

    Will a stretch fabric stand up to people interacting with it over time? I imagine kids climbing on it and knees and feet making contact with the sides. When they realize it sounds like a drum, they are going to beat on it... I'm visualizing an elegant, more expensive and profitable option for...
  17. Some of our fellow sign makers just make ya shake your head

    It's refreshing when you find a company that does what they say and when. It's refreshing when you go to quote a job and they have listed all the information you need to quote it. It's refreshing when a company calls out its own mistakes before you find out about them and calls with a plan to...
  18. Suggestions Need a new supplier

    I don't sell business cards but have used Vistaprint for my own and a few others.
  19. ROLAND USERS PLEASE HELP

    We used to get strange anomalies like that in the winter. When you turn the heat on the humidity goes down and the static builds. We only had it happen with the magenta head and on banner material. As static builds up in the material it pulls the ink towards it instead of it firing straight...
  20. Suggestions Issues with peeling vinyl on signs

    Don't forget to clean it after flame/corona treatment. You are drawing the plasticizers to the surface and you need to get them off before installing the vinyl.
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