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Time is money. If it's a lettering job that's easy, we usually roll in the price of design. But if it's a wrap, or partial wrap, you are darn tootin' the customer will pay. Which, gives me a chance to bloviate about a past customer. We had a fellow, a repeat customer, come in who wanted a...

We stock blue, black and red. But if the customer is using more than two colors, sometimes one color, we print it anyway. It's cheaper and more accurate to put everything down on one sheet of transfer paper. Yes, you have to laminate and put it back in the cutter, but it probably takes no more...

Seems the young folk want to be wrappers. Nothing wrong with that. It's a good intro into the sign biz, i.e. lettering and design in addition to wrapping. There's just as much profit in truck lettering as there is in car wrapping, in my opinion.

Cast overlaminate costs about three times calendared. At one point it was twice...Costs have been skyrocketing very recently, but I suppose that's another story. Anyway, it's still cheaper to laminate with the right stuff than install a wrap and have to do it again. By the way there are cast...

If you are going to print on the substrate with a flatbed, then cut on a router, you need space...We farm out most things that are best done with a flatbed - magnets, yard signs, banners too. The outsourcers are much cheaper than we could do it in-house. Don't know why latex roll printer is...

We always laminate specialty overlay vinyl within wrap. We also laminate specialty vinyl when we put it over a laminated wrap. For example, adding a reflective phone number. Reason being, we often do work for pressure washers or landscapers that spray around chemicals which aren't particularly...

Can't speak to your business plan, but an almost new, half price Roland sounds like a heck of a deal. And newer is better, given that print heads on older Rolands will cost at least $3,500 and you can bet one will be needed. Make sure you have some support from a local or close by dealer. Not...

We had similar issue with our Roland VS-540 at one time. A firmware upgrade fixed it. Hopefully you can find it on the Roland website. Your Roland distributor should also be able to provide the info you need for repair.

I wonder, if you re-create or download a logo that matched a trademarked logo exactly, and then place that logo where the original logo was placed on the product, is this a legal used of a trademarked logo? I should think this would be ok, but I could be wrong. However, I suspect your chance of...

We've never used heat to activate the SLX, but the SLX+ is a little tackier so we use that now. I could see that cold weather wouldn't be kind to SLX. We stopped using it for print and cut, not because of a failure, but it seemed there was that potential given that it's not too aggressively...

FYI - Aircraft have tiny holes placed in their skin for altitude and other sensors. As previously mentioned, aircraft should only be serviced by certified technicians.

Have you tried printing, laminating then cutting thin material, say 4 mil total. Or just using a test piece of thin vinyl, say 3 mil, printing, taking it out of the machine, then putting it back in to cut? What were your results with thinner material? If you haven't tried this, please give it a...

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If we print a logo for a company, the company owns the rights - whether trademark or copyright, I couldn't say. That's up to the company and they own it. However, if we took their logo and vectorized it so it prints clearly in large format, then we own the vectorized image, unless the company...

I would say to tell the customer of the possibility of ghosting in writing. We once had a customer sue us for the cost of a paint job when we sold her magnets that trapped water in her clear coat. creating a cloudy appearance. Don't know if it was our fault for not telling her how to care for...

I think you can over-think this. The question is, do you want to make frames or want to make money? Admittedly, I haven't done a ton of stake bodies, but have done a few and never had a problem with aluminum, but discovered ACM tears and cracks. A solid piece of aluminum, some sealant (not going...

I see that everyone made the same mistake - and we did as well. We all forgot the cranberry sauce / gel. I'm going to open a can of cranberry gel tonight. And have it with pizza !

Thank you for clarifying...Information gets passed down and one continues the process. I'll stand by those self-driving Tek screws though, but will install on the non-hammer setting.

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.063 sheets in black, so .063 it is ! And/Or offer the .080 at a premium price. No discount on the heavy stuff as painting or wrapping is involved...If you use ACM, it will eventually tear, but .063 should hold up for a few years and .080 for a bit more. ITW Buildex self-driving screws (though...