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Just so you know, what he wants is a belt buckle image. A very common thing among people dealing with cattle. The sketch with what you call 'wrinkles' most likely is trying to show a domed silver face. Maybe with some hammer marks on it. Or maybe a leather texture background. Buckles in this...

You scratched it, you fix it. Either that or give them the finger and walk off never to see them again. Your choice.

Are you a sign maker or a dilettante passing through on your way to something else? To a real live sign maker making a sign involves laying out the sign. It's part of the job, you don't charge separately for it. It's no different doing it in pencil/charcoal/whatever right on the substrate or...

In this shop, the client gets to review a complete layout. Little, if anything, below that level is made subject to the client's prejudices. Clients most certainly don't get to select typefaces. That way lies madness.

The dubious notion of a 'favorite font' [it should be 'favorite typeface'] come around on the big wheel of time every now and then. Asking a sign maker [nee sign writer] what its favorite font might be is about the same as asking a mechanic what its favorite wrench is.

Rendering intent of 'No Color Correction' ,or 'Saturastion' failing that, for everything except bitmap. Set bitmap to 'Perceptual'. Then print a Pantone chart. This usually gets you as close to what you see is what you get as you're likely to achieve. As an added benefit, it tends to give buck...

If you choose to be offended, and it is a choice, then that's your choice and you can deal with it. No one no how is under any obligation whatsoever to alter their behavior in order to accommodate your prejudices.

Yet Another Sign Making Myth. Both the damage and the 'outgassing'.

If you're using self-piercing grommets you should have no problem with a banner no matter how many layers of material. You can easily punch a self-piercing grommet through 3mm Nudo board.

What flavor of Clear Shield are you using? If it's not Classic [used to be called Original Formula] there can be problems. Also, how long are you letting the Clear Shield cure before you mask it? Should be at LEAST a day. Lastly, are you letting stuff sit around masked and how hard are you...

So you want to be a middleman but are somehow off-put that most everyone else is a middleman as well? If you want to sell stretched canvas prints, print them and stretch them yourself. There's nothing to it, other than the canvas tends to be pricey.

This fellow may be 50% of your scene but does he know that? If he does, you're screwed. If he doesn't, there's room for play. How do you find this out? Good question, I have no idea.

Just use matte. No one you might be selling to will know the difference.

Font. Looks like something from LHF.

Driving is a privilege, bearing arms is a right.

Sure, with the use of a dye-sub receptive coating, why not. You can get dye-sub coatings in spray and liquid as well as one particular process where you sprinkle a fresh print with some sort of magic dust, heat for a short bit in a heat press, then apply it. My good friend and often partner uses...

Not necessarily. IThe best stretcher bars I've used, and continue to use, are made from PVC brick mold available at any building materials store. The PVC is not only cheaper than wood, it's dead straight. Cut the pieces with a miter, put a bit of PVC cement on the edges to be joined, and staple...

Probably. It looks very much like the typeface used on all manner of bric-a-brac sold at hobby and craft stores. Just take a stroll through the nearest Hobby Lobby.

Service contracts are never, as in ever, worth the cost. Speaking as someone who used to price service contracts [for HP of all places] I can attest to the fact that at least as much revenue is generated by service contracts as with the products themselves. Without going into excruciating...

Nothing wrong with your plotter, that's just a crappy character. Works fine when it's 10 point. Blow it up some and watch all the warts reveal themselves. Most typefaces used for smaller copy tend to fall apart when enlarged to a height measured in inches rather than 1/72" increments.