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  1. I'm looking for a safe e mail provider ? Suggestions Please.

    A keylogger would defeat any email or service that required a password, so a better bet would be to ensure you don't download anything that could have a keylogger in it, and also keep your anti virus up to date. Regarding 2 step authentication, it works very very well,. I use it on Gmail and...
  2. Customer: "Is there any warranty...."

    I would offer a warranty of 1 year against fading, I've never had a banner fade in less than 2 years. But as far as durability etc, no warranty on that.
  3. Pricing question on customer supplied substrate

    In my shop I would charge normal retail minus MY COST on the board. This amount would already include a cost for mounting so no need to add that. If the boards need any thing done to them such as cleaning, dent repair etc, that would be billed by the hour at shop rate (I wouldn't charge for a...
  4. Looking for cheap 4'x8' frames for political signs...

    Have you considered writing out a materials list and instructions for making the wooden ones you make now? You could offer to sell the plans to them to have their volunteers make them. Or if you have an afternoon, cut all the wood, and sell a "ready to assemble" kit
  5. Vinyl Wrapping - Can it be Patented??

    Don't hire a lawyer for this, like someone else said they are trying to bully you into submitting by using their lawyer. I would ignore it for as long as possible, if they persist I would simply write them back a letter saying you don't use their technique to wrap coffins, you use industry...
  6. New Banner Order :-)

    We use Gmail as our mail client (we fetch our domain email through Gmail using pop3). And I can't tell you the last time we got one of these emails. The spam filters in Gmail are really quite good!
  7. Name my boat internet site - prices way too low

    Is this the origin story of the green speedo? Cause if it is I feel like you made a poor business decision.
  8. SP-300v cancelling itself mid print....

    You can save the files as versaworks files and it will retain all the info you need (quality, colour settings, quantities etc.) much better to do that than to leave your queue full of jobs, If you ever have to re-initialize versaworks, it will clear all the jobs in your queue.
  9. Lesson learned... deal with the boss...

    PDFs made by running business card through a scanner will not be vector.
  10. lost a job to a competitor story :)

    This is one of my biggest pet peeves, when the client has some vague idea of what they want and decide to get multiple quotes, so the client ends up getting quotes on a whole bunch of different signs, with nothing in common, and picks the cheapest. I have a friend who opened a bar downtown a...
  11. Tell me I made the right move dealing with this customer

    100% of the time, when a new client comes to us complaining how xzy signs won't return their calls it's because the client is a pain in the a$$, I have yet to find an exception. I think for a $250 job you put up with more bull$hit than you should have. 3 clients have my cell phone #, anyone...
  12. Need advice on a big graphic on an interior wall

    Look into photo-tex, it's the only wall material I've found that will stick to pretty much anything and remove cleanly, get the opaque version.
  13. what force do you guys set your plotter when cutting laminated vinyl graphics?

    in the time it took you to wait for the answers, you could have loaded a test piece into your plotter and dialed in your settings, some of your threads make me shake my head a bit, have you ever met Addie?
  14. Best Way to get new customers?

    I agree 33% is very ambitious, very few wholesalers will give you enough of a discount off retail to allow you to mark something up 33% and remain competitive.
  15. Best Way to get new customers?

    Plan a vacation, that always makes them show up!
  16. Nix Color Sensor - Warning!

    That sucks! I was considering ordering one, but it doesn't look like it helps in any way with colour management, you can't use it to make printer profiles. The company is based about 5 minutes from my shop, If you want to PM me I can see if I can find a phone # for you.
  17. latex vs. solvent

    I'm toying with this myself, we currently have a Roland, it's our 3rd printer, all have been Rolands, all have been workhorses! here is what I have noticed: -The cleaning/maintenance is really not that bad, our Roland is cleaned when needed, if it starts to show banding or drops of ink on...
  18. Looking for edge safe carbon fiber material

    Carbon fibre films have a slight texture to them, which usually does not work with the edge, it leaves dropouts.
  19. Removable adhesive floor vinyl

    No vinyl should cause damage to a floor tile, it may leave a bunch of adhesive behind, but that's an easy fix with some rapid remover.
  20. Best transfer tape for oracal 651 vinyl

    You may have heard sarcasm, but I was genuinely wondering what the question was. Allow me to sum up your post: "I have been using a product that works really well, but I ran out and used an inferior product, it failed. The product that works well is expensive, but I don't mind paying for...
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