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You're all wrong. Do you have any respect for your country's flag? If you do, the US Flag Code prohibits the use of the American flag in advertising. Putting any symbol or drawing overtop of the flag (i.e. an arrow) is also prohibited.

Contact Porsche and ask if you can use their custom corporate font that they had commissioned for their exclusive use. If that doesn't work, tell your client you have to switch it for something similar, like this: https://www.fontspring.com/fonts/typodermic/ddt/ddt-condensed-bold You're not...

IMO there are two options: charge the same hourly rate for every billable employee (production, install, design), or charge different hourly rates depending on the value of their work, however you want to determine that. On top of that, charge an hourly rate for machines (vehicles, lifts...

Don't use clipart in logos

Transparencies cause Versaworks to ignore cutting lines, as you both stated. OP stated that it's cutting, but in the wrong place. Read the thread before you post.

If you're targeting men, it's called a barber shop, not a hair studio. Salon = for women Barber = for men Hair studio = for women, or sometimes women and men, but will probably get mostly women since men will likely go to a "barber" before a "hair studio"

I wouldn't risk even wrapping it around the outside of a 3" core – that's still too tight.

That advice only applies if you're using a corner rounder with a variety of die sizes. Many shops just have a single 1/2" radius die that they use when round corners are needed for safety, and you can't line up an inset border with a 1/2" corner. For example, if you're planning to use a 1/2"...

I have no idea how ikarasu is doing it, but I wouldn't trust most templates to be accurate to a 1/4" tolerance. Even with an elevation-style template (i.e. no perspective/fisheye), you still lose the accurate shapes of the body when projecting 3D to 2D. A template will work if you're doing a...

I don't know why you would need to put rounded corners in the artwork if they're just going to get cut off by your corner rounder. You would set up the artwork the same as if you weren't rounding the corners, i.e. include your standard bleed, print and apply to the alupanel, trim off the bleed...

Yes, I usually explain to clients that if they have a particular "brand" font they want to use, every designer or other vendor that needs the font will have to purchase a separate license. That's just how font licenses typically work. You can't just buy one license and then share it with anyone...

Can you go through everything we already suggested and tell us what you've tried? i.e. someone suggested environmental factors such as temperature and humidity can affect your colours, which is true. Did you print the two panels one right after the other or were they done at different...

Overlaps are usually a sign of a poorly made font. Removing overlaps is normally an automated function that's done at the end of the font production process. So if overlaps haven't been removed, the font probably wasn't made by someone who knows what they're doing. The exception is variable...

Photoshop is the only tool I would trust for converting PDF to TIFF reliably. Acrobat can do a nearly identical job of it, except it doesn't anti-alias, so you get jagged edges that you can only compensate for by exporting at a much higher resolution.

You'd be surprised how quickly stubbornness evaporates when you explain rationally why the client's idea isn't going to work. Showing them other brand guides isn't the only way to explain it to them – it was just an idea that might help in explaining why reversing to white is a good solution.

This is one small part of a much larger job, as Gino mentioned in the original post. A larger job that includes several different signs is probably the type of job that you should request brand guidelines if the client doesn't include them initially.

Agreed, I would get a copy of their brand guidelines, and if it doesn't show a "reverse to white" version, open a dozen brand guidelines PDFs from previous jobs and send them screenshots of the 11 or 12 ones that show a reverse-to-white-when-background-is-dark option.

Rule of thumb: horizontal surfaces absorb roughly 3–5x the amount of UV compared with vertical surfaces. Adjust your estimated lifespan accordingly, i.e. if vertical lasts 5 years, horizontal might be 1–2 years.

Bingo. You can't determine the perfect resolution for a print unless you know the viewing distance. Here's the formula: resolution (ppi) = 600 / viewing distance (feet) So based on the size of the posters and the place where they'll be hung, estimate how far back people will normally stand to...

It might be hand-lettered. Why else would the "A" be so narrow compared to the other letters? Or it might just be a poorly-designed font.