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  1. How do you quote your out of area travel costs?

    Right now one man install only, but saving for an installation bay/shop for employees and production. I also have to recoup startup costs... My vehicle is personally owned, unmarked and I pay extra for business use to and from job sites. Since the business doesn't own it, it's no figured into...
  2. How do you quote your out of area travel costs?

    I have worked in the industry for about 18 years and started my own business a little over a year ago. When I worked at other shops and quoted jobs we charged our labor rate + the federal mileage rate for job out of our city. How do you charge for travel and any logic behind you decisions?
  3. Need another one.

    Arab Brushstroke Arab Becker Amber URW It is manually condensed quite a bit.
  4. Best mobile app

    I have a few apps I couldn't do without. Document Scanner - like yours with a few less perks. I use it to scan and email job sign off/completion sheets. My Measure - If you do surveys this is awesome app. Take a pic and put the measurements right on the image, save and email.
  5. Company truck wrap design - Tear it apart!

    I'm not sure I would get rid of facebook and twitter. Social media is intertwined with SEO and it gives you a chance to secure a larger audience.
  6. Company truck wrap design - Tear it apart!

    I think the back and the back half of the side are too crowded.
  7. Vinyl for stainless steel suggestions

    3m makes a white printable vinyl for stainless steel 181-10. It sounded like you were looking for cut vinyl though. I would use 3m 180C in colors if you didn't want to print. We used to do gas tankers and old vinyl is tough to remove from stainless steel. The passenger side gets beat up from...
  8. Vinyl on a curve.

    Only other warning is if the silo is a dark color, like black or navy blue, it will get really hot and the intermediate will probably shrink and crack in the sharp inside corners within a year. Price intermediate and HP and let them make the call. It's about $1.60 per decal difference...
  9. Vinyl on a curve.

    I don't think intermediate will stick well to the textured galvanized surface of a grain bin. When intermediate shrinks it ends up only touching the high spots. I would install high performance and heat it with a torch and rollepro it. Piece of mind...
  10. Why do my panels never line up?

    +1 If you put tension on the panels as you install you'll need to be consistent with every panel. If your using 3M or Avery air egress vinyl start your panel toward the top (same place on each panel) and work your way up. Then peel all of the bottom and let it relax for a second with out any...
  11. What's "straight" on a van?

    Here is an image showing what body lines are straight horizontals. The visual shows what ProWraps was saying "the only "straight" horizontal line on a ford van is the indent groove about 12" above the bottom. its is straight to the vehicle the full length." The bottom of the doors and the bottom...
  12. Well it's finally installed.

    Nice work. I like how the shape of the sign mirrors the top of the sign.
  13. Sign company put road sign in front of my shop !

    Wipe your fingerprints off before you leave and make sure there are no surveillance cameras... LOL
  14. Sign company put road sign in front of my shop !

    Lower the price and put it back up away from your shop.
  15. Stand alone Wacom Tablet coming soon

    I saw it on www.engadget.com and would love to have the windows version. At 1999.00 it will have to wait.
  16. what I learned this morning by trial and error

    On our Roland we used to cover the parts of the print close to the registration marks with white removable vinyl to get it to read correctly. For some reason dark or black graphics next to the registration marks confused the cutter. On thick matte lexan laminate we used to put black vinyl...
  17. odd round serif font

    There are a lot of nice fonts on that site.
  18. Hartco sandblast resist doesn't want to play. Any suggestions?

    If it has the plastic liner forget it. It always stretched and tracked so poorly that I gave up. Make sure you have the paper liner if you are going to plot it and save the plastic liner for hand cut signs. Clarification; it was a thin stretchy plastic liner.
  19. Hello..from the great white north...

    A warm and humid welcome from North Florida
  20. 3M Wrap Vinyl Issue...

    Did the vinyl get dusty before you laminated it? I bet each bubble is a dust bunny from laying out like that. In the future you can save yourself some heartache by buying some milk crates for drying your vinyl. Put the roll of vinyl in a milk crate and unroll it making sure you have space...
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