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  1. Any grammar gurus here ?

    If you want to make it a possessive, it should read: VISITORS' CENTER The apostrophe after the "S" makes it plural. Unless they only allow one visitor at a time. Then it can be singular. :Big Laugh But, after doing a quick google image search to confirm what I was already thinking, the use...
  2. Employee Situation

    That's pretty much what I had in mind. I don't want to be put in the awkward position of appearing to be stealing business. But right now we don't have a "public" face to the print department. I'm nested inside a marketing company, so we're pretty much just doing labels, signage, etc., for our...
  3. Explaining to a moron about a 2-sided directional sign

    Of course, *I've* never had to do that with a customer before...:ROFLMAO: My favorite is when they tell me the arrow rider on their sign is pointed the wrong way and we'll have to reprint it.
  4. Old hand painted sign

    Unless the picture you shared was taken after it was originally completed, it still looks good from where you were standing.
  5. NDA just to bid on job?

    Why would a vehicle wrap require an NDA? I don't see the purpose unless it's an unreleased model or something like that, as others have mentioned. The design work can't be that much of a secret. And a vehicle wrap itself isn't something you patent, unless there's some new, proprietary material...
  6. synthetic paper for ecosolvent?

    Thanks, I'll give them a call. What I've seen of the DuraSol doesn't appear to have self-adhesive options. Granted, I could always buy a roll of double-sided adhesive, but if I could find something ready to go that would make my life easier. Do you have anything a little thinner? Maybe in...
  7. Applying large Pieces of Vinyl To a Dance Floor

    Apparently you've never been country-western dancing. You want a mildly slick floor - it's why they nicknamed it "boot scootin". Down here in Texas, they throw beeswax down on the hardwood floors to make it a bit more slippery. But you also don't want too much. You still need some friction to...
  8. Employee Situation

    Coming from an employee who's looking to make some extra money on the side, I've got mixed feelings on this issue. On one hand, I've got a good income from my current company for the work I do. Although it's not enough to get me where I want to be financially, it's pretty close. I don't really...
  9. What is a Vinyl Sticker and what is a Vinyl decal?

    Now don't go scaring off the customers with that crazy technical language! You know their eyes just crossed!
  10. synthetic paper for ecosolvent?

    So, I got a sample of some stuff the guy was calling "synthetic paper". It's a scratch and tear resistant material that feels about as thick as a postcard. A lot of restaurants are starting to use these for menus and such. These were obviously run on a printing press, but it got me wondering if...
  11. best vector program

    I've only personally used illustrator. But I've watched another print shop using corel, and it just seems awkward to use. Could be my lack of experience, or it could be as others have said "clunky". But I'm not in a good position to make that call. I do like *most* of the updates from CS6 to...
  12. Any resident nutritionists?

    Everything we eat is eventually converted to sugar in the body. It's what our body runs on. Even if it gets stored as fat, that's just our body creating an "energy concentrate" to, later on, convert to sugar. One of the best things my wife read (and I heard the synopsis) was In Defense of Food...
  13. That big order I've been waiting on

    Yeah, I've seen something similar to this in the past. The best one I've seen though, was in great English asking for a ton of standard stop signs. I figured it was a scam, but went ahead and got a quote from our supplier and jacked the price way up. Figured that would scare them off. But they...
  14. Sign Cleaning

    You gave me a great idea to make some extra money on the weekends. I know any monkey can get out there to wipe them off, but someone in the sign industry should be better able to not screw them up in the process.
  15. File not "cut ready"

    :ROFLMAO::banghead: Had this problem so many times. The "professional designers" are always the worst. It's like, how many ways can you explain "I need your file saved at ACTUAL PRINT SIZE at 300 dpi," and they still keep sending a 1/10 size image at 72 dpi. *sigh I always prefer to work with...
  16. NEED HELP PLEASE! puzzled by the simple things

    I have printed in pdf, eps, tif, and even jpeg in the past. Those trim marks do not show up in my prints. I can tell my rip software to print marks that look just like those, but it's not coming from illustrator.
  17. Customer Driving Me Nuts

    I'm impressed she paid for design time. From the customers I've had like that, you put in a lot of time and get screwed, or you get out early.
  18. Vehicle Templates

    We always used photos and measurements by hand. But you've got to get the customer to come to you for a survey AND install. Some of them don't have the time of day to do things properly.
  19. usb to serial converter

    I'm wondering how long that reference will still have any meaning behind it. I'm old enough to have caught reruns. But in another 10 years, would that just be a phrase that no one recalls why they even use it?
  20. usb to serial converter

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