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We definitely pick our battles sometimes, but over the years it's become a lot easier to tell clients why we're not going to make their logo bigger, or why the font we gave them is better than what they requested. All it takes is a little practise and a bit of confidence to make clients trust...

It looks like a low quality knock-off of Pump with a few changes. Just change it to Pump, tell the client it's slightly improved but no one will notice the difference anyway. https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/itc/pump/

Here's a link to get it https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/urw/caslon-no-540/

Hinges? We would just make 3 folds with an inch or two of extra material after the third fold, apply banner tape to connect the first and last sides together.

The Overprint x2 option in Versaworks is what you're looking for. That's how you do a double strike print on a Roland. Yes, it prints both strikes at the same time, that's just how it works.

For backlit vinyl, we use the overprint x2 setting. You just have to turn up the heat and slow down the head speed to allow all the extra ink to dry. Alternatively, if you go to your Cut Controls in the Job Settings, there's an option to return to origin after printing. If you enable this you...

Here are a couple of typefaces with a similar style. https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/carmel-type/alchemist/ https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/KonstantineStudio/sicero/

We don't write anything on our quote about it, but we have all of our customer artwork from the day we opened 11 years ago. Not just the print-ready files, but all the source files.

Looks like Century Old Style with a modified A.

Yes, I'm aware of that, but it's high end as far as calendered vinyl goes, and in our experience it doesn't shrink much when used for print/cut logos on exterior glass. Also, we typically laminate it with Avery 2080. However, we don't get many clients who care about white vs. light grey...

If we ever started doing wraps, I would absolutely try flat pricing before anything else. Customers shop around for pricing on wraps more than they do on most other signs, which makes it even more of a pain to do custom quotes for every one. Also, a lot of you seem to underestimate how much of...

If it were laminate overtop of cut vinyl, you would have been able to see it, and feel it. If that's really what it was, that's probably a sign of someone who has no clue what they're doing. Cut vinyl doesn't need laminate.

We would use Avery 2920 for that.

You can do vehicle magnets with cut vinyl. Not sure why you would need a heat press for magnets, but since you've brought it up, that's an inexpensive piece of equipment you could add to your business if you want to do textiles.

Looks like Serpentine to me.

You know there are dozens of type foundries that have released their own interpretations of Futura, including many under different names like Twentieth Century. If you want an exact match for a Futura sample, you just have to try them one at a time until you find a match. Start with the most...

Looks a lot like Futura to me. Futura Bold Oblique?

If you want to be a neighbourhood sign shop, you need a large format printer, a plotter and a laminator, which enables you to cater to all your local businesses. If you want to run a plotter-only business, you need a completely different mindset in terms of your target audience and your...

This topic has come up a few times recently. Here's a recent discussion on interior wall murals: https://signs101.com/threads/interior-wall-mural-material.148311/ We use Avery 2611. Super easy to install and it comes off cleanly.

Hard to say for sure with such a tiny sample, but Frutiger Bold Condensed looks like a match to me.