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  1. Best place to hire experienced sign people?

    Fair enough. I think that what frustrates me the most is not the quality of the art work cause to be honest art is kind of objective and if the client likes it then there's not much to do about it. It's more the technical aspects of the files and artwork.
  2. Best place to hire experienced sign people?

    Some of the worst files I get are from agency's.
  3. Question 300ppi for a 10' x 8' backdrop???

    What's the image? Are they sending you a raster cause they don't know how to work in vector?
  4. Question 300ppi for a 10' x 8' backdrop???

    Sure it is. We do it all the time. We also design mostly in vector. If a rasterized image is called for we adjust the DPI fit the scaling needed. Our 'minimum' printing DPI is about 100.
  5. Best place to hire experienced sign people?

    I almost thought about talking to my local college and seeing if I could become a guest lecture. 'Just about everything that you have learned is wrong and has no real world application and if you send me another fucking jpeg logo I will literally print it out, put it on .080 and beat you with...
  6. Best place to hire experienced sign people?

    I live in world where $15 an hour is pretty much minimum wage.
  7. Best place to hire experienced sign people?

    I think it also depends on what your looking for, what your looking at paying, benefits, and expectations. If your willing to put in the time and train/teach someone you can get someone with less experience and cheaper but if you want hire someone that can for the most part hit the ground...
  8. Advice on buying a printer

    Why are they getting rid of the machine? There must a reason as to why, I would find out first. Also check with local dealer and see what a new machine cost, this would be one way to check on price and see if they know the person selling it. I think that your right to be suspicious. I can't...
  9. Starting my own Business, Would like help naming.

    If it was easy everyone would be do...... shit never mind everyone is
  10. Starting my own Business, Would like help naming.

    Kentucky Signs is right, SEO is becoming more and more important these days. Why not something like Florida Sign Corp., or Okeechobee Wraps Co. something that's regional, recognizable, some thing people can relate to. I know the urge to create a stylized name and aggressive trendy logo is cool...
  11. Need Help Vector Template

    So you can do this a few different ways, and with our seeing any of the artwork or template (so we're flying blind here) this is what I would suggest Probably the easiest thing to do is going to open or import the design in Flexi and it should be on Layer 1 in the Design Editor. Once this is...
  12. Looking to purchase new setup

    Is this something that you saw and thought I could do that or something you've been doing for someone else and decided to embark onto you own? Either way I would maybe look at doing just design maybe some cut vinyl in house and outsourcing the printing to a third party till you can determine...
  13. Looking to purchase new setup

    I've printed and installed several latex prints and have never had any of those issues. In fact the installation of the latex I found better especially when working with prints that have a lot of darker colors and the darker ink in solvent/eco-solvent bits into the film and slightly changes...
  14. Lam Separated From Vinyl, Again

    When we were first messing around and building our profiles I did a 6 pass with 110% ink density at about 180 degrees..... it was messy to say the least.
  15. SNOWMOBILE TEMPLATE

    Motorsports templates .com sucks. I tried to use them once or twice. They never fit right. I found out that making them myself ended up being the easiest thing in the long run.
  16. Got to thinking................................

    My first real job was a projectionist at a movie theater in the later 90's early 2000's. After that I bounced around working at customer service at a credit union, night stockier for a big box store. One of my favorite jobs was being the manager of a SoBe Love bus for a few years. It was a...
  17. Need Help Solution Needed for Bus Signage

    I know there is the Ackland Media Frames but probably not what your looking for. BigfishDM might be able to help you out.
  18. Need Help latex 310 color issues

    It seems like this machine is giving you a lot if issues. Where did you buy it from? Can you go through them rather than HP? Other things that might be the issue, having no idea what your set up is or what has been done or not done. When was the last time the print heads were replaced? Did...
  19. Need Help Solution Needed for Bus Signage

    Can you post an image?
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