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I'm bidding a large frosted vinyl install that will be just sheets of wet applied 8810 Oracal Frosted on glass. No cutting or design, just rectangles. I've worked with many different brands of frosted vinyls and films before but not in a large quantity and not something that's so basic as this...

Yep, we convinced the client to go with new faces. The originals were almost 20 years old and made of short strand fiberglass so they really weren't translucent at all. Plus once we removed the paint from one of them, we realized it was going to be way too much work to polish this turd. What we...

Who makes a good outdoor translucent paint for back-lit signs? We are refurbing an existing back-lit fiber glass sign and removing all the old paint with paint stripper, which is taking it off really clean and quickly. Does Matthews or One shot make a paint that would be good for this? The...

I went off the SignCraft sign pricing guide for this one based on my hourly rate. Since this was a new client, I wanted to treat them well since they had been using a huge printing company that was really overcharging them.

The actual mounting, yes only took a few hours. The whole job took 2 days. Printing, trimming, then mounting. Exactly what we did was use the slip sheets to protect each board. Worked great.

If you charged for the mounting, why wouldn't you charge for grommeting, hemming, trimming a sign, etc? For something like this, to me the cost per square foot should be built to include the cost of labor per sheet. That's how I did it for this job and this particular client. Otherwise...

Yeah, kind of what I was thinking. Usually I don't charge labor for mounting boards but since there were a good amount of them it took us a couple days.

So we printed and mounted 17 4'x8' adhesive prints to a customers supplied PVC. My question is, do we charge just for the material we used or the labor to mount it as well? Normally I provide the boards and everything so just trying to see if the labor would be relevant here.

Are those special order or where can I find them? Use those on my stand offs and then glue the flat part to the sign panel correct?

This is an indoor sign and will be made of 3mm brushed aluminum, cut out letters, then mounted to 1/8" clear acrylic so the inside of the letters can still be used. We are wanting it to stand off at least 1" from the wall but no hardware can be seen on the front so won't be using stand offs in...

The perf cutting on vinyl works awesome. It's actually really easy to do, you have to spend a little time for the initial set up but once that blade setting is saved it's all good. You do have to move the blade holder to the front position so you are not damaging your cutting strip. What blade...

I just bought the new Graphtec FC 8600 64" and have been extremely pleased with it, especially the perf cut feature. This has expanded my capabilities by doing actual cut through decals and retail stickers instead of outsourcing them for die-cutting. So, my next step is to try cutting magnet...

seriously, trying to figure that out too!

Gotcha, what is the part number of that material? I'm not familiar with that particular HP film. I've used the phototex before when it first came out and it worked pretty well but didn't care for the texture on it.

Great to know, have you had any issues with lifting? How's the long term durability?

We are running an HP L25500 so Latex ink.

I'm working on a big project for a medical facility that will have very large wall murals throughout the whole building. They have railings around all the walls to protect form wheel chairs and carts, etc. I've used Avery 2611 on several projects but not one this large, so just wondering if this...

The last thing I'm going to ask is about assembling the sign for the installation. Since there are 2 signs that form a "V" and they will share one of the posts, what's the best way to go about doing this? Do the one side, and raise it up, drop it down in the holes with the sign already on then...

Got it, we'll use 6'x6' posts for added structure. So 3 posts across(they meet at the V)is what you are referring too? Runners on each side-10' or 12'. If going in the ground that deep then we'll need 16' posts correct? You got me on the "L" shape.:smile:Guess it depends on the font used.

We have an 8'x10' site sign that will be 4 total pieces(4-4'x10') as it's shaped in an "L" to be viewed from two vantage points of the interstate. It's 1/2" primed MDO with graphics applied to the face. I'm going to use 3 -4'x4'x14' treated posts plus some 2'x4's on the sides for support similar...