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I agree with both viewpoints here in different ways. That's aside, this forum was created for sign professionals only and it is starting to look like the new owners could care less and are leaving the borders wide open for anyone and everyone. This will lead to the real pros being less likely to...

Most annoying was laminating my tack cloth. I sat it down while laminatingat the side of the print and walked around to the back to tape the print to the take up reel and the corner of the cloth was tacky enough to pull it over to itself. At least it wasn't gross. Twinkie sounds like fun though.

I'm not sure what he is talking about. I run latex and eco-solvent and both have good and bad qualities but they both produce fantastic prints that are good for indoor and outdoor. I also have a UV printer that is broke more than it is operational and the print quality is decent but slow and...

What do you plan to use the printer for? That will dictate what type of ink you should run in it. Generally, I would say the ss21 for regular sign work. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Do you have a take-up reel on your printer? I'm not sure on the gray/silver tones problem but I know that when running my printers, if I don't put them into the take-up as soon as it will reach, I take a chance of head strikes. The material likes the tension Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Lower resolution is probably firing larger dots so the line isn't visible. If you attempted to print another file at the same resolution, you theoretically should have the same problem in that same spot if it's the encoder strip. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Need to know what printer and media you are using. Looks like a head strike from the pic I am looking at but it's not completely clear what it is. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Honestly, if you want to be able to take something into the field, you are going to need two computers. A field computer doesn't need nearly the power that your desktop needs and you will spend about the same amount of money on one really good laptop or a cheap laptop and decent desktop and you...

I, too, am curious about the cost. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I have 2m liability 500k equipment and building insurance and I'm the only employee so it costs me about $1600 a year. I am interested in adding an older bucket truck but am wondering how that is going to affect my insurance. I know a huge company in my city has several bucket tricks and...

I have a lazy way of doing it usually. I open the file in file I and use the contour cut filter then save the file as a PDF. When I open on Onyx and print, it has the contour cut file built in and ready to send to the cutter. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Get a ton of RAM...at least 8meg. Check the requirements for Adobe as I'm. It sure what the are but plan on having a few projects open at once as clients will inevitably call you while you are working on something else and your web browser will eat a bunch if you have several windows open. I am...

This is what they have in mind. I see that one of these images has some type of metal foot built in but the other 2 don't. I would imagine you would have to at least have a stake of some kind holding the base of the sign from moving or the thing would fall over too easy.

I have seen signs around town from time to time that temporary rental yard signs. They are usually 2'x5' or something and have ropes coming from the top two corners down to stakes in the ground to keep it upright. I have two questions, 1. Is there any type of base or stake usually used? 2...

I'm using a lot of Orafol 3640 for this kind of thing. I'm getting it for $109 a roll (54"x150'") It sticks to most anything and I have spent a lot of time with drywall. Scotch tape will stick to drywall. Just know that nothing with adhesive will come off of drywall ever without taking the paper...

I went into business thinking I was going to develop a vehicle wrap business and found that I am not good at art or graphic design, but fantastic at the technical aspects of the business so I am now wholesale to the trade. I started doing just vinyl wide format, but now I'm offering customers...

Mimaki CJV150 is a super high quality printer, but the downside is that it is slow going as a cutter compared to my Graphtec. Also, If you want to cut on the Mimaki, you have to use the included RIP, but if you want to cut on the graphtec, you use illustrator to setup the art with graphtec marks...

OP, you sound a lot like me when I got started. I owned 3 other businesses and signage was costing me a fortune so I bought a vinyl cutter to start doing some of my own stuff. I am not creative at all. I'm a total left brain type of person. Once I made my first couple signs, I found a real...

Wayne, I thought that was hilarious. Aside from that, I spent 14 years as a police officer and I would not have even taken a report because it's a civil matter. If the reporting party demanded one, I would have written the report and stat that I told them it was a civil matter and to speak...

Agreed. I do almost exclusively wholesale to the trade but they keep getting cheaper and cheaper also. I see a banner ad at the top of this page as I wrote this offering prints at $0.75 per sq ft on a grand format printer. That leaves super slim margins. Retail in this area is about $8 a sq so I...