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Started out working as a bag boy at a grocery store at 16.. finished high school and went straight into a sign shop. From there moved across the country and bounced around a couple sign shops for a couple months then back home and back to the same sign shop. Now working for the family business...

We follow 3M's instruction bulletin 5.37 (A Guide to Understanding Walls and Applying Graphics to Walls). This should tell you what you need to know. We have had luck with Kilz brand primers but you have to make sure to give it MIN. 2 weeks to cure before applying vinyl (follow recommendations...

A photo of the original is where we would need to start figuring out how it was done. Chaz

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good idea to agree to disagree.. Everyone has their own business practices and knows whats best for their OWN business. Chaz

My thing here though Gino is why even bother doing a proof if your not going to stand behind it. You as a sign guy have the responsibility to produce what the client wants, but how do you know exactly what they want if they don't sign off accepting the design. It is the clients responsibility to...

Gino normally I agree with you on most topics but here I have to disagree. Proofs/shop drawings/ approvals whatever you call them are in place to show the client exactly what they are going to get. It is their responsibility to make sure it is exactly what they want, whether mistakes are made...

In the past we have ordered from Technilite here in Canada for an LED edge lit track for mounting to glass/acrylic signs. The company no longer sells these or anything like them (see photos). Been googling and can't find anything. Does anyone know of a supplier (hopefully in Canada) that may...

I would follow the application as in this video: You will have to make a few tweaks for the type of rivet but the idea is fairly similar. Chaz

We have used 3M IJ-39-20 w/ drytac interlam pro emerytex 5.0 mil. Worked great, easy to install and held up pretty well. We installed this onto the floor of 2 elevators. Chaz

I would get in contact with Gans about a tech sheet on the material which should give the temps (pre, platen, and after) for the material, also if you haven't done it yet, download the material profile off Gans website. I'm not sure how to do it with the HP printer in Onyx but with our epson I...

Looks like a head strike to me. I would raise the thickness of material in your RIP or check you heat settings vs media. If there's too much heat it can cause the media to curl/wave which raises it from the platen and the head rubs slightly when its printing. Knowing what media and RIP your...

We've got a s160T for about 10 years now and it still works as well as day 1. We've probably cut 500+ full rolls of material on it with no issues. On a side note, is there a way to tell how many linear ft you have run through the s160T? Chaz

For clear glass I will just leave a small black outline around the edge of the glass and have // marks in an upper and lower corner to represent the clear glass. Don't even worry about showing tinted glass here, if we are tinting the glass I will just put a note stating it gets tinted with a...

First thing would be to check the paint. The Low VOC paint mixed with a material that won't handle it is your culprit. The low VOC paints typically have a silicate in them which comes to the surface during curing which gives the paint the "easy clean". Nothing will stick to this (that's the...

haha quality install right there! Chaz

I agree with Gino... That's almost as easy as they come. Youtube some videos if your stuck or need some pointers. Peel top, align, squeege on while peeling backer, trim edges, done. Chaz

I'm always open to trying new things that will increase productivity etc (doesn't hurt that I'm a bit of a techie/geek) but I just don't have the time take on something else like that. Currently polishing up on web development skills as well as working on a new custom workflow program for our...

I don't mind win 10 either (run it on my surface book) as an OS but have never run it in a production environment and from what I've heard it can be disastrous (granted last I heard that was when win 10 was first released). As far as running a Linux host with VMs... that would be out of my...

In the midst of building new design computer myself. Asus ROG Maximus IX Hero mobo Intel Core i7-7700K processor Kingston HyperX fury 32gb RAM Samsung 850 EVO SSD 250GB WD 1TB HDD Maxtor 250GB HDD (SATA2 from old computer for Scratch disk) x2 EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB video cards win 10...