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So it seems that a major issue is the wages I am hiring at. But if I fire everyone and hire at $20/hr it's going to kill my bank account because it takes 4 - 6 months to train someone enough where I can trust them on their own. During training I am losing money. By the way for the 20 work...

Currently I hire at $12.00 / hour (our state minimum wage is $7.25) so I should get something decent, except my lead installer who is also our welder and engineer is $13/hr. I am in the process of restructuring, since the first of the year I've been making a ton of changes. The smaller jobs...

Thanks. Yeah one of my now fired employees from a year ago, whom I regret I failed to do a background check on was in jail for a felony and his drivers license was revoked. He kept trying to sleep with my last receptionist and one day he said "I have to leave before I do something I may regret"...

Early on I tried craigslist, but after 3 or so, I went to Indeed and got a bit better quality with the exception of two people. I've had tried my local employment commission office which was pretty poor, one is working out decently. The best I have out of the rest. My job descriptions are...

You are spot on, I do all of that, I am probably one of the nicest and easiest bosses there is. I've let them get away with murder. But now they are so comfortable they don't feel like they can ever be fired. I'll try your suggestion for the local tech schools and see how that goes. I do prefer...

Now I see why so many sign shops stay small and have little to no employees. I've had the worst luck of employees. I've had 12 - 14 employees totally, currently have 4 not including myself. They screw up nearly every job, they aren't friendly, they don't care about their work, they have no...

Did you download the latest patches and updates? That fixed my stuff.

I don't trust ebay for Roland inks, because generally they are not legal resellers, also these could have been bought in a yard sale or something or even Goodwill. They could be years old and will harm your printer.

Please tell me you aren't buying Plywood from Lowe's, painting it and trying to put vinyl on it. The best wood based sign material for post and panel is Lusterboard or NuAlum. It's 1/2" exterior grade plywood in the middle with aluminum on both sides.

Roland, Thanks for the information, it doesn't seem like it's much more useful than our current plotters. We don't do Diamond Grade, cardboard etc here. But glad you guys are coming out with some new machines. I am still waiting for you guys to make a small flatbed printer that prints either...

GR Series Large Format Cutter | Roland DGA That is the brand new release of the Roland GR-Series plotters. It appears it can cut through anything from cardboard to PETG. But there is nothing that gives any examples of what kind of materials it can cut. Is it possible to contour cut magnets on...

Thanks I appreciate it. Times New Roman was close, but you are correct wasn't it.

This shopping center had to go and ditch the standard highway font and used something completely different. So I believe the Speed Limit part is Times New Roman, but I am lost on the numbers, any idea? Thanks

If it was mine, I'd replace the black printhead. Not worth the trouble to spend so much time, effort and money to keep trying to fix it for so long. It can also be a calibration issue, but the fuzzy parts on the print test isn't good. But again that's just me.

I do sandblasting in house. The best photoresist film on the market is the SR3000 from Rayzist. Self Stick Photoresist Film | Self Stick Sandblasting Film | Sandcarving Photomask | SR3000

A couple weeks ago I had a guy from maybe Haiti or somewhere close to that area. Very poor English. He had a taxi company and needed lettering, vehicle number, etc. So he could be legal and start using it. So he comes in at 5pm and says he wants it done today. I said it's one hour to closing and...

I usually mark up 40% - 50% depending on the customer.

Use the drop shadow, then make it an outside shadow. Dim the feathering to about 5 and darken the shadow to around 75 opaque. If you change colors, be sure to alter the blend type.

So there is a restaurant down the street from my shop called Afghan Kebob. They got in a lawsuit and had to change their name. So we've done work with them a few times and every single time they complain about something. Such as when we put in brand new flood lights to shine up at his sign, he...

I don't do foam core either, but when printing I always do a full bleed, never die cut. The vinyl comes white, so you aren't losing ink and vinyl is normally on average 25 - 30 cents per square foot. Also when laying down vinyl as a full bleed, you don't have to measure, it's 2X faster.