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No sign shop will run from the main out to the sign location. That's ludicrous. 50 years ago, maybe, but not in this day or current age of permits and codes. They might sub it out, but just about any end-user will use their own contractors or your suggestions and keep you outta the middle...

If ya wanna do something for free, do something ya like...... go fishing.

In this case, you're dead balls wrong. Those 20 shops near you...... ever wonder why one or two get top buck, some get close to it and most of them are scurrying around for peanuts ?? Because some demand their prices and the others take whatever they can get. Sounds like you and your 4...

Well, I would imagine, if you are getting paid for them and trying to make them look professional and the intended use is as a wayfinder type of setup, which will need braille and raised letters, you might want to consider doing it right and using the correct substrates and colors. Whether you...

Are these signs or craft items ??

Hahaaa...... that has happened some many times to probably everybody. It's easy to spot the other shops doing it to you. You can tell by how they describe things, their terminology, they hurriedness to ask the next qureston and lotsa other giveaways. They hide their numbers, use made up...

Most likely, you vinyl didn't have 100% adhesion along those edges. Therefore, your lacquer has seeped around to the back and began the curling process. Why do you need to apply a clearcoat to an interior door ?? Just lay the vinyl down and be done with it. Have them flatbed printed and then...

Here we go again........ we're not talking about you and your setup. The OP has one printer, so that's the example I gave, not some make-believe fantasy set up. I guess being a bottom feeder can pay off, if you have 4 printers. That makes more sense, now. You rely on quantity, rather than...

Ya buy the banner, ready made to size with all the grommets and use die-cut vinyl for the copy. That sample wouldn't take all that long to do. Are ya that busy you can't spare an hour or so cutting, weeding and applying the vinyl to 2 banners ?? Your best bet is when you can do more...

Are you trying to see how little money you can make ?? This isn't an exercise in who can do it cheaper and still make a few cents. Work smart, not dumb..... and for peanuts. After you figure in your phone time, internet time, set up time, trimming and rolling it up, you'll have at least...

Why ?? You have all the equipment to do it.

And gain the reputation that she's a cheap shop like all the other a$$holes ?? That reputation is very hard to break, when she finds out what she could really be making. Heck, that's why she's here. She senses things are not right in her area. Rise about the rest...... it shouldn't be too...

For most of the people here...... can you put that into more plain english ?? And no, the market does not set the price, unless you have people secretly manipulating pricing. That, is illegal. Regardless of where you are located in the country or the world, regardless of how many employees...

Don't worry about how low that other nitwit can go. It's not easy working for next to nothing and still pay YOUR bills. Let them dive to the bottom in a hurry. Then, you can buy their cheap-a$$ printer and do it for $4.72 a SF.

:covereyes: I'm going blind, I can't see a frickin' photo anywhere ??

Recently, I had an expert working on our flatbed. I asked him if the amounts were any different, cause they certainly felt different. Nope, not at all and he went into this explanation. After a while I just said, Okay, Okay because he has a very very heavy indian accent and it was giving me...

So, the company that has 2 crane trucks, 3 bucket trucks, 5 vans, an electrical department, silk screen setup, 2 flatbeds, several roll-to-roll printers, a vacuum setup, laminators , a cnc and 4 people in graphics and a fistful of fabricators and installers....... what they get to do a job is...

Since I've been here in the early 2000's, questions on pricing, costs of doing this or that, cost for overhead and whatever else one can think of has come up from time to time. There's been discussions..... even arguments over it, but it's usually been just here and there. Now, in the last...

Good luck with that one. Those kinda orders are usually 4 to 5 weeks out.

Here's something I always heard about welding from when I got into this business and kinda wondered if it was true or not. I know lotsa old-timers who welded and some wore the helmets and some didn't all the time. Anyway, 2 of the old guys I knew developed epilepsy and they claimed it was from...