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Right now for digital printed single sided 13 oz. banners with welds and grommets we are charging about a 300-400% markup over our cost from our printer who charges us $1.50 a sq. ft. So we are at about $6-$8 a sq. ft. depending on size. A little less for large banners, a little more for the...

You could invest in a welder and build your own brackets. If you do frequent jobs that require brackets, you can make a lot more profit making your own and take pride in creating something unique and original. Welding is pretty easy to learn if you don't already know how. You can get cool...

As many of you know, I'm still very much a newbie in the sign business (and screen printing). As such, my partner and I had struggled with pricing for quite some time. I bought the Contractor's Sign Pricing Guide 2010 from ST Publications and seldom used it. I tried to "discipline" myself by...

We just bought a new handful of books from ST Publishing including the new book on wrapping. We don't do wraps, but I figure the tips and tricks can apply to vinyl application situations so it's worth the $40. Not exactly general business reading, but sign business reading nonetheless.

An ultrasonic cleaner is what is typically used in the tattoo industry to clean ink and blood from stainless steel instruments. I've had years of experience with them in that respect, but none cleaning print heads. All I can say is I'm sure an ultrasonic would clean whatever you throw into the...

Thanks so much, Fred. As you can see in the pic, we have to redo this guys truck because the last "vinyl guy" that did it applied chrome over rivets. Then he went so far as to cut around the rivets with a razor as if that would help.

Can anybody help me out on this one? I'm sure I should know it but can't seem to find a match. Thanks.

U.S Cutter definitely has great prices on Oracal. That's where we buy a majority of our Oracal stock. I don't like buying outside our local area if I can avoid it, but since N&F Supply (Springfield,IL) changed over to Grimco, I have very little reason to do business with them. Most of what...

Very nice video, Joe. Will you be at the NBM show in Indy? I would love to meet up with you and talk shop.

Yep! That IS the ticket! The style of the lobster and the produce don't match. If this were done as a dynamic foreshortened cartoon with produce in the lobster's claws I think this logo would look amazing. The concept is nice, but the art needs improvement and cohesion.

Thanks, Buck! Garner is definitely closer than most of the others I found. Jill, I completely understand regardless of the fact that I have no clue what a Stickley table is. However, the truck is painted bright yellow and done up like a hot rod so I think the vinyl will work regardless of...

One of my customers sent me the attached pic of an old truck with hand painted lettering. He has a 1955 pickup truck that he wants me to do vinyl on in a similar fashion. I love the typeface in the image and he's sending me that to go on, so does anyone know of a typeface that would closely...

Great taste in beer, my man...great taste!

Funny you say that, because I too have about the exact same amount of beer bottles in my collection. Last time I counted I was well over 150. Of those, I even have two bottles of Beck's from Germany (as in flown home to me), one opened and one unopened still since around 2000. I...

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We get all of our .080 aluminum blanks from Hall Signs at store.hallsigns.com. They will do your blanks raw with no rounded corners and no holes and their prices are great, in my opinion. Then just cover it with white cast vinyl and go from there. That's pretty much how we "paint" them.

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Great work!

Has anyone used Zinsser Cover-Stain oil base primer on aluminum bare, scuffed, or otherwise? The spec sheet and can label say it works on all metals including aluminum. I'm just curious if anyone has anything to say regarding using something like that over the toxic zinc chromate primer or...

I think it looks like a great layout and I was impressed with it. Then I read Jill's critique and realized how much more I need to learn about good layout and furthermore I have to agree with everything she says. Taking everything into consideration, those minor tweaks will make this a...