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A fine choice if you're making a sign identifying a freeway exit. Your problem is not so much your dubious choices in type face, it's far more the ghastly layout with words disjointedly floating here and there coupled with the unremarkable if not downright boring color choices.

What does the tic-tac-toe thing have to do with anything? Why the distracting box that sort of surrounds the text? Regardless of those affectations, the whole thing is Yet Another typographical train wreck.

No it won't... Many many years ago my shop was in the back of a pool hall. Needless to say, I shot a lot of pool. One day the son of the local Mafioso came in with a magnificent cue. Hand carved with real ivory ferrules, a truly marvelous instrument. I remarked that one could shoot come...

However you manage to get it applied be sure and charge them double. Corrugated is always double whether you're applying vinyl or hand lettering it.

Perhaps if enough people have a go at this something decent might emerge, sort of like the infinite monkeys principle, but thus far virtually everything looks like a label for a box of suppositories. If you want a tight logo and you simply must have your name on it then change your name to...

Hardly a solution. More like an exercise in stupidity. A culture/society/civilization is pretty much defined by it's language. The easiest way to understand a culture is to understand its language. No particular language means no particular culture.

As my dear old dad was wont to say: "I never met anyone who couldn't tell me how much money I owed him in my language." Motivation.

The illustrations, besides being awful, are just floating there and are not tied to anything. They copy is small and too light and hard to read.

When you print the carriage/heads tend to put a little black ink on the pinch roller that's right at the end of the carriage travel. If you've printed media that's less wide than what you're printing now this tends to leave a line on the media at that point. I just clean the suspect rollers with...

It should. Every time the media takes a trip back and forth there's a non-zero probability that it's going to skew one way or the other. You want to at least try set things up so the the media experiences as little motion as possible.

Everything that comes into this shop, including jobbed out printing or anything else and all materials specific for a job like substrates and special media, are marked up 100%. No exceptions.

I'm running X3 with ~2000 font files installed and don't have a problem. Unless there's a few grunge fonts installed. They are hideously complex and take forever to load. It doesn't but one or two of them in the right place to cause Corel to have heart failure.

Everything is biodegradable, some things merely take longer than others. Just use whatever you have, smile and nod when the client asks silly questions and makes inane requests, collect your money and then get on with your life.

That looks like one of those this that you ought not do merely because you can. The two classic criteria for a sign, any sign, is that it be at once readable and handsome if not beautiful. This one fails on both counts. No one reads shadows and the effect is butt ugly. Cute and clever often...

What Jill said about the chiseled font. For the most part this style should be limited to scrawlings on school children's binders and other graffiti. Regardless of type face selection there's too much flame and not enough logo.

Each banner stand/retractor/whatever is different. There should be specifications for the actual print size included with the hardware. If not inquire where you got it. If you can't get the information from the source then just figure it out. It's just a bit of common sense and simple...

I give my standard 5/50 warranty on everything that leaves the shop. That's 5 minutes or 50 mph whichever occurs first. Seriously though, my warranty policy in signs is pretty much the same as the one I give when I sell a horse. I won't guarantee that it's a horse. Or a sign. That doesn't...

I've seen the usual 3D replicators that work as well as might be expected with vertical sections but this is light years beyond that. I have to have one.

I hate to break this to you but yours isn't a whole hell of a lot better than hers.

Other than finding one alongside the road the cheapest way to make a table is to pick up a 3'x8' or 3''6' banquet table at Staples/Office Depot/Office Max/whatever and screw a 4'x8' sheet of 3/4 MDO to the top. Be sure and get a banquet table with a composition board top and not a resin top...