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It came in a tube from 365. Whatever they print on (I assume it was 3651) with a dry erase laminate.

They aren't rolling it. It's on a magnetic dry erase board, they just needed a grid on it for scheduling jobs, so I just ordered the dry erase material from 365 for it. They have like 5 of these and all the others are fine. Just can't figure out what's causing it. I'll research these other...

I'm really starting to hate my life right now. I've had a couple failures come back in a couple days, and I'm tired of eating them all. I had Signs365 print me some dry-erase vinyl about 6 months ago, and the customer just sent me the picture below. They said they're cleaning it with Windex...

Yeah, I used heat on it when I was done to set it.

Ok. I guess I always assumed that stuff could stretch more than that since I've never seen my Oracal do that, but maybe I just got lucky.

I've been putting graphics on vehicles for 15 years now, and never had anything going on like stuff I've had in the last year. I got a call from this customer, 6 months after we installed the vinyl, and it's all blowing apart. I do my best to work stuff into the contours, and I'll be the first...

Anything is doable. I bought a business that had already been around 25 years and all new equipment to the tune of around $75,000 and know I didn't have much over $1,000 in the bank at the time. It's about like any business, the first 5 years will make you or break you, but I survived and it's...

Had a guy last week that basically did the same thing to me. Was in a huge hurry (which I always a red flag) only I had zero history with this guy and didn't trust him because he said no other company's would call him back, so I told him he had to pay up front. He said "if you don't show me...

Too low, but dang, I'd love to just do the production end and have no proofs to do, no back and fourth with the customer, and payment up front w/o having to beg for it every time.

Oh this thread is too good. I'm taking my font book and going home.

I flat out refuse to install other people's vinyl...espeically when they want it to run through my equipment. If they have something they bought that I can't get the rights to reproduce that they need installed, that's different, but that's a red flag that they're a cheap skate if they bring...

And I normally do 50% up front, but when I have no history with someone, and I get all the red flags I was seeing, and they tell me that they're in a big hurry and can't even send an email, I don't even waste time. The amount I would have made would have been ok, but it's not worth what every...

Thanks for the thoughts on this. Gino, and others, you are right, I'm not sure why I play the 4X8 card...it doesn't matter. What it costs is what it costs, I need to remember that. Far as emailing from a text message, I forgot about this, I have done it before but screwed up. This will now...

Over the last 10+ years in the business, I've had those customers that have always tried to push me around and run MY business the way THEY think it should run. As I've gotten older, I've taken less and less crap, and seen more and more bad warning signs. Here's how this customer went. Just...

I generally don't let them know unless I think I'm going to have an issue. A lot of stuff I CAN do in house, but if I get busy since I'm a one man shop, I go ahead and sub it out so I'm not living in my shop all the time. A lot of designers that I do wholesale work for in our town do tell...

I don't have any tips, but I feel your pain. My JV3 and JV33 were work horses, but I felt like I constantly was battling ink issues like this. You aren't productive at all when dealing with this stuff. Went Latex and so far, loving it.

I'm in the same boat, but I'm about to just get a dumpster. I'm tired of tripping over it all. It's been 10 years in this location, and we haven't cleaned it out, so we can empty house, and then do it again in another 10 years.

I had a supplier offering this to me too this week. I was leery about it. I told him if the price is good, I might be into it for removable vinyl for my auctions, and maybe some intermediate stuff. I'd too like to hear results people have had with it.

I normally just send whatever they give me to the vector doctor and come to work the next day and I have the file. Not a big deal unless it's super complex which most of my business cards are not. I do like the idea of ordering some vista print cards that knock vista print, and having them...

Make your file and upload it to Signs365 and have them cut the shapes with the print already on it, and you just open the box and it's done.