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Historically every Pepsi, Coca Cola, and most popular beer distributors of any size all ran an in house sign shop. Most of them were staffed by part timers who had other duties within the distributorship as well as cranking out all manner of free signs for their clientele. In my formative...

I've been using Oracal for lo these many years and have never, ever, had a problem with it. Perhaps your technique is inadequate. For any flavor of tape you should do the following... When you run the tape on the banner and before you pull off the backing, you should run a squeegee along...

It's a characteristic of any and all devices that feed any sort of media. That's why there's a way to perform compensation adjustments in both X and Y on most all machines. Any particular mechanical device's concept of an inch will vary from any other machine's. Moreover any physical...

About time someone used the correct terminology. Edges are hemmed, sides are printed upon. Knowing the nomenclature is at least half of all wisdom.

.5" in 120" is one part in 240. Reasonable accuracy when friction feeding this sort of media off of rolls of varying widths, weights, and surface characteristics. A 500mm test is ~20". An proportional error of 1 in 240 at 20" would be about .083 of an inch. 8 thousandths of an inch is a fat...

Pretty much Futura. In this application, as with most any institutional use, most any sans type face of the right weight with a straight legged 'R' and a 'G' with no tail would work just fine.

Put them in separate containers. If you want them to arrive together, tape the containers together. I use 3" tubes with end-caps from U-Line. I buy them in cases of 25 with the end-caps included. I always print a 6" miniature on vinyl of the banner that's inside and stick it to the outside of...

I made the comment about Sarah Script merely to show that in spite of my prejudices, I think this is a good use of it. I own it as well and, from time to time, have been known to use it. Much better with the secondary copy under everything.

An excellent start, that from someone who thinks that LHF Sarah Script should be relegated to mayonnaise labels and fruit stand banners. If it were mine to do I'd find a way to bring the little illustration more into the body of the design. It gives off a discordance, minor but irritating...

A complete collision at sea. The typography is non-existent, so say that it's horrible would be complementing it. The inappropriate star wars looking thing, the sans 'V', and the romanesque 'C', all in different weights and colors is a combinatorial disaster. The layout is fourth-rate...

Exactly. Except for the ink, grommets, tape, etc. These are all expensed overhead. I have an aversion to nickel and diming people. Media, laminate, substrates, and anything special I have to provide is marked up at 200%. Note that rolled goods, like media and laminate, are charged by what...

OK. It's intent is to produce a curve that decreases with size of the work. That way you charge more per unit of area for small jobs and the price per unit of area decreases as the job grows larger. It keeps you from either getting hosed on small jobs or raping someone on larger jobs. It has the...

$5.50 per ft^2 eh? I'd like to order a one square foot banner. Which should be sufficient to highlight the lunacy of having a flat rate per unit of area pricing model. Here in this shop, we charge anywhere from $6.00 to $24.00 per ft^2 depending on the size of the work, + 200% of media...

You are mistaken. You think that you're printing in black and white, perhaps because that's the effect you're trying to achieve, but let me assure you that you are not. You're still printing CMYK and your profile in concert with your rendering intents is creating the variations that are causing...

Likewise $0 unless it's strictly a design job with no sign involved. If I'm doing sign work I have to lay it out regardless. I find those who attempt to charge for 'design' separately to be amusing. For the most part they are incapable of designing a ham sandwich. The ones who piss and moan...

It's very simple, I do it all the time. When it's time to change the date, change it on the original artwork and print just the rectangle that contains the changed information. New date, any existing background, whatever. Use banner tape around the edge of the patch and , if the patch is large...

What software? Are you letting the software do the paneling? If the latter you might want to manually set up your panels. If possible selecting panel breaks in areas of low contrast or, sometimes even better, actually doing a contour cut at a point where there's a dramatic shift in color if...

Most anything under 5 mils can be cut with a 45 degree blade. A 60 degree blade should be used for most materials thicker than that but a 45 will probably work OK. Depending. I cut everything with a 45 degree blade. Perhaps I'm missing out on some bit of micro optimization by not using a 60...

If you're screwing through existing grommets in the old banner then the maximum effective diameter of a fender washer would be the diameter of the original grommet. Anything extending beyond the old grommet probably isn't going to grab anything. Worse, if the fabric of the new banner is loose...

What software? What rendering intents?