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At the sign shops I worked at, (most of them in Orange County) it was extremely rare that we dropped everything to whip out a job that would take 1-2 hours from start to finish... even more rare for 2 or 3 coro signs. Most people want their graphics yesterday and most jobs have the same...

kraigsnowden has a good point, next month is the NBM show in Long Beach.... http://www.nbmshows.com/

You can get your supplies at Montroy, N. Glantz, Interstate Electric, Sign-Mart and Mclogan.. Signmart has 4'x8' sheets of coroplast for around 30 bucks. The reason I did not consider the cheap plotters is because I view them as hobby plotters no matter what marketing a sign suppliers says...

i forgot, on the plotter recommendations, I prefer Summa, Graphtec and Gerber (the Gerber is out of your price range). other decent plotters are Roland, Ioline and Anagraph.

How many are you doing at a time? Different websites? 5,000 dollars you are pretty much stuck with nice vinyl cutting system and that will work fine. If you need them printed then add 15-30k to the budget, there are plenty of online vendors to supply and guide you on that and then you can apply...

You are going to get a lot of opinions coming from different directions. I can see sign shops in your area not prioritizing your work... there really is no money in it when the overhead they have is so much... Did you try a shop like Signs Now, Fast Signs, or Sign-A-Rama? They may be more...

Many you have to make up, many you can get through a brick and stone manufacturers, you can also purchase seamless texture sets... Question... are you currently a sign manufacturer and designer or setting yourself up to get into it?

I'm now having a mental image of Dougs okole... by the way, is it all furry with a tattoo above it that says "Don't mess with my poi-poi"?

Maybe it is 5000 dimes....I spent around 73,000 nickels for all my Adobe Suite, Corel and upgrades through the years...

I think most "responsible" high posters do not want to get too involved because the damage has already been done... when the pissing match starts, it's hard to stop it mid stream.

I think Fred has a direction for this place and hobbyist are not be part of that equation... this place can be either overly protective of the trade but at the same time very helpful. It would have been helpful for that poster to send him along to a better forum for his certain level, I'm sure...

I think he means 5000 bucks... i have had crappy Corel files too, idiotic production files are not exclusive to Adobe users Seems like we can't answer certain questions being asked in the Corel forum... even though some of use Illy users are Corel users too... just answering questions.. never...

I hate the bounding box, I turn it off. (in the "VIEW" menu) I also turn on select object by path only (In preferences) For welding go to "WINDOW">"PATHFINDER"...make sure you hit "EXPAND" if you are happy with the weld.

Might be cheaper and funner to design your own. Lots of solutions like STANDOFF SYSTEMS Cable systems or walk into a Starbucks and get ideas from their non illuminated menu boards and attachments.

i'm a not a big fan of that type clip-art or any pre-designed solution, but I can see the value of getting a jumpstart on a detail library. What I have done in Illustrator is every time i make a new bolt, rivet part or section detail i save it in Illustrators symbol palette. That way you have...

Looks like Emigre Tarzana to me..

The only Tarzana font I know of is this one.... http://www.emigre.com/EF.php?fid=124

This may help... though it takes the fun out of it... http://www.buysigndesigns.com/

if you get Illustrator you might want to look into this.... http://www.hotdoor.com/index.php?content=cadtools&navcontent=cadtools

Bertohold City bold the BCI is stretched around 200% then the path inlined with that blue color BROWNING is stretched around 125%