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I might be older than your father and have a good friend who is in the same position as him. He comes by my place and has been staring at my printer and asking all sorts of questions about software, laminator and how things work. He was a sign painter and purchased a Gerber 4b when they first...
The only plug ins I use in Illustrator are Astutegraphics, dynamic sketch and a couple others, never had a problem with them slowing anything down when using large files, but like WrapYour Car says, I use Photoshop for a lot of large files and flatten.
I have sub contracted myself out for years. They, the competition s not living in your Pollyanna world. They will brain drain you, learn as much as they can from you and then when they don't want to pay your prices anymore plus they have your playbook, throw you out of their bus.
Your mindset is...
You do not sound like a newbie sign maker since you are making a $100k a year off one customer. And I assume this sign was all hand made and no CNC was involved. So you must have had an idea of what signs cost and your time to make one and had an idea you were going to charge $1400 for this. My...
Also if you do any search on google, it relates ads back to your page while on here.
It does not do it always, because I never get any porn ads showing up on here for myself.
Thats why I said $650, the guy would freak at $1800. He is a friend who might even think he might be getting it for free. But like someone said, doing work without knowing how much it will cost causes problems for both parties.
Did that turn you on Colorprinthead, or are you one of those people who complain about that in public. You must have been a formula baby. There are female sign people who might need one.
Nice looking sign. Charge whatever you think is fair for your time. How many hours to fabricate and design, material cost and installation all has to be considered. How's $650 sound to you.
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