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I received a note from one of my suppliers that MDO prices will increase by as much as 17% on November 1st. I’m considering ways to approach this with customers without sending them on a shopping trip with competitors. Anyone have thoughts?

The Social Dilemma was an eye opener, but if you want a glimpse at where the tribal mentality is taking us check out 3% on Netflix.

We moved to Corebridge last year (https://corebridge.net/). It's worked very well for us. It's cloud based so most of our front office is able to work remote. As a workflow management tool it has been fantastic and allowed us to run completely paperless in production. We moved off of...

Wall Lizard. It’s not perfect but it works anywhere you planned to put a magnet. The customer needs to save a backer for storage.

I’ve bought and sold with Global Garage. The transactions went fine. They are brokers so there were a few times I had to wait for sellers to get info to them. Some leasing company websites have a page of equipment coming off leases.

I bought one like that a few years ago. It was so tempting - for about the price of 2000 grommets you get a machine plus 5000 grommets and refill grommets were less expensive. The secret - they use super light grommets with no backs so they are more eyelet than grommet. They were ok for short...

I agree with Gino, 20x30 seems small. It won’t leave much space for materials - both feed stock and finished goods. The curtain works well for us, but it faces our bay doors so a lot of dust still comes in under the curtain. Taller than 8’ will help with material handling and diffusing fumes...

Just guessing sewing machine oil should work. It's a light machine oil that we use on a lot.

We use a panel saw or table saw depending on the size of the pieces.

Wall cutter from Fletcher or Keen. My flatbed operators cut 30-40 sheets an hour into 18x24 while the next sheet prints.

Both are good machines. My two big deciding factors for purchasing flatbeds- What are you printing? That should drive your decision. Coroplast- speed and saturation. Trade shows - high quality. Support - who, how fast and how much? Another system to consider is Digitech USA. They make some...

We have run a 1650 for almost a year. It’s fast, produces good prints and it’s easy to use. We use Onyx and haven’t built any of our own profiles as the ones from Canon seem to work on the materials we print (banner, wall paper, 3M vinyls). It sits next to an HP 570. My operator prefers the...

Your post starts off saying business has been great for the last year and a half even with COVID. If you're talking about a seasonal slowdown, we have a few lists that pay rewards when business picks back up. Train. Look for weaknesses and gaps and find ways to overcome them and be more...

We switched from Cyrious to Corebridge last year. The big selling points for us was server based -vs- cloud based and job management -vs- workflow management.. Cyrious requires it's own SQL server, which means server maintenance and enough purchasing more SQL licenses when you add more users...

Digitech makes solid printers. We run 2 of them, a true fire and a retro jet. Both are solid, reliable and fast. We push coroplast at just over 40 boards an hour on one and 30 per hour on the other. TheIr new machines are faster. Check out the videos.

We survey every customer for reviews on every order. When we started I was terrified we would only get negative feedback. After a few years, I've learned that the few negative responses help my business grow more than all the glowing recommendations. We've made a lot of improvements through the...

We have both a Fletcher and a Keen Cutter. I bought the Keen last year for similar reasons. The Keen is a more stable cutting platform but it's a lot slower on long runs of coroplast. There are panel saws with optional box blade tools for coroplast. That option will expand what you can cut...

We haven’t found a router bit that cuts coroplast well. Reciprocating knives are the way to go for CNC. If you don’t have one,then for a short run you would do better hand cutting with an exacto knife. For a large run outsource it.

There are commercially available mufflers. We have one on our Gerber. It brings down the volume quite a bit. Most vacuums have a threaded port to add it. Also consider a $15 decibel meter from amazon to make sure your operators have the right equipment. There are probably some similar apps for...

I can quote that for you. Email your specs to me and I’ll send a quote. Houston Sign Company alan@houstonsign.com www.houstonsign.com 713.662.3123