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I did it again, after printing a whole load of mesh banner a month ago on the backing side rather than the mesh, then cutting it down. I only realised my error when I went to hem and started peeling the backing off. I just did it again. Furious with only myself to blame. At least this time I...

8th year running the business from my home. This is the third house I have done it from and the result of a decision not to grow the business beyond a certain point. This house was chosen for it's size and shape to be perfect for the business with nearly 3000 sq feet I can dedicate just to the...

??? I would no more feed vinyl into a laser printer than I would craft cheese slices. However I just googled it and there are laser printable vinyls. Wow, letter size vinyl in a laser printer. That has to have all the guys who wrap vehicles worried. Now I wonder if you can toast cheese...

the neat thing is when the guy came to put the sign up he would have called you to complain...and of course it would all be your fault.

rule of thumb, if 90/10 is 17%, then 70/30 ...40%? did the stage company give you any specifications or do you tell them to build for a certain shear? It's fun guessing when it's not your head on the block.

This is exactly how I would have done it a couple of years ago. :thumb:

I think the issue is that this happens a thousand times a day in this industry. Likely the job will get done, the quality will be okayish and nobody will get killed. It may not be to code, the faces may not quite fit, but 25 ft up who will see? He may even cover his costs. I'm betting if he...

I did read somewhere that mesh loading was about 30-40% of ordinary banner. If you take (and I'm guessing here) ordinary banner load of 15lbs per square at 70 mph, I would say 5lb for mesh? not sure what hole size though. I did a stage banner a couple of years ago, 30ft x 4 ft over top of...

I'm on the very edge of a small town and my backyard faces farms and forest. I'm told the sky can be breathtaking... I had my eyes lasered about 15 years ago. The cost of being without thick glasses was the loss of my nightvision. I can barely make out 10 stars. I can remember summer nights...

If I couldn't use Papyrus I would have to stop doing work for Yoga studios.

could you just layer black on white?

if it froze at that temperature, someone has been drinking it and topping up with water... hey you didn't buy chinese rapid-tak? It must be a slow day in the shop. I will admit all the really cold installs I have done the heat was on in the building. It may have been minus brass monkeys...

Did you not think to test the rapid tac in cold weather before you drove all the way out there? Whenever I get something new I try it out. So since you didn't test your equipment, your customer has to pay? Nothing wrong with that, not a thing. nope.

Use Ultra Board or some other plastic variant of Gator; Gator, even half inch will warp in a humid restaurant, especially if one face is wrapped and the other isn't.

I'll vote for Oracal 70/30, Great for Store windows. Seems to hold better than many of the others. I wouldn't use 50/50 on a store, would tend to fade the design down.

I bet the guy who tipped them is happy with the deal! Stripper Fight!

Ditto. We have had 12x12ft banners up on construction cranes, used "seatbelt" webbing and ran cables through all the grommets on the 4 sides so it wouldn't belly in the wind. It's still a short life for a banner, the constant stretching of the fibres eventually degrades the vinyl. I'm not...

I have a relative in the industry, he was telling me they will get smaller again but you will be able to use a second larger screen for doing things. It's really the death of computers in the home. Your cell will be able to display on your tv and do pretty much everything your home computer did...

Says you... To be honest I feel much the same way. This forum has grown to be entertainment for a number of seemingly jaded posters. I can see the temptation if your business is already crowded and some newbie comes on for advice about starting up in their garage, but the flames start...

Aha! I have exactly this issue. Taking it from the installed Disk version 3, I upgraded over time to 4.6. After that I upgraded and the thing crashed or locked up, I kept having to go back to 4.6. This was on three different RIPs running XP and system 7. I had a service Tech who gave me a...