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  1. Why does coffee in cafes taste 100x better than at home?

    Just to add, Get an insulated (double wall) french press, it keeps the coffee HOT. you need to steep the coffee grounds for 5 minutes. Filtered water and the conical burr grinder...god I need a coffee now!
  2. Live plants in a sign shop? (Solvent fumes)

    I would be more worried about spilling water in the print room...oh and those tiny little flies that can live in the soil of pot plants. The same tiny little flies that throw themselves onto the vinyl as it is being made.
  3. Intestinal Flu

    The best cure for that is a nice egg fry-up. Bacon and a heap of greasy home fries. Or now you have built up an immunity go back for another order of burger.
  4. Printer turned Sign Maker?

    My god I just this morning did yet another Yoga sign with Papyrus! Oh and welcome
  5. thoughts on repo-ing wrap?

    legally they own the wrap. If you remove it without legal process you are stealing/vandalising and they can have you arrested. The issue is they owe you some money. You are entitled to go after them for the money or eventually goods. Since a wrap has no resale value its not worth taking...now...
  6. should I come back after lunch?

    :popcorn: Sometimes this forum is like a western saloon on payday. Someone yells fight and its on! If you aren't getting paid regularly what you are due, if you don't like the coffee or the quality of the toilet paper...walk or at least look around. If you can't find anything else then...
  7. Goodbye Whitney Houston

    it's a lesson never learned. These people, talented or not (most just lucky), get fame and MONEY. Surround themselves with worshippers and begin the slippery slope of indulgence. Just like people who poked lions with sticks in the stone age, she died of self inflicted stupid. I liked her...
  8. Recent UPS delivery problems.

    I have used both and hated both until I relocated and found the reason; Its the middle managers, the ones who run the depots. No matter what company, if the guy who is in charge of the depot is an idiot, the whole show is messed up. My experience with the drivers is that they try to do a good...
  9. Window perf problem

    Is that in any way similar to a customer expecting that the $125 banner stand on Ebay will be the same quality as the ones I sell? Thank you, that has lifted my weekend. Now, knowing the quality of the roll you have, are you really going to burn your customers by selling it to them?
  10. Help! Printer stops....while "Printing"??!!

    most likely a network issue. Many times its an IP conflict with your RIP or printer having the same IP as another thing on the network. Either renew all IP's on your router or turn off everything and restart. It's a pita, but I get it quite a lot. Probably because of wireless things like...
  11. Customers: can't have you cake and eat it to

    I was being a little tongue in cheek with this, there is now way not to copy or "steal" elements of designs that someone else has already created. Our (and I assume we are all human here) Brains are designed to copy and reuse on a massive scale without thinking. Its how we go from drooling baby...
  12. Customers: can't have you cake and eat it to

    Norton 360 says clean. Is there a difference if you remade it and began selling them rather than just have it up on your wall? Was this basic idea his or copied from an even earlier one? Can you copyright an idea? This goes back to how much of a design can you copy before it becomes...
  13. Craiglist, how I hate thee

    You could sell it on Craigslist
  14. How's business?

    I too lost by biggest single client. Pushed our marketing a little, grew some new products and filled in the gap, So far at least 10% over last year. February is getting too busy and I know March April and May will also be very busy. Im trying to keep my overheads down, but I might have to...
  15. Craiglist, how I hate thee

    Craigs list is a great resource for fencing stolen goods, pirated fakes, photocopied event tickets and prostitutes...oh and I think there is a section where people can sell stuff.
  16. "If you change X% of the design it's fair game"

    :goodpost: If you can see any of the original design, its a steal.
  17. How do we compete with this?

    It seems quite clear given the way the market is moving that competing on price alone is a recipe for failiure. Even on a local level you are driving margins down and killing an already weak market. The cheapest or the new guy with money to burn will get the job. On a larger scale, bigger...
  18. GoToMyPC or LogMeIn.

    log me in pro on my main computers. I was foolish enough to take an old laptop on vacation with me, I could use it from europe to design stuff on my main computer back here. Great for working, not so good for vacation. I was actually skyping and using log me in, it was like I was sitting in...
  19. How do we compete with this?

    With places like staples producing signage, and I'm betting Costco soon, professional promotion of an idea or product has become mass-market. I have been noticing over the last couple of years that all promotion from store signage to people selling from a space in city fairs has become more...
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