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Happy Birthday!:toasting: Me? Printing, just like every other weekend for the last three months.

put up my first hand painted store sign some 26 years ago... fell off the ladder, probably should have taken that as a hint.

Because I built a business from scratch during a recession is why. The first years I was too poor because I was growing the business, now I'm too busy because the business has grown (tiger by the tail). You can crap on my designs, but don't crap on my business plan.

Is it better to be a rich dead person or a poor dead person? since the "dead" bit is inevitable.

Aha! that explains why my big Squeegee is sitting on a shelf somewhere. Why just Oracal? what is it about that lam when it works so well on the laminator?

Easy peasy on a roland. I use the VP 540...You really should get double sided banner. you may get the ink to lay on the back of the single sided banner, but it will probably look like crap and try to lift off. Double sided easy way... Print the first side of the banner, go to the corner...

you never can tell what hides behind a name like StickerMonkey. hi from ontario... oh and I did my own term in prepress and paste up in the 90's.

It is usually a lack of knowledge on the part of the designer. Many designers who send me work are one-trick-ponies; they are only really comfortable in one design program. I have seen a whole 48 page book done in photoshop and someone trying to colour correct scanned images using only...

I have not had more than a long weekend off in four years. Either I'm too busy or too poor. You have customers, regular customers who need you to be there when they want to do business, or they find someone else. grow the business, get employees and overhead you are now sweating the margin...

hi from Ontario, nope Canvas is too tough...you could try it with a fresh blade, but there are some things you just advance and cut with a hand blade...you aren't trying something like contour cutting?

There is some dodgy Decalite around in Ontario. Don't know about a vertical line though. Have any hair falling out?

Go for the Roland. I'm not saying its a better printer, but it is a lot easier to learn to use, and it includes the RIP. Banding has never really been an issue on our VP540. More important though is the level of support and hand-holding you get from the supplier.

AI CS4 has multiple Artboards too. Fence sitting myself over getting 5.

welcome to the learning curve

Great beer label, now print it out on some vinyl, stick it on a cold bottle and spray some water on it, take picture...pry off cap then drink... Got any metalic vinyl to print it on or the new Roland with metalic ink?

Pounce? I had to google that one. You learn something every day on signs101.

you could wrap it?

This thread is pulling at something that has been bugging me for a while. In this discount world how do I let my customers know the incredible deal they are getting from me? I'm not griping about them screwing down my prices, I'm pretty clearly quality and service rather than cheapest...

I agree, brand headline and contact information. lose the lists. A good guide is to look at the thumbnail image on your posting, the red is getting lost on the black.

A side note, Vistaprint is the company that has teamed up with MSN to offer "free" business cards to all Hotmail users. I use them on occasion for business card Magnets because they are dirt cheap and my customers whine that the "internet price" is so much cheaper than mine. I pay peanuts...