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You keep talking about what is reasonable......That is not the issue for a municipality....It it is about liability, lawyers and law suits.....Cover Their Ass is their point.... It may be that the municipality in question is a member of your state's municipal risk pool and the pool has...

Like it or not, your 800.00 sign is not going to happen now......And better to find out before the fact rules applied then after the fact when they ordered you to take it down and your client sues you to get their money back.....Good luck.....

Well municipalities are dammed if they do and dammed if they do not......They get sued both ways.....They get sued if they are "over zealous" and they get sued if they have "weak" rules.....

So what does one do with the "mother-lode"?....

As some one who outsources everything I can tell you it can be very profitable and/or frustrating.......It does take some time and effort to come up with a list of "go to" vendors.....It works for me but I can also come up with a list of folks that it does not work for.... Generally I find it...

Something tells me you have not done all your homework.....I think what you need is better suppliers.....

I think they get them from the "mothership"..... http://www.nnwi.org/

But where are you listed in the Merchant Directory?....

Check into Zorrel......They print (and embroider) in house and ship from Kansas City area....They also do a bunch of specialty printing methods.....

4 or 5 hours of my life wasted today......Thank god, it will be gone by the time I wake up in the morning......lol.....

Even if you have your own press, you can only compete if they need signs today or tomorrow....If they have a few days for them to get shipped in, it will be hard to compete with the volume shops who buy blanks by the container load at a time and run 100s of jobs a week....

Have you looked in the "layers" pallet?...

So you do not have Acrobat Pro?....

Many flags are printed via sublimation.......Sorry no idea how your method would work....But in small quantities, it may be almost as costly to buy blank material as to outsource....

I have seen many shops that have far more equipment and space than they need for 80% of the work they do....Because they want to be everything to everyone they have way more overhead than required......If they cut back 50% on space and equipment they could probably still do 80% of the work they...

$104,000.00 a year in overhead?..I think a small operation could do it on 33% to 50% of that amount.....So I say use 18.00 to 25.00 per hour for overhead...And I bet in that part of the country clearing 25.00 to 30.00 per hour is pretty good....

Abc

He may not be making a huge profit but he is making more that flipping burgers or delivering pizzas.....And from what I gather, KY is not exactly in the middle of a "boom" right now....

Colin I agree.....

The most important question is "Does it work?".......Ugly or not, if it works it accomplishes the task required....