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Learning how to talk to your clients about design is a bigger challenge than doing good design (which is hard enough with sign clients). Talk through your reasoning and don't be afraid to defend your choices. This is where it pays off to have gone through a university design program that uses...

Depending on which font in the image you're talking about...there's always Rough Draft if you're referring to the font on the bow of the boat.

Because convenience is king in America and customers will appreciate it.

That's also a good time to gently explain to them that your job as a designer is to do their brand justice, not necessarily make something they are in love with. In a perfect world you can accomplish both but as a designer your primary job should be to sell the brand, not to sell the logo to the...

Congrats to the OP! Real green initiatives (not just greenwashing) can make a lot of sense despite this industry being so negative about the concept in general. Nice job taking the leap.

Design should always be hourly, with a minimum (often rolled into the initial price) depending on what it is. This is why: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell Don't be a mouse cursor. Also a good designer knows how to communicate the reasoning behind their designs, defending your design...

Seriously reconsider living on the same property you run your business from. There's a million reasons why it's a bad idea but a few off the top of my head: 1) employees near your kids, customers near your kids 2) customers know where you live immediately, never know when you get some nutjob...

On a related note, Walgreens is now doing paper banners. They're targeting consumers looking for graduation banners and such.

Seems like you need to inform them on the difference between a logo and branding elements. Many clients have a hard time grasping that until it's explained. This is why I'm a big proponent of doing full identity packages, not just logo one-offs.

bob you must have really hated the 90s and David Carson.

Even though I'm tired of Ed Hardy I like it on this Smart for some reason. Can't help with the door crease, we haven't had occasion to wrap one yet.

Wholesale the prints, let the other shops do the installs. You don't want install headaches for customers that aren't yours (not to mention warranties, etc.). Require print-ready files, make sure you have a contract that spells out situations in which you're responsible for reprint, what your...

No real world problems here. Haven't seen fading on banners printed with Triangle and most everything else we laminate. I don't know many shops that support banners past a year anyway.

Robby, If you wouldn't mind messaging me the other issues you've had I'd appreciate it, considering buying a L25500.

Overnight custody wash followed by a couple of clean cycles, if that doesn't do it you may have to take the head off and soak it for a few days. Might also just be dead. There are sonic cleaners and such but they're a hassle and not guaranteed.

Make sure it was decommissioned properly otherwise you might have clogged/dead heads, and they're $800+ a pop.

There's no reason to put up with banding you just have to stay on top of adjusting it. Most people don't bother but it's really not that hard. I re-adjust it for each media every 3 months, Onyx lets you set the media comp as a variable on the media profile instead of doing it on machine...

Can you define what you mean by larger business? Do you mean bigger corporations, or more profitable segments of the industry, or repeat work, or large single orders...? Are you looking to get into digital print fulfillment, or are you wanting to go after whales in your existing industries...?

Having a IT background doesn't have anything to do with learning how to properly profile, but if all they're doing is plugging it in and reading from the manual you could skip that. I taught myself, I'm sure you could too. That said if you do skip it we're all going to ignore your threads for...

Ask someone with a GS6000 to print it, about the only solvent machine with a gamut that can approach that particular PMS. I'm not a big fan of getting dirty with double hit hacks and such. I hope you charged for all that time spent experimenting...