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Everyone else in there is working in another field... like you and me!

Same. We cap all material with the plastic base they ship in, but labeled with the specific material. Not a lot of mistakes happening that way!

We always use optically clear laminate on vehicle window perf. But we don't laminate building window perf.

I also took a couple of classes at another College. Their design program was the opposite. Make pretty designs, let someone else figure out how to make it work in the real world. Which we used to joke about, "If it wasn't for poorly trained designers we wouldn't have a job!"

Previous shop I was at we did large quantities of magnets, always laminated. Printed on a flatbed Arizona and router cut on our Zund. We do much smaller quantities here, so most of the time they are just cut by hand and corner rounded with a cheap corner round cutter. They are also printed on a...

No, its true! I read it online somewhere.....

I grew up in the business on the Mac side so never had much need to use Corel Draw. Moved to a new shop, needed to use Corel Draw and found it very Foreign so since work pays for it I took a course at the local College. The shit the Teacher was teaching the kids was all wrong. I took her aside...

We do 2 things here: We place a horizontal band of laminate across the belt (8" wide), Then 2" strips around the entire belt at 0, 24 & 48". This way the majority of ink is printed on the laminate. It takes an hour to remove the old laminate, add new and poke holes for the vacuum. We do this...

I have only used 3 brands: HP, Fuji, and OCE. Much preferred the OCE Arizona's for quality and speed. Higher regular maintenance but they were way better for our high volume printing.

We try to put the seam where it is less conspicuous. Luckily we design most of the stuff we print in house so we can plan it that way. Default overlap here is .5"

I have a buddy in equipment sales. He told me that latex was going to be a game changer. I rolled my eyes.

I don't think that is unusual at all. In my former print life we "farmed out" all sorts of work to subs. Customer that we print Magazines and catalogues for wants business cards and letterhead. They just want to deal with one printer, we don't want that work, but we want to keep the customer...

We use Signmax 60/40 on our 800, and our 560 before that and the 360 before that. Attaching to the take up reel is a must though.

Maybe that's a Texas thing but I have no idea why having a battery powered lawnmower is weird?

Similar to a place I was previously at, except they are involved with a local College Print Production program. They take students on their work experience every year, and if they are good they hire them. Fully half the production employees in that shop went through the College course.

A large company local to me never hires anyone permanently. It is always by contract initially (6 months or a year). If you perform they will offer you a full time job.

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