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Center a six foot level on the curve of the wall. Find the point where the ends of the level are equidistant from the wall. The width of the arc is six feet (your level), the height of the arc is the distance from the ends of the level to the wall. Use those measurements in a radius calculator...

I use a 27" 1920x1080 and a 22" 1920x1080. The difference that extra five inches makes is pretty significant. You'd be surprised. I'm not sure that a 4k monitor is really necessary for design stuff, but if you go 4k make sure your GPU supports 4k at 60Hz.

Most of my experience has been with Dibond and I've never seen it catastrophically fail. The worst I've seen is the PE center fade to a grayish color.

It's ACM? Just score it with a razor knife and break it, run it through a panel saw, cut it with a track saw, there are a lot of ways to cut this stuff.

Definitely account for cleanup. Sometimes cleaning up the mess takes more time than the actual routing.

Generally, most people charge by time or linear inches (or feet) for CNC. Some people charge by the sheet for X amount of cuts, then start adding on for additional cuts. Just depends. It's kind of all over the place, to be honest. Figure out your operating costs (if you don't already know...

You're not the only person that's noticed. I haven't been around here as much the last few months for that very reason. The community has gotten more toxic since I joined. There are a couple of repeat offenders. Padding post count? Know-it-all? Who knows, but I don't feel like getting into...

I'd err on the side of caution, as well; no one can guarantee that they won't have issues with their machines. Having to pay a technician out of pocket if something goes wrong with the Shopsabre isn't going to be cheap.

Laminating UV prints. We use Avery Luster a LOT and never have any issues, save those actually caused by us.

We currently use Cyrious Control and the previous shop I was at used it as well. It's VERY robust software, but it's not terribly intuitive. There's a large learning curve, but once you figure it out, you can do almost anything with it. It's pretty good stuff.

Some varieties of dry erase laminate will take a permanent marker pretty well and then the ink will disappear if you go back over them with a dry erase marker. I want to say 3M works pretty well, but I can't remember for sure. It sounds like your customer essentially wants something magic.

We actually went with the Kala Mistral. Thanks for the advice/opinions/suggestions, folks!

I looked it up, the cost of living wage in that part of WV is a little over $10 an hour, but the average for a production worker is around $16.

You'll never get anywhere if you don't try. Why make money for this other guy when you can be making money for yourself? Check and see what kind of courses are available in your area for running small businesses. Go rub elbows with other business owners in your area. If you think you can get a...

You can buy a lot of digital ready media, you may not need a corona treatment machine (I assume that's what you mean by UV coater?) unless you're planning on buying lots of very cheap, non-digital media in bulk. As far as flatbed cutters, we've been really happy with our Zund.

What's your budget? What are you looking to get out of it? swissQprint make high quality flatbeds that also have roll to roll capability.

Do you happen to know if the rollers are flat or convex? I couldn't find any info on their site or the PDF.

We don't laminate nearly as much as we used to (we direct print as much as possible these days), but we still do large vehicle wraps pretty frequently, so we need something that can laminate two or three rolls pretty quickly and is going to work when we need it to work. Thanks for the input...

Our Falcon F-60 has finally shed its mortal coil. More accurately, we paid someone to re-coat our rollers and they ruined them, but that's beside the point. For the cost of replacing the rollers we might as well just get a new laminator without all the bells and whistles that just does what we...

Makes sense. Not sure what your budget is, but check out swissQprint. They make some very high quality printers.