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We get decent discounts from them on the things we buy regularly, but they're nothing special and with some skillful negotiating you can get better deals and better service from other smaller vendors. I had a sit-down with the company that supplies us with our ink on Monday and discussed all of...

Nice Merritt, I always wondered what it looked like inside your facility. I'll bet that 9k s.f. feels pretty small, I'm actually really surprised you can crank out any volume at all, that's cramped for a grand format operation!

Nice looking shop Signmaniac, I'm surprised there's no coroplast helicopters or Polymetal sailboats under construction in the back...

Take the black plastic triangular shaped cover over the heads off and VERY GENTLY check to make sure all of the ribbon cables that run from the slider board (it's vertical and to the back of the head carriage assembly) to the tops of the heads are firmly seated. There are 8 cables. We had a...

Good looking shops so far everybody!

Ours is tiny, we just remodeled an old office a month or so ago to add it, but it's been an enormous help already. We used to have a couple chairs at everybody's desks where clients could sit down, but desks are always a mess (as mine is in the photo), so it's a but awkward and unprofessional to...

Ha, ours is too! I'm about to get another JV33 but I "happened" to be at one our vendor's offices today and got to demo an Epson GS6000. Which normally I've not been a big fan of, but he's offering it to me for a little LESS than a JV33 so I'd get 3x the speed, a much bigger color gamut, for...

I completely agree, you need an industry consultant who knows what they are talking about. I'm certain they meant well and that may be common practice in some industries but not this one. What you can do is talk to whomever is producing your prints or whatever and sit down with them to really...

Nice work Tim!

more people, more! Keep 'em coming, I love these! Here's a few quick snapshots I took of our humble place. I didn't get all of the offices or rooms, just the lobby area, conference room, printer room, main production room and a gratuitous shot of my own mess of an office. We're planning on...

Very nice man! I love the large flatscreen on the wall and the huge projector screen! My only comment is with all that expansive green, it may have been pretty cool to do custom wall paper or a print instead of paint, even if it's just a very subtle texture/abstract background, I think it may...

WTF dude, was that really necessary?

+1 for graphixCalc, really good program, can't beat it for the price either. It's nothing too high end, it's just a calculator, but it does the job very well.

Von does really awesome work, some of the best out there IMO. I've met him a couple times, he's spoken at some local events. One of our clients, Scott Hull, is his agent so we've gotten to print some of his stuff too and it's top notch. I didn't know he had this book coming out, definitely...

Awesome so far! I'll go get some pics of our shop shortly. Doug, I think you win the award for most stuff crammed into a space, and in an incredibly organized fashion. I don't know that I've ever seen a shop quite so well organized or with so much storage shelving! Oh, don't forget to show...

Haha, I almost put "Doug" in parentheses after the no grumbling line! (-: I agree, there are so many threads scattered around here it's hard to keep up with them all. I haven't seen any rise to the top in a long time though, and I just searched through them all again and they're pretty...

I know the old "show us your shop" question gets asked every so often on here, but I was thinking we maybe need an updated one. We're getting ready to tackle some minor renovation/remodeling tasks around here since January is traditionally our slowest month and looking at those threads showing...

Awesome, we need pictures!

So, 'tis the season for the New Year's resolutions, I'm just curious what everybody's got in mind for this year? What will you be doing differently? What will you not do at all? What changes are in store? I know a lot of people had bad years last year, a lucky few actually saw positive growth...

Best post in a long time!