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Awesome as always!

clean the encoder strip, it's dirty.

As long as your printer comes on every now and then and does a quick cleaning cycle that is all you need. Running a test print on top of that is not doing anything further except wasting a small amount of ink and media. When your pump kicks on a cycles ink through the heads, that's doing the...

At this point about 80-90% of our work is "wholesale" for agencies, sign shops, designers, print companies, or other companies that resell our product. So for us, signing these is par for the course, we're presented with them fairly regularly and while they're not overly common, they're also not...

horrible jingles is even funnier! haha!

+1, except we've never had an issue with their lead times or quality either, they are a top notch vendor and are very strict about who they sell to. Gabagoo, try calling up Dan Sawatzky, this sounds like it may be up his alley, although I don't know if the budget will allow for his work. He's...

Hahaha oh my god we have a customer that looks just like the "husband" in that. I mean dead on identical.

I seriously can't believe people still fall for this. Yes, it's a scam. Try to sell the guy a used washing machine, see if he bites.

You may have, not that it's necessarily a bad thing, but when you're bogged down with the mundane details of producing signs it's hard to be an effective business owner. To grow you have to start delegating tasks to the people that are going to be the most effective at doing them. While you may...

Is it IJ35 with the air-release adhesive or just regular IJ35? Same with the Oracal you used? If it's the air-release, you might not be getting enough adhesive contact with the surface, perhaps switch to a non air egress vinyl. We do a ton of foamcore and Gator with regular vinyl and have had...

Awesome story! But I have a feeling sooner or later they're going to figure out they overpaid by 50% and I'd guess you'll be facing a fight and a half from them about that. Not that I don't think they owed you the extra for being 2 months late and making you remove and reinstall on two big...

Sooner or later something is going to have to give. To grow you need to increase your capacity. You need additional shop labor to help meet deadlines and make sure you are capable of actually producing the work you bring in in a timely manner. You need office help to help answer phones and do...

+1 for the splitter, we'd buy several, we have a number of customers who request split backing on decals and we're currently doing it with a cheap letter opener from the office supply store but they don't last long and the blades aren't replaceable. If yours was able to use a standard razor...

I have a Nikon D70 that's in like new condition that I could be convinced to let go of, I've been thinking of upgrading for a while now. PM me if you're interested!

+1 for Orbus, best we've found by far.

I'd go with the Mimaki all day long.

I have no advice on moving your printer, just wanted to chime in and say I know exactly how you feel. About 2 years ago we were in the exact same position, except we were given 2 weeks to move instead 4. 2 weeks to find a location, build it out, move into it, and be operational. NOT FUN. It was...

We use a ton of IJ35C-10, it's great film and prints beautifully. We've not really ever noticed the mottling you're describing, I'm sure it's been there at one point or another, all vinyl will be subject to it sooner or later, but we've never noticed it. It always goes away with sun or heat, and...

We premask cut vinyl through our laminator sometimes when the job warrants webbing it up, usually we just do it by hand because we do such little cut vinyl anymore, but we've never had a problem running it through, it's all in the pressure though, if you're pressure is too high it'll cause the...

Works amazing on coroplast too!