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Welcome Erik. And thank you Fred for NOT putting a black background on this site. I'm already half blind from staring at CorelDraw all day.

Stone and slate. That's interesting. I'm almost afraid to ask, but outside of the memorial sign industry, who buys sandblasted slate and stone?

Nice photo tutorial!

Win or lose: you can make your own auto racing trophies! Welcom!

Five years ago I convinced my boss that our little 4 man store fixture distributing business could be building the signs we had been outsourcing if we simply bought a shopbot router. And a plotter...and a laser engraver, and another plotter, and 4 wide format printers, and a laminator, a...

Wouldn't you think that a bubble in the sun would actually get larger as the heated air expands?

If you don't sub it out... Go buy a chunk of 3 year old technology and see how much it costs to feed. It may look like a great way to get your foot in the door, but the expense of keeping it running will make your head spin. Be prepared to spend a couple thousand dollars inking up and mastering...

That Mimaki print and cut package is down to 13,995 in Los Angeles dollars. Hey six months ago you couldn't touch a flatbed solvent printer for under six figures. Today Mimaki and Colorspan have cut that number in half. The only sure thing in this business is that if you don't keep your head...

Arouuuugh! Another hound lover that makes signs. Welcome Cheryl! But Bassets and AGILITY? Mine's glued to the carpet.

Hey guys, how do I get outta pre-school??? There must be a secret number of posts huh. I so want to be in the sixth grade again.

Looks like it's made by Mutoh. They certainly use Mutoh inks. The 36" Mutoh Junior is exactly the same price. Looks like a duck. Walks like a duck.... I'd buy the Mutoh and go to sleep knowing I can get parts and tech support.

100% Precision Board. Except for the backlit panels, alumabar, and changeable lettering.

The Signwarehouse booth at the last ISA show in Las Vegas was massive. I think they had more sales reps than Roland. The average clerk at Signwarehouse would have a tough time answering questions from most of us, but they make up for it with screaming great prices on hardware. As for...

My first plotter was a 24" Lynx. In retrospect, a Graphtec would have been a better investment in terms of reliability and availability of replacement parts.

Shopbot Details We use a program originally packaged with our shopbot called VectorCam. It wasn't the easiest thing to learn, and the manual was a farce. But we pounded around until we figured it out. Today we use it blindfolded. Shopbot has since migrated to newer and easier-to-use...

Get the Shopbot I've been running an early version of the Shopbot for over 5 years. I've put about $300 into replacement parts and it still runs like a top. Not a fancy top, but it runs fine. It's never been down more than a day. In that 5 years, my Shopbot has worn the brushes and...