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I wanted to ask opinions of some experienced shop people here. I have noticed a new market out there in our area. These "pop up shops" that people have. Making vegan candles, and soaps or honey or those wax smelly things for the cars. Those are all great products and personally I buy them...

Does anyone have any ideas on how I can fix this issue? I have a Roland camm1 pro GX500. Yes, It was built in 2007. I just had it reworked and overhauled and it cuts well except for these spots that I circled on the photo attached. Mind you, this is magnified so it's pretty small, but still...

Just curious what people's installation fees are when you go offsite and graphics are being provided? Do you use your "shop time" number or more because you are taking your tools with you and don't have the benefit of having all your tools onhand? How much more? Is there a general rule of thumb?

I'm printing more today. FUN STUFF!

Can I get a hand held saw to cut coroplast into shapes? Does anyone have a recommendation of a good one? I have customers who want some cut out shapes and I wanted to do them myself.

Since I've been in this sign shop business, I have had some really unusual orders. Some I've wondered how I got picked to do jobs in the 4th larges city in the nation with thousands of sign shops. So, I want to hear your unusual stories, the ones that stick out. Have you done any graphics for...

I just thought I would share some insight on shipping. I am in Houston and a good friend of mine is an Ocean Carrier employee. She gave me and my friends some insight on what is going on with the shipping supply chain. This is directly from HER, not me so I have zero opinion on the matter...

I'm curious about something. I tend to buy a 3rd party vendor blade through my supplier. But, I've always been told that the name brand blades are better...Well, my plotter is OLD and I would love to buy a new one, however, the new Rolands are on backorder until December. I know it's only 2...

OK. I'm having a debate with my boyfriend over this. I gotta ask. What do you do when you are in the middle of laminating a run and you run out of lamination in the middle of a print? Do you laminate replace the role and laminate over it? do you pull the laminate off? or do you trash and start...

I wish I had a dollar for every customer who came in and told me they were a graphic artist or worked in Marketing.

Anybody know where I can get these? the yellow board with the black insert is cut all the way around.

Has anybody had any experience of printing on chrome?

a customer came in looking for polycarbonate stickers. Anyone know where I can get those? Thanks!

So, I made the wrong thing...and need a trick. I made signs for a pylon. An old pylon. We ordered prints on backlit translucent material. You normally have to apply the sheet adhesive to. But its going on a pylon sign that has plexi and i can't put the roll adhesive on it Does anyone have...

I just want to know if others have this issue. Customers come in and don't want to pay an artwork fee. Those get pricey. It seems like all of these customers have graphic artists in their family or have friends who are graphic artist. Turns out, they dabble in photoshop. I ask for vector...

I just started using firesprint and I couldn't be happier. I had a rough graphic by a customer. We did shirts and he wanted bumper stickers. It was a crazy contour cut and would have been a nightmare to cut and weed 200 stickers. Firesprint did it for me..AND EXACTLY how I expected. Either I...

Anyone know where I can get these signs quick? Who do you use to make these?

Hi, I am looking for a basket for my roland plotter. Or can anyone direct me to someone who can make it?

colors...and HP315. So, it's a latex printer. and the colors are off. We are creating artwork in coreldraw and it prints a different color. I'm having to manually change the color when I get it into flexi. this seemed to just start happening. What am I doing wrong? Any help would be...

I want to scream really bad obscenities and xfinity...well, I already did that. Some salesman from Comcast business called and took up some time on the phone with me trying to upgrade my business service. I start telling him the internet speed sucks. So he sends me to tech support. I tell them...