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  1. Material and install recommendation

    New business would like old letters from previous business removed from this sign and a new signboard cut and placed with their logo. I do not manufacture this type of sign with stones, not sure what it is. The green seemed almost spongey to me when I pressed on it. The letters are currently...
  2. Boat Registration Numbers Complaint...for real???

    When you make boat registration numbers using Impact font do you single out each letter/number and individually make each letter and number 3" tall or do you just type it and make the whole thing 3" tall as one unit? Got a complaint that the W and V in this font are just short of 3" and wants...
  3. Contactless pickup area working great

    So, with all this Covid stuff I obviously couldn't let anyone in my store. I started doing customized Senior signs and banners and had a great deal of people needing to pickup. Curbside works OK but coordinating times with working people was a PITA. I have a small breezeway area with a small...
  4. Laptop or desktop?

    Thinking of buying a laptop so I can do some design work from home. I also need a new desktop at home so can bring my work one home. I currently have a desktop at the shop and use LXI and Corel. Looking to bring the laptop home so I have all my fonts, and files at my fingertips. It's been a...
  5. Hopping on the Senior train...

    Just designed up some signs and banners for our local seniors and got a request for same thing, different school. My clicking finger is in overdrive trying to beat the other sign shops in the area LOL HOT item now people! Jump on the train! Thanks to FireSprint for some great ideas :) will...
  6. Anyone looking at their business differently now?

    Just curious if anyone who is in "shut down" or doing work for just essential business is looking at their business differently? Since my door is locked, there are no more walk-ins...which means no more people looking for little jobs, no "personal" jobs. I am taking orders only electronically...
  7. Just don’t get this essential thing...rant

    Just makes me mad. I’m a one person shop who can lock the store and do curbside pick up. Police chief sent out a statement stating he WILL be enforcing the law if anyone doesn’t follow it. However, every bar and restaurant in town is doing take out. Customers in the bar paying, cooks breathing...
  8. Best way to send file for CAD

    Helping out the school with some artwork. A local company is cutting a circle and the outline of our team mascot. If I save it in Corel as an Auto Cad file, is that correct? I've attached just the rough file, not finished yet. The gray is metal, the purple will be vinyl. One big circle for the...
  9. Ideas for this kite?

    Nylon kite - I'm not spending a lot of time on this. It's for a friend. He wants some wording on this nylon license plate. (you will see he tried to use a sharpie) Vinyl - didn't stick Heat vinyl - $256 kite, I'm not sticking this on my heat press Screen print - I don't screen print plus...
  10. Vinyl or banner material for billboard?

    I have a customer looking to put 4 alumalite panels on his shed that are each 5x10. He plans to make one large "billboard" out of this and sell to advertisers. He asked me for a price to put printed vinyl each panel to make one large billboard. I have not done anything this large before nor have...
  11. Sponsorship Banners

    Just received an email for some banners with a total of 34 different sponsor logos...all Jpegs or Pngs. Some I can use, some I have, some I can quickly recreate. How do I handle the ones that I can't use? How do I charge for this? There's probably 20 of them that look like crap. She wants me to...
  12. Bracket and Sign update...happy ending

    A while back I had posted a question about some signs for the local grade school. Well, I made the signs and my boyfriend who is a welder made the brackets. We did not want to drill into the poles - but wanted them to be sturdy. I used .080 aluminum with cast vinyl. I'm not sure the specific...
  13. Brackets and substrate question

    Disclaimer...I don't do a ton of installations. If the customer installs, we go over the best installation techniques...no issues or disagreements so far. Went out for an estimate last night and the husband suggested aluminum with zip ties. Obviously this is NOT going to work. However, I'm not...
  14. Had to chuckle when I saw this...

    Maybe if they had a nicer sign they wouldn't have been under suspicion o_O
  15. Fat head requests for high school graduation

    Hi All, I have two requests over the weekend for "fat heads" of graduating seniors. This is something I haven't done before. Any specific advice on dpi and materials would be appreciated. My assumption would be that they would like it on card board or something similar. Thanks!
  16. In need of something clever for my new work hoodies...ideas?

    Happy Friday! I'm going to make myself some new hoodies. I'll be placing my logo on the front, an American Flag on the shoulder and I want to put something on the back. Something funny or clever...any ideas? I tried googling but that was useless...
  17. It's finally the weekend!

    Yippee! It's been an EXHAUSTING last couple of weeks. Our high school football team, which my son is on, went to state and I had a HUGE order for shirts with custom names/numbers last week. I had 8 extra people help me last Tuesday to complete them in time for the game. Of course then a person...
  18. Problems removing vinyl

    I'm removing a wrap from a 8'x24' trailer. Relatively smooth sailing, however, there are some areas where the adhesive didn't want to come off - or I slipped a little and pulled the vinyl off where there wasn't enough heat. OK, I figured move on and go back with adhesive remover. I took a little...
  19. Suggestions for this installation pleast

    Hi all - I've attached a photo of a truck that needs some striping. I'm not sure how I should go about this because of the angles. The blue and black will go all across the side but I only added it on half so you can see the actual truck. Cut vinyl with some cut vinyl lettering to be applied on...
  20. So, this just happened...

    Been swatting at this %$&^@% bee all morning! Now this! Nice...even gave me a "terror bubble"! The good news is I didn't get stung!
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