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  1. Pesticide Signs Pricing

    What should I charge for 1000 coroplast one sided white with red ink signs (pesticide application)? My unit price sending out to get printed is around 24 cents each. 4" wide x 5" tall. AND - where do I get the little PVC stakes? Thank you!
  2. A good story about perceived value...

    A CONVERSATION ABOUT PERCEIVED VALUE: A customer asked a contractor friend of mine how much it would cost to do this project. My friend gave him a proposal: $4500 The customer responded: That’s seems really high. My friend asked: What do you think is a reasonable price for this job? The customer...
  3. Painting Alumalite

    I can't find any silver metallic Alumalite anywhere near me. I assume I can have a local painter paint it and then apply cut vinyl on it and it should hold up just as well? I'm not set up here to paint so I have to farm it out. In the past I have applied vinyl for the background to smaller...
  4. Photo for screen printing...what format? How many dpi?

    I am re-doing 5 t-shirts for my boyfriend's trap team with his brothers. As you can see by the photo, he is in need of a new one. Anyways...I am working on the line art but what format should I put the photo in? I will send them out to Transfer Express for the transfers (I'm probably going to...
  5. What the font??

    Darn...I know I've seen this before!
  6. How to reduce image quality for photos in Corel

    I'm no photo expert - get that out of the way first. I'm making 4'x8' signs for the baseball field. A designer sent me a file that was 74mb large. It's comprised of a banner across with the business info and 3 separate photos underneath. She also has another layer with all of it saved as one...
  7. Commercial Window Tint

    I received a call from the school looking for some window tint in their football press box. I watched a couple YouTube videos on this. It seems a bit more involved than applying vinyl, more time consuming with the cleaning. My gut is telling me to steer away from this because I would never do it...
  8. Logo cut or printed?

    I did a trailer for this guy last summer and I used black and Oracal Lime Green. He wants his truck lettered now similar to the photo, I didn't design his "logo" but it is what it is. My question is... Do I print the swoosh and use solid cut vinyl for the name so it matches the trailer exactly...
  9. Plasma cutter for aluminum?

    My high school son is buying a plasma cutter (cheaper one) and I was thinking...currently I get my aluminum sheets cut by local shop or I cut them with my circular saw. Will the plasma cutter make a nice cut on aluminum for him to cut me some blanks to keep around the shop? What about for half...
  10. From Karen to Hero in 24 hours...nothing to do with signs

    Some might remember my dog post from last winter. Many of you stated you have the same problem. Neighbors have an untrained coonhound in the city that is tied up 20' from my home office, 2 bedrooms and 30' from my patio. Last winter I nicely told them the dog was waking us up at night with...
  11. Trailer graphics - old

    Hi All - I have a customer looking to get new graphics on this trailer. Trailer itself is in good repair but they had chrome vinyl and its a little old to say the least. The customer wants me to print on sheet and go right over the top. I told him you are still going to see a ghost from the old...
  12. Small shop vendor orders

    One person shop here. As I try to be more efficient and more profitable I had been running into problems with placing more orders and sometimes paying more for shipping than I need to - and time wasted. This is due to not being organized like I should. I used to stack my job boxes in groups Art...
  13. Fun for Friday...

    As I remove old signs from the baseball field that a variety of other signshops made and replace them with the signs I make - they sit in my shop for a couple days. Almost every one of them has something wrong enough for me to make sure I tell people I didn't make this sign! LOL Tagline is...
  14. Slowing down in February...time to catch my breath

    The last 2 weeks it's slowed down for me. I have several jobs in the works and some big installs scheduled for next month but the day to day phone and emails have slowed. It's been non-stop since April so it is nice to catch my breath and catch up a little bit. We are also going to visit my...
  15. Anyone have a good response to this google review

    My latest review...I have no idea who this character is but I'd like to join in the fun and have a clever response. Ideas welcome...good or bad LOL
  16. Does this ever happen to you?

    General chit chat here. Do you ever do a job and think you could have done better and get really nervous the customer won't like it only to find out you worry for no reason? This happened last week. I got a call that a guy was NOT happy with his current truck vinyl as there were folds in the...
  17. Support for hanging pennant banner

    Hi All The local school had 18 pennant banners made by another company some years ago. They are hanging in the gym and starting to curl. They would like me to fix the problem by applying some kind of backing so they hang nicely. The original company told them to use dowels, one on each side, 1...
  18. Photo Shop file...anyone able to open this?

    Is anyone able to open this in Photoshop and tell me if it's vector or A BITMAP? I'm pretty sure I'm not that stupid but can handle your opinion if I'm wrong. Thank you! I think this link should work from my OneDrive. https://1drv.ms/u/s!AiSq7u0QmhfpgZ460eKRwbHfjD6wIQ?e=aRcI2Y
  19. Clipart of Dime in logo...copyright issues?

    A customer wants to name their bar "Stop on a Dime" and wants clipart of a dime in the background. Now she is asking to have the dime be the main part of the logo but instead of Liberty, have the bar name and then the est. year where the year is. 1. It should be called "Roosevelts" because...
  20. Here's a good one! LOL

    Dear Sir/Madam My name is Drew Marcus and I'm the procurement director here is Harvard University . I would like to make inquiries for some products if it's what your company can supply us. Kindly see below an confirm please. Backpack Thermos Flask Travel Mugs Bath Towel T shirt...
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