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  1. Help I need to make a new sign look old and cracked

    I may have to try this one weekend
  2. tipping UPS or fed/Ex driver for holidays

    We always had the same UPS guy and we always baked him cookies or fudge or anything really, he was a good guy and joked with me when i ordered a package under Captain Chris Wagner, PHD.
  3. Cutting stickers with the least number of cut lines

    When we do a bunch of stickers we either A; butt-cut them by hand, not too time consuming and it gives me a break, or you could set one up in VW, and just copy it X amount of times and set it to print and cut, then you just have to weed and your good.
  4. Help I need to make a new sign look old and cracked

    I actually just read an article about this, and did a few during my internship, except they were on actual wood planks. Basically paint the sign the base color, and before it is completely dry apply the vinyl paint mask. then paint the logo going with the strokes of the letters and what not so...
  5. big squeegee help!!!!

    I personally didn't know there were different types of BS's, but we use i would say about the 48" for all laminating. If i can reach the end of the print from the edge of the table i could usually do a decent job. We do have a laminator that when I asked why we don't use it, the other designer...
  6. Need Some Urgent Hiring Advice

    We just put out a coroplast sign that said HIRING and nothing more, we had about 50 people just come in and call and ask... it was a pita.
  7. Need Some Urgent Hiring Advice

    I'm sure you have found someone, the guy got his act together, or whatever, and as I'm sure someone has already stated, Interns. Go to your local college, (I would recommend CCM) and try to get into their internship program. Sure they technically can't replace a current employee, and you have to...
  8. Ever noticed this messed up national logo?

    thank you, I will never be able to not notice it again... just like the teeth in the batman symbol...
  9. 3M new material

    made my day :clapping:
  10. A little help here please

    I have to get as close to this font as I can get. Many thanks.
  11. Looking for sp540v service manual

    I hope this works and is the right one. I just googled it and it came up before
  12. Harsh week

    Sorry to hear about this, I wish him and everyone else well.
  13. Show your rides?

    2004 350z, currently saving for some fun stuff for it ( can you say lsx swap?) and can't decide on a color to wrap it, I'm thinking lime green, or orange:banghead:. Right now it only has cat-delete and ams short shifter.
  14. PVC in outdoor/fluctuating temperatures?

    I knew I forgot something, She wants to hang them from existing 4x4 beams, there small road signs, so there really isn't any way to get any extra framework up there, also we would be shipping the panels out, unless we get in contact with a wholesaler up there. Forgive my ignorance but what...
  15. PVC in outdoor/fluctuating temperatures?

    I have a customer that wants to get double sided 3/4" PVC signs made up, possibly routed on both sides but I think I have more concerns about the material than she does, and wanted to get more insight about the product and its limitations. 1: The customer is in Mass. so there is probably going...
  16. Gold chrome wrap material

    I personally haven't used any but I remember seeing avery dennison came out with a gold chrome with easy apply rs. I would look into that. Also I think Hexis makes either a gold chrome or a chrome overlaminate.
  17. Check from scammer PART 2

    this actually happened to my girlfriends grandparents, except they said that they were her brother, and at like 2 am so it worked. Her grandpa called her dad up asking for money to get out or whatever and after it was all said and done, her dad goes to her grandpa, "What did he call you when you...
  18. Printer Indicates No Ink ?

    i stay positive and say its the cartridges, although realistically it's happened to about 90% of them in the past few months
  19. Hey everybody

    i also did a 4 month internship at gravity designworks in newton,nj where the designer who pretty much taught me everything I needed to know at the time worked at a sign shop previously, and he seemed to know a lot so I figured I'd try it out.
  20. Hey everybody

    oh wow I was not expecting this much response from an introduction thread, you guys totally blew me away. whoever asked what I studied in college, I studied graphic design at the county college of Morris in New Jersey. for a community college it was really more than I could've wanted, I worked...
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