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Awesome. Thanks for the quick replies. That was the only thing holding me back from looking at Rolands. I guess now it will just be a matter of what I can find the best deal on, whether it is a 30" Roland or a 42" HP.

I am preparing to purchase a solvent or latex printer within the next few months so I have been doing some research. I am a full time firefighter so I am only in the sign shop 3-4 days a week on average. There may be times that the printer sits for a week or a week and a half without printing. I...

I looked at his Facebook page also. It looks like he is using a combination of the printed Vinyl EFX materials and some type of holographic laminate, pictured below. Very creative use of materials for sure.

I would almost bet money they are printed on RTape Vinyl Efx metallic vinyls. All the patterns in these pictures are available from them. At first I figured they were printing with an Edge or a Summa DC, but some of the colors vary in transparency. They are most likely using a solvent printer...

Is there any way to find the Pantone values for Gerber foils? I am sending a job out to be printed with a solvent printer and I need to match the Gerber Ruby Red spot foil.

The most overused script font on the planet, Brush Script

Two revisions. One still incorporates everything the customer asked for, the other is a more simplified and cleaner version. Both still work around the contours of the body so that there won't be a problem if the customer decides to go with reflective. He was very insistent on making sure the...

There are definitely a lot of great suggestions here for me to think about. I am going to think on it and see what I can come up with. I wish I could start from scratch, but that logo has to be used. The other thing that I can't quite wrap my mind around is the whole making it bigger concept in...

You are exactly right. The doors stay open most of the day at each job. His current van wasn't designed with this in mind, you cannot read the company name with the doors open.

After looking at it again I do agree that I need to find a way to emphasize "locksmith". As far as the big logo covering the whole side, the customer wants something clean and not too crazy, so I don't know if they would go for that. They also asked me to make sure the logo was on the sliding...

A bigger version of the design:

I have always gotten great advice from the members on here so I figured I would post this design for critique. I do a lot of fire truck work and a little bit of heavy truck lettering, so vans aren't exactly my normal canvas. The logo on the front doors is not my design, but must be included. I...

I don't know if you have access to a Gerber Edge, but Graphic Marking Systems has a product for the Edge that is basically a "transfer" decal. They said it was made for things like bike frames that will be cleared over. I think it's called Model Mark

Old Paint- that guy is very talented. Some nice work there for sure. I was happy with how everything looked once it was on the trucks. Luckily Gerber transparent orange is really close to their orange paint! My phone wasn't taking very good pictures yesterday apparently, I just noticed they are...

I have always wondered why there aren't more choices for large format thermal printers in the US. It is really great technology for certain jobs.

I lettered 3 trucks today using this new design, so I figured I would post some pictures and say thank you again to everyone for all of the help. I ended up giving the customer the final designs and they settled on what is pictured below. It is all Edge printed on Oralite 5600 and laminated with...

Serpentine?

I'll have to take some pictures of what is left on the wheel. It doesn't wear the "treads" off flat, they end up getting an angle on them from the leading edge. It seems like the performance decreases a little bit once they start to wear down into the angle. But one wheel did the whole truck and...

It didn't work on the brushed aluminum, I still had to heat and peel it. But for paint it worked awesome. My polisher is variable speed, I was running it between 2-3 on the dial. I'm not sure what that translates to as far as RPMs.

And order one of these. I used to use the air powered version of the MBX Vinyl Zapper, but I figured I would give this a try. It's made by Dynabrade and will mount up to any standard sander/polisher with a 5/8-11 arbor. I stripped a ton of printed and laminated reflective off of an entire ladder...