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Find out who all the General Contrators are and send your bid to all of them. Contact all your suppliers to make sure (as best you can) all your supply chains are intact and give the GCs info regarding timelines. Often that kind of detailed information showing a willingness to work within their...

According to contemporary color standards, Pantone 2748 C is close. I would tend to ignore the WWW Consortium color.

Most of the "free fonts" downloadable from daFont have licensing restrictions for commercial use. Read the fine print.

Figure out your materials cost, then figure out how long it will take to do. Multiply your labor by your shop rate (what you need to make to stay in business), then double everything.

So I need to know HTML, CSS, client portals, CPanels, RHEL, plugins, CRUD, and JS? I suppose once I figure out what all that is it would be "fairly easy to do myself". Uh huh.

It would be poor legal advice to recommend this approach, but maybe good practical advice. I don't walk down the street in fear of a safe falling out of a window and crushing me.

SignCraft was (and still is, in a much more limited way) a great resource for sign artists and crafters. Times, however, have indeed changed, and for most of us signs are now a production commodity. There are still opportunities for creative expression in sign design and sign building (resort...

I use a pencil and paper for design work. Once the details are worked out and I know where I'm going, I build a file using Illustrator/Photoshop. I output file types as needed for production (my vendors will usually specify what the want). For simple cut vinyl jobs that we do in-house, I...

You can route a channel in the back of the HDU to fit a frame for an "invisible" look. Or attach the backs to an ACM panel for a sandwich look. Jay Cook's is a good quality high-build primer that is easy to sand. It's what I use. Top coat with acrylic polyurethane, and if you don't have that...

5 x 10 for $100.00 plus shipping plus added tax (if required). I might discount that a bit for volume customers or if part of a bigger project. Any design work is an extra charge (minimum $35) and installation is priced at market rates (usually $95.00/hour plus equipment charges, but that's...

Production standards vary by industry. Museums demand very high quality printing and careful consideration of media and laminate. They are willing to pay a premium for that level of quality and service (which usually includes multiple consultations, print samples, and design considerations...

I am at market levels. The only difference is that my overhead is lower and my net profits are higher.

Our customers come to us for our design, installation, and service skills. I supply signs at the best price I can for them, and they gladly pay those competitive prices (they have already looked up the price on the internet, so they already know what the prices are). We charge a bit more than...

I would not be able to get a nickel more than $150.00 each. I have been doing this since the '70s and I know exactly what everybody else charges. There are some that add their value-added services to their over-all price, and are charging in the range of $5 – $6 a sq. ft. for regular 13oz...

I can't afford to print my own banners. Both of those banners, 13oz. reinforced vinyl, hemmed and grommeted, would cost me less than $16 each (drop shipped to the customer – they are delighted to pay the shipping because it saves them the drive time). If I'm putting them up, I'll add the...

Not around these parts! Everybody in a 150 mile radius from me buys from the same wholesalers, and it is a race to the bottom as far as pricing goes (20% – 40% margin on buy-outs, 40% margin on raw goods). The money is made in installation and service.

Higher than some internet only suppliers, but their prices are decent if you are in their delivery area. I order over $100 I get free delivery (great for sheet goods).

I had a couple of those. I had a custom board built that I placed into a font slot and connected to the power supply (yes, it took a bit of electrical engineering and a soldering iron). You cannot simply plug into one of those things. There might be some older interface boards floating around...

Silly. That means a 4'x4' (16 sq. ft.) would be 96, and a 1' x 16' (16 sq. ft.) would be 204 (I purposely left out the denomination because that wasn't included in the OP). Square foot pricing can be part of a pricing methodology, but adjustments must be made for the total amount of material...

I look at it this way... More signs to make after these guys go out of business.