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I agree with this. I have never understood the appeal of bartering. What if you barter with a pizza place and their food sucks, or they go out of business? Or a lawn guy and he does a hack job? Now you are stuck with them. It's not free stuff when I am investing my time into what they get...

Illuminated Image, Z3 Graphics

Someone has to be answering questions, that's usually where the addendums come from. How do you find out who the other bidding contractors are?

The 300 series made some significant improvements with both color consistency and length. It is not perfect, but much better. I would hope with the lessened heat of the 700/800 series (plus being a couple strides ahead of the 300 series printers) that these should improve even more.

Yes, it works good. If you want a really matte finish, you have to put a lot of paste in which makes it not cover as well. Just takes more coats.

It is safest to email a question to the bidder. Contractors will try their hardest to weasel out of paying any more than your bid. For all you know, clarification could have been buried in an addendum or on some other random page of the plans.

I know what a hanging strip is, but what are bumpers?

We have operated a number of different large format digital printers through Onyx over the last 20 years. Sending data to our Canon/Oce flatbed was always a million times slower than any other machine.

Don't you need an engineer drawing to determine this? Sullaway or YJ should be able to figure it out.

Johnson Plastics or JDS Industries (I believe) will cut blanks like this. PVC is OK, but a little chintzy looking. We usually use Gemini Duets ADA or Rosemark ADA Alternative.

The only other machine in this price range with real white ink is the Mimaki UCJV printer. In our shop, this would replace 2 machines, so it seems reasonably priced to me. I'm excited

I agree with this. I don't have a problem with smaller orders, but often those small orders can be very demanding, especially non-commercial work. We have a reasonable minimum order to weed out the non-serious candidates. In the past, we have had many customers that we did smaller vinyl work...

I would recommend you change the Lab color and RGB color to the EXACT same color. Little differences like that can interpret slightly differently and not match side-by-side. We had something silly like this come up just this last week.....and we had to reprint the job.

I've had vastly different pricing from 2 different suppliers. One was over double what I paid about 4 months ago, the other one was maybe 5% or so more. The supplier that was over double more had called and warned me about a week before that pricing was going way up. He said it was because of...

I heartily agree with this. Other sign companies are often the worst customers - extremely demanding, poor communication and slow to pay. One project we did for a large national company had channel lettering that needed wiring work done inside the wall. Contractors were going to close up the...

Calendared laminate does that. Use cast this time. However, 7 to 8 years is pretty good life for any digital print.

Most wholesalers want to plow through work quickly with their CNC's. This requires hand cutting, which really slows them down, so it's going to be more expensive.

We have never used adhesion promoter on our machine (LUS-150 inks), and the ink adheres incredibly well. Maybe there is some kind of coating, try cleaning the blanks with degreaser or ISO alcohol.

You could do 1/8" aluminum with an epoxied support bar across the back, but I don't think you are saving much over polycarbonate. I would propose polycarb with non-backlit digital print vinyl graphics on it. Then the sign won't yellow, since it is all covered with a vinyl print, and you save a...

I am looking for some small strip LED lighting, to make a sign similar to this. Who is a good, reliable supplier for this? I am not looking for cheap. I feel like I am swimming in the ocean by Google searching. TIA