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  1. font help

    Vital please. I like it but dont know what it is, thnak you gentlemen and ladies
  2. Its worse than I could have imagined.......

    but instead of anger Im actually shocked. Pat Whatley started a posts about doing nice stuff for clients and them choosing absolute crap. I posted about this vets clinic and lo and behold was texted the finished product from another Sign guy Sunday......I am absolutely in shock and without...
  3. WTH is this architect talkin bout?

    We are bidding a large job for a military base. Nothing new, done it before, going thru the plans and then I come across some terminology I have never seen. Am I missing something here? what is a dam shadow plate! I swear architects smoke a bowl when they start designing stuff and referring to...
  4. signs365 business card printing

    I normally use 4over BUT since I was placing order for prints on 365 I decided to throw some cards in there. They look great and seem to be richer colors than 4over just in case yall were thinking bout using
  5. font help

    ok its not trajan, but close. its not times or georgia. Got me baffled
  6. Why we cant have nice things in our area.....

    From day 1 of the bulldozers pulling onto the property I was already contacting whom I could to get the sign package going. This is a supposed to be a state of the art school, I knew they would need interior, exterior, plaques, and hopefully gymnasium painting. The first let down was the...
  7. Rotating sign

    At the crossfit place I joined they want me to place new faces in the pylon outside. The sign is approx20 tall and the face sits on a box on the pole, this sign used to rotate. inside that box is there something that would "lock" this sign or what would your suggestion be to affix it. The power...
  8. emailing invoice issues

    We email ALOT of invoices now, which is great. However maybe 1 out of 5 people say when they get my invoice it is the size of a poster and prints like 6 pages.....WTH! I have dragged the scanned invoice into illy and its 8.5 x 11, low resolution, seems normal to me. What in the heck are people...
  9. Got the new Summa in!

    Love it. nice plotter. I put the VE/Graphtec on ebay and let it go for whatever it will. Lesson learned. NO MORE signwarehouse crap for me.
  10. damn plotter!

    this morning I go to cut something and it messes up the letters cutting it, looks like I cut it out with steak knife. I turn it off, unplug it and check all settings in production manager. Cut it back on and send to plot, the carriage slams into the left side of the plotter and them slams the...
  11. LED sign doing weird stuff

    We helped install a set of LED channel letters. Letters were 7' tall spelling JACKSON with a logo. Logo is 12' tall circle. Damn thing was massive, all attached directly to concrete wall. The electrical was over 20' long behind the wall. Power supplies all lined up and covered with aluminum...
  12. Sometimes you just need to mention....

    to a client its time to redo their logo. The clients father designed this for him a long time ago and I always felt it never matched his business. I asked if i coule play with it and ended up selling him on the new which leads to redoing everything. I felt this one matched the biz a whole lot better
  13. Anyone got a sales contact for merritt?

    Lst week left messages for a woman, and man AND emailed the sales from the website. No response. 3 trys and no response is not acceptable. If someone has a reputable email for a sales person please post
  14. Need some flexface

    2-6'x12' double struck flexface printed. who wants to do it or do who do you use? shipping to 36109 got some major printers that for some reason do not respond to emails asking for quotes
  15. Rant: how little others care about appearance

    I have always tried to do clean and precise art for the client I was working for. I have always then tried to relay that onto their signs and any printed items I ordered for them. I do not see this much anymore. Even Ad agencys are kicking out crap these days. We seem to have either changed the...
  16. ont id, cool script

    thank you in advance
  17. font id please sir

    thank you in advance
  18. vertical banner stands

    what do you guys use? I want it mid range for very little use. A client has requested and I have never ordered one before thank you
  19. Sign van!

    i have owned vans for all of my 25 years. All your stuff is inside and locked up. Its versitile except when toting long materials or long ladders. 4x8 material fit great in the fords and chevys as long as standing up. Its about time to start looking for a new (used) one. I ran across this thing...
  20. bidding on Damn HUD job!

    Work in this town is relatively dead. I get an email froma longtime client for bidding their HUD apt homes. Save the pdf and go thru it. Have to email the architect and ask him where "this" is and "that" is cause obviously I am to ignorant to find this in the table of contents. They have a...
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