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  1. Full Print or Cut Vinyl Letters

    We have 5 large signs (4’ x 10’ horizontally mounted) toletter with sponsors names for a local football booster club. The signs need tobe black with white lettering and we will use poly-metal as the substrate. Wehave a Roland VS 540 so we could do either cut vinyl letters or do a fulllaydown...
  2. Flatbed Printers- Entry Level Questions

    I have been researching flatbed printers trying to find a good entry level one. Currently we do 10-15 4' x 8' acm (polymetal) signs per month as our main signs and various size coroplast signs (20 a month) using our roland 540 to print the vinyl, then laminate if needed, cut, weed and mount to...
  3. Wanted 8' Stomp Sheet Metal Shear

    I am looking for an 8' stomp(foot) sheet metal shear. Please pm with any information. Thanks Larry
  4. Trimming ACM (Polymetal)

    I have a 4' x 8' of acm or polymetal with a full print on it that needs one of the 8' sides trimmed 1/4" off it. The place I use with a shear says they cannot make a cut any narrower than 1". How can I trim the panel and not ruin the print? Thanks Larry
  5. Royal Sovereign 1650H Help

    Our RS 1650H just quit running, it ran fine all day, day help turned it off and now it wouldn't run. It will heat up, you can set the speed at ant level and when you close the rollers-nothing. I can turn both rollers by hand, the chain is intact. Any thoughts on how to get this thing running? I...
  6. Logo Help

    We are currently working on a logo for a local municipality and I need some help. Let me see if I can expalin this correctly- we have the image and for the most part it is vectored (couple of areas need some detail work) and what we need is someone who can I guess in photo shop or a better...
  7. Help With Media Feeding Askew

    I am having an issue with our vs540 feeding a job to cut back straight. I printed a job to be laminated then cut on 10' of reflective, removed it after printing, laminated it and now when I try and run in back through the vs 540 by the time it gets to the crop marks at the end it has moved over...
  8. Some More Font Help

    Can someone please help me identify this version of this brush font? A customer brought this picture in and I cannot seem to find this exact version. Thanks Larry
  9. Website Effectiveness

    We currently have a website that is hosted by one of our regional telephone books and is very generic (very basic template and very basic information on our part). We do not do any ecommerce on it, nor do we plan to. Recently I have been looking at getting this site redesigned by someone that...
  10. Old School Trucker Font

    We had a client come in today while we were out and wants his truck lettering done in an old school truckers font (I would guess a font that was used on trucks in the 40's or 50's). Anything with tails is out as he wants it arched on the top & bottom lettering. Can anyone suggest to me some...
  11. Reflective Lettering Lifting

    As the title says we have reflective lettering lifting (not sticking) on a police car for the second time. We are using oracal 5600, printing ,drying for 24 hours, laminating and installing. The first time this happened the car was fresh from the body shop having all the old lettering removed &...
  12. Help With A Layout

    I need some help this morning on the attached layout. We are doing several police car and I am having an issue with the door lettering. This is our first vehicle to do where we hav had to use both doors for the lettering. The word police is 5" x 60" and they do not want a letter split between...
  13. Original 9-1-1 Logo

    I need help in finding the original (I presume) 911 logo (which I thing is the circle with 911 call in a emergency). I don't fully remember this logo and all our local vehicles that use 911 have just that. A police department that we are lettering several vehicles for wants this old logo and I...
  14. Using A Laser Level ???

    As always I am thinking of ways to make an installation job easier. I am wondering if a laser level (self-leveling would be the best) would work when applying lettering to a vehicle? We have 10 vehicles to do with the same lettering for the doors, front & rear fenders, crew cab doors, etc that...
  15. Resizing In Flexi or Lxi

    We have both flexi 8.6 and lxi 8.? (don't remember) in our shop and I have a question concerning them and resizing files. Over the last year our vehicle lettering business has really grown and we now have 12 vehicles to letter in a short period of time, they are 2 different jobs. To help out...
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