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Thanks for the input on the subject. My goal is mainly just to design and cut the patterns for my customer (the owner of the concrete company), the customer'll then do all the staining/layering/etc. He's the concrete expert, I gather he's subbed this type of work out enough that he thinks he...

Our local ready mix concrete company has approached me about doing stenciling for concrete which he will then stain in different patterns. Curious if anyone has any experience/recommendations on this before we just go doing some random testing to see what holds down the best without allowing...

The company makes the logo recognizable not the designer. A good design might create a memory of the logo, but does not impact the company's success, only its instant identification and whom the owner is, hence the term branding. Instead of cattle, we're doing it to other products. That...

I like the color scheme, the background is also nice and not detracting, the design itself seems too chaotic though. The graphic item placements seem to collide with another and the design elements seem out of alignment (IE: the white box for Pain, Breuvage, and Produits Maisons all seem to...

Delete them from your Versaworks queue and they should get removed from disk automatically. These are the post processed RIP files that get streamed to the printer, as well as the print settings for that job and etc. I'll generally delete items in my Versaworks queue that are a couple months...

The color looks like you probably took an RGB image and converted it to CMYK somewhere down the line which is a lot more restrictive colorspace when it comes to blues. Try to work with an RGB colorspace right up until you get into the RIP, it will be the best at colormatching RGB. Versaworks...

I always preferred "you can polish a turd, but it's still a turd".

Unsure what you might classify as printing speed, but sometimes I will turn off my heaters for cutting heat transfer vinyl, when doing so, I eliminate a lot of warmup time for the heaters and oftentimes I will forget to re-enable them for a vinyl/banner job. Only problem is the inks need the...

Thanks for the tip Case, will have to give it a shot!

Anyone have a graphtec+onyx+L25500 package? That's what I got sold on, and aside from some issues with the media feeding, or accidentally choosing the wrong type of material in Onyx and ending up with a bunch of uncured prints I really like the quickness I can usually pull something off the...

I'd first make something for the back so you don't see the sliding doors. You could wrap over the entire front, but think that'd look a bit strange. I'd probably put some sand in there and then put some skulls on top, then give it some kinda jazzy name like "Complainer's Coroner", a lot of...

Hope you're using 3651? Don't think 651 is supposed to be too printable! I've seen someone do cheapy calendered on box trucks before, the rivets looked like crap, but from a few feet away wasn't too noticeable. Over time it looked better and better, and was quite surprised it didn't fail...

Or did it?

Probably will be fine with lam and a higher quality vinyl. If you have that metallized polyester stuff (believe RTape EFX, and a few other names), it'll want to curl when printed to the edge and is a beast to print on without a nice blank space. I have however cut out of metallized polyester...

While I haven't bought anything directly through him yet, the Big Squeegees are my most utilized tools in my shop next to my x-acto and rulers. Think I got my yard tool through Sign Warehouse and my BS through Beacon. Thanks for providing a great tool to the trade and looking for ways to...

Figured I'd kick these forums off with a shout out to Gino! He probably has no idea who I am, but I enjoy reading his posts and listening to his insights whether it be on the sign business, or in the NHB section!

I'm in the same boat as Mark! I was pretty busy last week with graduation crap occuring (which is last minute awards/banners/etc) and never saw the topic thread. Then I took my memorial day weekend off, aside from making a sign to put out front in memory of.

Honestly, I've never looked at your avatar that up close. I thought it was you taking a photo of you pulling a piece of chewing gum out of your mouth every time I saw it on a post!

Farewell to a great character and an inspiration to the newer generations of signers. I'll miss his posts, his enthusiasm, and the chuckles I'd get out of the NHB section from both him and those he infuriated!

Don't know about their wholesale, but when I used to manage a hotel I used to deal with plicards.com and know they do custom printing.