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  1. JV33-160, not printing any color

    Any help would be greatly appreciated. Yesterday printer was working fine, nozzle status was perfect. No issues what so ever. Today, the machine will not print any color. Tried a nozzle status, not one color is showing. Machine is powering up normally but simply will not print any color...
  2. Font help please

    I'm stuck on this one. Looking to identify the font for "Around to it" Thanks in advance for the help.
  3. Advice on graphics for a tent

    A customer brought me just the sides of a concession tent. The tent is made of banner. He'd like me to print and install his logo on 4 sides plus some additional logos of drinks, etc... I've made and installed some overlays for banners in the past but nothing of this scale. I was looking for...
  4. Henderson NC is a very "wide open" sort of town. unique road side art

    I did a search for Henderson NC and this is what pops up on the google info.
  5. Anybody having issues with 3m ij35c-10

    I've had two rolls in the last few weeks that is behaving oddly. It seems to be shrinking an excessive amount after trimming and the adhesive also seems much more aggressive than usual. Thanks, Chris
  6. Trying to find more space for the shop.

    I've outgrown the current location and it's well past time to relocate. I'm having a heck of a time finding anything. Either the space is too big and it's more than I can afford or if it's affordable there is already another sign shop in that location. The flex/industrial building in this...
  7. Customer is pulling a job because I didn't respond to a text, really?

    I'm just kind of dumbfounded... someone is willing to get angry enough to pull a job because I didn't respond to a text that I didn't even know I had. No emails, no phone calls, just a text. Seriously what the hell? I think texting is sometimes convenient but it's not how I generally conduct...
  8. I don't always like working on the weekends but...

    I'm running a large print job. I have all the printers humming along smoothly, no phones are ringing and no employees are asking questions. Just sitting back, having a cold one and watching some netflix. It's not so bad.
  9. Crook, Idiot or Naive?

    A local guy is building food trucks and he's referred a fair number of folks to me for graphics. My only direct personal complaint about the guy is he is constantly running behind on his projects, so that's screwing with my install schedule, but I can deal with that. However I've developed...
  10. Food trucks and Microbrews, is this just a NC thing?

    In NC we have had an ever increasing number of Microbrews in the area. The breweries typically have a tasting room/bar that's open in the evening but tend not to server any food. It's becoming pretty commonplace to have a food truck or two parked in front of the breweries. The breweries will...
  11. Whats the least expensive option for a potential customer.

    I met a potential customer the other day. He bought a late 80's step van that he's going to use for a food truck. The body is steel and not aluminum. It looks like it was lettered with vinyl, then covered in latex house paint and then lettered again. The paint job is horrible, runs and...
  12. Just got this beauty in today.

    So the customer didn't want to pay me for his design so he got a recent graphic design graduate to create his logo for free... I think he got what he paid for. It's not the worst I've seen.
  13. Font help please...first time in a while that I've been stumped

    Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Chris
  14. Any ideas on this hardware

    Sorry this is the only picture the customer provided me. This is one of their neighbors signs and they would like to use the same hardware. Any ideas on the mounting hardware? Tried some google searches but I'm not having much luck. Thanks, Chris
  15. A friend's/customer's experience with buying a sign franchise.

    I just thought I should share this. Maybe I can save someone from having a similar experience In a nutshell, a year and half ago I picked up a wholesale customer that had purchased into a sign franchise. She wanted to open a business, the franchise sales people convinced there that even...
  16. Will wrapping over diamond plate hold up?

    A customer wants me to place a decal on top of diamond plate. We would probably be using IJ180. I've never had any ask me to cover diamond plate. I think I can do it but I was concerned about longevity, I think even with using primer 94 the decal would tent over time and wouldn't last very...
  17. Every time I plan something outside of work, people place orders?

    It can't be just me but every time I plan to do something fun on the weekend or take a day off everybody and their brother will decide they need something about an hour before I'm ready to leave? I got 4 orders for stuff that needs to happen ASAP in the last hour. I think my new marketing...
  18. Opinion about a food truck.

    I'm designing a wrap for a food truck but the owner specifically does not want to identify the food he's offering anywhere on the truck except for a changeable menu board and the name of the truck doesn't identify the food either. I'm not saying he's wrong but most of the food trucks that I've...
  19. Curved molding on a wooden sign

    How you reproduce the curved molding in wood on a sign similar to the attached picture? A customer asked me the other day what it would take to make a real wood style pub sign. They want the sign to be in the same shape and have the same molding as the attached picture and it has to be wood...
  20. Children, dust, flies and swine

    Reading through a very old sign painting book called "Treatise on Carriage, Sign and Ornamental Painting", https://archive.org/stream/treatiseoncarri00campgoog#page/n37/mode/1up. Came across this gem, "Children, dust, flies and swine are sore evils to the Painter, when permitted to approach his...
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