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  1. Signs 365 What's your mark up?

    I am not including shipping when I say nearly 5 times. I am comparing their square foot price ($1.25) to mine. I sell a 4x8 banner for $192. If you do a 226% price including shipping, you're getting $3.50/sq ft. We were charging that 20 years ago when gas was cheap and rent was half what we pay...
  2. Signs 365 What's your mark up?

    I don't know why you would be upset at someone wanting a single banner. It's a banner you're selling them that requires minimal investment of time. I sell banners at the same price whether I print them or I have S365 print them. Which is nearly 5 times their square foot cost. If you're only...
  3. S80600: new to eco solvent: minimal print or autoprinthead cleaning?

    I use an S80600, which replaced an S70670 in November 2023. I set the machine up myself, though a tech came at the earliest possible scheduled date about 2 weeks later to go over it. I left the automatic cleaning on the setting it came from Japan with, which was OFF. The machine still does some...
  4. Avery Etchmark Humidity Nightmares

    Run a dehumidifier? How do you achieve air temperature of 70 degrees without having lower humidity? Our shop is air conditioned to 75 degrees and it makes the humidity 32% at this moment with outdoor humidity currently 80%
  5. Question how long before fading?

    I have never used a Mutoh, but we typically see around 5 years life from prints on our Epson (and also our old Mimaki). Sometimes more, sometimes less. The prints last longer if done with cast materials (car wrap type material) because what you see more often than not is failure of calendared...
  6. jumble font designed by laura worthington

    After you add the font online in the web browser you have to open the Creative Cloud app on your desktop and have it install the font to Windows. Periodically it will uninstall fonts and you have to go back and reinstall them for Windows.
  7. What is this surface where the vinyl is installed on

    Most likely expanded PVC, brand names Komatex, Sintra, Trovicel, etc.
  8. Need help find out what this bold font is...

    Sterilizer Regular
  9. What wrap material to use!

    I never liked IJ180C and have always used Avery MPI1105 with DOL1360Z laminate. But if the price increases are due to being US imports, perhaps you could try Oracal.
  10. Application tape by size

    Don't buy the Briteline tape and you can get single rolls.
  11. North korea vinyl not that great

    Looks fine from the spy satellite.
  12. Epson S80-600 Printing Issue

    Not sure I can see the fault in the print. What am I looking at?
  13. dimensional logo "wrap"?

    Yeah, that would have to be bent. The globe might have to be too if the curve of the wall is that great.
  14. dimensional logo "wrap"?

    You can use letters from any manufacturer of dimensional letters. The curve doesn't make any difference. The red swoop might be the only piece that would show it. You can measure the amount of curvature over the distance it covers by going up on the roof. If it's enough that the studs on the...
  15. Epson S60600 Compatibility

    Yes. The cutter is independent of the printer. You can mix and match brands. As long as your RIP software has drivers for the devices.
  16. Anyone know this Font?

    Planet Kosmos
  17. Golden Ratio

    Here's what Adobe says: https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/design/discover/golden-ratio.html Easier to think in thirds. Draw an imaginary tic tac toe grid evenly on your sign shape. Place things you want to emphasize at the intersections of the lines. (That's a kind of intersectionality I can...
  18. Printing on Translucent

    I guess everyone around here is dumb. I've been doing signs for over 30 years, and everybody puts signs either on a timer or uses a photocell. With timers they often have the sign turn off at 2 am or something like that. You know, save money on electricity. Or reduce carbon outputs. Whatever.
  19. Printing on Translucent

    There's no such thing as a proper backlit profile. Backlit profiles all overink the print, which is not proper because the colors are darkened too much for daytime viewing.
  20. Printing on Translucent

    Exactly. And in reality a lit sign is seen by a lot more people unlit during the day.
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