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I have used Universal Products dry erase on boards that go outside and had no problem I am in Canada it gets pretty cold up here.:)

I took one his wrapping classes and I would say he knows his stuff, it was worth the money I spent on it.

Hahah it will make my "confessions of a sign maker" blog for sure.

My humdingers have come from the internet (companies new to the area) not usually walkins and we are a small community of 15,000 with a business area of around 50,000 so they typically call, email or text before stopping by anyway.

That is pretty much what happens at the shop now but I want to take down the hours and come and go as I need.

Thanks everyone lots of great comments! I think everyone gets it. We aren't swimming in work but since we don't do retail (we are located in an industrial area) and most of our work comes from internet, yellowpages etc this might be worth the try.:)

Does anyone out there just do by appointment only instead of regular 9-5 or 8-4:30 business hours? We only cater to business clients most of which call, text or email. The walk ins we get are usually the time wasters and I would like to know if anyone has tried this before or has some thoughts...

Does anyone know of any good sign blogs? I mean funny ones not the how to kind. I have a pile of things I could say about the sign business but I am interested in reading the thoughts of others;):p

I am pretty stingy with my terms I am definitely not a bank and many sign shops get into cash flow trouble over this type of thing. The clients that are asking for terms are not small and paying isn't an issue, the whole point of the form is to have back up data just in case I need it. They...

I happen to know a guy that is a safety specialist and also knows what we do in the sign business. He is currently writing the policy for my small shop. If you want contact details let me know.

We came up with this work around from the tech early after getting the machine. I see some good info posted in this thread and I am going to try these things as well. If it saves me fiddling around I call that a win!

I am finding that some of my good clients are asking for terms which we haven't extended in the past. I am looking for some sample credit applications other sign shops use.

I have had a mimacki for about 3 years and at first the colours were fine but at some point there was a shift. Now I use my pantone guide a lot and typically 2 or 3 shades lighter gives me the exact colour. Most of the time if I am trying to get exact I run a sample at 10% of the original size...

I do a lot of shirts and we are also set up to screen print but the best materials I have found: Siser Colour Print (amazing stuff, softer hand than the Stahls stuff, lasts better than 50 washes and weeds like a dream from my mimacki) My new favorite is Forever Digital Transfer this stuff is...

Even the designers are bad sometimes I just did a 4'x8' banner today with artwork provided by a large oil company and 2 of the logos were raster and the layout was designed smaller than 4x8 so of course when brought to the right size were terribly pixalated. This came out of the design...