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Hello, I have not posted on here for quite some time. For those that don't know or remember I have been in the sign business for almost 40 years and have been cutting vinyl for a long time. I had major problems with the Avery vinyl failure of 2004. I have been a long time Oracal user before and...

I need some 4' x 8' pvc flatbed printing done. Anyone in the Chicago area western suburbs ? I'm in Belvidere IL Thanks, Jeff

I outsource printing. I use Signlab 9. I currently use the oracal 651 color pallet as a default. I have been using the "publish to PDF" option when exporting files to send to different printers. I sent this file to one of my printers as a color test. It was printed on Avery MPI...

My town is home to a Chrysler assembly plant. This is not the first time I have seen factory lettered vehicles setting on the lot . . .a few here . . . a few there. This time there were 200-300 sitting there all lettered up. Mostly United Rentals & Donan but others as well. I know...

. . .In with the new Not as drastic of change as the police car I recently posted. We changed their logo / brand a little, but mostly I finely talked the customer into doing away with all the sub copy and splashes on the sides. 2005-2014 2015

I just stumbled onto the photos of a project I helped on a few years ago and thought I would share them here. I am fortunate to have one of the most talented hot rod builders in the country reside in my hometown, Kerry Hopperstad - Hopperstad Customs. With a concept drawing of the...

Old design . . . New design . . .

One of my mentors shared stories of working in a multiple sign painter shop. When hand lettering one of many fleet vehicles he would leave a top or bottom leg of an E shorter than the rest or drop the cross stroke of an A down more than the others. So when he would see one of the vehicles...

We have lettered 4 vehicles with this layout for RVC, most recently a 2014 Ford SUV. RHS gets a 2014 Ford SUV and has seen the RVC squad. RHS contact RVC to see who lettered it. RHS contacts us; they want something like the RVC squad. We tell them we will design something. They want it...

Is this a font

Just venting from dealing with yet another "Graphic artist" that apparently has not learned much about real world designing. I won't bore anyone with the details...I know many others here deal with this as well. Unfortunately (unless they are learning things here) there are probably many on...

Thanks in advance...

This is the first one of these fine pieces of engineering marvels I've had the pleasure of lettering. Who thought that these inverted body lines above the wheel openings were the way to go? Never mind that they look stupid, they are very helpful for the lettering process. Then on top of...

This is our driveway marker Everyone thinks it is a rock covered with vinyl, but it is actually a solid ball of scrap vinyl. Mostly from weeding but some just run of the mill short pieces, old stock and such. When we moved our business back home we decided to make it our driveway marker...

I have a couple that are close...anyone know the exact fit? Thanks, Jeff

I have been lettering race cars for over 25 years for this "team". Back in the day when we were "young" we did some nice "clean" paint-lettering-stripping jobs on the cars. Of recent (we're older now) it's hang a one color body (mostly black ones) on it and here you go. I have continued to give...

I tried to retire from race car stuff, but some customers won't let me. Not the best photos yet but this is all the farther away you could get in their shop.

This question was asked on facebook by a local racer...these are actual responses...I did not alter them in any way other than the icons next to some of them. :smile: Any good suggestions on getting vinyl glue off trailer that won't take paint off?? Aaron...Power washer Jeff...wd40...

I am having some printing done for a VERY finicky customer. Most of the lettering I do for him is cut vinyl, I'm trying to get the print colors as close as possible to the Oracal 751 colors i use. I design with Signlab9 and use the Oracal color palette. The colors that export out and are sent to...

Way back I enjoyed lettering race cars, don't get me wrong they (race car people) have most always been a pain in the ____! At least back in the "hand lettering" days you would typically get handed a list of what to put on them and be given free will to do as you like. It would give you a...