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Our sign shop here at UVA is growing and moving. We are merging with another department that wants to implement an online sign management system called Sign Agent. www.signagent.com Personally I'm not a fan of cloud based systems, so I am asking if anyone is using it or has any opinions about...

Any ideas on how to mount subsurface printed glass without stand offs or visible hardware? What about the same with acrylic?

Does anybody have experience with the Canon Arizona flatbed printers? Mainly I am curious as to how well the braille and raised lettering for ADA signs hold up. Also, is it as fast as they claim? 4'x8' sheet in 2.5 hours for ADA signs.

My new shop bought a liquid laminator to replace their old broken down sheet laminator. Makes sense in a lot of ways but mostly because we mainly laminate pre-printed solid panels. Occasionally we need to laminate printed vinyl and they are very fond of the 3m IJ 35c. It laminates the vinyl...

University of Virginia has it's own in house sign shop. They do the whole nine yards, ADA, engraving, banners, street signs, vinyl work and pretty much the whole shebang except electric. You can find the link to job postings here, https://hr.virginia.edu/careers-uva/job-openings Scroll to the...

Looking for an experienced installer for a small but quickly growing sign company in Charlottesville. Email resumes to sales@americanmadesigns.com

We are looking for someone with printing, Graphic design and production experience here in Charlottesville Virginia. We use Corel Draw and have both solvent and UV printers. DM me if interested and I can provide more information.

I am trying to print vinyl on my LEJ640 then cut it on my VP540i after laminating. Not much luck getting everything to line up correctly. The VP reads the crop marks but randomly starts cutting anywhere from .5" to 1" left or right and top to bottom of where the die cut is supposed to be. We...

We need a supplier for vinyl supplies besides Feller's. We use mostly Oracal 651 for cut vinyl and recently moved to Arlon DPF 4500GLX from Avery 3165RA for printing. We thought we had a new supplier with great prices until we noticed they were sneaking in large delivery fees. Any...

We just switched brands of vinyl to Arlon 4500GLX. I am trying to find a good profile to print using Versaworks 5 on our VP540i. I found one that works and looks good without banding but it seems to saturate the vinyl so that if I need a print cut without laminate the edges curl. Also, if I...

Hello, I am trying to set up a direct connect to my computer using a USB to Ethernet adapter. I keep getting errors indicating an incorrect IP address but everything is set to auto and when I try to assign one manually I must be doing something wrong because it won't accept the settings I am...

We have a Roland LEJ640 hybrid that is randomly disconnecting mid print. When it first happened we would shut down the printer and computer and restart everything and hope it would come back online. Eventually we replaced the network cable with a higher quality one. This seemed to fix the...

A realtor came in the other day with a rider he wanted changed. It was supposed to say, build to suit but someone made a misspelled suit as suite. So with some not so creative patchwork they fixed the misspelling. Like my old boss used to tell his people when they screwed up, "would you buy...

We were doing a roof wrap on a 2013 Ford Flex and lost the clip that is part of the mounting hardware for the Shark fin. Does anybody know where I can find one. Back in Colorado I would go to the pull and pay salvage yard and snag one. They don't have these out here and the Ford dealer wants...

Anybody use World Wide Sign Systems? What do you think, we tried them for the first time and I am not so sure I like them very much. Two channel letter sets on raceways came in, both damaged. Mostly from shipping but some looked like mishandling in the shop. Instead of replacing the damaged...

We have a place around the corner that had new faces made for their pylon sign. We watched the installers struggle about half a day to get them in because the made them too big. So instead of bringing a saw and cutting the faces down to fit they crammed them into the retainers and screwed them...

yeah, we just did a truck wrap that was yellow and black. It looked great in the shop, perfect match. The second I started I was horrified to see that the yellow turned green. Took a picture and sent it to the client and at first they were OK with how it looked in the photo. When they showed...

I have a client that needs to match existing signs on the building. At first glance they look like a cast plaque from Gemini. On inspection they are engraved then the engraved part is painted gold and filled with a clear epoxy giving and embossed appearance. If anybody has a suggestion I...

Does anybody have a source for having channel letters made from tracings of original faces. I used to do this in house when I worked at a much larger shop. Not currently set up to do this here and am having a bit of sticker shock with my usual suppliers quote.

Does anybody have a recommendation for a channel letter wholesaler. We have one that is well priced but somehow manages to make a crappier sign with every new order. They recently expanded and training was their excuse for a while which is interesting because now they take even longer than...