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Hi Guys, greetings from Sydney, Australia. This is my first post. My business has expanded from embroidery to vinyl decals and am now getting requests for larger signage work. My question is about a backlit menu board in a restaurant. The client wants to update the pricing/menu information, he...

Hi Guys NJ Newbie here! Thanks for all your GREAT posts they are beyond helpful! I've been working for a sign company for over 9 years now and I am doing research to find out if I can be profitable going into business for myself. I have a bachelor's in Graphic Design plus years of production...

Hey guys, new user here. I need some advice. I've been working on a few logos & layouts for a local small business. This afternoon after receiving the quote the customer informed me that I was too high & she was going somewhere else. I informed her that it was easy for someone else to charge...

:Canada 2: Hi everyone! I guess it's about time I introduced myself. My name is Derek and I've been creeping this site for some time now. It was just recently that I decided to create an account. I'm a vehicle wrap installer for a body shop planning to take the leap on my own very...

Hello, I just got a used SummaSign T750 that has been sitting in an office for a while now. I hate to sound cheap but I was looking for the blade holder and a few blades just to see if it works at all. I'd hate to spend the $150 if it's not all that it needs (as the previous owner said). Does...

One of our truck wrap customers has asked us to replace a shaped acrylic sign face that fell in a windstorm. This is not a product we make in our normal routine, but is a project that we should be able to handle. Getting the shape made was no problem and in the past, we have attached Jewelite...

Hello all, I am fairly new to the sign and design industry. I have been doing emergency vehicle graphics for close to 5 years now. I learned and am learning the tools of the trade from the school of point, click, oh crap. I have a lot to learn and lots of questions so thank you for having me.

My friend and I are in the process of starting our own company. We are looking into screen presses that are capable of all-over printing. For an automatic press with everything we need, it will cost us 125k. To get a manual will be 25k. Obviously, we are going with the cheaper option, as we...

Hello all I'm a 23 year old College Senior due to graduate in the Fall of 2011. I work at a local Print shop.I am going to school for graphic design and I've been kind of thrown into an internship transformed into a full-time job. We are a small operation with only 7 people on staff and only 2...

I join the newbie crowd here. In a nutshell- my husband and I bought his dad's sign company a few years ago. I am getting my feet wet with signs, business, and this forum. My husband and our son the manager are not the newbies!

Hi everyone. I'm a newbie in the industry looking for wisdom. I recently started a vehicle wrap business. I've been trying to "figure" everything out on my own for the last year and had no idea there was such a cool resource out here. It could have saved me a ton of time and a lot of expensive...

Well.. Hello to everyone. I am a graphic designer or well... that my title at least. Been doing flyers, logos, broschyres, posters, branding, magazines, and so on. Now i am about to enter a world i have found very interesting but have never really been in, the makings of SIGNS. Sure i have...

Hi, my name is Audrey and I am the Graphic Designer for Godwin and Son Signs in Harlingen, Texas. I have been a designer for over 7 years now but this is my first year in the sign business. I have learned a lot from your posts and had a few of my own questions answered. I look foward to being...

HI Everyone, Hopefully I'm doing this in the right place. I'm relatively new to the sign & graphix business. Up to this point I have been outsourcing my printing and now I'm getting ready to order my own equipment. I use Illustrator CS3 for my design & have mostly been doing vinyl...

Hello guys and gals, I've got probably a verry noobish question here, i know what i want to do, but i cant find the option in Adobe Illustrator CS3. Ive got a logo here that needs to be plotted, but the text is in brushscript, and as soon as i convert the text to outlines, there are the little...

This is my first job in the sign industry. I've been "Graphic Design/Sales" for about 6 months. I've never really done graphics before... One time my reputation as a tech-a-holic got me a little experience on a graphtec q75 (LXi 8). But that's it. For 6 months I've been using AI and...

Ok ,the vacuum is to small..but then so is the compressor. It goes up the left size into the booth. Inside are two shhets of coroplast that go into a v shape so I can collect the sand through the little trap door at the bottom and also a big air filtration above my head which isnt showing.