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i put the vinyl on the roller, feed the vinyl thru the plotter, take the vinyl i just feed thru the plotter, and feed it back under the roll of vinyl on the rollers. then you know it is perfectly aligned when they match up, then I just clamp it down with the pinch rollers

Well I have been doing vinyl jobs, and can't keep up, but I decided to start making t-Shirts also. I have all ready made over 50 shirts for people at work (to wear at work with company logo), and that was in the first week, but I finally got a break in work this weekend so I get to "play around" I decided to make a shirt for myself that was the same as the tattoo I drew for myself last year. I scanned my arm, and this is what I got after all was said and done.

I use thermoflex plus, I fell it is one of the best products for heat applied vinyl (just my opinon). I useally get it off of ebay, or from either Earl Mich (earlmich.com), or Ordway (signsupply.com)

yes I wanted it to sort of wrap around the arm that had the tattoo on it

ya he didn't shop it at all, but I am not sure anyone around here would have done it cheaper. the sign shops around here are all really exspensive. I have my buddy go in and ask them how much for a chevy logo that was 3' x 2' and they quoted him $137.84 just for the decal at fast signs, and the other ones were more exspensive that that. that is only 6 sq. ft. so material would cost about $3.00, and it would take about 5 min. to make it. I sell the same decal locally for $60.00 just for the decal, another $30.00 for install, so $90.00 installed which is still cheaper than fast signs for just a decal.

did 6 trucks and 1 car yesterday for a detail shop, let me know how you like it

my sister is having a baby boy in april So i decided to do this for them. The room is going to be a jungle theme. this thing took forever to weed, and has little animals all over the place. All of her friends want them for there kids now, already got 1 job off of this, and that one will pay for the material I used on my sisters, and then some. My brother in law is going to go in an paint all the leafs, and animals.

here is a landscaping truck that I did last week

I have a full time job ( not sign making), and then I have my own business that I run out of my home part-time (sometimes is more like full-time), plus my ebay sales, I keep myself really busy, I dont have enough time for all the jobs, and its still winter, I cant wait till it gets nice out, then I will have to pick and choose my jobs better, as to which ones pay more, and I can do the fastest

nothing big, just a bunch of little stuff, but all those little things added up fast!

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I just finished this truck today.

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I need a chicago bears head logo in vector form for my brother for x-mas. I can find the pic, but I cant find a vector anywhere. if anyone could help I would appreciatie it very much. I would just draw it out , but I think it will take forever, and I need to have it done by monday(thats what I get for procrastinating! lol) thank you very much for any help

I actually ended up drawing one out in the software this is what I came up with.

I charged $1400 for all 7 trucks, I was going to tell him $1800, but then I crossed it out, and wrote in $1400 on the estimate, Because he leases the building from my dad. He didn't even shop the price, when I did that. so now I always tell people it would be this much, but I will do it for this, then make up a reason to give them a discount (i.e. First time customer, repeat customer, etc.) It took me about 3 hours at home to get everything ready, and about 6 hours to install all of them, including driving time, so I had about 9 hours in this job. The material cost about $50, white oracal cast vinyl, and stuff to install, so that left me with a profit of $1350 or $150 hr.

Laser level!, you can get one for about $5 it wont be the best, but it will definatly get the job done.

my step-dad love's the wildcat's so I thought this would be appropriate for his tailgate on his truck. let me know what you think. Ryne Cooper

all done! wow that was easy! thank you Jerry!!!!! :thanks: :you rock:

ok so I just bought a new laptop, because the desktop is old, and keeps freezing up. I cant get any work done on it so I got the laptop, I was wondering if I need to purchase additinal soft ware or if I can transfer the SB to the laptop, and reactivate after I uninstall on other computer (if it dont freeze up on me in the process). I dont really want to buy the software, because the other computer is going in the trash! any help would be greatly appreciated!

i wraped the old faceplate with black vinyl then added the skulls

Had this happen to me with a buddy at work made him some 3 colorflags that were a good size, and told him $20 before I made them, he agreed, but I didn't make him sign anything, then I show up the next day with the decals and he only wanted to pay $5, ya I could have sold them to him, and made a little $, but instead I told him I would rather throw them in the garbage, then I walked away and didn't sell them to him. I knew I would get a bad rep if I sold them to him for $5 becasue he would tell everyone to only offer 25% of what I say after I make them. then the next week he wanted to give me $20 for them, and I told him that they were now $40 each for him wasting my time. he didn't want to pay that much so I put them on my car and parked next to him at work, and when we left I took them off and trew them in the garbage in front of him. ever since that I always get 50% up front, and have never had anyone try to haggle with me. ok first things first, ALWAYS AGREE ON A PRICE UP FRONT!!!!!!! ALWAYS GET 50% DEPOSIT, if this guy can talk you down $140, then he will brag to his friends and then they will call you and do the same thing. I do the same a Latitude, make up an estimate, and they have to aprove the design and the price by signing the form. has all the same terms as latitude, but I have a few extra. basically you cover you a$$ with the form that they sign, making them responsiable for the $ and you responsiable for nothing. if you did the banner for $80 and it took you 2 1/2 hours thats only $32 an hour, now minus your exspensise for the install and you have $14 an hour, now minus material cost, and your gas to get over there and I am sure you made next to nothing. You could have probablly made more flippin' burgers at McDonalds. I dont mean to sound mean if I do, but I am just trying to make it where you can really understand. As for your prices I think you are way to low! You are actually hurting the sign industry if you price that low, to be totally honest with you, when I do a job, For example I did 7 trucks for a detail shop, just 2 doors on each and the tail gate, very simple design just text! Took me about 4 1/2 hours to install everything. after takeing out the $ that I spent on supplies (vinyl, install supplies, gas to get there, lunch, etc.) and figureing 10 hours of total time for the job (that includes install, driving, design, cutting weeding, everything) I made over $120 an hour, and actuallity it only really took about 61/2 to 7 hours for everything so that would be over $170 an hour. so you are WAY TOO LOW!!!!! I am not saying you should charge what I do , but I let them know they are paying for a service, and I will provide it better than anyone! and at these price's I am still lower then the local big guys, by about 20% Oh ya and also a good selling point is to tell them that there sign will cost this much per day if it last's 5 years For example if they pay $200 for for a sign it would be $200 devided by 5 year's that $40 a year, devided by 12 months that's $3.33 a day, devided by 30 days would be $0.11 a day, and I think anyone would agree that 11 cents a day is cheap for advertising. also when I take the estimate, I print it up about $200-$700 more (for big jobs) then what I would actually charge, then I cross it out, and Tell them that I am giving them a discount either becasue they are a first time customer or a reapeat customer, and they think they are getting a great deal off the bat! this always sells jobs for me, they dont even bother with getting quotes for the other guys, when I tell them this, they automatically think that I am doing it for next to nothing, when in actuallity I am make over $100 an hour. It is alwyas a deal to the customer if they are happy, and you are always friendly. THIS TECHNICE WORKS EVERY TIME! try it and see what I am saying! its not all about how cheap you are it is about how good of a salesman you are. Sorry for the really long post, but this subject really gets me going, if you price to low, and only make $5 off a job you dont just hurt yourself you hurt everyon in the sign biz!

Did this one for my dad today, let me know what you think? The install was a pain in the arse!

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