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20 Trucks, I am going to take the opposite side of this. You must be a good plumber, businessman; and stay pretty busy. IMO your time is better spent, more profitably spent, running your business. With 20 trucks someone should give you a pretty good deal and the cost is a normal business operating expense and therefore tax deductible. Purchasing the equipment would be a fairly small capital (or operating expense) but quite a bit of time to work it. Now, if you were expanding your business to do vinyl work - that would be a different issue. Cal

buy a graphtec ce6000-60, good app tape, oracal 751, cutting mat, squeegees and for around $2K you will be all set to do anything you need to do now and in the future. you can get going for as low as about $800 with a sc model cutter and the above supplies but think you will want the better servo machine doing a lot of trucks - read the reviews and comments in the help section of the forum - lots of happy graphtec owners out there. on the learning curve you might want to download signblazer from the support section (free) and practice with the vector graphics program to get an idea of how to use it. working with vector graphics will be different than pixel based raster pictures you have been used to. as far as if you want to get into "printing" then you are talking closer to $20K to get going - but what you have shown can be done easily with cut graphics

I just keep flushing till it's gone.

on the same thought - how many of us do our own plumbing . . .

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You need to have Gorilla Glue these days. I'd be lost w/out it.

In Photoshop there used to be a filter called "Stamp". It will give you something like this. You can get more or less detail by tweaking the settings. Google "Photoshop Stamp Filter" and you will find information on it.

With 20 vehicles to do you would definitely be able to at least own your equipment at the end of the day. You will have some time invested and probably a few mistakes on top of the actual materials and equipment but if you have the man-hours to invest it should work out. Having your logo built will at least stave off the immediate need to be handy with the design program. Simple text is type convert and cut so that won't be an issue for you but designing in general takes some learning. If you live in my area I urge you to please don't waste your money and I'll come take care of you. If you don't well, it's one of the most enjoyable and rewarding things I have found to play around with. You will absolutely love having your own cutter. I second Dakota's comment to probably go with a higher end machine like a Graphtec. It's like the difference between Harbor Freight or maybe sears tools and Snap-on. Both will get the job done but if you spend a little more you definitely reap the rewards. I started with a lower mid level machine and "Got By" for a couple years and am probably a better cutter operator because of it but the getting by part can be frustrating and often wastes vinyl. Having a nice servo motor machine I now feel spoiled but a lot if not all of the issues I used to fret over are just gone and I can turn it loose without worry.

Seems easy enought. Probably cheaper to have someone cut it and you apply it.

There is a powerdriver to download from sawgrass to print with. It will help your colors come out more true.

I've been doing singles for $20....I told him $12 each.....If he wanted any cheaper he could order online and wait a couple weeks....lol

I have never heard of usc using any staff not located in Washington or Tennessee. I have heard of several workers in washington that were from overseas

When I can't do it myself I get skarekrow. He does a great job. Has reasonable prices. And with a quick turn around.

AWESOME! From a lifelong Family of Fords. My Father worked for Ford for 55 years. My 2003 Expedition just turned 207,000 miles!! LOVE them.

I would say best way is to send it to WildGoose, have lunch, make very resonable Payment, open recieved SVG and move on with the day.

Maybe Zebratrace? http://maxim-s-barabash.github.io/ZebraTrace/ It takes some fiddling to get it to come out cuttable.

Most of the time a font that starts with the letters A-E. Because as I'm looking through font I normally pick one before I get pass the E's.