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by my calculations - they have been on ebay for about 80 + weeks and sold about 5 decals per week at about $1 profit each - yup that is worth the risk. gotta be a kid

Hmmm..perhaps they can be trimmed, and sell them as jet ski, or smaller boat decals... Or barrier decals for a racetrack, or off road store interior wall or signage...mancave or garage graphics..

Hello kitty and chevy? Crap x 2 but at least he didn't put that crap on a Ford logo.

I finally figured out how to use the rotary attachment. I don't think I'll be sandblasting anymore.

My wife and I started dating in August of 2012, and by December she and I had laid out the framework for our potential business idea -- race car wraps and decals. We both had come from racing backgrounds, she was a second generation racer, and I had worked in racing media for years as well as skip hopping around helping different tracks with promotion. By February on our low budget we had bought a new cutter from USCutter and a ridiculously unusable used 42" printer. We called it Dead Man's Designs (Later changed to DMDGraphics to appeal to general business clients, we still use Dead Man's Designs for all race car branding though) We have one driver that we do multiple wraps a year for to showcase our styles and work, our family friend Jimmy Lennex, Jr. Jimmy races across multiple sanctions in 4-5 states a year, and travels to several larger PPV and broadcast races a year, a fullfilling achievement in me and wife's life was getting to watch cars we had designed and wrapped race on TV. He and his dad also help operate a tire shop in a little town on the Ohio/Kentucky border, and needless to say they've been the best publicity a business owner could have. These are a few of the wraps we've done with Lil' Jimmy First wrap took us 4 hours to install, it was the first wrap we ever put on with no experience prior. It was also not laminated, rookie mistakes. The red car was the third wrap. My wife and I after install His 4 year old son was a huge Grave Digger fan those days, so we did a Grave Digger theme The blue car was the 5th wrap, and is probably my personal favorite.

one of my favorite sports is shooting. Anyway, I was at the Camp Perry Highpower matches for the last month and have to say it was pretty exciting. I'll try to make this quick. I created a few decals and cut out about 100 to bring with me. Instead of trying to peddle these out of my trunk I figured I'd visit one of the vendors thats pretty popular and ask him to display them and sell them for a cut on the profits. So, to make a long story short. While I was showing him the decals and showing how they apply a customer walked in and said..Ohh..cool can I buy some of those. The store owner told him the price (100%) higher than what I was selling them for and the customer bought 10. After the sale the store owner looked at me and said, "How about I just buy them all from you right now" and lets forget trying to track commission etc. I was thrilled to death! A few days later I went by the store and he had sold them all!! He told me he would be interested in putting them in his catalog for sale if I could work out a deal with him on price etc. Well he took me to lunch and we hashed out a deal for the "First" order. Yea, I'm gonna be busy. 3000 decals. Wooohoooo I think I need another cutter...LOL Even after a price break I'm doing very well..This decal takes about 30 sec to weed if that. Better stock up on some blades Never could f pulled it off without a little help from friends here!

I found this on eBay the seller is infringing on two companies with one decal, after I looked at the rest of their items it looks like brands of the world crossbred in their store. It's interesting how much risk people are willing to take for $2.99

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote'data-author="xpaperman" data-cid="401153" data-time="1440041107"><p> Thats cause even hello kitty refused to be seen with a ford logo </p></blockquote> That's just wrong besides from what I've seen hello kitty will hang with any brand. She's a dirty kitty.

I swear you take the brunt of it Scott because every time I log in and there's a spam report even 2 or 3 minutes old it has already been completed. You must never sleep.

I like those ideas - may throw a couple out at $20 each + shipping (on the checker one) with stipulation they have to send pic back when installed! Ive been so busy with the house projects this summer, along with treading water keeping up with regular decal and printing orders that I am feeling a bit tired. got word today that we MAY get a spam blocker installed on the forum software soon - if that happens then John. Jay and I won't spend hours per day just deleting spam and blocking spammers as they sign up.. feeling a little tired of it all but slogging away and appreciate the input jburns

It's a zen thing. You'll learn to become one with your machine

Welcome back mate

In this case, yes, they contain vectors but, not necessarily. pdf and eps are more like 'containers'. Their content can be either vector or raster OR a combination of both. The vector work done in the OP's image appears to have been created with the intention of printing or illustration, not for vinyl cutter instructions.

Dag... That's a rough looking auto trace, mark. Try this, Randy; (it still may need a tweak or 2, you be the judge) randys graphics w-number_02b.eps

very good deal - now you will be very happy to have that graphtec - that with the cleancut blades will make that job soooooo much easier than with a value cutter for that qty! congrats and happy shooting

I'm still happily running XP on several machines with no problems and no worries! It will be a long time before microsoft forces me to do anything, and by then I won't need a computer...

Depends on the look you're going for, and ultimately what the mall will approve. Heres a couple mockups I was able to draw up. When I think country, beadboard is one thing that comes to mind. And when I think rustic, rough sawn wood comes to mind. Pallets are a good cheap source for this if you're willing to spend some time tearing a few apart. For the actual sign portion, you could use some cabinet grade ply and paint it for a base surface to work with. There's lots of options for the lettering. You could cut them from vinyl, paint them on, or even cut them from wood or acrylic sheet to add some dimension.

thanks a lot guys ChopinScript is the one

Guessing there are going to be a LOT less people running Flexi Sign in the near future lol.

Sue2- Thank you for catching this. I took an order for 75 window decals today ( 50 with logo + text) and had read your post before I started cutting. Spacing was fixed and all is well. Thank you

How about "Gross Script" or "Ugly Swash".

A good rule of thumb for a starting point would be the same amount you have set for blade offset. A lot of cutters don't even need overcut so like Skeeter said it may or may not help you. Is this only a problem with HTV? Do you have small tabs still connected when cutting regular vinyl?

Don't know what, that would identify as?

put the profits back and move up every couple of years for a BIG one - check this guy out - love his work. just use the same thing we did on plotters use that one to pay itself off and move up as big as you decide you want to go http://www.imaginationcorporation.com/fox-and-hounds

I love Perf cutting with mine now!