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Got Lemons...make Lemonade! As you hand a client the card, stop and tell them if they have any questions they can contact YOU personally...then turn over the card and hand write your name and email or cell phone. Makes your company sound bigger and makes the client feel he's getting some "Personal" attention. Sue2

Personally...... You're going about it the wrong way. Why are you skimping on your main piece of equipment with hopes to upgrade later. What have you spent $800-$900 on? Your plotter will be what defines your business. It'll be the one peice of equipment that can make a job easy or a nightmare. If it were me I'd get a cheap heat press and a few supplies and use the rest of the money on the vinyl cutter. Many people here would agree. I think all of us have started with cheap heat presses that worked perfectly till we felt like upgrading. But we ALL will agree to get the absoult best vinyl cutter you can right from the beginning.

cleaning out stuff and my daughter stops over and decides to take the small sample shirt from the sublimation on cotton product on the most irritable cat we have - now who is going to lose a finger or two removing it. by the way she is 24

Send Richard at cobra ink a message and he will get back to you. If you go with a CISS System you will use way less ink but will almost have to print something every few days to keep it from clogging. Tell him you are from the forum and use my name MR300s and he will take 10% off of whatever you buy https://www.cobraink.com/

Write? You have a cutter sitting right there. It's easy to literally fill in the OTHER (blank) side with whatever design you want, including your name. It serves as an illustration of what applied vinyl is, and showcases your vinyl-cutting talents. Actually, I just completed revising 20 flyers I had that were already printed up, and I cut off the bottom (where my web address was located) and added a NEW web address to the top with blue vinyl.

Using something like this how do you keep the vinyl from floating up with static electricity and sticking to the app tape?

Thank you...that's the font they used. Sue2

you would have to call and ask - even thought it says staff by the mods on the forum we are actually volunteers and dont work for usc

Since I cant bang a nail straight I bought one from us cutter when they were on sale. It works great

PMS X 2 so far in November! AND, it's only the 4th!

Comes every month must be PMS

Kinda like a doctor, or lawyer, best to leave your own logo, to someone else.

Heres another Idea pippindecals2.eps

A couple other possibilities. Nothing very fancy, just layered rectangles and simple fonts really. Pippin Decals.eps

ok so doesnt need the Z how about this.

Here was the first but i thought it wasnt enough and i didnt like the info ,Im afraid to leave something out in case 1 person might say "Hey i need that" lol... Thought about make a round one but then i lose my info as well.. Dam.. I was kinda leaning towards PIPS Decals ? i dont know .. i suck at this lol

Here's how I would accomplish it in CorelDraw... Step 1 - Layout your text the way you want it to be. Triple check spelling, phone numbers, etc. before you continue Step 2 - Add an external contour to your text in a contrasting color - adjust contour thickness to match the spacing you want around your text Step 3 - Break contour group away from the original text (Ctrl-K) and then add an external contour to the first contour shape Step 4 - Adjust the second contour thickness to match the outline thickness you want in your final design and then break the contour group apart (Ctrl-K), then select both contour parts you created (one red and one yellow in this example) and subtract the Front contour from the Back contour (Arrange > Shaping> Back Minus Front) Step 5 - Break out your node tool and start deleting all the extraneous central bits you no longer need.

if doing a bunch of one thing I try it from 2-3 directions to find the best way - each design is different. I have one I do a lot of that has a wave pattern in it and you always want to weed from the thicker side - if from the narrow points of course it just pulls it all up

It's all about the time.... and, as they say, " The devil is in the details". Therefore, small amounts of additional material usually push my price up more quickly than larger amounts of a second color. Be mindful of the inordinate amount of time small details tend to add to the design & approval phases as well as the cut & application stages. Seen so many times where most of the clients time-consuming back and forth was over the smallest of details, not the bigger, main concept. I price based on the projected time to complete extra colors/details way more than the small amounts of material costs it will add. Most clients/buyers tend not to understand or appreciate these principals and I generally don't use 'size-based' formulas for labor. It's all about how long it's gonna take and each project tends to differ greatly so, learn to judge the time involved for each additional color.

Its true he is the resident smarta$$ there a couple I'm included. If your doing HTV you charge the same price or at least I have and no one ever complained, same with layered decals. Yeah you may use less so if you want to be fair you charge a little less.. You still have to weed it, and apply it.

let me introduce myself - the resident smart a$$ .. . .. don't let the notation fool you in my profile I am not employed by usc just help mod and having one of "those" days - sorry

Yup, you didnt pay less for it did you?