veddderman123

I dont do to much vinyl cutting these days, however I'm going to help a friend do his full size RV. I have no clue what to charge him. He wants to pay full "normal" price but I'm struggling to figure out whats normal. Its all one color (black) lettering with a simple elk graphic. It will require 3 - 50"x43" decals 1 - 12"x60 decal 3 - 15"x15" decals I will be installing it myself and I need a general ball park estimate. I've tried using some of the price calculators but I can never seem to figure them out. someone please help.

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I'm making 6, 2 color magnets. The magnets are precut from signwarehouse 12"X24" and I believed they totalled 30 bucks for the blanks magnets. and all the vinyl is very easy to weed and layout. Please give me a rpough guess on what you would charge for this job. Thanks in advance!!

HAHAHAHA!! I love the protect 2nd base! Thats great. Good Job!

I dont do many store fronts what would you charge for this job? I dont want to over or under price it. Store Front: 2 different decals, each 2 color, easy weed basic lettering logo. and I'm installing it. One decal 2 color 30"x16" The other 2 color 64"x34"

Originally he said he would remove it. I just found out today I'm removing it... YUCK Thanks for the feedback everyone!

Man, I need some serious help on learning what our craft should charge. To many time I shoot way to low and get burned. But at the same time I don't want to quote to high and lose the job. I've tried comparing prices with other sites and using a price calculator that was going around but I'm still not confident in giving quotes. What would you charge for a 2 color 24"X45" decal? I was thinking like $45 or so... Am I way off or does that sound about right?

I have my first customer who has a specific CMKY color code for their logo. Looking at the Oracle swatches in Illustrator there isn't an exact match. What do you do in this situation??? Please help!

I've got my first banner order. Hows the ENDURABANNERs? Are they good quality or is there another brand thats more preferred? Also do you apply vinyl dry or wet?

nice shirt, seems like a lot of work. I think the reason other people charge so little for the coro signs are because they buy them in bulk and they screen print them. That keeps all the costs lower. For smaller shops it wouldn't make sense to buy thousands of blank signs at a time. But also the screen printing produces a sign is much faster then vinyl. Vinyl is good for small jobs but screen printing is the way to go for larger jobs.

This is my first reflective vinyl experiance. I did it for the NM Mounted Patrol. They liked it so much I got 9 more lined up to do.

HAHAHA I hear ya. But thats what they wanted. I wanted to at least do the badge larger but they wanted it that way... I don't know... They were happy with it.

Thanks Guys, The Badge is layered. We Originally planned to screen print it. But while we were waiting on getting the artwork together to get the screens made we decided to try it layered. It came out so clean and crisp I think we're just sticking to layering it. Which is fine with me. Less work as far as getting screens made. And it will never fade. lol

I got the reflective vinyl in but I'm waiting on the 60 degree blades... Would it hurt to try the 45 degree blade?

I've got a cop friend who needs some work done on some squad cars but I've never cut reflective vinyl before. Anyone who has done this before please give me some tips... Also what kind of vinyl would I be best for the job?

So what would you charge for a job like this?

WOW, 900-1200 Really? I wont know the actual measurements of the lettering until he drops the truck off.

I just did a search and found a couple things but I need some more bugs. I need to do an exterminator truck for a friend and he wants bugs on them. PLEASE HELP Thanks!

So I have some decal listings on ebay, all of which are original artwork and someone emailed me and said they want to get a decal for their truck but with the purchase they want to see if they can get a higher resolution of the "logo" so they can use it on their business cards. There is no way in hell I'm giving him my art, or at least not giving it to him for free. What would you do??? I'm thinking of blocking him from my listings so he can't buy it and scan it and rip off my art. HELP!!! What should I do?

hahaha, you're not making me feel any better. I have them watermarked so it would require him to photoshop the crap out of it to make it useable.

When cutting a 24" peice of vinyl how far apart do you put your pinch rollers? When cutting up in the corner of a fresh peice of vinyl (with the roller a few inches from the edge) it keeps waving up and distorting the final graphic. If I move the rollers closer to the edge then the center waves up. Any advice?

mmmm, I was more a thundercats fan but great looking decal!

Just odd and end jobs here and there. I just work out of my house more so as a hobby and play money. I'm slowly working to get more serious about my vinyl cutting.

Crazyness!! I was going to ask if that was in albuquerque because of the style of architecture on the building and the blue skies. then I seen you're in gallup. weird.. huh I'd recognize that NM sky anywhere. But great looking Sign Awesome Stuff!

Mine was doing this for a while, especially with larger files. I changes the usb to serial and it fixed the problem and hasn't happened again.