rdrgrafix2

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    I would send them to another member on here and have them print them.  You can still mark them up and make a profit even with shipping.  There is many of us that print and love to team up with other members on jobs.  Keeps some coin in everyones pocket and also makes it where everyones shops can offer more products and profit more

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    For me it depends on how complicated the logos are.  Also the quantity.  I send most of my art out to have another place vector them.  They charge me x amount to do them but a lot of times I can send three or four logos in one file and they will do all four for that price.  So basically its on a per case basis

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    I have come to the point where I will not reuse faces.  If you charge a flat rate to scrape and clean them you get screwed.  If you do it hourly then issues a rise with the customers when they get the hourly bill mainly because they are cheap and dont realize ahead of time exactly how much it is going to cost them when you say up to five hours each.  If they dont want to pay for new acrylic send them down the road to the backyard sign shop and let them deal with it

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    I have my trailer with its own electrical panel and it has a gfi built right into the panel so I can either plug into a non gfi outlet on site or I can get hardwired if there is a gfi outlet.  Its nice cause it protects the whole trailer in one shot.  One circuit is the lights and the other is the cutter and sublimation equipment.  I also built my trailer from scratch so I did not have to worry about gutting it.  The whole wall on the one side opens up to be an 18 foot long and seven foot wide awning.

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    I have a trailer I do the same thing out of.  I can tell ya that you are going to want to gut quite a lot of it becuase it seems like you have room till you actually start using it.  Also make sure you have the electrical all worked out because certain places you go have certain requirements.

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    In reality it is money out of your pocket.  You could take a third or half of the profits from jobs and put that into more stock and put the other half into newer better equipment or advertising or even better in your pocket.  Take the advice from those of us that have done this for years and order it as you need it.  I have rolls of stuff here that only needed for one job etc and there it sits unless you talk someone into it.  Just order it as you need it and you will get it the next day from Fellers.  Whats the chances of you getting a job that is 24 hr turnaround or less?  Not that high.  Shops like us get them all the time but there is a limitation that they want it that fast they go with one of our normally stocked colors.  Sitting on inventory and inventory that has a shelf life just is not a good idea