Dakotagrafx

welcome back!

congrats on the new copam - you will love it!

Honestly, $25-30 minimum on small orders to cover your time. I don't even offer chrome to my customers because it's too much of a pain to work with and is hard on cutter blades. Tell you customer to give me a email, I'll quote a crazy price then he will crawl back to you and not complain. If he still complains, tell him to take a hike or just say "that's my pricing and what my time is worth, take it or leave it" I agree I think you are plenty cheap already - after your go thru a few blades you will charge more!

Contact fivestar or James for great printing and great prices

Do it on alumacore for a substrate - I would use as much reflective as he can afford. Once you price it for a sigh this big it will add up quick!

here it is on sale with 2.00 shipping http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812999081&cm_sp=DailyDeal-_-12-999-081-_-Product

alpine sign had some single sided aluminum substarate on sale a while back for under 50.00 if you are in michigan

poor picture but you get the idea - crude but works. the only thing I would do different is make it not as long and not quite of heavy of material. I had the local glass shop cut a 12" and a 24" piece for me. didn't even take the protective paper all the way off, just enough to ge the felt on

Home made big squeegee works better than my roll holder every time! pleix with a little felt

Fivestar or james print it and be done with it! - a 5 color laying wold get pretty thick

A small wire from the stand to the cutter will help with a build up in the stand that can zap the cutter. I also added another ground from my stand to a ground in my basement to dissipate the static from T-shirt vinyl just to be safe

Looks like stray nodes

looks kinda like the picket fence from the movie twister

or go auto registration point with a roland or graphtec!

very nice work

+1

Thick coroplast unless they want to spring for alumacore

Buy this cd - it has some great art and is cheap http://cgi.ebay.com/Classic-Car-ClipArt-CD-63-Car-Truck-Vector-Images_W0QQitemZ350311676357QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item519033f9c5

Hasn't been produced since Moses was a pup but here are the drivers for it - looks like the last op that works with it is xp http://dg4.roland.co.jp/en/cutting.html#camm1

nice clean sign

Add a gap to the design and put the Four DM above the ram 1500 and the rest below - with the different colors I think it will look ok tying them in together by color the chrome logo won't be that distracting and it will allow you to make the contact info larger

that is what we call a learning experience . . . and one you will remember for a long time

Have fivestar or James print it!

you forgot Jughead

Very nice work to start with - you will notice a big difference going from a Roland to a Laserpoint though . . .like starting on a cadilac and going to the chevette. It'll get you there just not as smooth. Probably not as small of cuts either but a good starter unit