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All that hard work and one rub on the wall and poof. But I guess that's the nature of the beast. Looks sweet.

I have the SC 34inch, I love it. Does everything I ask it too. Takes some time to get it dialed in, but Im extremely happy. My cutter came with SCALP and the auto trace was really impressive.

Two color, Easy weed stretch. Design and print. I'm addicted. Customer was thrilled.

Thanks everyone

I work from home, I'm exclusively word of mouth. I do mostly t shirts but want to get into lettering and decals,.just can't find the time. It keeps me busy, I have a fulltime career already. I just enjoy doing it. I think if I put some effort into advertising I could easily be making some decent money, I'm just not at the point I want to get that involved, I have young kids so I want to spend the majority of my off time with them and my wife. Maybe when there in school full time, that changes, and when the overtime bell rings I need to answer it.because it's a considerable amount of money. So a few things take priority over this for me right now but in the future I can see that changing. For a college student, you could make some decent money if your work is tight and you don't have to compete with overhead.

I'm still up in the air on this. Thanks for the suggestions, I'm learning towards something like first draft free, if its something simple, then charge by the hour for re drafts.

So when a customer comes to you with a request that requires you to design and print a sign or tshirt, what do you usually charge for the design. I have been winging it with the vinyl. So if you actually have to design the shirt or sign what do you charge?

Yeah that's pretty funny, the LP II 31.5 bundle is selling for 2000.00 but the picture states valued at 1200.00. Ok so I'm paying 800.00 more then it's worth? I don't think so. The 24 inch version with the bundle is only 500.

Anyone interested they have t shirts 5 for 10, Gildan and jerseez and something called Gildan dry fit. Just a heads up.

I have had that happen, I keep it and sell it to someone else. That happens in logo design all the time I save them tweaked it a little and boom is ready for the next landscaper or roofer or whatever.

That's the thing Dakota, I'm my worst enemy. When I'm asked to design something it has to be perfect, I can't simply throw something together. My roots are in graphic design so I have to make it perfect and that often costs me the most time. The thing is, I think customers just assume it took us five minutes to throw something together. Oh well, at Times I think I'll just buy a disk with a million clip art, Joe Smo dosent seem to care if it's original or not and they certainly don't want to pay for it.

I havent been charging either. It seems people that come to me have know idea what they want, so I put something together and they want to change or they like it but they want to add something. I dont use clipart, not that I wouldnt I just thinks its cool to wear something no one else will ever own, My customers are usually thrilled with the finished product, at times its a pain in the butt to actually get to the final product.

Sorry to hear about your struggles, prayers for your mom.

Thanks I'll check it out

So I had a clever idea, I need your help wiith fruition. Has anyone ever scene any material for temporary tattoos? I do some tattoo art and thought it would be cool if I could cut a temporary they could put on to see now they like it. I've seen then for the cameo, any experience with them , quality? Thanks.

I haven't maybe the jump really to lettering as of yet, but I'm learning and I'm almost ready thanks to this forum. Thanks guys.

Looks good , I also have the sc, and I'm very pleased

So this guy comes to me wants 24 t-shirts, two sided left front logo, six inch by ten inch on the back. I do the logo for him, takes about 60 minutes to design. Ten bucks a piece, I tell him. The guy thinks he's getting robbed. Four bucks a shirt, 1.70 in vinyl each shirt and I didn't charge for the artwork. Seems fair to me. I don't use clip art, everything is custom designed. Your thoughts? I told him to have a nice day. I don't work for peanuts, I don't pay my bills either by cutting vinyl, so I guess I can pick and choose. Was I being stubborn?

That's what I like about not being financially tied to this. I can have a price and that's the price if you want it cheaper, by all means that's your right, go find it.

Thanks everyone.

Yeah, I'm too the point where I'm almost doing it for free, but I told my first customer if he didn't like the price he could find someone else

Wow my camera sucks.lol

Really, I never even checked prices locally, I'm in the metro Boston area. I price on what I feel I would pay, probably not the best practice.

These were safety orange and yellow, I don't usually buy in bulk, so I don't know the best places. So we are around the same price. Yeah he can find someone else. I'd rather spend the day with my kid anyway. Thanks Jay.

Wow, that looks sweet.