Towable Boom Lifts for Small Sign Companies
Rent a boom and skip the installer. Renting and DYI was half the cost of an installer.

4 Tips for Creating Professional T-shirts Designs
Whether you want to get custom t-shirts printed for your custom apparel business, group members or promotional event, custom t-shirts design and printing is a cool and cost-effective choice for all needs.

Helpful hints and tips for taking an awesome LED Display photograph
Digital signs looks great, but they can be difficult to photograph – here are some tips we’d love to share with you.

Avoid Painting Sign Posts: Use Post Coats as a quick, easy alternative to painting posts.
Post Coats is the perfect alternative to painting sign posts. It takes about 10 minutes per post and when you're done the posts are ready to install. No curing or drying time is needed.

Poor Man's Alumilite
How to make your own Alumilite for less

Weeding Small Vinyl Letters

chalk alternative in snap line
use baby powder instead of chalk

Cutting Aluminum
The best way to cut aluminum without buying a shear

Cutting Acrylic without chipping the edges.
Use a laminate trimmer(small router) to cut and lay a sheet of foam under the acrylic.

Hit Your Colors Every Time
Use the Roland Color System Library

Temporary Paint For Windows
When moving into a new office and before the signs are up, it is often important to keep prying eyes out, with something temporary.

Bringing premask back to life.
Do you have a roll of premask lying around your shop thats dead?

Background colors for indoor display signs.
Background colors are important and allow the main copy and features to stand out instead of no color or one color.

Weeding and applying small cut letters
How to weed small lettering easily

Painters Tape
Using Painters Tape for guide

Watery Lettering
Cool Water Effect for Vinyl Lettering

Turning Alphabet To Artwork
A's B's and C's Can become valuable CLIPART for swooshes, Auto Graphics and MORE

Easy way to remove glue for ADA signs
It is a painful thing to scratch your sign while removing the glue.

Natural Heat gun
When you need to get that last wrinkle out of your vinyl

We just installed one of the new UL2161 Secondary Ground Fault Protected transformers and it will not light. What gives?
Two quick checks

How can I adjust the gloss level of an acrylic polyurethane paint?
Use a flattening agent

A customer has requested that we screen print a few corrugated plastic signs for him. How can I do this without burning a new screen?
Use calendared vinyl as a stencil

We have a number of PK housings that we have accumulated while taking down some old signs. Can they be reused?
Reuseing PK housings

How to Hang Signs and Banners
Some tips and features to look for when ordering larger banners to ensure easy hanging.

Reflective Material Headaches for Print/Cut Jobs
Saving a reflective headache when cutting relective vinyl, here's a trick for you.

PMS Color Matching Advice
I had a color matched using a PMS book that we have had here for years. When we got the paint, it was darker. Why?

Can I run white vinyl through my ink-jet printer?
Using white viny on an ink-jet printer

Shadows When Applying Black Vinyl To Corrugated Plastic
I applied some black vinyl to both sides of a 4mm white corrugated plastic blank. When viewed, the vinyl on the other side has a “shadow”.

Neon Is Blackening Around The Electrodes
A neon sign I made last year is showing a lot of blackening around the electrodes. The glass is 12mm and I used the 12mm electrodes that are for it.

Help, My Finish Is Running / Mottled
I sprayed my plastic faces with a translucent acrylic paint and they looked fine but after a few hours the finish looks all mottled. What happened?

Inspire Version 1.5 : 'Please enter no more than 10 characters'
This is a workaround for a known problem that ressults in the messege 'Please enter no more than 10 characters'

Removing Factory Masking From Plastics
Tried and true methods of removing the thick brown paper mask from sheet goods.

Drop Shadows in Corel Draw Part II

Drop Shadows in Corel Draw

Does Your Vinyl Grow?

Lettering Tips

Painting Windows

Calon II: Cold Weather Application Tip

Removing Application Tape

Get That 'Etched Glass' Look

Clear Static Cling

Aligning Vinyl Layers
When cutting multiple layers of vinyl to be layered on a substrate simply add a few small stars in the same place on each layer.

Stop replacing that nylon cut plate.
.50 cents worth of DOT reflective tape comes in handy

Aligning Vinyl Layers (A BETTER WAY)
A much better and simlpier way to line up multiple layers or colors of vinyl graphics

Weeding with a lightbox
If you just can't see the cuts in vinyl, a light box is a great tool to own. Make one yourself.

Cold Lamination Wrinkles
The trick to masking graphics

Getting the most out of you transfer tape

Painting Multiple Plexi Signs At Once?
If you want get the paint off the edges of plexi quickly.....

Easy Sale To Local Schools -BUST-EM's
Make your own and you make the $$ not the specialty catalogs

Masking Vinyl Lettering
An easier way

Factoring Invoices Can Help Stabilize Cash Flow...
Factoring has been in use since the beginning of trade and yet it is still one of the most misunderstood forms of financing.

Aligning small text or graphics in a sign
Are you making a sign with lots of text or small graphics that need to be aligned exactly?

Drilling Through Acrylic Made Easy
Cut through acrylic and lexan like a hot knife through butter.

Bidding Large Jobs

Choosing The Right Computer Software

Easier and Faster application with Dimension 3 Clear Resi Gel
It's easier and faster to add less D3 gel and push it around a bit than adding to much at first then chasing it of the edges!

Tubelite's Q & A
A list of 5 frequently asked textile questions.

SNAP A 75' LINE ON A WALL BY YOURSELF?
Contact me for more information.

Importing EPS Files Into Your Sign Program
Here are a few tricks to make it easier.

Encapsulate laminate
Rolling laminating posters for transport

Care in selection of translucent vinyls
Vinyl Catalog Contrast vs Reality

Franchise Or Start-It-Yourself

Saving Remnants of Vinyl
Organizing your leftovers for future use.

Shopping For Price

Getting Ready for the Repeat Vinyl Sign Order
Your old customer returns - after 6 months/1 year and wants to repeat the vinyl order.

Bit Selection Vs. Material Selection

Keep A Color Swatch

Velcro Squeegee

Office Box
Trying to find the vinyl catalog, invoices, receipts, mapquests in your vehicle?

Simplifying Vinyl Installations
How to save time at a job site by pre-measuring and marking your vinyl sign.

Using Magnetic Material As An Aid in Vehicle Graphics
Always have some magnetic material in your vehicle!

Measuring Tip: Doing It On Your Own
Always have some duct tape with you!

Getting That Sign Face to Slide Into The End Of The Retainer
Particularly with the floppier Lexan (Polycarbonate) faces it can be problematic to get the face to slide into the end retainer

Velcro Panel On Upper Part of Ladder
Safety Retainer for Small Items

Mini Install Kit
Belt-held mini installation kit

Printing on Black Nylon
1 pull when you add puff

How to get that nasty blue wrapping off the substrate
Stripping the blue protective plastic from plastic sheeting and other substrates is made easier with a simple tool.

Weeding Small Letters
When weeding small letter in vynle use this tip / trick. It works great

Sampling Paint For Customers
Creating a spout & samples in one shot.

Measuring guide - window graphics
Forgot the stabilo pencil to mark center points - use a piece of masking tape

Poor Man's Felt Squeegees
How to make your own felt squeegees