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Do customers think you’re daft?
Just had 2 eastern european gentlemen in asking about signs.
He asked me to give him a cost and I said I’d need to work it out and I’d get back to him. There was a shed load on info he wanted on a sign – overkill, as well as digi prints ‘to make it look nice’ 🙄
He asked again how much – I told him again I’d work it out and call. Then he said ‘ my friend said for 3 metere sign about 1 m high should be no more than £50’
:lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:YEAH RIGHT! 👿
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I wouldn’t even get back to him, but that’s just me 🙄
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he should get his Friend to do it then 😀
Lynn
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had a chap phone about a new shop he is opening and went along to see him. Seems he was selling computer parts but told me he was also offering t shirt printing too! Turns out he brought a cheap cutter and could not work it so asked me to do the signage. Started off at 300 squid, the 200 then 100 for me to supply the vinyl only and let him fit the sign, apparently I was about still 50 notes over his budget
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Well………………..
I’m not sure that they think we’re daft, in most cases I think that they genuinely don’t have a clue what’s involved. Then all they have to go on is what their mates tell them, or what they find on the internet.
I had a bloke tell me once that we were too dear for a batch of stickers because he had seen the same size ones available on the internet for a quarter of what I was quoting. When I checked, his internet ones were two colour single sided, when what he really wanted was four colour, double sided, with a block-out layer in between.
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I’m with Lynn.
I would have said "What a bargain! You better let your friend do it."Some of my potential clients think I am daft as well, but I purposely cultivate that image.
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But it’s tongue and cheek isn’t it… 3mtr x 1mtr is £50, arnt just trying to let you know what they are thinking the price will be near lol
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Here in Northampton we have a ‘company’ that offers ‘Any van graphics for £100 fitted’.
Luckily for me they have a cheap plotter and even cheaper vinyl and a 1980’s clip art cd!
The customer soon realises this and comes to the real sign company’s!
I feel guilty about charging them to strip and fit. Not!!
£100 or £50 suits there budget. £300 gets them what they want.
Matt
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well I’m in no hurry to ‘get back to him’ my price will not be what he’s looking for that’s for sure!
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an the guy I went to see in November still has no sign up!
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And just what is the matter with an 80s clip art CD?
I make signs every week that say RELAX with a drawing of George Michael on them!
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Actually Jill that was Frankie goes to Hollywood. George Michael was "Choose Life". I Know I know your American.
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I really did know that you know.
I’m just worried that YOU knew it.
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Chris, of course the guy you went to see in November still doesn’t have a sign up, he’s still busy trying to figure out how to use the plotter since you are obviously far to expensive :lol1:
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Now that vinyl graphics are processed by plotters/printers instead of by hand cutting. The process is perceived as just pressing a few buttons.
Pressing the buttons in the right order makes all the difference.
I’m sure there was a similar saying, had something to do with a piano and a comedy duo.
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quote Stuart John Halliday:Now that vinyl graphics are processed by plotters/printers instead of by hand cutting. The process is perceived as just pressing a few buttons.Pressing the buttons in the right order makes all the difference.
I’m sure there was a similar saying, had something to do with a piano and a comedy duo.
was vinyl ever cut by hand? I missed the transition twixt brush and plotter….
thought the hand cutters were the cheap Chinese plotter equivalent, back when.Peter
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I’m talking about 23 years ago. When I started as a trainee there was a new state of the art CAD table and operator. A separate department had artists who prepared artwork for screenprinting by hand cutting rubylith for seperations. Complex one off signage would have been hand cut in vinyl.
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quote Jillbeans:I really did know that you know.
I’m just worried that YOU knew it.
😉:lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:
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quote Jillbeans:I really did know that you know.
I’m just worried that YOU knew it.
😉Ha Ha Ha ! Bloody yanks
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quote Peter Normington:quote Stuart John Halliday:Now that vinyl graphics are processed by plotters/printers instead of by hand cutting. The process is perceived as just pressing a few buttons.Pressing the buttons in the right order makes all the difference.
I’m sure there was a similar saying, had something to do with a piano and a comedy duo.
was vinyl ever cut by hand? I missed the transition twixt brush and plotter….
thought the hand cutters were the cheap Chinese plotter equivalent, back when.Peter
Most of Asia does it uses vinyl in this way Peter, though for most hand painting is far cheaper. But to these guys time is cheap.
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quote Peter Normington:was vinyl ever cut by hand? I missed the transition twixt brush and plotter….
thought the hand cutters were the cheap Chinese plotter equivalent, back when.Peter
Yes, it was Peter, I did a couple of vans with vinyl I cut by hand many years ago.
It was Fasson vinyl if I remember correctly and this was about 6 years before I got into vinyl signs.
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quote Stuart John Halliday:A separate department had artists who prepared artwork for screenprinting by hand cutting rubylith for seperations.I’m glad to be able to say that I was trained in that world. That is what makes me such a fussy bugger today, if you made a mistake in your cutting that mistake was multiplied by the number of prints. Another notch on my bow! 😀
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A good mate of mine still hand cuts today if he is onsite and stuffs up a letter while fitting. He always carries a sheet of the colour with him incase he stuffs up.
Brilliant artist, lousy fitter though :lol1:
He still hand cuts scrolls though. Brilliant to watch.
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When I started, vinyl cutters were in their infancy and cost heaps.
Working in the near darkness, I used a swivel blade to cut out vinyl beneath a photographic projector, using fonts photocopied from old Letraset books onto clear acetate strips. -
yep going back in time now.
yes cut several vans by hand, drawn on to paper by use of letraset and projector, enlarging photo copier.
cut through paper and vinyl not backing paper, then first plotter a A3 flat bed think it was £2200 then.still if on site a muck up a letter hopefully there is another the same in the design, trace it and cut it out.
chris
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I’ve never cut lettering by hand, but did plenty of logos in the early days.
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i have cut ruby myself in silk screening, also camera enlarger techniques for transferring print to film (well my colleague did that mainly)
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