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.

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.

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

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

Masking Vinyl Lettering
An easier way

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.

chalk alternative in snap line
use baby powder instead of chalk

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

Cold Lamination Wrinkles
The trick to masking graphics

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?

Calon II: Cold Weather Application Tip

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.

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

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

Weeding Small Vinyl Letters

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

Watery Lettering
Cool Water Effect for Vinyl Lettering

Painters Tape
Using Painters Tape for guide

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

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.

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

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?

Mini Install Kit
Belt-held mini installation kit

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.

Care in selection of translucent vinyls
Vinyl Catalog Contrast vs Reality

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

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!

Velcro Squeegee

Office Box
Trying to find the vinyl catalog, invoices, receipts, mapquests 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

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

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

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

Make a high capacity drying rack for around $35!
When you are tired of leaning wet signs against the wall and always running out of space, here is a quick, economical fix.

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

Saving Remnants of Vinyl
Organizing your leftovers for future use.

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

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

Printing on Black Nylon
1 pull when you add puff

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”.

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Tips on selecting a proficient neon company
Check out this article.

Encapsulate laminate
Rolling laminating posters for transport

Keep A Color Swatch

Bit Selection Vs. Material Selection

Shopping For Price

Franchise Or Start-It-Yourself

Choosing The Right Computer Software

Bidding Large Jobs

Clear Static Cling

Get That 'Etched Glass' Look

Removing Application Tape

Painting Windows

Lettering Tips

Does Your Vinyl Grow?

Drop Shadows in Corel Draw

Drop Shadows in Corel Draw Part II

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

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'