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I don't feel too great for asking this, but what would you guys charge for this lettering job? It'd be airbrushed vinyl on an existing 2' x 16' sign. It also has two contours, a gray contour followed by a thicker black one, both also vinyl. Thanks in advance guys!
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I would think that a job like that, airbrushed on vinyl and installed on the existing sign should be more like $500 Canadian or $320 U.S.
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I dunno on this one, I usually use the TOMH pricing guide for most jobs and it's usually about right. Thats the Top Of My Head, when in doubt I will check with the Signwriters guide. There looks to be a good deal of airbrush work here, not something to be knocked out real quickly, three layers of vinyl, letters going to be around 18", TOMH says $650. Wonder how the "price according to value" guys will see this one?
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Let's just say you were doing an edge font printed on the Edge. 2 FT HIGH BY 16 FT. Thats 32 sq. ft. and that printed on the edge at 20 sq. ft is more than $150.00. even at $15 a sq. ft. it is more. Neil
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I cast my vote with Dave Grundy - $500 or so. I would guess that the fastest way to make this is a combination of vinyl and airbrush. If we did it, we would set it up to Edge print and contour cut. It will look better air brushed.
------------------ Victor Georgiou Bob Loves Signs Inc Danville, CA email blssign@pacbell.net
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1st time i looked here the picture didnt come up....kerning....is needed....and with the 3 colors all in vinyl...@ $7 sq.ft per color that $21 a sq. so 32 x 21= $672.00
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This looks like a 13" letter with 5" at top & 6" at the bottom.
You'll be ahead of the game if you dont have to cut an extra 24' (16' for you edge guys)of vinyl just to add 2 or 3 inches to the height (providing your using a 13" plotter).
If you were to letter 1 x 16 banner at $5 a sq. ft for (not counting the $1 sq. ft. for the banner itself) I'd charge $80(1st contour)
Now letter another banner ( 2nd contour) same Price/material/time = $80
Now letter another banner (for the letters) another $80
We're at $240 and we have not even charged for the time to airbrush it, taking it down, put it back up, or going on site. (4 hrs.?)
I'd say $500 bucks minumum (13" letters only). Otherwise you can make more money doing the easy, high profit work.
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------------------ Mike Duncan Lettercraft Signs Alexandria VA
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Now I'm going to make it hypothetical Felix. If I were quoting it I'd tell the customer for the sake of 40 or so dollars to not bother re-using the existing panel and sell them on a new piece of colourbond (coated sheetmetal)which then allows me to do the job in the workshop. From there I reckon about 3 hours to project it, mark it out and knife the letter and outline/countours from the protective cover sheet, and about 1.5 hours to spray the blend wet on wet, let those colours dry and then pull out the masked grey outline/countour and brush it in - 1 hour, and finally pull out the black section of masking and cut it in before pulling the rest of the cover sheet off - 1 hour Labour = $292.50 Panel = $40.00 Colours = 25.00
Total 357.50 then add your margin and fitting of required. Think I might have ot sell the next customer something similar and see how I compared to my estimate Enjoy, David
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I musta' missed somethin'...I doulbe my quote and raise it twenty.
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