What would you charge for a mural, (front, back and both sides) on a 40 foot RV.
I have a RV dealer that said he would like to order some RV's without any graphics on them and have murals put on and ask what I would charge.
I don't have the equipment to do this but if the job paid enough I would get an Edge, Roland or Epson printer that could do the job.
So what do you think?
Thanks, Steve
Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :
you need to supply the height to help factor the actual sq. ft. of material & number of panels. Quoting the printing only may be easy, but the install would require at least a good photo to get clues on install challenges (rivits, corregations, seams, window & door trim...)
Unless you already had a market that justified owning an edge, I would think this job could be very profitable subbing out printing to a "scotchprint" wholesale source & making very good money on the very challenging installations.
Posted by Devin Fahie (Member # 3961) on :
I agree with Doug, youre probaly better off calling Graphtek, or whom ever for the print. I am an Edge owner myself, I also have a Encad 36'. In this case I acutally couldn't use my wide format because it wont print on Control-Tac vinyls, which is probaly what you'd use on a job like this. My edge could print on Control-Tac, but then the panels would only be 11.8 X (TBD), that would make for alot of paneling. If you dont do jobs like these often, I would by an Edge, if you do this work alot then look into a wider format machine. I personally had a Roland, it was a real p.o.s., but I love my Edge. Let us know how the job turned out, good luck.
[ January 20, 2004, 08:55 PM: Message edited by: Devin Fahie ]
Posted by Rick Beisiegel (Member # 3723) on :
Don't put all your eggs in one basket..In other words, don't buy an edge on the verbal maybe of an RV dealer. It would be good to outsource edge work until you can jusify the purchase. That's what we did, and now we have a paid for edge.
Some other markets to investagate are factories or manufacturers who regularly use safety labels, car dealers, or retail markets. Then, go get Dave Dorsey's 6 volume CD set of graphics, Digital Auto Library, and sell, sell, sell! Those two pieces of software can be paid for in the first ten jobs. Go get em!
