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Hand Painted Signs

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Sign Painting and the Vinyl Plotter

The vinyl plotter was something sign painters really liked to hate in theory. It was considered like sowing out, undermining your brothers in the trade. But slowly the guys who stubbornly clung to their brushes would call the guys who had the machines when they got in the jam. They'd say, I'm just going to do this once, you know, but could you give me these hundred words and then before long everybody bought into it.

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