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expect and you will lose business before you even get started.” Schiltz concurs, “When you’re half committed, everyone knows you’re half committed. If I were to half commit to my business, and go get an engineering job, but do cars on the side, I would lose all my customers. If you decide to get into vehicle wraps, you need to know you can’t do it on the side.” If you listen to the above experts, you will be sure to succeed. Look at Schiltz, after one year he is already looking to expand his space and hire more employees. He is even considering trading in his Roland VersaCAMM SP-540V for both a Roland SOLJET PRO III XC-540 and a Roland SOLJET PRO III XJ-540. These are big—and attainable— dreams for an already successful entrepreneur. D Templates to Success Using templates for vehicle wrapping saves time and money for you and your customer. Without templates, sign shops owners are forced to take pictures of a vehicle, import them into a computer, and calculate the correct measurements to ensure that the template is correct. This leaves a high margin for error. With pre-made car templates you don’t have to leave your shop, most of the hard work is done for you. Experienced professionals already measured a car, digitized the images, and created perfect templates for you to work from. Most template packages include a wide array of cars and are updated yearly to ensure accuracy. Template manufacturers include Digital Designware, a relatively new company, created from Digital Auto Library and MR Clipart. The two companies separate solutions, Pro Vehicle Outlines and the Cars ‘n Truck Collection, combined equal over 18,000 templates available worldwide. FELLERS, Inc., manufacturers The Bad Wrap software. This software allows designers to save time with over 300 templates of the most commonly wrapped vehicles. Taylor Digital Imaging offers software libraries for sign shop owners. Both their Xtreme Wrap Master and Xtreme Graphic Kits are complete solutions for creating vehicle graphics. Circle 4 on FREE Product Info Card Circle 6 on FREE Product Info Card 34 Digital Output March 2008 www.digitaloutput.net http://www.fletcher-terry.com http://www.mactac.com http://www.mactac.com http://www.digitaloutput.net

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