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What I'd like to know is, if the OP goes for an 18" bandsaw like this,
what does he do when he needs to rip two 20" X 96" pieces from a
single sheet of plywood?

I cut those with my phone.

My plywood storage racks aren't in my own workshop and they don't have
my business name over the door. OTOH I don't need to pay rent on the
space, I don't have capital tied up in the vast range of stock, and
best of all there's a a guy there with a lovely plywood panel saw who
can cut anything I want to any size I want.

If it's a cut simple enough that I can describe it over the phone, I
just have them do it before I pick it up. Tomorrow morning I need to
pick up a sheet ripped into 16" strips. I could have ripped this down
myself, but I'd need to tidy the workshop first to fit an 8x4 through
the cabinet saw, and borrow a friend to help carry it. Having the
supplier (Avon Plywood) do it for me instead saves me a _lot_ of time
and trouble, and the extra cost of cutting charges would barely pay the
extra tea bill of having assistants over to help out.

The only place near me that sells furniture grade plywood charges $3/cut. I
have to get at least one to get it home, but hurts to pay for something I
could do myself. I really have to get over that, don't I?