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  1. Question Refresh my memory... Vinyl, Widows & Weather (oh my)

    I haven’t done vinyl lettering on a storefront window in a very long time. I have a new customer who needs letter but I seem to remember that if it’s too cold you can’t apply the lettering. Not sure. We are in Chicago and it won’t go above 10degrees for at least another week. So, is there a...
  2. Contour cut and photoshop

    In Onyx you CAN have it make the contour cut automatically for anything with right angles / boxes. Other items: we might design in photoshop and then open in Illustrator to Apple the cut path. In Illustrator you need to create a new color and name it: CutContour_Kiss Spot Color C 0 M 0 Y 0 K...
  3. What makes your shop FUN?

    All of our computers are named after superheroes while the printers are super villains. Why? Because the villains are usually the ones the ruin the day! Also, we have 2 of most machines so it makes it easier to identify them. "That's what she said" also gets used in our shop a lot. We decorate...
  4. onyx 12 Postershop and cut server

    Here are the settings for the Cmyk spot color CutContour_Kiss Spot Color C 0 M 0 Y 0 K 100 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  5. Internet Upload Speeds

    Use a script/App I don't know what is your primary platform but we use Macs. I use a program called Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC). First our OSX server makes Time Machine (TM) backups of itself. When ccc sees a new or updated TM backup it will back the file to Amazon S3 and my server at home...
  6. Supplier

    Where are you located
  7. Here's my business card, and my artwork

    First question... Most customers walk into our place and say, "How much for business cards?" We then ask all the questions before giving them a price such as: how many do you want, what are we putting on the cards or are we redesigning/creating something for you, when do you need them in-hand...
  8. Mounting onto foam board

    Alternative When we use to mount on 24x36 we did an overprint of .5 on each side. Since then, we started only buying 8x4 sheets of foamcore/board. Now we just print, lay it on the board and then cut it out. It's faster, easier, cheaper than buying 24x36 boards and customers are not limited...
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