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The production manager told me that they used to flip the sheet and cut upside down but they stopped doing that because they would have to route out the fiducials (registration marks, bomb sights whatever you guys call them) which would add a new issue being that the camera would sometimes...

1 pass for .04 and 2 passes for .08

We have been trying to route aluminum signs with the vinyl graphic applied already to the substrate (instead of cutting the substrate and then taking it to the laminator to apply the graphic) and have had very limited success. I am running a Multicam GraphXcutter with onsrud 63-710 upcut...

There may not be a template for that particular design, but you can get the vehicle template and design on that or use knifeless tape like what jfiscus said, which really is your easiest solution.

Since you can use multiple "Boards" with Trello I would give different departments of the shop their own board with their own lists so your board doesn't get too massive and stays easy to navigate. I'm at a smaller shop now and have set up a board for Quoting and a board for Actual Jobs and my...

I lost it at "Mentally Unstable Capuchin Monkeys" Sorry about the molestation of your sign, stupid move to save a buck, but thanks for the laugh

Can you not print a white flood layer the size and shape of the art before printing the color? Thats usually what we do. Say its a square, create a matching shape, apply a swatch that is a spot color like pure magenta and name it whatever name your rip looks for when printing white. Ours is...

No prob man, hope your wrap goes well. Feel free to pm me if you have issues along the way

Ya, that makes sense. You can bypass worrying about the artboard initially and after you paste your art, you can either select the art and press shift-O to bring up the artboard tool and you can use the presets in the top left drop down to select "fit to selected art" or if you need a "bleed, or...

Find the closest body lines to the damage to determine the size and shape of the piece you will replace, then create a compound path around the area with the pen tool in illustrator so you can use pathfinder to crop out the part of the design you do not need. If there is solid color in the...

Think about how wide you can print and start applying that width limitation to the bigger parts of the car to help determine where you may need more than one print to cover an area (like the sides) and then look at where youd like to hide a seam if necesary. For example, maybe you can only cover...

Hope this helps... Illustrator all the way. We purchased a 1/20 vehicle .eps data bank of templates, dont remember from where maybe someone else here uses them as well and can help out with a url, and i use them AFTER i get my measurements for the wrap to double check my numbers and see how the...