Recent content by Tom Printz

Biker Scout, You are the man! You saved me from making a huge mistake. I've read up on your advice and sure enough, only water based inks. I appreciate the tip. I'm going to look into used printers on Ebay. Do you have any advice on the Mikami CJV30-100? It's a 40" printer/cutter (as I'm sure...

Hello, I work for a helicopter tour company and I do all of our printing in-house. Self-taught, I've done a few van and box truck wraps, signage for our heliport and various other applications. I had been using Color Rip on an old Windows XP computer and a Roland SP300. I know, archaic to say...

!!!!fixed it!!!! :rock-n-roll:WWWWWOOOOOOO HHHOOOOOOOOOO:rock-n-roll: I've been intermittently having this problem of double cutting for a looooonnnng time. I'm designing in Illustrator CS5 and "save as" an EPS file. It didn't happen every time but it would drive me NUTS because it would...

Thanks for the advice guys. I believe my problem is that it is old, whatever it is. Again my inexperience shows up. I had no idea vinyl could expire! I'll get a sample from 3M and see how that goes. Thanks again!!!:U Rock:

It seems here that posters who provide a little bio get better responses to their questions, so here's a brief intro: 32 y/o male in Myrtle Beach. Completely self taught when it comes to the 'sign industry'. I have an Assoc. in Digital Art so my strength is graphic design, but through trial and...

wow, you have a sunny disposition! :U Rock: If you'll refer to my original post, I didn't ask if you feel this will be a profitable endeavor, I am simply asking if anyone knows how to create a template. I'm a small start-up with a limited budget. I have a SP300 so I can CREATE the skins, I...

Hey guys! Saw a commercial today for skinit.com. Great idea and should be a good way to bring some income into the shop. My question is, how would I go about designing templates for the various products to be skinned? Maybe find a pic of the product, trace it in Illustrator, then size the length...

Ok, so it looks like I'm going to be getting more familiar with Illustrator. Thanks, good info so far. As far as it not mattering what software I use on the wraps, what do you mean by that? Why doesn't it matter? And one more thing, where can I get vehicle templates from? I'm tired of taking...

Hey all. Brand new to the sign business here. I learned photoshop in design school and feel the most comfortable designing in it (logo's, etc) but I am also aware that the designs are not vector. As I am new to the sign business I have tons to learn and I don't want new software another thing on...