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If the red and blue vinyl is applied to the same letter then you have to light it with white LEDs. If some letter faces are covered solid with red vinyl and other letters are completely covered with blue vinyl then red and blue LEDs could be used. I think red and blue channel letter faces get...

The fact remains both hardware and software on the Mac platform is not safe from being rendered obsolete via updates to the OS. Gotta get the upgrade to keep going. Apple has a 30+ year history of this stuff, going all the way back to the "classic" MacOS. The transition from 040 to PowerPC was...

Are you trying to imply Adobe doesn't cut off support for old versions of OSX? On top of that there is very little in the way of sign industry specific software that runs native on OSX. The sign industry is a very Windows-centric thing. Nearly all applications for routing, vinyl cutting and...

The problem is very likely Windows 7. None of the current Adobe CC applications or their immediate past versions support Windows 7. According to Adobe's website CC requires Windows 10 (64-bit) version 1903 and later* The asterisk says: "*We no longer support older LTSC versions. If you are using...

Adobe says they're working on solutions to the Pantone issue. Meanwhile there are several other color book libraries likely to remain in Illustrator. Adobe could create its own process and spot color standard. I'm not sure what Pantone or anyone else could do to prevent such a thing from...

Yeah, having to flip to the index in the back of the color book is pretty annoying. I'd prefer them to have the colors set in numeric order rather than the current system where it is (loosely) based on hue.

Yep. We have a couple Sherwin Williams books and some from other paint vendors as well. But the physical Pantone swatch books cost quite a bit, like around $200 for a pair of coated and uncoated spot color books. They're technically supposed to be replaced every year. But at that price it's just...

Sign designs can be more than just stock lettering or whatever someone is passing off as a "logo." If you're spending your time creating some artwork from scratch as part of a design that does indeed have value and can be protected by copyright. But go back and read what I said in my previous...

Technically any of this stuff is supposed to be handled by contract. For instance, anyone doing freelance illustration or graphics work needs to get all the details in writing as well as a purchase order. Otherwise it's just he-said/she-said nonsense that doesn't hold up in court. Any artwork...

I've wondered the same thing about the "new member" nonsense listed for my name. I'm not paying any kind of premium, but I've been participating in this forum for going on 17 years. Being called a "new member" under those circumstances feels more than a little insulting. Whoever is responsible...

The current version of CorelDRAW (2021) can save back only as far as X5. And it can open files no older than version 6. The folks at Corel are slowly cutting off compatibility with older versions, completely ignorant of the needs of long time customers. Some of us have work files going back...

Photoshop is a fundamentally different kind of application. It has had its own image/canvas size limits. I'm pretty sure the current limit is 300,000 X 300,000 pixels (or 90 billion pixels). That should be more than enough unless someone is working on an insane-level "gigapixel" design. With...

If you save a large canvas Adobe Illustrator file down to a version earlier than version 24 the artwork will be scaled to 10% of its original size. In the Save As dialog box within Adobe Illustrator you can't pick specific CC versions down which to save. You can drop down to CS6 and several...

This is old news. The large canvas feature in Adobe Illustrator was introduced in June 2020 with the ".2" update to Illustrator 24. I was more excited about the 24.3 update which introduced some font height options I had been hounding Adobe for years to include. Illustrator 25 had 3 point...

The path ahead for "CAS" applications like Flexi looks pretty simple. Such applications will end up being nothing more than a utility to drive a vinyl cutter/plotter. The design features are pointless for being so limited and wrapped in a very dated user interface. RIP applications already work...

Flexi is good for sending artwork to a vinyl cutter/plotter or doing certain things to prep files to send over to EnRoute. As a design tool, Flexi is badly dated -especially with how it handles fonts. It doesn't provide much support for advanced OpenType features, much less support newer formats...

That's an image to reinforce the stereotype of sign painters liking their booze.

The next time I buy a monitor for a desktop PC I'm going to get one with a high refresh rate, like 120Hz or better. I have a new Alienware notebook with a 17" UHD 120Hz panel; the high refresh rate is really nice for applications like Adobe Illustrator. Animated zoom and hand-panning across the...

I have no problem printing very fine or tiny copy with our two HP latex printers. The resolution of those printers is far sharper than the eco-solvent printer we previously used. One of our clients is a marijuana growing company that orders hundreds of pre-cut product labels at a time. Some of...

It still required formal training and skills to use a printing press. Today we have people hopping onto computers with no idea what they're doing so they can make up their own chapters of the bible. One symptom of how bad it is: over in Adobe's Illustrator users forum a couple days ago some...