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It was known Eddie Van Halen had been battling cancer on and off for years. Still, his passing comes as one hell of a shock. The year 2020 just keeps on getting better. I can't help but think of other guitarist legends who tragically left us far too soon. Jimi Hendrix. Randy Rhoades. Stevie Ray...

The two type examples pictured in the original post are not Century Old Style or CG Triumvirate. They're something else. CG Triumvirate is nothing more than a Helvetica clone. The sans example shown looks more like a German DIN typeface. The typeface used in "Anselm" looks like a cross between...

I can't seem to come up with a match for the script typeface used in the attached image. TIA for any help.

FYI, the Font Height Options feature in Adobe Illustrator was recently added just a few weeks ago with the ".3" update of Illustrator CC 2020. I wish the font height options thing was always visible, but it does seem to be "sticky" once it is made visible in a document pre-set. There are...

The regs in Texas are strict, but they don't sound nearly as onerous as those in NYC. Our company maintains a license to do business down in Texas since a good number of our clients have locations in both Oklahoma and Texas (as well as other adjacent states). I don't know all of the TDLR...

Something cheap and temporary, like a Coroplast sign, should be printed most of the time. That really goes for when you have to fill a high quantity order. But there are always exceptions. Some client might insist on having metallic gold vinyl graphics or true fluorescent lettering. Give them...

There are more issues than merely just cost difference when choosing between printing something versus using specific colors and types of cut vinyl.

I personally only use cloud-based storage for frequently used files. Cloud storage is convenient, but it can get costly if you have to store terabytes worth of data there. And then you need a working Internet connection to access the data. Cloud services aren't bullet-proof either. I'm pretty...

We do A LOT of printing (2 latex printers and a flatbed running constantly). But, with that being said, cut vinyl has multiple advantages. 2 mil high performance vinyls and premium translucent vinyls can last years longer than any digital print. That's both in terms of durability and resistance...

A customer provided art file can be pretty slippery due to odd ways and bad choices of how the artwork may have been created, exported or even round-tripped thru multiple applications before the file was sent to you in its present condition. Poor quality artwork is not too bad a hassle if all...

Yes, the milder weather is a big relief. Our last 100°+ day in Lawton was a balmy 108°. But at least it's not too cold. Up in Colorado a couple days after our smoky, haze-filled Labor Day fishing trip, we had snow in Colorado Springs. And it was still, technically Summer. At least the weather...

You're trying to sell the idea that a sign maker can get by without RIP software for small to medium size large format work. If you don't have a real RIP program what else do you have other than a basic print dialog box? I don't know of anything in between. Or am I just to supposed to hand-code...

The smoke haze is pretty bad up here. Air quality is in the hazardous zone for people with serious respiratory issues. The only good thing about it is the temperature dropped a few degrees. I was dealing with this stuff last week while on vacation in Colorado. My brother and I went fishing at...

Print and cut functions like those found in large format RIP programs are not something you can merely throw together in a macro to run in some basic print dialog box. It's a little more involved than that.

I couldn't make any sense out of it either, just choosing not to respond. I've visited enough sign companies and seen enough of what I would consider typical design/production setups in my 25+ years of doing this work. It's common for a "design" computer to have some other production device...

Registered trademarks are legally as powerful as copyrights, in some respects even moreso when you get into things like merchandising. Subway not only owns the trademark in your example, but they call the shots on how the logo can be used. Any sign company contracted to use that logo in a sign...

It depends on the size of the sign company or if the person works at a "sign company" that's really just a one person operation only doing design work and jobbing out 100% of his/her actual production, manufacturing and installation. In a real sign company chances are likely any new workstation...

No one knows for sure what's going to happen in the next 12 months or the years ahead. Nevertheless, any new issue relating to the sign industry could be discussed here in the Signs 101 forum, just like it has for umpteen years already. Signs 101 is already a sort of "think tank" for sign...

No. I said, "just about all of the industry-specific software for the sign industry runs only on Windows." Caldera is a rare exception. What competitors to Flexi, Gerber Omega, Sign Lab in the "CAS" software space run natively on OSX? How about routing table software? The situation for sign...

Sounds like a solution in search of a problem.