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It isn't your hard drive or anything else like that. What it is is that grays are made up from CMYK, not just K. You can color calibrate or dance around a fire at midnight shaking beads and rattles and shouting "Booga Booga! Both will have approximately the same effect. Grays tend to drift this...

The answer is contained in your question "..way to print/cut small qty color decals?...". The way to do this is a printer and a plotter. Lamination optional. What printer, what plotter? iI doesn't really matter since these machines have no special mode for printing and cutting decals of any...

And your damn time would have otherwise been spent doing what exactly?

Even the most rabid colorista would have problems getting three versions of the purported same color that are the same. What you do is, first, repeat the following until it's burned into your conscience; "What comes out of the printer is the truth." The gather up a Pantone chart, or any other...

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Once again a need for the classic remedy for this sort of behavior. Remove the tool carriage dust cover and blow the dust and crud out of the carriage. Pay particular attention to the blade up/down mechanism.

Regardless of the quality, or lack thereof, of this software, the correct word is 'were' not 'was'. As in "...if I were graphtec...". A bit of a pet peeve in my village.

Training? 3M specific? Really? First, it's just not that difficult. If it were then the people that do it couldn't. There's no secret technique, no magic bean, just put the stuff on. You'll figure it out in short order. It's just not that hard to do. If it proves that difficult to anyone they...

Wipe the surface with RapidTac II. This stuff is one of the best glass, plastic etc cleaners extant. I never use it to apply vinyl but do use it for its cleaning ability. Give it a try.

You tell your client something on the order of "That's where you ought to buy these sorts of signs" and move on to something that actually makes money. If at all avoidable, try to never compete. Your shop, your prices, don't compromise them.

Your plotter and your printer seem to disagree on the length of your media. Try diddling that setting a bit.

3651, 3641, whatever you have, it really doesn't matter all that much. But don't, as in do not, laminate them with vinyl laminate. Just give them a coat of liquid laminate like ClearShield Original or whatever strikes your fancy. The liquid laminate doesn't sunburn as vinyl laminate does. If...

What did I think when I first encountered PCB? "ARRRGHHH!! Yet Another acronym that could mean most anything! GAHHH!!". When creating sign text or a logo, ideally which would have no text, try real hard not to include acronyms. Especially acronyms are chameleons and that can mean most anything...

'THE' is read clockwise and does not lead into 'TELEGRAPH' which is counter-clockwise..'TELEGRAPH' needs to start at the upper right and proceed clockwise. The rest of it, the people hanging off the clock with no safety gear etc. are meaningless. At the time this photo was snapped there was no...

If 'mp31 ink' is solvent or ecco-solvent then you want to coat it with a water based material. Otherwise you stand a good chance of the coating interacting with the ink. You want a coating that, when dry, provides a layer of acrylic on top of your print. You won't find this at a hardware store...

Just print whatever you're printing on the lightest metallic silver vinyl available to you. I've used Oracal, 3M, Avery and others. I get the best results with Oracal and 3M since they offer the lightest silver. With Avery I've used whatever they call their relatively coarse silver glitter...

Interesting in that some here treat their clients as the enemy. I have ever, as in ever, charged a 'rush fee'. People will run over you only if you permit them to do so. Don't let them. Just state clearly and unequivocally when the job will be done and that's that. Take it or leave it. I've...

Using whatever profile gets you off**, set your Rendering Intents to 'Perceptual' for bitmaps and set everything else to 'No Color Correction' or, failing that, 'Saturation'.. If given the option, select the highest dither algorithm possible. If you're printing any bitmaps, make them RGB if at...

That's as ghastly as previous efforts. Three objects floating around, each with no relationship to the other two. Moreover, the 'K' looks awful terminating the arched text. Not a good typeface for arching. Then there's that round thing in the center. It makes the entire effort appear that it's...

That's as ghastly as previous efforts. Three objects floating around, each with no relationship to the other two. Moreover, the 'K' looks awful terminating the arched text. Not a good typeface for arching. Then there's that round thing in the center. It makes the entire effort appear that it's...