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What, exactly, are you, or they, trying to achieve?

Maybe "Humanst"? Or "ZapfHumanst"? Or plain old vanilla "Humanist"?

Anytime a plotter isn't cutting properly before your run off and start changing parts shotgun style, try removing whatever dust covers are on the tool carriage and with a can of compressed air or a throttled down air compressor, blow all of the dust and crud out of the tool carriage. Pay...

Most anything can be screen printed. How about dye sub on some sort of receptive metallic media? It's as close to indestructible as you're likely to achieve. Though with heat perhaps not so much, but it should be considered.

Second mistake. If humanly possible always try to layout at the size and resolution of the finished product. That way there are no surprises being masked by sizes and resolutions of convenience, ready to bite you in the nalgas when produced in real life.

300 ppi at that size? Have you been into the mushrooms? With sizes in that range you probably could get by with a resolution measured in feet, not inches.

On most jobs the important difference between cast vinyl and calendared vinyl is pennies. Calendared vinyl shrinks, all calendared vinyl shrinks. It's inherent in the way it was manufactured. Cast vinyl lasts longer, conforms to curves, and does not shrink. Again, because of the manufacturing...

Bubbles, such as shown in your photos are almost always the result of poor squeegee technique.

You can score and snap smaller pieces but for everything else just treat it like it's wood. Table saws, band saws, circular saws, jig saws, etc. The sharp edges left by whatever method you use are not ragged, they are straight but bent up and down. They are far better dealt with by reshaping...

Use whatever profile you use for plain old vanilla white vinyl. If you have more than one you have too many. Use a profile that has all Rendering Intents save Bitmap to "No Color Correction" and set Bitmaps to "Perceptual". Use the highest dither algorithm. Use RGB especially for bitmaps. What...

90 degrees? Don't you mean 180 degrees? 90 will just pull the whole thing back in your face. 180 will roll the backing off the vinyl and mask.

Just like with lumber, it's called 'nominal size'. Nominal because that's what it's called, which may or may not have anything to do with what it is. As far as printing a fold line, don't, it's a bit amateurish to print anything on the face of a banner that isn't part of the copy. When you...

Are you actually confused at my use of the phrase "...without let." or is it some sort of act? Note that given a good compiler, C will do but, being really old school, I prefer ALGOL, all of the nonsense in C+,++, Sharp, etc., all of the interpreters and quasi interpreters like Python etc. can...

People think that Adobe is an industry standard because thew went to some school and Adobe was used exclusively. This is because, just like Apple products, Adobe essentially gave the stuff away to schools. When you only know one thing, nothing else exists for you. From that, the notion of Adobe...

Printing grayscale is always problematic. That would be because no matter what shade of gray you're printing it will be rendered in CMYK, in a most often futile attempt to make a non-color output out of colors. True believing coloristas will massage profiles endlessly in order to achieve a...

Many years ago I took a look at Estimate and, then and there, I figured that I could blow better software out of my nether regions and made my own. A simple Excel sheet or two and maybe a half hour's effort. It's been working just fine for lo these many years, through seemingly endless Excel...

'Steamboat Willie'? Really? Could there exist more than three organisms in the entire galaxy that give an ounce of ossified wombat snot that this image is public domain?

And? Assuming you meant 60 square meters since "an area of 60 meters' is meaningless. Laying it out full scale should not pose a problem in a reasonably modern version of Corel and, despite any advice to the contrary, that's exactly what you should do. Scaling down merely hides problems since a...

There's not a whole hell of a lot that distinguishes this type face from countless others, the uppercase 'J' not withstanding. One of the least used characters in a tray.

Cast, of course. Don't skimp on pennies and do it properly. Also, cut the vinyl in one large piece and put it on the window with a center hinge. Hint, always use 2" 3M masking tape. Don't skimp here either. In the case of this piece, use two pieces overlapping side by side for your center hinge...