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As soon as the ink is dry to the fingertip glide test. I.e. lightly drag a fingertip across a printed portion onto an unprinted portion and if you can't tell where the transition is or if it's fuzzy, then it's probably as dry as it's going to get. Although I've coated canvas prints right out of...

Set the print up to be a gallery wrap. This will make sure you never have an annoying white edge. Just be generous with the gallery wrapped part of the image. Or simply stretch the print and then clear coat it. As long as you keep the print face down of a soft surface you'll be fine.

A gradient is bands of different colors. When you print a gradient it shows up as bands of different colors because that's what it is. Turn the gradient into a bitmap and add ~10% noise. This is the sovereign remedy for printing gradients showing no banding. What it does is scramble the edges of...

Every time I'm confronted with a project like this I tend to over design it. I'd design a wood frame complete with dados, rabbited joints, and other fanciness. Then, generally after I labor through the first copy, I realize that this thing doesn't have to be a wooden frame with panels neatly...

Assuming that your're using automatic registration marks. Cut some rectangles large enough to contain a registration mark from while vinyl. Then make a bounding box around the image you want to print and contour cut. Make is a hairline and, say,10% black. Now make two jobs. The first is just the...

Some PVC pipe, fittings, glue, banner material or other fabric, and some snaps. It shouldn't take an hour or two to design and create just what you need.

Yes. The only criteria for either doing or refusing a job is the likelihood that I'm going to be paid. I have zero interest in the content of any job. I assume no responsibility for content. That's why I absolutely positively refuse to write copy.

I'd do a job for the prince of freaking darkness as long as they payed. I make signs, my lack of interest in what those signs might say or who's paying the bill approaches total. This does not mean that I'm somehow immoral and/or unethical. I save those battles for other arenas.

A traditional card table and a two-step. If I need more than that, someone else can do the job.

Just print a Pantone, glossy coated, chart on whatever media you're using. What comes out of the printer is the truth. Not what's on your monitor, not what should come out, what DOES come out. Looking for a color? Find it on the aforementioned chart. If it's not exactly reresented but you find a...

I've been using flat screen TV's for years. The only real downside, which isn't much, is that in order to turn on/off you need either a remote or you have to reach around back of the unit. Or just leave it on, which is what I do. I realize that a TV doesn't have the precise resolution of an...

Place whatever it is you're cutting centered inside of a bounding rectangle and cut that rectangle as well. When you mask, trim the mask to that rectangle. Now you have a convenient rectangle to align both vertically and horizontally.

They're called 'Shelf Talkers'. Knowing the nomenclature is at least half of understanding. Regardless, 1mm PVC is ideal for the task.

For some years now I've run a 48" printer and a 30" plotter. I can't recall that I've ever wished I had a larger plotter. I don't want to wrangle vinyl wider than 30" nor banners wider that 48". In those odd and rare situations where having a larger plotter would have made some job or another...

Remember the wisdom of Leo Getz, "They fu<k you at the drive-thru."

Preferred equipment for cutting al laminates, in descending order of desirability: CNC [my preferred vend or al laminates provides this service for a modest price] Cutawl Band Saw Jig Saw Preferred equipment for edge sanding al laminates, in descending order of desirability: Spindle Sander...

You're printing, what does it matter how many lines of text? Also, since you're starting with a 32x48 substrate, applying a print, and cutting something out of it why does the price vary by $20.00? Don't say cut complexity, is shouldn't matter. Set a price, a single price, that will cover the...

Does anyone know of a vinyl that when printed and contour cut with a full bleed can be depended on not to have the edges curl up where the full bleed was cut? Over the years I've tried a number of different products and had some successes and some failures but I don't know of a vinyl that I can...

Realtors, for the most part, are cheap chiselers when it comes to signs. In this shop realtors, non-profits, political organizations, and governments pay up front. Period.

Can't see he videos but it sounds like creating a print to go on the inside of a window by printing the mirror image on laminate and then laminating that with a clear adhesive white. The white laminated laminate is applied to the inside of a window. The print's white point on the laminate is...