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Wrap it so that it looks like a Ford Pinto.

TinEye shows that the flag has a plethora of sources, not so much for the eagle or the eagle/flag combination. I didn't remove the flag and then TinEye the eagle by itself. Might be worthwhile.

Kinky...

She? Your printer has a crotch?

Having set type, real live lead type, for a large portion of my early years, a pet peeve of mine is referring to a typeface as a font. I realize that they're called 'font files' but that's because whoever generated that name didn't know the difference either. A font is a specific instance of a...

Well Stevie, when it's your turn to post you get to post whatever you want to say. When it's my turn I get to post whatever it might please me to say. For my reasons or no reason at all. I seek neither your permission nor your approval. If what I might have to say bothers you then you're going...

No, you need to get the media straight in the plotter. This can be an art unto itself. Roll media is much easier to get straight, sheets not so much. A 35' sheet is well night impossible to run straight over its length. Assuming you're attempting to run a 35' sheet, try taping it to a core and...

MAX=what you'd charge for a 1 sq ft job. MIN= the least amount per sq ft that you'd work for. SIZE= sq ft of job, that's length*width in feet. then (MAX-MIN)+MIN*SIZE+materials*markup+substrate*markup+whatever This gives a price that becomes lower per sq ft the large the job. Works for me and...

Spoken like a true colorista with the light of righteousness burning in its eyes. To steal a line from the bard; there are more ways to get perfectly acceptable output from a printer than are dreamt of in your philosophy there Stevie.

You might give some thought to practicing your primitive typography skills and tributes to Hobby Lobby motivational items where no one can see them.

Ink of a certain type, be it solvent, eco-solvent, whatever, on vinyl is ink on vinyl. How the ink got there is far less important than the vinyl quality and exposure to the elements.

I disagree. 18 months is more than enough time to create a ghost image. Paint covered with vinyl weathers at a far different rate than the same paint open to the elements. You can see it on glass after just a few months and glass is a damn sight harder than paint.

If you can't work and carry on a conversation at the same time then either you're working too hard or you really don't have a complete handle on whatever you're doing.

No one in this conversation has actually stated this but it seems to be implied; using your RIP to upsize your images. If true, that is the worst possible way to do this. Use a spline-fit utility, like Photo Zoom et. al., to make your images full size at whatever resolution you need. Then and...

Not knowing what flavor of plotter you're wrangling, this may or may not apply. It does for a Graphtec and I would assume for other real plotters as well. Don't set plotter parameters programmatically. Tell your plotter not to pay any attention to any setup commands sent to it and then set the...

Twaddle. People think this is the case because Adobe gives its product to schools. No doubt to foster the myth that it's some sort of standard. If all you are taught and all you know is Adobe then it looks to you like Adibe is all there is.

Rule of thumb: Print at least 4 times the image resolution. This yields at least a 4x4 matrix for every image pixel and gives approximately 4^16 printer color choices per. Usually, this comes down to printing 150ppi images at 720dpi. Printing a 300ppi image at ~1200dpi is silly, the most human...

Send it off to someone competent to do this sort of work. You haven't sufficient experience to do it.

Fixing is fixing.

As I suspected, a dilettante. The client [Dairy Queen has 'customers'] doesn't have to be in love with it, it just has to pay for it. Nonetheless,I have clients that I just know that we're going to go back and forth an ungodly number of times. I have clients that are delighted with whatever I...