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This. Convert the gradient to a bitmap and add a little noise, <10% or whatever. Since gradients are actually discrete color bands what you're doing is breaking up the transitions between these color bands.

Pop psychology twaddle leftover from decades ago. This nonsense was, and no doubt still is, popular because it gives virtually everyone an excuse for not being responsible for themselves. If you are pronounced to be some brain portion or another then you can always rationalize your behavior by...

Bubbles are ALWAYS squeegee technique. It doesn't matter what media, wet or dry, old or new squeegee. if you use proper squeegee technique there will seldom, if ever, be a bubble. What is proper squeegee technique? It's easy to demonstrate but a challenge to describe. The principle is best...

A better question would be "Should Politicians get Paychecks?" without any qualifiers.

I assume from this statement that you've never actually compared the longevity of vinyl vs. liquid laminate. I have and in every case, the vinyl coated with liquid laminate outlasted prints laminated with vinyl. So much that I haven't laminated anything in years. I would if it were specifically...

Out gassing, off gassing, gassing out, or whatever they call it in your village mostly is something used to scare small children into going to sleep. Solvent ink dries via evaporation which only takes a few minutes to occur. Solvent ink also changes the vinyl, making it very soft for a while...

I question the constitutionality of these sorts of local edicts. Guidelines are fine but are these annoying proclamations actual law or what? Whatever they are, they seem to infringe on everyone's civil rights.

I/ve been doing hand lettering since I was about 12 years old until both my eyes and my hands stopped working very well. I worked at this both professionally and as a sideline until my various body parts rebelled. I retired from my real job in 2002 and took up vinyl at that time. Every now and...

Try to follow along, as long as the thrust generated by the airplane can overcome the friction of the wheels the airplane will move forward. When taking off an airplane's wheels serve only to hold it off the ground, they are not a factor in taking off. It makes no difference how fast and in what...

Of course it will take off. It doesn't matter how fast or in what direction the wheels are turning. it's the plane's engines that drive it forward, not the wheels.

A dictionary is descriptive, not definitive. There are no definitions in a dictionary, only descriptions of word usage that were in vogue at the time the volume was published. If argumentum ad dictionary isn't a formal fallacy it ought to be.

Anyone had any experience with putting vinyl on mudflaps? Most likely it would be a print of a logo but I haven't seen either the mudflap or the logo as of yet. It would seem to me to be a rather hostile environment for vinyl. Way back a long time ago I have a dim recollection of hand lettering...

A sticker is to a decal as a fiddle is to a violin. One is the correct nomenclature the other is not.

Cutawl. The sovereign solution for this sort of work.

What rendering intents are you using? Are you sending vector or bitmap images? The color shifts you describe sound very much like you're sending CMYK bitmap images. If that would be the case, don't do that. Ever. Always send RGB bitmaps. Your RIP can deal with RGB bitmaps far better than any...

Jack up whatever dither algorithm you're using to the highest possible, likewise gradient handling, and check your heater settings. That's the obvious stuff, from there it gets interesting and beyond a primitive back and forth on this sort of forum.

Simple geometry not your long suit? It takes 24" of material to cut a 24" circle. It takes 24pi inches of material to cut a piece to bend around the circumference of a 24" circle. Just what is it that you're trying to achieve here?

Friend or not always get paid up front for political signs. If you don't you most certainly will be left holding the bag and, worse, once it's all over, win or lose, the organization that engaged your services ceases to exist. There's no one to pursue for payment. Up front or not at all.

651? Use anything you have handy. If you have a hard time pulling the vinyl off the backing. it could be either the vinyl is old and or has been subjected to extreme temperatures both cold and hot, or far more subtle, you're cutting every so slightly too deep with a rather dull blade. The...

Does this mean that if someone is thinking thoughts that are sufficiently happy while committing any of these same crimes they will be excused?