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  1. Storing Vinyl

    Plain hair scrunchies. No marks, no residue, no nothing. Mount the roll on the input shaft then roll the scrunchie off to the side and leave it on the shaft. When done roll the scrunchie back on the vinyl and dismount the roll.
  2. Designing for signs

    To say that signs are 'designed' is an accommodation of charity of language. You have a defined space to be occupied by some copy or another. You lay out the copy. Back in the day when signs were make with a box of paint and a collection of brushes, the copy was roughly sketched with charcoal...
  3. Find my Font isn't helping me

    Don't know what it's called but I see it everywhere on shirts and all manner of craft stuff. Take a walk through Hobby Lobby and about half of the items on display with some sort of text are using this ridiculous script. It should be easy to find and right next to it will no doubt be whatever...
  4. flexie

    Sport, you get to post whatever it is you post for whatever reason you want to post. Then people respond in whatever manner it might please them to do so. And back. And forth. During this interchange it's considered Bad Form, at least by myself and a perhaps small host of others, to comment upon...
  5. flexie

    It'e been my experience that a pdf is somewhat superior to an eps, an ai would my absolute last choice. There seems to be far less of a color shift with pdf vice eps. Both file formats are simply containers for both vector, text, and bitmap images. Gradients and transparencies can often prove...
  6. Solvent cotton canvas

    LexJet has a comprehensive inventory oi printable canvases. I've used their 'Sunset Satin' for years without a complaint. It's available in both solvent etc. and aqueous coatings in a full range of finishes from gloss to matte. I haven't ordered any in a while. could be their nomenclature has...
  7. Software Help Free Vinyl Cutting Software??

    Instead of going through this obstacle course just submit and actually buy something that works. If you add up the time you have and are going to spend in search of something free you could have purchased something a bit more elegant and get on with whatever passes for your life.
  8. FONT ID HELP

    Nephew art most certainly.
  9. Tap and Die Question

    Why a bottom hole? Why not a through hole, far simpler to tap. A bottoming tap is a b1tch to start, usually you start with a tapered tap and then finish with a bottoming tap.
  10. Artwork release

    I just give it to them. I have no compelling interest in not doing so. If I miss out on a couple of bucks, I'll live. If it's going to some competitor or another I'll live. There's little to be gained by charging for it especially if they've already paid for it and not a big deal if they...
  11. Looking for Plans for work tables

    The all time best tables I've had were the simplest. Get a 3'x8' banquet table at Staples or some such and scew a sheet of MDO to the top of the table. If you want bigger than 4x8 MDO comes in a couple of larger sizes. Put on a cutting mat held down with a bit of banner hem tape. Cheap, easy...
  12. FC8600 Contour Cut Off

    I assume the error is on the X axis, the media feed direction. The error is cumulative, it gets worse the farther along the axis you go. Therefore it's not the mark sensor adjustment. If it were you'd see the same error anywhere along the axis. It would seem that what the printer sees as an in...
  13. Comparison Autotrace between Graphic Tracer/PowerTrace/Vector Magic

    You people are playing with a couple of small 72ppi images. The jpg is 1.4x1.1 and the png is 6.5x6. Something might be made of the png but the jpg is worthless. If this were an actual job I'd grab the figure out of the middle since it's constructed of fairly arbitrary edges and no one could...
  14. Comparison Autotrace between Graphic Tracer/PowerTrace/Vector Magic

    Why? Do you think I'm having you on? I have zero interest in having a trace-off with your code. I do remain curious about what version of Corel and how you came to the settings you used. Silence on the matter lends credence to the notion that the published comparisons might leave something to...
  15. Comparison Autotrace between Graphic Tracer/PowerTrace/Vector Magic

    Which version of Corel and what, exactly, were the detail and smoothing settings as well as the color palette. Did you merely accept the default settings or did you play with them? Your samples look very suspiciously like straw man examples. Do you have any real experience with Corel's trace...
  16. How to Find Car Dimensions

    Measuring vehicles is somewhat like trying to flatten a hat. Both are three dimensional objects and signs are laid out in 2 space. Templates are in 2 space and thus inaccurate to a degree depending on the physical shape of the Z axis [depth]. The best way I've ever found is to either use this...
  17. How Do You Find Out What Your Area Competitors Are Charging?

    What others might charge is a factor in your pricing in what way? You charge whatever it is you charge based on your expenses and your needs, if that turns someone off then most likely they'll object to whatever realistic price you might quote. If you land every quote you're quoting too low. I...
  18. Any tricks for Cutting large format graphic edges by hand?

    Cut the bottom piece however you want nor not at all. Don't cut the top seam with a straight edge. Ditch the box knife, preferably in the garbage, get a proper Xacto knife with a new #11 blade, and cut the top seam edge in a gentle wave. If you're overlapping an inch then make the wave a 1/4"...
  19. Opinion Just wondering.................................

    Perfidio tequila. Expensive as hell and hard to find. Makes all others, including Patron, taste like antifreeze. No rocks, neat. For wine, Medoc. From France. Inexpensive and equally hard to find. As with the Perfidio, it makes all else taste like salad dressing. Beer, Guinness draft, in cans...
  20. Graphic Tracer

    Someone in these waters was touting this package some time back. It was rather anemic then, did something change? At that time the tracing feature of Corel was far superior.
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