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Every OS sucks at managing fonts, as do most 3rd party font managers. I've never found one that isn't sluggish once you load a large library of fonts into it, and even the built-in 1st party tools like Font Book for MacOS crash all the time. My solution is in three parts: I just go through my...

One solution that no one ever talks about is white ink. We sometimes sub out our lightbox prints to a shop that has a printer with white ink, so they can do the double-layer (day/night) effect on a single sheet of clear vinyl. The printer prints a layer of colour, then white, then colour again...

You suggested a CNC in a follow up post after the one I quoted, so I thought you were suggesting using poly to do the circle in a single piece, with a CNC.

OP posted the file at the beginning of the thread – it's not RGB. It's a PDF in CMYK mode plus 8 spot colours.

How common are CNCs that can cut a 94" circle? Everyone I know who has a CNC is 4'x8'.

Close... it's Gotham Light.

You could try a 3D modeling app like Sketchup. I tried it once and gave up after discovering how much of a learning curve there was just to do something simple like mocking up a 3D sign. It might be worth your time if you want to do a lot of 3D mockups, or if you do architectural signs.

The tiny dots will disappear if you take a few steps back. It's not at all unusual to have a bit of a stippled texture like that when printing solid colours on wide format, though. It'll vary depending on the material and the media profile. You can improve it by increasing the print quality...

1/4" is very thin for 6–9" letters. A normal depth range for that letter size would be more like 1/2" to 1". You can easily create an isometric 3D mockup of the letters with whatever depth you want in Illustrator via Effect > 3D > Extrude & Bevel.

Avery Dark Navy Blue (SC 900-697) looks nearly dead-on to me. I have the Pantone coated and Avery books in front of me.

We always keep a bunch on hand for the takeups on our printer and laminator, and we recycle the rest. All our media comes on 3" cores, so we always have more coming in.

I would probably ask for reprint due to both the wrong colour and the banding, and send them a new file with the correct colour codes. However the wrong colour doesn't look like the printer's fault at all. The RGB code in the file she sent the printer is #f25924, which has a Hue of 14°. Pure...

Looks like a grey area to me. Flying a flag in your yard is allowed and even protected by the flag code, while printing it on drapes or clothing is forbidden and considered disrespectful. Assuming there's no business logos being stuck on top of it and it's for personal use with patriotic intent...

Another similar one is Mexcellent, which is based on Lance Wyman's official typeface for the 1968 Olympics. https://www.dafont.com/mexcellent.font

You picked a very reddish orange, compared to the actual orange in the flag of Ireland. Put that colour side by side with #FF883E to see the difference. The official colours are in the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Ireland And next time, ask the printer what colour...

Prints sticking to the backing while rolled on a takeup reel is not unheard of with solvent printers. Some materials have better ink absorption/adhesion than others, and most solvent printers in my experience are running stock or 2nd party media profiles, both of which often flood the material...

Not exactly my area of expertise and the photos are pretty low-res, but it sure looks like plain old concrete to me.

There isn't one right answer to this. Anything will dry faster if you unravel it to expose more surface area to the air, like a bath towel crumpled on the floor versus hanging on a rack. The debate is easy to settle. If you want your prints to dry faster, unravel them. If your rolled prints are...

Souvenir is correct.

You could also try switching to matte/satin laminate, which doesn't show hairline scratches nearly as much as gloss does.