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Sounds like buying a steak at walmart and taking it to a restaurant and asking them to prepare it for you then asking them to deduct the price of the steak from the bill.
You could use your plotter to make pounce patterns on paper and paint your signs.
Paper is cheap and so is paint.
Imagine how much money you could make if you did not have to pay for vinyl.
You can also get a lot of the parts you need from McMaster.
Here is a flatbed table we built out of a cannibalized diage laminator and sign extrusions.
Never finished it with the pneumatics cause it worked so great as is.
The gantry has 4 heavy duty bearings on each side it moves like butter...
Oh please forgive my antiquated solution.
I just come from the old school where you had to at least be able draw a stick figure and hand cut a letter o.
I am curious why you insist on blaming the machine for the problem when you don't know how to check the box for the number of passes to make.
I know someone else has probably said this.
Why don't you just hand cut it and be done with it till you can figure out if the problem is you or the machine.:banghead:
After looking at your graphic that's how we would do it.
It's to simple of graphic to chance laminating and sticking back in...
+1 for painting with latex.
Make your mask with the thinest high performance vinyl,use a heat gut and rivet brush to work it into the fabric.
Make the first coat the color of the awning so you won't notice any bleed.
Stroke it lightly in the proper direction.
Very nice vid and effort.
But who do you think is going to really watch the whole 15 minutes and absorb it.
Personally I think it would be more effective if you could dumb it down to about 30 seconds.
What is the real problem ?
These machines/tools usually do what they are told to do.
Most of the problems are human errors.
Is it a defective machine or is it an inexperienced machine operator ?
Interesting topic.
I think all designers go through this this torture.
I try to shy away from customers who question my judgement.
The best we can do is try to see it coming and nip it in the bud before it escalates.
It could also be an opportunity if you are hired as consultant/designer with...
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