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  1. Contour cutting way off on graphtec plotter.

    The constant error may well be fixed by going through the routine for setting the blade to mark sensor adjustment as outlined in the plotter's manual. If this setting is off then there will be a constant error when contour cutting. As for getting worse, is it worse in the carriage or media...
  2. Contour cutting way off on graphtec plotter.

    Is the error constant or cumulative? Was the plotter working satisfactorily before this problem or was it this way out of the box? There are four possible combinations of these basic considerations. Ergo there are four totally different approaches to your problem.
  3. Need Help Easier way of Weeding vinyl(machine or toll) ?

    First, always cut a bounding rectangle around whatever else you're cutting. It gives you a line to cut around the image. Then use a knife, not scissors. If you've never painted signs then you'll need to teach yourself how to pull a line. Just put the knife onto the the masked image with your arm...
  4. Imposition or nesting calculator?

    Two entirely separate calculations. Given roll width, object height and width, margin size, and between object spacing size do the first, actual print area. Which will yield how many objects wide and long for this job. This is trivial to do on any spreadsheet. The second, material, is even...
  5. Need Help Measure a sign that is on an angle

    You can easily figure the horizontal angles with a bit of geometry and then with some basic trigonometry you can calculate a rectangle that is in proportion to the rectangle in the image. If you then know the actual length of any side then merely size your rectangle accordingly. Not handy with...
  6. Can Flexi Design 12 Do This?

    Right, if that should fall into the wrong hands we'd all be in for a spot of bother, eh?
  7. Need Help Easier way of Weeding vinyl(machine or toll) ?

    Weeding could conceivably be done by algorithm. Perhaps a machine using the odd/even inside/outside spiral method. Which, by the way, is often the same way you do it with small and complex objects. Still it's far more a judgement job than not. Once someone gets the hang of it the task it becomes...
  8. Sharing Violation while opening.fs file

    Before you run out into traffic try something like 'Unlocker'. It's one of a plethora of free utilities that straighten out files that think that they're open, locked, etc. when they're not.
  9. Shipping printer

    It's not so much how far you're moving it, rather it's how you're moving it. Doing it yourself or hiring a moving company or a freight carrier. That and how long the device will be in transit. If it's a quick trip in the back of a van or pickup truck then lock the carriage in place as well as...
  10. Question How do you prepare your print files

    A .pdf is merely a container of objects. You get out of it what you put into it. It's an envelope around your stuff. That's all that it is. Worse, it you don't set up a .pdf properly you're almost guaranteed to get a color shift when you extract it's contents. Pdf files are for sending data to...
  11. Laminate on decal sticking to plastic packaging

    It's bob, not Bob. Regardless, I find humor in all things. Everything. There is nothing in the external reality that can't or shouldn't be laughed at. Nothing is protected, everything is grist for the humor mill. From someone's pantheon of gods to an equivocal snatching up of someone's nut sack...
  12. Problems with Oracal 3751RA

    I called Fellers and talked to my assigned sales being, I never knew I had one, and she touted AVERY MPI1105EZRS. Gave me a hell of a price relative to the catalog price. Haven't tried it yet but I will in the near future. Anything that prints would be better than the seemingly endless bad...
  13. Laminate on decal sticking to plastic packaging

    Your concept of humor seems somewhat different that the rest of civilization's. While the equivocation in 'grabbing your competitor's bag' might be mildly amusing, it's hardly the stuff of raucous knee-slapping hilarity. Unless you were raised in a convent.
  14. Lightest color to print without white ink

    For inside application. Hard to print on the adhesive side.
  15. Problems with Oracal 3751RA

    I've three rolls, all returned, in the last two weeks that appear to be contaminated. The 3rd roll I received last night and attempted to print this morning. All from Fellers, different warehouses, different lot numbers. The ink develops a plethora of small fish-eyes everywhere. I've run off...
  16. Lightest color to print without white ink

    Lightest color to print without white ink? Change your question to "Lightest color to print without a white point using translucent inks?" and that would be black. Without white ink you must rely on the media itself to provide a white point which is a requisite to some degree or another...
  17. HEALTH INSURANCE!........How I loathe you!

    What does any of this have to do with holding health care as a right? Moreover, what does any of this have to do with being responsible for your own condition, being the sum total of all of the decisions you've made in life? Accepting that you are what you have chosen to be? To answer your...
  18. HEALTH INSURANCE!........How I loathe you!

    No, but the anticipation of and planning for these sorts of thing this certainly is. Your choice to do so or not. Planning for the former, getting old, and its possibilities most certainly is a choice. Citing the latter, being born is facetious. Nonetheless, those doing the birthing should...
  19. HEALTH INSURANCE!........How I loathe you!

    Right? Are you unhinged? Anything which constitutes a mortgage on any part of some else's life is not a right. Just like any other commodity, you should be able to have all of the health care that you can pay for. Just like groceries, Ferraris, and all other commodities. Can't pay? You should...
  20. HEALTH INSURANCE!........How I loathe you!

    Anecdotes are not evidence. You might want to familiarize yourself with the concept of 'Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc'. Your post being a rather oblique example. For extra credit explore the notions of necessary and sufficient conditions, confirmation vice proof, critical experiment, and...
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