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  1. photo enlargement for large format

    If you merely grab a corner and pull then 400% is probably a pretty good number. But if you use a spline fit algorithm, which are legion, you can expand to incredible sizes with no pixelization whatsoever. You will end up with some small pixel bloom and other annoying artifacts but in scale...
  2. color changing

    Export the image as a full size RGB jpg and bring it directly into Production Manager. Production Manager can deal with getting the RGB image into CMYK orders of magnitude better than anything else you have. In production manager set the rendering intent for bitmaps to 'Perceptual' and print the...
  3. Dimension tool: Fractions instead of decimals?

    Something 12 3/8" is an equation, not a value. This particular equation evaluates to 12 plus 3 divided by 8 or 12.375. Displaying a value as an equation rather than its actual value is a convention of whatever software your using. Some packages provide the service, some don't. When values are...
  4. Why we don't have political discussions at Signs 101 ... An allegorical tale

    The Pacific Grove Roque wars are pre-dated by the little-endian/big-endian coflict between the minute residents of Lilliput and Blefuscu. Before that it's a certainty that there was a contretemps between Thrag of the hill people and Grook of the rock clan at the begining of the age of...
  5. Cold laminate coming off printed vinyl decal during car wash whats the fix?

    Look kid, this is a public forum. You get to post things others get to respond. While it can be endlessly entertaining, there is little else to be gained by responding to responses. It merely makes you look a larger fool. So ask your question, put on your big kid pants, and scan through the...
  6. cutting paper on a plotter HELP

    Unless you have a lifetime supply of blades the last thing you ever want to do is cut paper on a plotter with a blade designed to cut vinyl. Paper is incredibly abrasive and will take the tip off a plotter blade is short order. Since it's the tip that does the cutting, the blade is now dull.
  7. Surf Shop Vehicle wrap concept

    It very much resembles a convulsion. An illegible and incomprehensible jumble.
  8. Any tips for laminating 10' X 40' banners?

    Near as I can tell Classic==Original formula. I think that when Clearstar became Maribu they re-named it. Speculation, you might try calling them to make sure.
  9. Any tips for laminating 10' X 40' banners?

    Original Formula gloss. Very important to use the Original Formula. Clear Shield comes in a variety of specialty formulas that should not be used outside of their specific specialty. This from the Clear Star people. Gloss because it really doesn't matter all the much. Clear Shield is a bit of a...
  10. New Gold Vinyl gone bad

    The image in the original post shows classic sunburn. Usually it takes longer than six months but six months is not unheard of either. However long it takes, that is the fate of all vinyl left out in the sun and weather. It's doubtful that there's anything wrong with the vinyl, it's just vinyl...
  11. Business card

    As noted above, check the spelling and punctuation. Find a different anchor, this one's been around since the last ice age. Ask this fellow what would he do if someone pulled in and needed work done on a 60'6" or an 11'6" boat. Would he say 'Wrong size!" and send them on their way or would he...
  12. Design - Do you provide working files?

    Clients get a snapshot, not a living document.
  13. NASA’s Giving Away Brilliant Space Travel Posters For Free

    Free? You think that these were free? These are a trivial by-product of a bazillion dollar NASA budget to which everyone in the USofA contributed. As with most any apparatus generated artwork, these necessarily are in the public domain, not the result of any largess on the part of NASA. I...
  14. Branding our vending machines...

    The proper way to do this is to effectively dismantle the entire front. I assume it's a door. Remove the gray panel on the right, the window in front of the merchandise, and the delivery bin at the bottom. Apply vinyl over the entire front. Just pretend the openings aren't there and...
  15. Old vs. new

    Both the new and the old look as predictable, and thus forgettable, as any other business with 'Mountain' in it's name. Both as unique as a head cold as well as **typographical train wrecks. **Use of the typeface Charlemagne [or whatever that particular version is called] on the original...
  16. how are speedometer faces made?

    Just print whatever it is you need. It doesn't make any difference how they're made originally. With a print, especially a print that's going to be behind glass, you should be able to produce any look you have a mind to. Believe me, no one not in the business will ever know. A client down the...
  17. What makes your shop FUN?

    Cute but too much work. Better is to write a couple of lines of code that 1: displays the message "Press Any Key To Continue" then 2: when any key is pressed displays the message "Except That One".
  18. What makes your shop FUN?

    Without drifting off into a frenzy of tortured reasoning, please explain why a couple of comments on someone else's silliness would indicate that I am not completely satisfied with what I do. Use simple declarative sentences and any charts or graphs you might deem necessary for your explanation...
  19. What makes your shop FUN?

    Wow, you guys really put the 'F' into fun. Naming your printers, what a knee slapper. Next you'll be hiring a clown, eh?
  20. To meat or not to meat, that is the question.

    Yessir, nothing unbiased about those two sites eh? Do you have any more uber left wing fruitcakes to cite or is that all you could come up with?
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