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Looking for a source for the removable cement like that used to stick a credit or membership card to a letter. You remove the card and roll up and remove the cement. Anyone know what this stuff is and where to get it?

Are you deliberately obtuse or are your really as simple as you appear? In your own example above, twenty five 1's were lost in compression. That they may or may not be recreated later with whatever fidelity is not germane. Inarguably the original data was discarded. Moreover you picked a...

Any compression algorithm discards data, if it didn't it wouldn't be a compression algorithm. Some compression processes reconstruct the original data with more fidelity than others. Some sacrifice fidelity for size. The point is that with bitmaps for the most part you can tolerate a great deal...

'Lossy'? Is that something you read somewhere? It's a bitmap, not a spreadsheet. Jpg is a compression algorithm, it doesn't discard information, it compresses it. If you keep the compression to a minimum, when the image is reconstituted too exactly the original number of pixels by the way...

What he said. Create the jpg with no compression and no smoothing. Use a resolution that's no greater than 1/4 of your printer's dpi. I.e. if you're printing at 720 dpi create the file no greater than 180 ppi. That way you get 16 printer pixels per image pixel which yields 5^16 or more...

Regardless of whether or not the original poster is lifting images and my feelings on the chimerical notion of 'intellectual property', the reason that the watermark shows up in Corel and not in Flexi is because Corel's trace is more sensitive to small color shifts. That could be due to whatever...

Really? That was around the same time that I was an MTS at HP labs. Dealing with much the same sort of stuff, just a taste more advanced and a lot more intense. That notwithstanding, there is a point to all of this. It has to do with a principle laid down by William of Ockham somewhere in the...

There's many a time when I might suggest that some bit of copy or another might be better worded or is contradictory or whatever. But it's up to the client to come up with the actual wording. I might suggest but I never write. Moreover when I suggest it's almost always in the negative, as in "I...

You artfully managed to 'blah-blah' over the entire point. Is this what passes for witty repartee there in your tribe when you're not grooming each other's pelts and pointing at the sun?

Which word didn't you understand? The statement is inarguable. What comes out of the printer is not what you hope will come out of the printer, not what you wish would come out of the printer, not what you beseech whatever gods to which you pray to make come out of the printer. What comes out...

An excellent example of why a sign maker should never, ever, write copy.

You could equally pose that weight is a function of the various signs of the zodiac. Neither proposition would be true. Disproving your proposition; there is 10oz material with high thread count and denier and there is 18oz with low thread count and denier. The point being that material...

Material weight is nothing more that the weight of one square yard of material. It says nothing about strength and durability. Just the weight of the material. For strength and durability thread count, denier, etc. must be considered. These have little or nothing to do with how much the material...

When you say 'razor' I assume that you're using a garden variety paint scraper with a single edge blade. If so, there's a trick you can use on the blade. File both sides so that there's a radius and not a square corner. It's the corner that wants to dig into the substrate. That's because the...

Use whatever works the best, lasts the longest, and costs the least. Form follows function. Do you have any pictures or sketches or anything?

Another vote for Rapid Remover. Failing that, most any orange peel solvent will work better than turpentine, mineral sprints, and anything else..

Doing it wrong in this case would consist of applying a solvent based clear coat such as frog juice to a solvent based print. Yes, if you do it just right you can get away with it but that's all you're doing; getting away with it. Getting away with it is not doing it properly.

The only legitimate use ever found for frog juice is sealing MDF so that vinyl will stick to it. Other than that, worthless. Clear Shield is a vastly superior product if you want to coat prints..

Offset has nothing to do with this, change it back to what it's supposed to be. Once set, offset never changes. The sovereign remedy for this sort of malfeasant cutting is threefold. First, using a loupe or magnifying glass or whatever you have handy, inspect the tip of the blade. If the...

What number would you call for service if you had an extended warranty? Try that one. You pay out of pocket the same people that come scurrying to you for service under a warranty. If someone is selling you a warranty for $X then the odds are way in your favor that you're not going to be out of...