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Wish I could make ours into a paperweight! Don't get me started though. Already went down that road elsewhere in this forum. The newer models are looking a lot better though.

CorelDRAW has a size limitation of 1800" more than adequate. :) Designing at full scale is a lot less headache.

Full scale is better for me. I keep as much as possible as vector. I advise against designing in photoshop (or any other raster based program). Any raster images are usually between 30 & 100 dpi. In the end all gets printed as a tif at 150dpi. We will always try and get the highest images as...

We don't use the templates for the simple fact that they are too basic. If you design then find out that the actual vehicle has plastic molding where the template did not show etc. Take a square on shot of the side of the vehicle the best that you can. Drop the photo into you design software...

What design software are you using? In Corel I'd look at the Envelope Tool. Assuming your checkered pattern is vector

GaSouthpaw, not sure if that was in reference to me. We have Flexi on the print workstation but have no need for it. Just PM for holding/sorting printing

Thanks all for the input. We've been using the same vendor for years with no problems. I know sometimes we just do what we know and not bother letting the customer know our frustrations. LIke when we get pdf's and things are obviously wonky.We just open in photoshop and save out as tif.

We have a designated pc workstation for our print tech. Uses PM only for all printing needs for 1 printer. All design work is done with CorelDRAW 7 from various pc workstations. We just drop the print files into the shared hot folder and let the print tech sort them as needed. We use Corel with...

Sending a file to third party for screen printing. Single color, black, on white coroplast. I'd like to make the file as painless as possible for the end user. All fonts converted and all shapes welded etc. Only question i have is color. In our four color process world we use a specific formula...

Yep, anything with gradient fills and/or transparencies gets printed as tiff here

If you have to use reg marks they need to fall outside the cut area. i.e. if your cut is 10in then your reg marks should be set at 11in. If you need to cut in an area that's black as stated above you don't use reg marks.

#1 choice for vector art is pdf. Fountain/gradients will be most compatible with a wide range of software. Eps will not be. Also any Pantone colors are preserved as so. 2nd choice might be svg. #1 choice for raster print would be 300dpi tif at around 15". 2nd choice jpg (rgb only) #1 for web use...

We use a wall mounted 63" ProCut Elite and the Keencut Javelin

Let me throw in our experience. We often had this problem when printing wrap panels. Some of the panels were short enough to print horizontally but longer ones had to be printed vertically. Because of media feed you will end up with as much as a half inch difference. Now we ensure all panels are...

...we could reset the text in flexi... by reset you mean "trace" right. Or maybe re-typeset if the font is known. 80% of the time we add an art fee to do that.

In line with my original post. I'm not necessarily critiquing "designers" or designs just what's being taught or not taught. 1. Difference between raster and vector. 2. cut ready art 3. print ready 4. converting fonts and installing/unistalling 5. creating universal files i.e. PROPER pdf's or...

qmr55 has the ball on this. I've done prey much all of the same macros for myself. 1. macro to move all "cut lines" to "cut" layer 2. another to create bleeds 3. another to create registration marks (1 computer has the Corel plugin to do this but we needed to do it from our workstation so as to...

I do not hold a degree in Graphic Design. My training was from a military school back in 1995. We covered the basics and I mean "BASICS" (color theory, hand sketching, lettering technique, shading, ets.). We spent maybe two class periods on computers (Macs I believe) It wasn't until getting to...

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