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Nice guys. Real mature welcome for our new guest.

I got mine from Graphic Solutions here in Houston for around $8k with a bunch of "free" lam from Seal. Unfortunately, the free Seal brand lam is pretty useless so don't let them use that to leverage a higher price. I don't really have anything to compare it with, but this lamininator is a...

Anyone know where I can grab a simple vector moonwalk - bounce house - whatever you call those inflatable amusement things?? Thanks!

Howdy from Houston!

Well, I guess I've been so busy this week I completely missed this week's competition/poll. Each contribution is good, but side by side, Newell's #4 contribution here is the clear winner.

I totally disagree. This layout screams "diner" without actually screaming "diner". There's no ego involved. Rather, a good design shouldn't have to point out the obvious. In reality, the #6 layout could have been completed with greeking in place of "Eddie's Diner" and most people would probably...

I think I'd rather stick with XP and have only 4 gigs of memory than go with Vista and 8 gigs. Every MS release since the beginning of time gets more and more resource hungry. It's almost as if AMD and Intel have to continue creating faster and faster processors just to keep up with the...

I just threw together a beast of a Core 2 Quad 6600 system... I bought all the parts from TigerDirect.com. Barebones package with case, 500w powersupply, Intel motherboard and Core 2 Quad 6600 OEM processor and 2 gigs of RAM was around $550. Throw in the biggest, baddest copper heatsink/fan I've...

I'm ready to drop a hefty chunk of money on a new Roland VP540 and a Seal 54 Base Laminator. I'm totally confident with my printer/cutter selection. I have no real basis for making an educated decision on the laminator. Anyone have any experience with the Seal? My equipment supplier swears by...

Wow. That's quite a time consuming backup plan you have there. I still don't understand why anyone would want to tote an external hard drive around with them back and forth to work. It's important to back up your data, but you have to live your life too!! I'm not sure if this will help you...

I cannot believe #5 is in the lead. Whoever designed that has tons of talent... but is certainly misguided. As funny as the S&M dog is, that would never fly in the real world. So the question is, are we judging real world talent here or the most entertaining and ridiculously funny design...

Oh... sorry, I think I misunderstood. The external USB hard drive was your only data storage?!? Man, I hope everyone reading this learns from your experience. You might as well stick everything on floppies if that's how you're going to store your data!! At the very least, keep the original...

This is definitely a topic that everyone here should spend some time thinking about. I worked in the IT industry on computer hardware for many years and know how devistating it can be to a business when all their data is lost. It happens. The only thing you can do is be prepared... redundancy...

Wow. Night and day from a design point of view. Nice job Shovel. I'm new here and I hardly know you guys, but I could tell right off that was your work. Given the application, there are some obvious elements missing from design #2. If this is a back window without any other graphics on the...

Yeah, that Fatman font is definitely close enough to start with. Just make the subtle changes manually.

Just out of curiosity, if you've never printed a banner on your $20,000 wide format printer, what do you use it for?

I think that's a pretty solid statement. Whether it's signs or anything else, I think a lot of businesses shoot themselves in the foot by not going for the easy money to supplement your main source of revenue.

That's a great tip Maniac. I've got a page on my website (that I'm still building) for a photo portfolio. I've got a pretty good foundation of signs and vinyl I've done while working at the print shop I can use to kick start it. I've also designed a billboard or two while working in the...

Man, you sure sound jaded in your message. Sounds as if you don't enjoy what you do. If you don't enjoy it and you're not making a good living at it, perhaps it's time for a change? Remember, if you do what you do well... with a smile on your face... at a fair price... and you're honest and...

Sounds like a job for Photoshop. You can do some creative things with layer masks.