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For plain vanilla text: LHF Stevens Pecepta. It has slight concavities on straight strokes, a very slight thick and thicker look, and, more than any other type face I've seen to date, looks hand lettered. I do signs, not magazine ads. For script: either LHF Sofia or AS Cardiak for openers...

Having lost what I consider more than my fair share of dogs, cats, and horses**, and remembering each and every one of them most every day, every time I encounter that bit of Rainbow Bridge utter nonsense I picture a vast field of ostriches with heads firmly planted in the sand. Just cherish...

Hand painted. The 'e's are not identical.

Buzkashi. Something I've regretted never traveling to **Afghanistan and playing before I became far too long in the tooth to do so. It would have been fun back in the day. **Perhaps it could have been played in the USofA if it weren't for the need of a headless goat. That would bring out the...

Probably work better since the material is homogenous and there's no annoying grain to catch or worry about. Moreover there's no tool speed to melt the material instead of cutting it. Wow 400 in 365 days. That's a massive 1.1 a day, or figuring ~260 working days a year it comes to an...

Get a Veritas Cornering Tool set [~35.00] and do it by hand.

What, exactly, are you trying to achieve?

Five lines in five type faces? This is a typographical mid-air collision. Try one specimen face for 'Secrest' and everything else in one family. Make 'Wrecker Service' larger and have it overlap a bit with 'Secrest'. See what it looks like with one or the other on top. Do something to tie...

Back in the day when signs were painted, the standard rule of thumb was that corrugated was 2x the price of equivalent flat work. No reason that vinyl should be any different.

So then, a 12"x12" banner would be $10.00? A 4'x8' effort would be $320.00? The former is ridiculously low and the latter is insanely high. If you're going to price stuff, especially banners, by integrating all of the various factors into a square foot price, you cannot simply have some...

Uline 3" x37" tubes or whatever size you need, in cases of 25. They come with end caps.

Credit Card? Thar's way too much blade unless you're cutting sheets of bog knows what. Put a new blade in the holder. Crank it back so that it's all the way inside the cutter. Bring it out a wee bit and try it. Hold the blade holder as vertically as possible and with small but constant...

Multiply by 5, not 3, and don't fret overmuch about time. Time normally is accounted for in the 5x multiplier. Unless this is some really weird job that requires an excessive amount of time. If that's the case, then add that in as well. At least the delta. Make sure that you include ALL...

Tracing by hand is far from the cleanest and most certainly not the fastest method. It should be used as a last resort with nasty, low resolution, pixelated images of simple objects. Those cases where you know what the object looks like even if the image does not. The second method, copying...

The file extension for Flexi files has to be associated with Flexi.

If the cost of the media is anything but a trivial factor in your pricing then you're working orders of magnitude too cheap. As noted previously, a gross of $2.50/ft^2 isn't worth powering up your printer. It matters not a dollop of smoked rhinoceros snot that the client says it wants other...

Bubbles and creases etc. are virtually always a result of bad squeegee technique. The only relevant difference between the various mil thicknesses of Coroplast is the width of the flutes. The thicker the Coroplast the wider the flutes. If you're squeegee technique is proper then it shouldn't...

Assuming the stroke overlapped the object this shouldn't happen assuming whatever you're using for a printer is properly aligned. Unless, of course, you separated the stroke into its own object and then nudged either the stroke object or the original object. Perhaps inadvertently.

The left one looks more like a discount undertaker than a lender. The right hand specimen more resembles something seen on a brochure for a subdivision. Too tight or too loose. Try for something in-between.

No. Hold a a piece of perforated material held parallel to your eyes. Now rotate it in either direction away from parallel. Notice the perforations, the part that you can actually see through, become smaller and smaller as the material becomes less and less parallel to your eyes. Until they...