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When you cut aluminum laminates you do not need to dress the edges by removing material, be it deburring tools, files, abrasives, or whatever. Unless you cut the stuff with a chainsaw, the edges are just distorted, not ragged. The edges just need to be re-formed. I have a 10"+- piece of...

What did it look like when you applied it to the white substrate? Digital printing assumes the white point of the media. If the media is clear then, if applied to a white substrate, the print assumes the white point of the substrate. A print on clear is a rather pale washed out thing until...

Churches, governments, political apparatus, not-profits, etc. not only pay full price, they must pay up front. If you don't collect up front from these sorts of clients you stand a non-zero chance of getting stiffed. Any entity that has resources but cries poor should be considered guilty...

It all depends on just what you're sending to your RIP and to what your rendering intents are set. Bitmap, vector, or gradient. First pick a profile you like. Contrary to what the profilistas preach, you really only need one or two. For example I'm herding a Mutoh 1204 using Flexi. I find...

How do you suppose Jack Davis feels about the legions of people who have copied his unique style?

If you are really and truly good at what you do, no one would be able to copy whatever you've done. If you're somewhat insecure over your abilities, as Mssr. Diaz continually demonstrates that he is, the specter of someone copying something you've done probably gives a serious tweak to your...

Are you printing and applying full bleed prints? If so, and there's no way around it, the longer you let the print sit the more secure the edges will be. Ink to the edge can tend to contract the vinyl a bit unless the print is a couple of days old. Design permitting, if you can leave a white...

Check the feed compensation, or whatever it's called with your tackle. When most software reads automatic registration marks, you position the sensor at the first mark and then the software moves the sensor to where it thinks the next mark should be and looks around for it. If the output feed...

Charge whatever you would charge for a vinyl sign of equal size and number of colors less the vinyl and substrate. The pricing model I use first calculates the price of the work and then adds in the media and the substrate, appropriately marked up, which makes it simple to back them out. If your...

That's because, with most fonts, numerals are mono-spaced so you can line them up in columns. It's been this way pretty much since the dawn of movable type.

You might want to have a squint at these... http://www.signs101.com/forums/showthread.php?114957-Graphtec-not-finishing-cuts http://www.signs101.com/forums/showthread.php?111992-Graphtec-not-cutting-precisely...

Objects diminish in size over distance linearly. An object that is at X distance always appears exactly 1/2 the size it appears at a distance of X/2. In other words an object at 100 feet appears at 1/2 the size it would appear as at 50 feet, 1/4 the size that it would be at 25 feet, 1/8 the...

If the first vinyl sheet is properly applied the app tape from subsequent applications isn't going to disturb it. Ergo it should be obvious to even the casual observer that your first application isn't properly applied. You might try masking and applying the first layer just as if it were...

Twaddle. The only response being elicited, whether bargain basement, high end store or anything in between, most likely is 'Buy Something'.

Bubbles are invariably due to poor squeegee technique. It doesn't matter how large or small the squeegee, if you use proper technique the vinyl will go down without any bubbles regardless of whether you squeegee with or against the flutes. First, there is no need for a felt squeegee, you...

It doesn't sound like any sort of life-altering defect. More like a trivial annoyance. You paid for the software, why should you debug it for them unless the great white fathers at Corel compensate you in some way?

Some years back I bought a roll of magnetic media that was coated for solvent printing. I printed on it maybe twice before I gave up and just used it for regular magnetic media. The problem wasn't that it was magnetic, the miniscule magnetic field has zero affect on anything. Nor the...

Sort of... The best black can ever be in RGB is whatever color your screen is when it's turned off. Which is usually a long way from black. On the other hand, white in RGB can be really white displayed albeit at some particular temperature. Unlike black, of which there is only one, there is...

Why not just take a picture? You could posterize it or do whatever to it. A whole hell of and cheaper and vastly more accurate than whatever drawing software you might buy. For the sort of money you appear to be spending you could hire a helicopter and take close-up aerial shots. Or stand on...

I had one roll of Ultraflex 10ox Matte from Fellers that had something wrong with the coating. The ink sort of sat on it in sort of a gummy semi-dry state and Clear Shield would pool on it like raindrops on a waxed car, you could not spread it properly. This roll also made a weird crackling...