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  1. blue water jugs, for water coolers, what type of vinyl?

    Take some pieces of whatever you have and see if they stick at all. Or slightly. Or whatever. Sometimes the plastic used in that sort of thing is so inert that nothing wants to adhere to it. Sometimes not. Convex makes some rather pricey media with pretty aggressive adhesive but but there's...
  2. Looking for a partcular sidewalk sign / a-frame

    My Fair Lady, where Henry Higgins comments first to Col. Pickering and then to Liza Doolittle when she finally manages to pronounce a vowel properly. From G.B. Shaw's 'Pygmalion', lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. Moreover, if memory serves, that's not quite the exact quote. I believe it's "By George I...
  3. LHF Fonts

    If you want decorations, scrolls, panels, etc. go directly to the source... http://goldenstudios.com/index.htm These are great collections. A lot of the stuff you see on LHF has been parceled out from the collections available at this site.
  4. The most overused font in 2013 is.....

    I don't care for any of the faces mentioned. They are all, to one degree or another, stilted and forced. Lobster is rather ugly, the various scripts mentioned all look like the efforts of apprentices done on glass. They're OK but I have better. The quality of the type faces I find far less...
  5. Canvas Questions

    If you don't use Clear Shield or a similar product you're merely getting away with it and it will bite you in the butt one day. Unlike banner most material**, solvent printable canvas is only solvent printable because it has a coating. You print on the coating, not on the canvas. This...
  6. how did 18" z 24" become a standard sign size?

    22"x24" most likely because card stock was a standard sheet at 28x44. Most all sizes were based on this. 28x44, 22x28, 14x22, 11x14, and 7x11.You just kept cutting the long side in half. Then there were over-sized 32"x48" sheets yielding 24x32,16x24, 12x16, and 8x12. Most all common sizes...
  7. New Mutoh 1204 solid color issues

    You might visit your heater settings and jack them up a bit. Unfortunately anything packing the name 'Endura' is usually worthless crap. Most likely any inks carrying that same name are as well. Crap, that is.
  8. Another Mutoh Profile question... faded & washed out prints

    Assuming that the profile you're using is sufficient, having never heard of this particular edition, try this... Save the work as a 150ppi RGB jpg. Saving to a PDF can often generate really annoying color shifts. Depending on a plethora of variables. I avoid PDF's like the plague. Bring...
  9. Another Mutoh Profile question... faded & washed out prints

    I've been printing on the very same hardware with a 3651G profile for years without a problem. Albeit not on that media or using that ink but I've printed on all manner of media, vinyl of all stripes [and colors], manner, paper, photo paper, canvas, textile, heat press, etc. using just that...
  10. classic car dealership and garage logo

    Not bad other than you have the exhausts appearing to come out of the oil pan.
  11. Opinions on EstiMate?

    Hardly an unbiased opinion there Kevin. What with you pushing your own product and all. The point, which has apparently scooted right past you, is that Estimate, your kludge, and all of the other pricing packages out there are worth every penny if and only if you have yet to develop your own...
  12. Opinions on EstiMate?

    If you have no clue as to a pricing model, Estimate is as good as anything. Once you develop your own pricing model, and you should either know or learn enough about the business you're in to do this, then Estimate isn't worth the powder to blow it across the room. It has far too many dependent...
  13. Contour Cutting Drop shadows

    You can do it this way but you also can select just the text from within the outline in the Object Manager and cut it. Then select the outline [which will also select the text] and then on the Cut Dialog deselect the red, or whatever color the text might be, and cut just the color of the drop...
  14. taking grommets out

    Sort of. You deform the part of the grommet that is peened over the washer with long nose pliers. Done properly the grommet and washer simply fall off..
  15. 4'x8' coroplast

    The physics of this situation clearly says that this is nonsense. Force is force no matter what direction it's applied. If this lift conjecture were true then it is necessarily the case that a sheet of coroplast is sufficiently strong as to be able to lift an automobile without first collapsing...
  16. Do you follow a business guru?

    There are three separate notions expressed in four paragraphs. One, the first, is stand-alone. The next two represent a complete exposition. The last is only tangentially related to the middle pair. Your move...
  17. Do you follow a business guru?

    Really? How about the no doubt equally lucrative astrology industry? Astrology being mnemonic for any and all manner of fringe fruitcakery. By you're usually reliable logical abilities none of those dubious endeavors could be BS as well. It's been my experience that lots of people have good...
  18. Is the GRID under a Cutting Mat useful?..

    I couldn't imagine not having a grid on any cutting mat I own. It's infinitely useful for informal alignment and measurement. Make sure that whatever grid you get has inch [or whatever you use in your village] marks on all four sides. Very handy for lopping off lengths of material.
  19. Large format print resolution

    The mathematical incompetence in the above snippet is stunning. This alone should be sufficient reason to doubt anything else these innumerate dolts might have to say.
  20. Large format print resolution

    The unaided human eye and the brain to which it's connected has a hard time differentiating 1 part in 130. That why most half-tone screens were 130 dpi. When you print you want to print at a resolution 4x the image resolution. Or thereabouts. Print 150 ppi images at 720^2 gives you >2^16...
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