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Best way to dry ink on vinyl fast? Assuming some flavor of solvent ink, that would depend very much on what you mean by 'dry'. Do you mean the ink being dry or do you mean the vinyl resuming its normal consistency after being turned into a stretchy semi-solid via heavy ink application...

Print the banner including the current pertinent dates. Then, if and when it's still around [never a certainty], when it's time to change the date, change the date text on the original and print just the area of the banner containing the changed text on the same material as the original banner...

Make your own. Create an engine turn bitmap with a pale yellow base, something on the order of PMS 7402 or so. Add a bump map, use the inverse of the engine turn, and use the result as a fill. Print the whole thing, gold fill and black outlines and shadows, on a light metallic silver...

At least Comic Sans has character. This has none. One would be hard pressed to come up with a typeface more lacking in personality than this effort. Perhaps there is a use for it in text that you don't want anyone to actually read. Maybe product liability disclosures and contract fine print...

There's only a few ways to separate a solid, glass notwithstanding, into two pieces: Break it, burn it, slice it, transmute it, or saw it come to mind. No doubt there are other ways as well but this is the set that comes to mind. Sawing is just another way to say 'chipping'. That's all that...

Exactly so. "Industries" in this script isn't working.

0. Never more than that and I wouldn't have it any other way. Been at it somewhere around 60 years. in 1965 I once briefly worked in an in-house sign shop with two other people. No one of use three was in charge, we were equals. While enroute from way back when to the present day I often...

You have one surface completely unprotected from the environment and another that is completely protected. Simply cleaning a window has a micro effect on the surface. You really don't think that whatever's on the glass gets wiped away clean with no abrasion, do you? Likewise, just being exposed...

One that doesn't end in a preposition.

Except Goo Gone. It seems to leave a nasty residue the has to be removed by other means. This. Also, a little lacquer thinner on a clean wet cloth will work rather well. Unfortunately lacquer thinner tends to attack all manner of other substances. Whatever you use, just get big chunks...

It was always an annoyance that PhotoPaint would do elliptical gradients and Draw would not. It's a Good Thing that the great white fathers at Corel finally got their $hit in one bag.

Yes, it's out of some font file. The 'a's are identical and the right tails on all of the letters lead into the next letter in a way that no hand lettering would ever do.There's a lump where the 'a' joins the 's' ; the 's' to 'c', 'c' to 'a' and 'd' to 'e' connections are not properly joined...

Absolutely not. Always send RGB bitmaps and always print at least 4x the image resolution. I.e. if you print at 720dpi send 150ppi or so images. Your RIP will handle rendering RBG images into CMYK far more adroitly than any software you own. Let it. The 4x resolution difference gives...

Any interval between then and there to whenever. It depends on exactly what it is and what the price of materials has done since it was quoted. Usually my margins are sufficient to accommodate any trivial movement of material costs. It just depends.

Helvetica and all of its clones is far too institutional to suit me in this sort of application. These faces have absolutely no character. There primary use should be limited to highway signs and fine print on contracts. Being an unreconstructed sign writer, unless there are limitations, I...

When a RIP is RIPing, often it does not know that a gradient is a gradient. It processes a single color until the gradient changes sufficiently to use another color. I.E. it steps through the gradient rather than recreating it. The best way to avoid gradient gradient banding is to convert the...

While Serious Specimens, such as you give every appearance of being, can be off-put by what you refer to as 'trolling', other less solemn individuals find much entertainment available here. No small part of that amusement being generated by those you might consider to be 'trolls'. In other...

It should read 'If I were drunk'.

Remove the dust cover on the tool carriage and blow the dust and crud out of it with a bit of compressed air. Pay particular attention to the blade up/down mechanism. It doesn't take much contamination at all to screw things up. This often repeated instruction is, far more often than not, the...

Exactly so.