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  1. Papyrus be gone

    That thing looks like a type face designed by one of the plethora of devoted amateurs and practitioners of aggressive mediocrity at one of the free font sites. I'll give you good odds that the thing, the only thing, that caught your attention was the distress treatment. Papyrus is an...
  2. Help with photo printout

    Exactly so. Why has it taken a plethora of nonsensical responses, most of which demonstrating an abysmal level of critical thinking, for someone to observe what actually is going on and get around to this? It has little if anything to do with resolution and most likely has far more to do with...
  3. Mounting Vinyl To Painted Aluminum

    'Outgassing' is a bogeyman you use to scare your kids into going to bed. Since vinyl, both print media and laminate, is gas permeable the quaint notion of some mysterious process of 'outgassing' is a non-starter. Laminate it right out of the printer or wait for the next ice age. There won't be a...
  4. Gradient printing question

    A gray to white gradient is can be problematic in Flexi. The best you can do in is use CMYK for the gradient, set the Rendering intent for gradients to 'No Color Correction', and select the highest order gradient handling, Super or Supremo or El Humungo or whatever the top one in the list is...
  5. Pricing for 200pcs of vehicle logo decals, am I overpriced?

    Unlike Jill, I'm not in the least bit reticent to discuss prices. Your prices are a bit higher than my own. You can figure these by the each or, often a bit easier, figure one big decal with the same are as all of the individual decals together. For example 200 1"x7" items would be the rough...
  6. What print media are you using for vehicle graphics?

    Assuming for the nonce that this isn't some sort of bizarre joke, If you looked up 'media inappropriate for vehicles' you'd find, in large bold text, 'Calendared'. You put cast media on vehicles.Always. If your work is 'curling' as you describe, I'd give good odds that these jobs featured a...
  7. Banner

    It's OK but bring the 's' in "Martin's" over so it's leader joints the 'n's trailer. Then move the apostrophe so it's equidistant between them.
  8. Health Care Exchange

    Only a a diseased liberal mind would venture such a thing. To quote the late great RR: "Government isn't the solution, government is the problem." Work with them" Are you completely unhinged? The vast majority of government, any government [actually any organization], exists to ensure the...
  9. Illustrator vs. Gimp

    Everything in life depends on how you do it. There's a rather large difference betwixt giving away your personal property and running an exchange where you're facilitating giving away stuff to which you have no actual ownership.
  10. Illustrator vs. Gimp

    While the publisher may be able to prevent you from reselling their product, there's no power on this planet that can prevent you from giving it away. So...your path should be obvious.
  11. Finding the copyright owner... Feeling lost

    Just use it. Regardless circumstances using it doesn't carry the death penalty. The entire concept of intellectual property and especially the enforcement of such is hopelessly flawed. Once upon a time it made sense but technology drove right over transforming it into road kill it on its way...
  12. changing pinch roller assemblies, How?

    When you work on equipment like this you have to operate on the principle that if it went together it most likely will come apart. If the part you want to remove is not welded into place, you can remove and replace it. Just how much hardware you have to dismantle in order to do so generally...
  13. Banner

    Drive a stake through the heart of your Copperplate font files. This type face should never be used much larger than 12 point on a business card for an accountant. Never on a sign. Too much red, too little text. Not in word count, rather in boldness.
  14. Extended Warranty, Worth it??

    A warranty prevents your machinery from failing in what way? The laws of perversity notwithstanding. If the failure rate is the same with or without a warranty, how does a warranty restore your gear to full functionality faster than calling the same people to come fix it and simply paying them...
  15. Extended Warranty, Worth it??

    Do the math. These people are not offering you an extended warranty because they're good human beings and want you to be protected. Rather they offer them because they make money on them. A lot of money. Since they make money on these warranties, it follows as the night unto the day that...
  16. Unionizing Sign Makers

    There in your village 'bias' is having an opinion with which you don't agree?
  17. Highlights in dark area printing "Blocky & Tiled" from jpg

    First, your rendering intent of Absolute Colormetric is why the printed banner looks awful. The pathetic quality of the print probably has nothing to do the dropped out areas. Since the anomaly would appear to be reproducible, it's an odds on bet that there exists some sort of irregularity in...
  18. Need help with my reds

    With almost clockwork regularity someone drifts into these waters complaining of the seeming inability to print their very own concept of red. These pleas for color guidance invariably produce others citing their secret RGB or CMYK formula for their own favorite red. They produce these color...
  19. Windshield curvature?

    This assumes that the curve is an arc, a section of a circle. More often than not it is not an arc, just a curve. There's an infinite number of curves that are not arcs.
  20. Windshield curvature?

    The easiest way is to tape a piece of paper to the windshield, trace the edges with a sharpie, then lay the tracing flat on a table and either take its picture and import it or determine its geometry with a few straight lines and a ruler. All you need is the top edge and a bit of the sides...
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