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  1. Company truck wrap design - Tear it apart!

    PINK FLOYD DARK SIDE OF THE MOON...........was your inspiration? http://nycprowler.com/prowler/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Dark_Side_of_the_Moon_Desktop_by_ezsteve.jpg
  2. Shovelhead

    he jokingly always called me "dad". ive know for a while this was happening. and ive told him already i love him just like a son. we had a very good friend in sarasota, from Cleveland ohio who had the same thing. she went to the doctors with back/bone pain one day while home in cleveland, and...
  3. Trailer wrap design opinions

    DOES NOT GIVE A CARNIVAL FEEL!!!! more patriotic thn carnival/fair type food. did you try GOOGLE.........CARNIVAL CONCESSION TRAILERS? of couse not or you would see where you missed the mark...
  4. Company truck wrap design - Tear it apart!

    GEE, touch a nerve with you??? too bad. 1st off i been doin this work longer then you been alive. i dont need your approval of 30 years of my design/layout skills. i was drawing at age 4,(1950) painting sign by age 12,(1957) am a draftsman by training(1964), went to PENN STATE(1976) as an art...
  5. Company truck wrap design - Tear it apart!

    401, what would really be interesting.......... HOW you came to buy a printer WHY you are in this business WHAT TRAINING/EDUCATION you have in design/art. at this point it just proves some people in this business shouldnt be..............
  6. Company truck wrap design - Tear it apart!

    ill give ya hint.....HOW BOUT DESIGNING THE LETTERING.....WITHOUT A BACKGROUND??? DUH......poor lettering with a poor background.....is what YOU HAVE. like i said...learn some LAYOUT & DESIGN SKILLS........do you have mike stevens book?? seeing what your doing I THINK NOT.
  7. What's "straight" on a van?

    those ford vans..............like others have said the only STRAIGHT LINE is the bottom indent. the side panels on these lose 2 inches from the edge of the front door, to the back near the tail light..........IF YOU FOLLOW THE BELT LINE. also the roof slopes down to the rear. on these i ask the...
  8. Company truck wrap design - Tear it apart!

    this is a perfect example of the old tee shirt i had: "IF YOU CANT DAZZLE EM WITH YOUR BRILLIANCE.........BAFFLE EM WITH BULL SCHIT)))))) you need to LEARN LAYOUT AND DESIGN SKILLS...........
  9. GX-24 - Strange issues with cutting

    i would be more prone to check the FONT. some elcheapo free downloaded fonts will be built poorly. use the fonts loaded on the COREL CD. you might have a ADOBE FONT, and sometimes they dont reproduce properly.
  10. Help! I am sooo frustrated!

    there are also comm port to USB....ADAPTERS.... available. i have older printer port connective equipment and have added printer port card to add on slot in the computer......................i now have LPT-1 & LPT-2. i also use a A&B SWITCH, for an additional printer.
  11. Calling all Design Police............................................

    and then there is THAT JOB... you got a 72 dpi jpeg, to work from,YOU rebuild the whole logo, into a vector , blown up to a 4 foot X 10 foot backlit sign...................THEN A COUPLE YEARS LATER, they call you and ask YOU TO SEND THE VECTOR FILE TO ANOTHER SIGN COMPANY so that company can...
  12. What's the price market these days?

    got some doin em cheaper then vinyl.........but they wont be around long....then somebody else will come along and think they can do em cheaper))))
  13. How to become a designer without going to school...

    i, like jill, when i started school 1st grade..........was ahead of the class with my eye, hand coordination skills. 1st grade teacher tol my parents at the 1st parents/teacher meeting........." you have an artist on your hands." they didnt care. i was doing 3rd-4th grade drawing in 1st grade. i...
  14. Need opinions on cutters

    as the market for wraps, printed banners is today........DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY on buying anything. there are places on the internet that will PRINT FOR YOU, for wraps, banners etc......FOR LESS THEN IT WOULD COST YOU to get into it. you want to cut stuff........get a used 2nd hand cutter for...
  15. One Shot paints

    if you want longevity of the background paint.........especially on a metal tank, why are you even considering LETTERING PAINT? go to NAPA,(sherwin williams automotive)and get their INDUSTRIAL METAL PAINT!!!!! tanks that big will require a lot of paint, and if not put on right, will...
  16. More medical wonders

    JOHN... thanks buddy, but i was a LACTO-OVO VEGETARIAN FOR 19 YEARS....4 cardiologists tell me the same thing i tend to listen to em. 85% of the cholesterol created in the body....comes from CARBS!!!!! no joke.since i stopped doin the veggie route, my cholesterol has went down, and i eat...
  17. photoshop not required. He likes Microsoft Paint

    age to an artists eye.......is still artists eye, what HE SEES........this man had such a highly skilled vision to begin with, he still has it, but AGE has change what he sees. i think he is fantastic. as one of the old timers here with eye problems, i ca tell ya it makes doin what we do...
  18. More medical wonders

    STAYIN ALIVE, HU HU HU STAYIN ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!! keeps ringin in my head. been rough few days. final straw, monday morning aug 5th, after 3-4 days nausea, no appetite and felling like a STEAMING PILE OF DO-DO..... off the E.R at 8 am. can tell ya this........8 am E.R's are EMPTY)))) so was a quick...
  19. 3.3 inch stripe on a motorcycle helmet

    if you do 3 inches....you wont get wrinkles))))))
  20. Camm-1 Pro Cm-300

    DONT KNOW NOTHING BOUT SIGN MATE. IF YOU HAD COREL... all you need to do is load the driver from roland site, as a printer in corel.....set up desktop page to emulate the size of the plotter cut....and you in business.
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