Search results

Just a thought, but if your plotter's been sitting for 3 years, maybe your bearings in your blade holder need lubrication.

You literally, just pry the old ones off and snap the new ones on. They're just rubber. Once there off, it's a good time to clean up the area in general.

If you're learning Illustrator, now's the time to jump in with both feet with your new iMac. You still have Corel on your windows box so what do you have to loose? You can network them also and open your corel files in Illustrator also if you need to.

Just to extend Fred's answer a bit. The adhesive on transfer tape is far stronger than the "static" attraction of the material. If you transfer tape it, you won't be able to remove the tape without the static lifting up with it.

Have you tried HP's cleaning/soaking pads? Head Cleaning Kit Q6665-60089 Rev A The pad is lightly satruated with cleaning solution and than jammed against the print head overnight. I've had very good luck just using it occasionally when needed. Give Advantage Sign Supply a call.

Graphtec's own Cuttng Master will cut directly from Illustrator or Corel Draw. It's all I use for straight vinyl and also digital print cutting. Best of all, it's FREE.

You guessed it. In Illy, make sure your working at 100% size. Copy the part of the graphic that you are going to add effects to and past it into a PS document. Usually PS will open a new document to the same size as what is being held in copy. Do your magic in PC and save it as the flattened...

In Illy Preferences, Selection & Anchor Display. Uncheck, "Object Selection by Path Only" box

There are three selection arrows, which are you using? Also, check view>show bounding box. I personally hate bounding boxes but most people use them.

Are you selecting the total shape with the solid or the hollow+ arrow or are you using the hollow selection arrow and only selecting a portion of the shape?

I'm not exactly sure what your problem is but you might check out Views>hide/ show edges.

If you were printing a heavy ink deposit, the 2 hour rest before cutting would be pushing it. I would have waited 24 hours myself. I've cut Oracal 3164 and 3621 too quickly and had both of them curl off the backing.

Is it mounted or still on the backing paper? I have prints around the shop on gatorfoam printed edge to edge. The only one I had an issue with had been sitting in front of a south facing window baking in the sun for months.

Ditto on the encoder strip. It may be the cheapest fix you'll ever come across.

I seem to be getting more requests for MI info again. Maybe, now that Gerber's refocusing on thermal, it might be time to request them to update MacImprint. I know Tony, you were waiting for that weren't you?

Three options. Reverse cut white vinyl, white print on Gerber Edge or screen print. Some of the newer inkjets print white also but I haven't seen output yet so I can't comment on them.

We once screen printed a batch of Karate art posters and actually used tyvek. The swirly pattern was a good enough imitation of rice paper for the customer who actually ran an ad agency.

They should be here on system level, Library>ColorSync>Profiles. That's where they are on my G4, OS 10.4.11 I never tried installing Illy 10 on my MacPro. This could be interesting, keep us informed on their progress.

It's been years but we've screenprinted a foam board called Artcore I think. It had a very thin plastic surface and we did a prototype run for Mott's apple juice which was shaped as an apple tree of course. This was die cut after printing and had a beautiful soft pollowed edge after die...

You might call a few picture framing shops or good art supply stores.