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Warren - Your statements are contradicting each other. Is your tape not adhering to the vinyl, or not adhering to the liner of the vinyl? All tapes need to, and do, adhere to the vinyl. There are, though, what is referred to as low tack and high tack tapes. As for the liner, the standard...

Tech - Is there a way you can explain on how to fix the installer? Up until now, all of the conflicts we have been finding (former colleagues/associates with repair shops) have been related to BS beta software. Usually the already installed software quits working. Clean removals of the betas...

Is there a way you can cut down your file size. That is part of your problem, although the makority of it. Next you say "fast drives" but what are they? Drives are always a neglected part of the "speed formula".

You guys can buy all of the Summa that you want - but when they advertise for and praise your competition....... http://www.summausa.com/news_detail.php?article_id=27&sess_id=33c621fbb64b8afa4d5e10782d48bc1c

OUCH!!!!! Reformatting may end being your only solution. What plug-ins do you have with FireFox? The reason I am asking is that there IS a bunch of new "code" that is causing problems. So far, we have not seen any FF users (just IE users) but in every case it leads us to the browser - sooner...

Unless you you are just itching to spend some money (on a new plotter), it is a very valuable and useful function. This will help alleviate the need for an optical sensor. Another Summa user may be able to help you with instructions. Not that it matters in your situation - the cheap plotters...

You are inadvertently skipping one of the most important aspects of printing - the understanding of color. This is not a Corel nor a Roland "thing". It is more of a "law of nature". Before you burn up any more of your ribbons, go back and read as much info as you can on color. Specifically...

Ryan, Plotters that are larger than 24" have their uses, although for most - it is very seldom. If you are tight on space, or plan on being able to move it around (place to place), a 24" is still the way to go. As for retiring the plotter, our philosphy is: "if it ain't broke - leave it...

$100 says that you have IE Explorer 7 installed on your machine. If you do, get RID of it! The beta, although seemingly nice CONFLICTS with a good number of softwares - which BTW will be an issue once Vista is released. The software manufacturers are going to have new versions or patches...

By no means am I an authority on this printer, but, are you sure that parts are even available for this machine? How old is it?

I already like this guy's thinking - set the wife up in business!!! :thumb: Welcome.

Ain't that the truth!! The distributors love it, but we see people everyday dropping money on machinery, especially printers, whereas they are/will be fighting just to keep it moving. This is also known as the "keeping up with the Jones'" and "jus' gotta hav' it".

If it failing that quickly - it is shit vinyl. No other way to say it. Major players put out a better product than that - stick with a name.

3M is good but not your only alternative. We can tell you that the two brands we use do not fade, etc. Many others here use the Oracal, and they will tell you mmore about that. Vinyl that rapidly loses its color is usually the sign of no-name EBay vinyl - good for only six months. What kind...

IMO, especially when first starting, that is a big mistake. The first thing that you need to do is establish a relationship with a vendor. Preferrably the closest vendor to you. The reason this is necessary is because you will run into problems and need the assistance/support. Pricing is not...

You mean you really ARE in Canada :Big Laugh (I know I will hear it from other members in the other provinces :Big Laugh ) Trust me, it is a lot of information to absorb and you may very well forget some of what you read (aside from just missing). Questions are not a problem here, so...

Funny you, and many others, put Helva on the "do not use list". Whenever I need to alter a font, it is one of the fist I go to - it lends itself nicely to that :smile:

No need to waste your time looking for others. If you have 3M and Oracal available to you - you will have what you need. As for questions, try and search the forum first. This will render immediate answers, if a question has been previously asked. You will still have many questions that have...

If you want to talk the best - 3M holds that spot. They also get the price. For specialty, like reflective, we only trust 3M - the only basis is reputation, never any problems, and habit. Oracal has a good reputation. We do not use it becasue our distributor does not carry it.They carry...

Graphtec is a good unit. Until you know what you are going to do - use the X3. SignLab is good and worth the money. You may want to even consider calling Ordway (link at the bottom) and looking at SignLab OE. It will only use TTF fonts, but it is very much like SL5, exceptthat it runs on XP...