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lubing also doubles as cleaning. the more friction the more the parts will wear & any chatter is potential for odd results while printing. worst-case, you forget to do it for months, you'll just have to replace the pads that glide on the rail eventually. never hurts to give a monthly drip &...

Onyx allows you to rip files and it will estimate amount of ink used. I haven't tried installing a driver for a printer I don't have, but I'm sure its possible to rip some of your old files and compare values of ink consumption/cost. It might not be precise, but its been pretty accurate for me...

i'd prefer to work with colored vinyl vs. printed&laminated on clear if you DO print it, do not use white trans unless you intend to dim the illumination dramatically. I wouldn't "wrap" it, easier to treat it as two seperate parts: pre-stripe the sides, seams wherever you see fit, with vinyl...

you might even just be able to get a subscription for enroute for one month, setup your default files, and then sign back up whenever you need to make some new things. LOVE using enroute and have my own permanent copy buuuut I have been known to subscribe for a month, or a few, of dabbling with...

the way my CNC router works with enroute, is that it is connected via ethernet to form a network with access to a file folder system housed on a PC, with .cnc gcode files saved by Enroute utilizing the driver for my multicam. your CAMaster should have something similiar, for Multicam it was a...

i've put reverse channel letters everywhere. ...even on rooflines that have no backwall to shine light against (i know rite?) there can be ways to cleanup/hide the power&mounts, aestetically, from the from & back, or even make a clever raceway that the letters mount-to that completely runs the...

maybe just contact 2-3 "aqueous banner media" suppliers in canada and see what their options are? accordbanners.com pops up on the googles amongst a few others.

same home for all sheets and just mark your corners on the table with painter's tape

its stuff like this that makes me wanna make a jig to utilize my cnc's vacuum table as a thermal former. ...the boss, however, prefers that I don't attempt to find ways to burn down the shop. man, 2012 really brings me back. that was a good year. 29 years young and undeated at picking presidents.

edited to add: didn't realized this thread has gone down to checking boards n' such. my first thought went to what could immediately cause one nearby head to fail while fiddling with the other. i once almost ruined a DX4 printhead while replacing a manifold. the gremlin was in a drop of ink...

gross. thanks for the reminder that i've catered to such demands in the past. however, you can get pan faces formed with a color applied 2nd surface, or even full color graphics. you're already outsourcing the face I'd imagine, so why not just have them quote graphics too? its possible, and...

you can only clean so much. even if you pre-wipe and entire roll, and hope to god that you don't have misc. wipe-streaks in your finished print, then you'll still potentially re-introduce dust/debris/eyelashes/fingerprints while respooling/loading. ...you could just simply print on an...

cadtools by hotdoor is a plugin for illustrator that will give you the perimeter of a letter or the sum of perimeters if selecting multiple letters.

you can also offer to sell them painted drywall sheets with rasterbraille lettering embedded. i'm sure they have a sub that would love to install it per their spec.

worst case, you should always have a local resource to unload your prints onto. plenty of printshops would gladly accept your $$$ to run a roll at the end of a day and let you finish processing.

in theory, you could use those big fat pinheads and physically jam "beads" into the wall with a paper pattern. maybe predrill the pattern with a shallow countersink so only the top-half of the bead is protruding. the lettering is then tape/pin mounted, and they'll never be able to paint the...

...or you can get the basic holographic foil and print that abalone pattern into it?

maaaaan, it took me 10years to realize there was a proximity restart on my MultiCam CNC. now i just replace/recalibrate broken bits and start right where i left off. ...wouldn't be surprised if my plotter had that feature and I had always been doing that crappy workaround til i realized i...

by default, PM loads the whole file but i select the individual pieces that i've cut already, and hit delete key. worst case, and tedious af, you can always just remove your blade and watch the cutter go through the already cut pieces and then pause & load tool when its headed to start cutting...

i miss those political threads, and when the hammer came down. lol pretty sure I'd have twice as many posts to my statline if I contributed, but I got a kick outta the old men yelling at the clouds. ...when i was much younger.