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  1. advice for bulding a web site (beginner here)

    For the entire website to be a photo gallery only! Photoshop also has WEB PHOTO GALLERY function built-in since version 7. On the photoshop menu: FILE > Automate (CS3) > Web Photo Gallery. It will ask you for two folders A ) photo location B ) Where you want to export to. Then it will...
  2. advice for bulding a web site (beginner here)

    Photoshop is not a website graphic editor, even it wanted to be badly. It want to be a website graphice editor so bad that the ADOBE has to acquire FIREWORK. You can import photoshop file into Firework, and do your website editing; and export right from FIREWORK into amazing website...
  3. Computer performance?

    Your workstation computer should stay focus on work related matters. If you go on secret websites, there is no way to get the bugs out completely. Temp Files clean up, registry clean up, spyware clean up can only do so much because most people admit the "OK" to installed by mistakes. It will...
  4. Logo Critique

    The first 3 look like the designer just came out of a Tattoo parlor. The last one look like an outbreak is on the way, SOS! The 4th is the best, but do it Horizontally rather than virtical, so your logo doesn't look like it wearing head gear too high! Nothing wrong with being futuristic...
  5. What res. do you print at?

    Most of people printing on large format printers may not take advantage of RIP software fuctionality fully as they should. Taking a pre-made profile as tweaking it most of the time can do the trick for many substrate without spend great deal of time and trial in profiling process. (Think of...
  6. Salary Range

    Despite the fact that what you paying the person is confidential, but to see if you over par or under par by asking general public: What is your standard in measuring competitiveness when you want to pay someone that is going to be your employee who actually will making you the MONEY $$$$$ ...
  7. Mutoh VJ 1614 - Vertical Banding - Dealer No Help

    This is a good example to spend money on local dealer so the machinery can be installed, start, and warrant to work for the buyer onsite! Don't sign anything, Don't accept anything, and have your attorney on standby. Pre-paid legal service is a good idea! Even the AirBus plane deliver and...
  8. What res. do you print at?

    Printing giclee for art gallery and for a very high definition can be really mind blowing with that many pass! Along with high fidelity color such as 6 or 7 or 8 color mode for that matter. However, for everyday signage or banner printing etc. a 4 color mode with 4-6 pass using 10-20% ink...
  9. Mimaki Jv33 Ink problem is it the pump?

    Half full, or 3/4 full in the damper indicate that you don't know how to prime it! There is also a filter screen compartment which need to be filled with ink and no air as well. Many tech do not know how to prime these dampers properly even when they said they have 100 years of experience...
  10. rasterlink question

    You can buy graphtec CE-5000 series, either 24" or 48" $1300 and $2500 These are great machine but weird sizes of the two. If you decal is less than 22" wide, then buy the small one. If you decal is larger than 46" then you buy the FC series which cost about $3000 to $5000 about the price of 1...
  11. color question

    Flexisign Pro version has built-in color palette for Oracal 651, as well as other series. You can create color palette chip chart from the 651 to whatever size group you need, and save as EPS with ICC profile embeded, then send to your RIP engine and using Rip profile for the media you want to...
  12. color question

    Corel Draw, Flexi, or Illustrator can produce color charts from selected color palette you desired. Then you can output these charts with ICC profile when to export to EPS and then to your RIP software, and then to your printer. You can even import the EPS color chart into your Photoshop, and...
  13. contourcut for versaworks

    Bill43Mx is right on the money!
  14. roland VP540 uesers

    At the current market today, Print/Cut machine seems to be the SP or the VP from Roland. Can't go wrong with it plus they have the user friendly Versawork RIP. Mimaki CJV is catching on for Print/Cut machine with DX5 print head, but the robotic on the media automatic clamps adjustment can...
  15. registration marks

    Corel Draw can produce many type of registration marks. What will registration marks serve the purpose that you want to achieve? Color seperation, or Print/Cut, or Desktop Publishing Imposition ?
  16. contourcut for versaworks

    Hi Graphix, There is a video put out by Graphtec showing you how to do the cut in illustrator: http://www.graphtecamerica.com/FAQs/Perf_Cut_FC8000.html You can also pick any color and call it Contour Cut from the swatch, and most cutter's production software will understand it. Check...
  17. JV33 Printhead, suitable for JV5?

    Even for authorized technician, if they installed JV33 or JV5 printhead onsite; the print head may not accept frequency from the motherboard's controller; or in fact, some genuine print head might actually fry the motherboard itself! If this happened, either the manufacturer or the authorized...
  18. JV33 and gradients

    Is your printer doing bad gradient 24/7 ? Check your original output file first, and reexam your file, or do simple test by print on different printer if available. Sometime it may just be the gradient bitmap itself causing that. Or resample your gradient, and export them as tiff with higher...
  19. ElevenTen_Color

    Can you define 2 Delta E ? Is this a statistic varient when compare the to samples in term of shifting color ? Or is it a Canadian zip code to look for the inks!
  20. JV33-160 Printer

    PhotoPrint v6, the RIP software w/network is also a great choice for your JV33, it has amazing NESTING function, plus Dual Roll Printing capability, and Profile can be adjusted and saved as individual as preset list or export as preset for future use. Also it has built-in profile management so...
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