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Did you leave sufficient material at the end of the print so the sensor in the plotter won't be exposed before it gets to the third mark? You need at least 4-5 inches of media after the top registration marks. If you cut it too short, simply tape another piece of media to the trailing edge...

Flexi and CDR files generally is a crapshoot. Every now and then, when the planets are properly aligned apparently, it manages to successfully read a CDR file. It always reads CDX files. Hence export a CDX.

Let me rephrase. Try to use a format that's native to one of the participants as well as ostensibly readable by both. In this case that would be CDX.

CDX not CDR. CDX stands for Corel Data Exchange.

Export out of Corel as a CDX file. This will come right in to Flexi. Note that CDX handles vector objects well but sometimes drops the ball on gradients, drop shadows, and bitmaps. The silliness of exporting out of Corel in a format that's foreign to Corel and then trying to import that file...

Just mop it on with a foam brush and smooth it out with a light touch. With Clear Shield, less is more. You can and should thin it 20% with water and put it on as thin as you're able, thicker is not necessarily better. What you don't want are any puddles of any size. Don't worry so much about...

Anything you do with it, from recycling, burning, explosion, or merely tossing it in the trash will have absolutely no effect on anything or anybody. That being the case, do the easiest thing.

Not for UV issues but for abrasion protection. A coated banner is orders of magnitude harder to scratch than an uncoated specimen. You can put a visible scratch on an uncoated banner with a wayward fingernail. Merely rolling it up an putting in a tube is often sufficient to damage and uncoated...

Corel Draw has an incredibly protean calender creator. Do Tools>Visual Basic>Play...

Every banner that leaves this shop has a Clear Shield coating on it. It's never, ever, cracked or failed in any other way after countless unrolling, rolling, gag, folding, weather, or any other sort of torture.

Reflex blue is called reflex blue for the same reason hormone cerise is called hormone cerise or someone called Alexander is called Alexander. These things are called what they're called because that's their name. It has no meaning other than being a mechanism for telling one thing from another.

Where, exactly? I spent a year in Coeur d'Alene, 1964 to be exact, and the only places I remember downtown with a basement as shown in the picture were a bar called 'The Cellar' which was the basement, and a shoe store on the north-east corner of a main intersection. Perhaps you might know what...

Do not, repeat, do not use an ohmmeter on a switch that's still in a circuit. Not only can you get a fraudulent reading from circuitry parallel to the switch, but the meter applies a small voltage to the circuit which can easily hose delicate circuitry. That's why an ohmmeter and/or a...

Big mistake. Don't let your clients choose anything. Ever. Especially type faces. You're supposed to be the professional, you tell them, they don't tell you. Beside, if you have so few type faces from which to choose that you can put them on a chart and not have anyone's eyes glaze over then...

Try reversing the path on one of the objects before you try to combine them.

Speaking as someone who lived for many years in what had to be the skunk and rattlesnake capital of the world, I should tell you that the absolute worst thing you can do with a skunk is shoot it. When you do they unload right then and there. I once 12 gauged one out of existence and for years...

I saw these advertised somewhere for around $100. I instantly thought that only an idiot would pay $100 for $64. If anyone would pay more than $64 for one of these I have some other denominations I would sell them with a far more modest markup. If you deal in cash and want to appear 'special'...

ASCII art? Way too modern. You have to go back to a time when a computer filled a room and the phrase 'face down nine edge first' meant something.

True. My concept of large probably differs somewhat from the popular notion of large. Understand that the first computer I ever worked with, back when your parents were still making in their pants, had a massive 4K of memory. Hand-strung core memory. We doubled if to 8k and figured we could...

Perhaps eventually, of you keep opening it and resaving it perhaps until the next ice age, a jpg might show some detectable deterioration but for normal everyday use, jpg's are just fine. Especially if you make them with 0 compression and smoothing. A tiff is gratuitously enormous and unless...