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What are you trying to match, one or both end points or somewhere in the middle? If it's in the middle, good luck. If it's either or both end points it's not hard. One thing to be sure to do is make the gradient CMYK and not RGB. This is one of the few if not the only time you want to...

Not much. It reeks of something that you might see at the 'Typeface of the Future' exhibit at the 1936 world's fair. The only way I would ever use it and/or its vicious cousin Copperplate would be if I were engaged to reproduce an existing work. No original work of mine would ever feature...

Copperplate at anything much larger than 12 point is a sign of an amateur working at full capacity. That particular typeface was designed to imitate hand engraving, the tiny serifs are supposed to represent chisel finials. It only works when it's small. Every time I see it inches tall with...

I print on the Oracal etched from time to time. It prints pretty well. Blues and greens tend to be a taste darker, reds tend to do fine, and yellows tend to be brassy. None of it so much the the average client would object or even be able to tell the difference from printing on white media...

Yes, it's a real pity that I don't understand business basics. Perhaps if I did I might be able to buy 20 of you as opposed to the 10 of you I could buy right now. Perhaps then it might be possible to use all of you to form a functional idiot marching band. Regardless of my business acumen or...

You seem to be using the notion of 'intellectual property' as a rationalization for ridiculous prices. Perhaps this is what comes of maintaining some sort of spiritual connection to whatever product you produce. The notion that one's work is somehow 'special' and therefore must be incredibly...

Good intentions but a bad structure. By your schedule a 10 ft^2 would be $250 but an 11 ft^2 would be $165, a 30 ft^2 would be $450 but 31 ft^2 would be $310. It doesn't make a lot of sense that more should be less. The price for X+1 should never be less that the price for X. To do this right...

Cruiser or, tada, Walldog...

Your instincts are correct. In this application, Compacta and Futura don't work by themselves and together they're a complete disaster. Using a couple of rather common type faces in such a pedestrian manner is somewhat less than striking. The spikey red blotch is looks more like an...

You can call them whatever you want. I don't think there's any authority dictating and enforcing what may or may not be called giclee. The term 'giclee' is an affectation adopted because the purveyor's of such felt that 'ink jet' or 'digital print' wasn't arty enough and they could possibly...

That's what I use, from LexJet. A 30' x 36" roll is about $100.00 plus shipping. It prints really nice but you really should coat the print with Clear Shield or whatever. If you don't the prints seem to scratch rather easily. If you're doing the stretching, do it on a clean blanket not a...

The name, however you want to spell it or pronounce it, is a complete and deliberate affectation crafted by the art print and reproduction world because they didn't want to use anything as pedestrian as 'ink jet' or 'digital' print. With it's own special name it sounds like something it's not...

A magnifying arm light available at any office supply emporium.

Just yesterday I and a bevy of nerds set up a brand new machine with Windows 7. I can report that Flexi 8.5, upgraded on the spot to 8.6V2, Corel X3, PhotoZoom, etc. work just fine. Along with virtually everything else that was running on my old machine. The only bit of deviousness was when I...

A couple of things... You left way too much material on the back of the stretchers. You should trim the media to about 1/4" or so from your line of staples. You should cut the corners back at 45 degrees and not leave all of that material folded over on the edge. Leave about 1/2" or so...

The fundamental inescapable fact is that 50% of the media isn't there, or whatever percentage perf you might be using. Worse, the 50% or whatever that isn't there is effectively black assuming it's being applied to glass. That being the case you can dump ink on the media until it's washing...

You have a weak head. Change it.

Make sure your rendering intents are set to 'No Color Correction' for gradients. Actually, they should be set to this for everything except bitmaps which should be set to 'Perceptual'. In Production Manager select the highest gradient handling option available to you. In 8.6 it's 'Super', bog...

You can't get punitive damages without actually filing. You can, however, recover actual damages without filing anything with the copyright office, or without even putting a copyright notice on the work. All you have to do is establish that you created it post 1989. You're correct in one...

Is your software sending HPGL or GPGL? Is your plotter set to receive HPGL or GPGL? I won't tell you how to check those things, I'll leave it as a voyage of discovery and an opportunity for you to learn.