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  1. How to make Swooshes in Flexi?

    Detailed instructions can be found right next to the manual on how to pour piss out of a boot.
  2. what does the .oz in banner material actually mean?

    Absolutely. The only thing that heavier indicates is that it weighs more.
  3. what does the .oz in banner material actually mean?

    Weight per square yard is correct. Moreover, this is just weight and nothing else. It says absolutely nothing about thickness, durability, or whatever. It just states how much 9 square feet happen to weigh. The only comparison you can make between, say, 10oz material and 13oz material...
  4. Poster Printing Paper Recomendation

    I use the InteliCoat Indoor/Outdoor poster paper for solvent printers from Fellers. It prints every bit as well as any other media of any sort that I've ever used. I tried some product or another from Sihl that was recommended by some vendor or another and the best I could achieve with it was an...
  5. Graphtec coming out with a new plotter?

    Why? What is there about being 20 years old that's inherently bad? I daily wrangle tools far older than that and don't have a thought about how old they are. Performing to specifications is performing to specifications, there is no age limit nor statute of limitations. I recently bought a 50...
  6. nothing prints

    Regardless of the state or site of your fuses, try to grasp that you're not composing a telegram wherein you have to pay by the letter or are perhaps texting to some piss-complected adolescent with a fully thwarted set of comprehension skills. Here you can use all of the alphabet as well as any...
  7. Thoroughbred History This Saturday?

    First, second, whatever. It doesn't alter the fact that she's one hell of a horse. Now that her career is over, too bad she's a mare. She can only drop one foal a year. Were she a stallion, she could father any number of foals a year. Sad that this fine horse will only live on in a mere...
  8. 48"valuejet from SignWrhse- who's got one?

    I've be herding a 48" ValueJet from Sign Warehouse for a couple of years now. I replaced a 48" Falcon that I had for about 6 years previous. Using Flexi 8.6v whatever. I have no complaints about the ValueJet. It prints faster and better than my old Falcon. Sign Warehouse, for all of their bad...
  9. Cutting issues with Graphtec FC8000

    Turning the lights off or laying something on top of the plotter to reduce the light falling on the media during mark read time will do the trick. For me, turning off the lights and perhaps closing the blinds on the window right behind the plotter did the job the few times I experienced this...
  10. heatpress: Clam vs. Swing

    A swing can be a lot handier than a clam shell but a clam shell is fully operational in its own foot print. A swing requires more space than just its footprint. If you have the room, the swing is a good choice. If your don't, go for the clam shell.
  11. Outgassing

    Proof of what? That solvent inks attack vinyl? we already knew that. Certainly not proof of the mythical will-o-the-wisp phenomenon of 'outgassing'. What does flexibility or consistency or whatever you want to call it have to do with outgassing? Actually, the question of outgassing as it...
  12. DOT Numbers

    Just what the world needs right now, another self-appointed vigilante. Follow the copy even if it goes out the window** and just make the numbers. The context of those numbers is absolutely none of your concern. **Old newspaper adage
  13. Snake Experts

    Just backwards. If you get bit and the snake is still attached to you, it's not a viper. When bull, corn, king, etc. snakes bite you, generally you need a pair of vice grips to get them off. When a viper bites you it's a quick strike and it's gone. Having lived some years in what had to be...
  14. Advice Please

    Numbers 2 and 3 are rather ordinary, perhaps worthy of a shrug, certainly not a comment. The first one has some issues. The one with the machine gun guy is typographically dubious. It features some sort of script with some floating and some not floating characters, never a pleasing effect...
  15. Police car graphics for personal use?

    Not hand painted. If memory serves they were big water-slide decals.
  16. What do you wear to work?

    Shorts and t shirts in the summer, jeans and t shirts in the winter. I wear want I want to wear, not want anyone else might expect me to wear. I want people to be impressed with my work, not with my wardrobe. If that bothers some client or another then they'll be bothered.
  17. Installation Question

    The easiest way to mount a bracket to a dubious or uneven surface is to cut a length of 2x2 or 2x4, depending, make the cut ends decorative with a arch or something, maybe even finish the edges with a round or an ogee, and fasten that to the wall like a plaque. Then fasten the bracket to this board.
  18. What formula do you use to quote a job?

    Excuse me there sport but where did I say that one was worth more than another or even intimate that they are anything but a commodity? This week in particular there has been of spate of jobs come into my shop where the client has laid out the work exactly as it's supposed to be. Each and...
  19. Police car graphics for personal use?

    It probably varies from state to state but in most there's no law against it. No matter how the establishment might huff and puff. It's a first amendment issue. The only thing you absolutely cannot do is display a functioning set of red and/or blue lights. That's specifically reserved for...
  20. What formula do you use to quote a job?

    Goon babble eh? Which word didn't you understand? Are you deliberately obtuse or is it that you just can't help yourself? Two signs, perhaps saying "John's Cleaners", that are equally legible, typographically correct, and durable are functionally identical. You might think that one says...
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