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+1 for what Jill said,...traditionally tinting size is done to make size visable for surface gilding on flat shiney surfaces such as vehicles, so you can keep the layer of size thin,without overlaps and or holidays in the size..(overlapping brushstrokes will show up bad when you burnish the leaf...

many people try to import eps files into coreldraw with the eps filter which imports a bitmap surrounded by a rectangular bounding box vector,...if you want to import the vectors in order to be able to manipulate them in corel you must use the postscript interpreted import filter,....

check the file and recreate it with a different starting point to rule out that one file (simply add two nodes on each side of the first node and delete the first node ) ,....(my bad *I typed the wrong numbers)..have you checked the blade holder to make sure it is oiled well and there aren't any...

your blade offset is way off

+1 what Gino said,.... when I asked how folks got by with such shoddy work my old boss used to tell me back in the late 60's and early 70's "Boy anyone who knows their ABC's and 10 numbers can call themselves a sign man",...just goes to show some things never change,....

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it really depends on whether your software is 16 bit software(circa windows 95/98) or 32 bit software (circa windows 2k or xp),...if it is true 32 bit software you should have no problems running it on a windows 7/ 32 bit system which can be found for very reasonable prices,...the plotter should...

you shouldn't need any special software other than coreldraw or illustrator,just go to the graphtec site and download everything you need to use this plotter,...drivers, manual/user guidesm cutmaster 2 plugin for corel/illy the link is http://www.graphtecamerica.com/support/ follow the links...

the cutting offset is set for the distance between the tip of the blade and the center axis of the blade in order to compensate so that the plotter cuts the difference. if it is not high enough there will be ticks that do not cut on smaller circles and such,...if it is too high there will be...

You will not be able to run it from photoshop,that is a bitmap editing program,...you'll need a vector editing program like illlustrator or coreldraw and or a dedicated cas cutting program like signlab,flexisign or many of the others used for cutting vinyl

I see a blue heat shrink insulated component held on by wire ties ,...could it possibly been moved during the "alteration" you mention,..it appears to be either a component installed inline attached to wires on each side and or a connector that has been insulated with blue heat shrinck and...

you might want to check and see if there is any small shreds of vinyl stuck to the blade holder that keep the blade from spinning/swiveling,...I would also check the cutting strip on the plotter beneath the blade,...if it is small copy you'll need to slow it down also,...

When they first came out with spun gold vinyl a lot of gold men went and digitized their own special fire apparatus font,...I know I did because my steady customers wanted all their trucks to look alike,...you don't argue with a client spending anywhere from a quarter to half a million dollars...

I know its easy to be a monday morning quarterback but here goes,...she comes to your store and buys a dress,...it doesn't quite fit her needs so she has you alter it,...it still doesn't quite suit her so she asks for a better alteration,...upon completion she decides the dress is not for her...

Not to sound like a smarta$$,..but have you considered trying to learn basic color theory and mixing your own tints?,...when I first stared as an apprentice sign painter it was one of the first things required as a student sign writer,...seems like it couldn't hurt any,...

from my billboard painting days I recall a pamphlet from their ad agency with all their specs,..the local franchise you would be dealing with should have one as part of their advertising specs on file,.,.

+1 for what Gino said,...It will show both the end client and the competition that they both can trust you and that in itself can only lead to better customer relations and referrals to your own benifit,... edited to ad,.. I would call my competition first explaining how you intend to respond...

Back in the day I painted quite a good many billboards across the Carolina's, Georgia,Tennesee,Virginia,etc,...well I usually started drawing my layout from left to right as one would normally write a sentence,but this one day I was painting a 20'x80' billboard atop a very high hill just as you...

matte centers are achieved by lettering the size in the centers of the letters ,allowing the size to dry fully, then water gilding over the dry size,and the outer edges as a whole,...the area where the size is will appear somewhat matte compared to the mirror burnish of the outer edges, thus...

get a book on the topic and read the rules before you start