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  1. Fire Truck Font ID

    More than likely it is a digitized personal font from the original gilders lettering types. Having done quite a few firetrucks for a dealer down south here and communucating with quite a few "Firetruck gold men" over the years, I can assure you it was common practice as soon as dealers started...
  2. What would you do if your competitor hacked into your email account?

    My best advice is to read up on the topic of network security,...learn to use and demand your employees with network access privileges use very strong password protocols. I would contact yahoo mail services and demand they remedy the problem if it is a security issue on their part(which I very...
  3. Allen Datagraph 536 GTS

    http://www.allendatagraph.com/techsupport/frmOnlineDoc.asp try the link above
  4. what happend to windows picture and fax viewer

    actually it is subroutine for a rundll32.exe with specific switches to make the viewer work,...if you are having problems with it I would suggest irfranview as it is much more powerful and easy to use,...it will also convert many graphic filetypes from one type to another while being able to...
  5. what happend to windows picture and fax viewer

    go here "C:\WINDOWS\system32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen" or paste " rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen " in the run box(without the quotation marks) and it should open a blank window of the viewer,.you should be able to drag and drop photos into the blank...
  6. Roland PNC 1100

    you don't mention what program you are running the plotter with or what type of file it is..it may very well be as Mosh suggests...a spooling issue which will only be fixed with adjustments made in the program running the plotter....From the description you give it could very well be two points...
  7. One-Shot paint on aluminum?

    before 1985 if you used many of the sign enamels out there there were problems when you mixed certain colors with the end result being a muddy mess. I gotta go with Gino on this one the colors most of the people know in use today are recent additions to our trade as the purity of the pigments...
  8. Dell doesn't allow customization anymore?

    the only thing needed for dual monitors in windows 7 is multiple plugs for the video feed to the monitors,...most new dells have both hdmi and 25 pin vga plugs and they support dual monitors if the monitors have the right connections
  9. Cut Studio, CorelDraw & Clip Art

    often as not when folks import vector art into corel they just use the "eps" import filter nd then place the resulting selection within their file,....the problem here is corel will import the same "eps" file in two completely different manners ,...If one uses the "eps' file filter corel will...
  10. Cheap Replacement To Graphtec

    I'm actually embarrassed to say I kinda got one of them us 48" cutters dumped on my lap here. I ended up with it after the shop I do tech consulting for parked it in a dusty corner to buy a decent graphtec. I originally setup both machines and while they both cut short runs fairly well the...
  11. Why is my GX24 cutting like this?

    all of the above and check inside your blade holder cap for tiny scraps of vinyl if you have the type holder with a screw on cap with a hole for a blade,....they occasionally get a tiny scrap of vinyl in them and don't turn curves too hot,...
  12. email server? thinking of ditching outlook

    The suggestions on gmail are great,...one primary problem with outlook is if are running a network no two users or devices will have the same sent file folders ,...they are kept solely on the client(machine) they are sent from,..this is not a problem if all your mail is sent from a web server...
  13. Buying a new cutter, Other that Roland, any other recommendations?

    Having done support for a couple of local shops and repairing plotters for the past couple of years not to mention tinkering with them since they hit the market in the early 90's I would suggest a graphtec for the price,...in my experience with them they are of much higher quality than the new...
  14. Need help with Gerber GS15 plus connection

    in the term comx port the "x" in comx means the port number you see listed in device manager for that port,...like com1 com2 or com3,... the serial port adapter will be listed under the ports section in control panel/device manager(view set to icons) or in control panel/hardware and sound...
  15. Can I run a 25 foot serial cable to my cutter?

    years ago(1990)I needed a 20 ft cable to run my plotter,...I had to have one made up and all the techs told me it wouldn't work due to line noise problems (electromagnectic disturbances from light ballasts and other shop equipment),...well I ran that plotter off of that 20' serial cable for over...
  16. GSxplus 15" Plotter questions...

    Lxi is a branded generic of flexi packaged for sign warehouse,....the drivers on the flexi sign site will work just fine,...
  17. PC version of Flexi-Sign Pro on a Mac

    with vmware workstation you can download a virtual machine to run the mac osx on an intel based pc,...the problems most people run into are user related and not the software,... virtually any os albeit sever os or single client os can be run on this piece of software in a virtual environment and...
  18. Half a million Mac computers 'infected with malware'

    The simplest and most basic truth of the matter is,..if you operate a device that can run protective software to prevent the problems discussed here you should,...often as not there is a perfectly free option if you just do a simple search and download the solution,...the key option for all of...
  19. Powerline Networking

    If I remember right you can pull cat5 cable 180 ft before having to use a line repeater to keep communications up,....
  20. Allen vinyl cutter Model 830 Plus

    The support page for allen datagraph plotters is http://www.allendatagraph.com/techsupport/frmOnlineDoc.asp odds are you can find a manual download and any drivers available there
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