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I liked the first one. Very readable and the type style has some uniqueness that identifies.

Way better! Black background instead of yellow? My $0.02. Jim

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Hi Ram man, The complete Corel Graphics Suite (Draw, Paint, etc.) is the way to go. Anything X3 or above is fine ... buy an earlier version to save some bux, be more stable and work better on XP, Vista ... albeit your LXi 8 works on Win7, so no prob if you're on the newest Win platform...

Or size them in CorelDRAW, add page / template-like surround and any captions, on as many pages as you need and then Publish to PDF. MS Word can do the same, as well.

speed needs GRAPHICS a Speed Needs, Inc. company JMO

Here's good info: http://www.summa.be/en/faq.php#cq Good luck, Jim

Tell that to Dollar General, Family Dollar or the Walton family (save money, live better). All are perfectly aligned to where the market has been going, and where it is right now. What gets customers in the door is one thing; what they walk out with is entirely different. Your Web site is...

It's all commodities! :^) Geico or Coca-Cola, it's got to do something for me that supersedes the product. Take Coke, for example. If people only bought the best product, Pepsi would outsell them by 1000:1. Pepsi tastes better. They knew that before embarking on the "Take The Pepsi...

"True Jim, to a degree - but that assumption is based on the premise that you can get the same exact thing at two different places." True that; albeit, I think I can get the "same thing" just about everywhere. And I'm not talking about the sign, which is incidental. I'm talking about...

That's a great point, Dan, which I hadn't considered ... and indeed, it weeds out the tire-kickers, albeit, you're a big sign biz celeb / sign guy, and can afford to be selective. :^) For most shops, I'd think they want everything with a checkbook, especially with their stock portfolios rising...

I think the best facility for publishing pricing on custom work is a "starts at" device. Dan's getting great interest, but if the conversion rate is low, that's a lot time responding to folks who aren't buying. So the site should do more than attract; it needs to qualify as well. There's no...

Hi Spencer, I'm not a sign-guy, per se. But when I came to this industry 15 or so years ago, I worked for AirMark (later became Summa). And every supplier in the industry had "call for best price." They lived in fear that they'd make it too easy for competitors to see our price and then...

You might also want to check with our support folks: www.signwarehouse.com/support/ Best, Jim

A lawyer should know that threatening a lawsuit is blackmail, and against the law. They're entitle to demand satisfaction, and of course file a lawsuit. But threatening to file a lawsuit is a crime. File a criminal complaint. They'll likely ask that you withdraw the complaint in lieu of...

I can take a cut at it if you run into a snag. signwarehouse@mail.com But if you charge the client, you gotta buy a roll of premask from us :^) Kidding; I'd be happy to help. Best, Jim

Maybe; if the customer accepts it'll be fine at distance even though it's pixelated up close. And there are scaling solutions that help, albeit it'll be kind of fuzzy. If it were me, since the outlines are pretty simple. I'd import the image into CorelDRAW and draw the outlines over it...

Recreate it in Photoshop at 150dpi or better; 5400 pixels wide ... and if you have to scale the image more than 20% to get there, it'll be pretty rough at output size. The good news is that it's a prety easy graphic to recreate. Some layer effects and a gradient fill is all you need. My...

SummaCut R or Graphtec CE with ARMS. If you're going heavy-duty on contour-cutting, maybe a Summa S Class (way expensive) or a Graphtec FC8000 / Vinyl Express Q Series. Contour cutting is a real important aspect of the workflow. If it's off, even a tiny amount, you might reject some or all...

I'm seeing the original as being a bit fatter; the inside of the 5, etc. A&SM condensed and skewed has more white area in the interior, it seems to me. Freehand is often much better and faster, IMO. But just my opinion. Best, Jim