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welcome to the party. who a "real sign shop works for" anyone who pays our hourly rate...on time :)

and the most legible thing OP has ever posted, maybe he should copy and paste everything :) still love you OP but if i splurge on a Xmas present for you i dont know if i should invest the money in huked on fonics or a dictionary...

just like anything you can have all the tools in the world, an abundance of knowledge...but none of it will make you a dime if you can't sell the services or products you are capable of offering. Identify your target market, a couple that come to mind for handcarved signs would be, homeowners...

welcome....well at least this time you know what to do and what not to do. Buy the best quality equipment you can afford. Use the appropriate materials for the job at hand. And if you have a partner....make sure your a$$ is protected.

most plotters come with a recommendation to only use the cord that comes with them, with that said i have had success (and failure) using other cords in various installation situations when i sold equipment. You may want to take the cord to the local shop you went to and have them test the cord...

congratulations you have seen the light....but at least you have a anchor for your boat now. if i was looking for a new plotter i would buy another summa in a heartbeat. i have owned, gerber, graphtec, ioline, summa, and they are all good quality machines but i have been happiest with the...

here is what i do... we design the sign in whatever program i am working with that day or some of the people that have worked with me in the past prefer one to another...i primarily use corel. from there we duplicate the sign multiple times and break the design down into the various pieces...

corel does not suck...this is frustration from operator error. sit back take a deep breath and let us know what version you are using, listen to those who know how to set up corel for the various plotters. if you have no patience for this buy a bridge program like co cut which will allow you...

I love it Gino...some people are so friggin dumb. I;ll be a TRIPLE THREAD PIRATE...I was consulting at a sign shop that was in its 3rd year and was really struggling and couldnt figure out where they were losing money....so I came in examined the books, watched employees work, studied their...

Gino, we as well worked with many national companies and HD was the ONLY company that ever pulled anything like this... as I said to them and I still contend we violated no law but their own policy...as they want to control the situation so that they know that there is no deviation to their...

Unfriggin believable.... messing with copyrights is nothing to joke about or think that you can beat, in time you will get stung...some companies take this extremely seriously..i did some work for a Harley Davidson Dealership and in that we created many signs with the harley davidson logo...

i have been hired as a consultant for many new sign companies and MANY of them have started out with a Master brand plotter...I can tell you that htis is a common initial problem in that everyone that i have seen has had this issue and it has been corrected by adjusting the offset...i must say i...

welcome iggi

Howard, what are you doing weighing in on a Graphtec issue? shouldnt you be advising us on the best places to fish? or the best cruise destination now?

Ontario i could write you a book on why i feel this way, giving you multiple examples but i as well of all of us in the industry have had to do this too many times....so go for it, make the BIG BUCKS, but here is my prediction. You will buy a cheap a$$ piece of junk plotter that has no resale...

Mr Whatley you've got my vote at this point for the most creative, however, I did not appreciate cleaning the Orange Juice off of my monitor from laughing so hard at your "ground found"...very clever...clever indeed ;)

Now look what you have done Techman...Don't you feel bad? I wouldn't either. What in the world are these people thinking that you can buy a plotter, some vinyl and with the snap of your fingers your going to be in business making the big bucks? Oh wait a minute look at all of the struggling...

i want to commend you for your creativity for dreaming this one up Fred. I predict that based on what we have been given to work with here we are going to see some incredibly creative submissions not to mention some very humorous submissions as well. I am anxious to see what everyone comes up...

welcome. i sure am missing the pacific northwest this time of year, the change into fall, the smell of the cold brisk air in the mornings, the snowtopped mountains on a clear day.

i do not know Enroute either but you are not fooling your machine this is just simply indexing. the simplest way that i have had new operators do this is to route a series of registration marks at the beginning of your substrate and the end of your substrate or rather the maximum workable...