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  1. Are all grommet machines created equal?

    All name brand grommet machines do exactly the same thing in exactly the same way. Some of the Pacific rim knockoffs have such poor quality dies that they have to put the die on the bottom and the anvil on the top forcing you to pre-punch the media regardless of whether you're using...
  2. Premask Application Tape Technique?

    You were fine up until the hands part. Do not, never, as in ever, use your hands to put mask down on vinyl. There's no surer way to leave catastrophic bubbles and the subsequent wrinkles than trying to smooth down mask with your hands. As noted above pull the mask over the vinyl and stick...
  3. off gassing large wraps!

    'Outgas' is merely a way to say 'dry' with two syllables. Volatile solvents, such as those in any sort of solvent printer inks, dry by evaporation. Once it's dry, it's dry. Different media is affected differently and takes whatever it takes to dry. Before a print is completely dry the...
  4. Battle of the Sexes Jokes

    To continue... A woman walks into a drug store and asks for deodorant. The clerk asks "Ball or stick?" She replies "Underarm will be fine." The clerk asks "Mennen's?" She replies "No, women's." The clerk inquires "Do you want it scented?" She sagely relies "No, I'll take it with me."...
  5. Beverage of choice?

    Porfidio tequila, damn near impossible to find. By comparison all other tequila is paint remover. Medoc, not quite as hard to find and the only wine ever encountered that doesn't taste like salad dressing. Iced tea, approximately a gallon a day.
  6. Cutter not closing some letters and shapes

    This most likely is your problem but one, it's not a piston and two, don't oil it. Blow it out with air, oil will just make a nasty sticky mess. If you simply have to lubricate this mechanism just use a little, as in a tiny amount, of graphite. A contaminated tool mechanism. especially the...
  7. Looking for some critique.

    Even if it were a legitimate contest, which it's not, the discordant out of balance effort you posted wouldn't win anything.
  8. FC-8000 Not Contour Cutting

    If someone should ask you "Do you know what time it is?" do you answer "Yes." and walk off?
  9. I need some inspiration

    My advice would be to move. This location has absolutely no character and there's precious little you're going to do to give it any. Let a plumbing supply house or a chiropractor or something else that's really exciting move in here.
  10. not too happy with Paypal

    In my mercifully brief dealings with Pay Pal I found that each and every functionary I encountered to be a breathtaking combination of arrogance and ignorance. Even severing all ties with them required threats of immediate legal action on my part. Now that I'm completely shut of them I wouldn't...
  11. grommet machine

    You are only limited by the length of your grommets and the throat opening of your grommet press. On some materials and with some grommets you may have to manually drill or punch the holes, depending. Grommets in fabric material, such as banner material, provide an anchor point with...
  12. Couple of Logo Designs, Critiques Welcome!

    If you have to explain it, it's not working. Besides, mountains signify mountainous, bears signify bears. That notwithstanding, the effort on the right is far more coherent than the thing on the left but the typeface selection and the typography in general is just this side of awful.
  13. LXI Master Plus help

    There's no way to create a gradient filled outline in one operation, you have to create the outline and then set its fill to gradient. Create the object, create the outline. Select the outline and on the Fill/Stroke Editor dialog select 'Gradient Fill'. The gradient will only be applied to...
  14. Intellectual Property and Copyright Theft In Our Industry.

    Copyrights, licensing, etc. are civil, not criminal matters. The local constabulary is only concerned with criminal activities, not civil squabbles. As long as no one is breaking an actual criminal law or endangering public safety, it's no business of law enforcement.
  15. Paper backing from vinyl..is it biodegradable?

    You figure that any or all of these things is going to destroy civilization as we know it? If you abstain from any or all of these things, we'll all be walking in sunshine? If your answer to any of these is 'yes' you might consider developing a realistic comprehension of the size and volume...
  16. Intellectual Property and Copyright Theft In Our Industry.

    Except, of course, for damn near everything created prior to 1964. Generally movies and music are religiously renewed but not so published material. Moreover, anything published before 1924 is in the public domain.
  17. New Wrap Design

    Nice background, if just a little too contrasty, but terrible typography.
  18. The costs of running a business...

    Perhaps, but then you have the schedule F, the government's gift to farmers and anyone posing as a farmer, which isn't all that hard to do. With the magical schedule F, virtually everything you own becomes part of the business and every cent you spend on most anything becomes a deductible...
  19. Skewing problem

    I don't know about the 5000 but on my FC7000 each roller has a min/max setting on the roller set manually from the back of the plotter. They both should be set to max and if not and especially if they're not set the same you'll get what you describe. I would assume that both models use the same...
  20. Skewing problem

    Are both pressure rollers set to maximum or at least to the same setting? Sounds like one is set to minimum pressure and the other to maximum pressure.
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