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She was our best friend, our constant companion, and our protector. She was a Komondor, the best of all breeds. She came to us in the spring of 1999, a ball of fur on an airplane from Virginia. We were losing ducks and geese daily and feared for our gaggle Barbados sheep. From the day Efie came...

Depends on your style. The most of these fonts, with a couple of notable exceptions, tend to be grocery store banner and sho-card casual. If that's your style then they'll probably serve you well. If you tend to be a bit more formal, not stick-up-ass formal rather just being more typographer...

It's all part of the job. For the 1 time there's a plethora of, as you say. nitpicking changes there's 100's of jobs that have none. I just take it in stride. It all evens out in the end. As far as I can tell there are only simple layouts. for 99.9999% of the work I do there's some text and...

This shop doesn't. It's just part of producing whatever it is I'm producing. I do signs and the design and layout of a sign is just as much a part of the process as lettering the board. Some take longer than others, some are done in a flash. It all evens out and it allows me a consistent...

The only difference between the two is that the expensive edition comes with Flexi Pro and the cheaper version come with the standard complementary RIP. Still, that would be getting full list price for Flexi. Not much of an incentive.

It has nothing to do with the thickness. The 5mm comes in opaque and UV resistant. Not so the 4mm or 6mm.

Product Sign Supplies in both Sacramento and San Jose California. I've always dealt with the Sacramento office.

Aw shucks... Nonetheless, I am a member of the Brotherhood of Independent Sign Writers, membership 1, me. I made up a bug for this organization and have used it where required. A good friend is a member of the Association of Independent Sign Shops, membership 1, him. He also has created a...

Better than 6mm is 5mm UV opaque. It will outlast standard non-UV/Opaque by years and the sun won't shine through it. It's all I ever use and a standard wire step stake works perfectly. The only place I know to get 18x24 blanks in 5mm UV Opaque is Product Sign Supplies in Sacramento and/or San...

Familiarize yourself with the concept of pi [3.14159265...]. The circumference of the pole is pi*D where D is the outer diameter of the pole. Thus the material needed for a pole pocket would be pi*D + hem width. Even at that it will be a little tight, if it were me I'd be prone to add another...

There's nothing particularly wrong with it. Unfortunately, there's nothing particularly right with it and it's eminently forgettable. It's the kind of card that gets tossed into a bowl on someone's nightstand. When the bowl is full, it gets emptied into the trash.

Edit->Preferences... then select the 'File Paths' tab. The third text box is labeled "Adobe Plug-ins". Enter the proper path here. Flexi will search down the entire specified path so they plug-ins don't have to all be in the same directory. The can be in their own sub-directories...

Make sure that Background Settings->Condition Priority is set to 'Manual'. This will make the plotter ignore any set up commands received. This being the desired state of affairs.

First lose the leering suppository or whatever it's supposed to be. Then rethink the entire project. What you have here is a dull to mediocre sign, not a logo. Don't feel bad, 99% of what people put forth as logos are not logos at all, merely signs.

Your proposed logo is as childish as the name itself. Before you commit to that awful name, you might take an informal poll seeing just how many cutesy named businesses are around after a year or so. You can always be the exception but don't bet the rent on it.

Probably. Second hand software is basically worth whatever you can get for it. Including nothing at all. Quoting prices for Flexi is basically meaningless. No one no how pays list price for it straight out. More often than not it's bundled with this or that. Flexi is almost always acquired as...

It looks like a parade float from Mars that had a collision with the Car of the Future from the 1956 worlds fair.

Of course. I currently use an Excel workbook with separate sheets for signs, banners, RTA, printing, and art prints on stretchers. Each of these sheets are fundamentally the same but each integrates various things unique to that particular niche which it supports. For example, on the...

The major problem with Estimate is that it's extremely difficult to generate anything even close the same price for functionally identical products. The system deals in far too much meaningless minutia and not the bigger picture. It assumes an Aristotelian universe in which everything is unique...

In this case they are arbitrary but they are close to what I actually use. The delta between the min and the max is what determines when the curve produced by the algorithm becomes asymptotic about the minimum value. Which I want to occur around a 4x8 or so. I set my min and max by asking...