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  1. "Cut page crossings" Flexi pro

    That's not what this option does. If you have a job that's tiled onto a number of pages this option will cut out each page outline. It will not cut off the media. If you want to have the plotter cut off the media you need to send the proper HPGL to invoke the cutter by including this HPGL in...
  2. Should you fire this employee?

    Perhaps to someone but certainly not to everyone. Of the over 6 billion people on the planet only a minuscule handful mean anything to me. The rest mean nothing and whether they live or die has no effect on me or anyone else except for their special handful. Life is abundant and John Donne was...
  3. Should you fire this employee?

    Perhaps, but the defects to which you refer exist on a broad spectrum ranging from nose picking to mother stabbing and father raping. Some defects are more telling than others. I've always wondered why it is that when someone attempts to kill themselves and botches the attempt all the forces...
  4. Should you fire this employee?

    [/COLOR] Regardless of your voluminous and nonsensical justifications for your position, you are correct. Forgiving the transgression means not having the miscreant hauled off in chains. It does not mean that you give the rascal employment. There's lots of honest people looking for...
  5. How long to wait before lamination?

    An operational fallacy. It does nothing to establish the actual drying time it only serves to confirm that there is a drying time. The question is not whether there exists a drying time but how long is that time. Is it measured in minutes, hours, or days? If a print is dry to the finger tip...
  6. Graphtec FC7000 & Flexi problem

    Check to see if the plotter is in GPGL mode. Cutting Master works in GPGL and Flexi works in HPGL.
  7. Embellished Fonts?

    In the printing and typesetting trade these are generally referred to as 'Dutch Initials' regardless of the actual face used for the letter. Regardless of what they're called, you should only ever use one, as in one, as a drop in paragraph starter for the first paragraph of a chapter or to lead...
  8. Business Card Bashing!

    This is a great example of why sign people should not do business cards. You're dealing with a massive seven square inches, not square feet. All of the effects that sign people tend to affect when they're trying to show off are lost in that minuscule area. Worse than lost, they muddy the waters...
  9. Three weeks in to the Graphtec CE5000-60

    Do you mean tracking or do you mean repeatability? If you mean tracking, setting up for roll goods is a matter of making sure the roll is wound square, even tension on the roll when you drop the lever, and making sure your rollers are all set to max pressure. Setting up for sheet goods is a...
  10. How long to wait before lamination?

    Here's why you'd want to do that. Here's a sketch of a recent job. These were prints laminated with dry-erase mounted on foam core. The print wanted to be cut to the actual contour of the image but the dry erase laminate wanted to be cut so that it completely covered the foam core substrate. I...
  11. Need a fast way to cut off decals

    Without some really impressive equipment, of which you have none, there is no fast or efficient way to either print or cut 20,000 of anything. Sub this out to someone with the proper tackle.
  12. Almost killed yesterday

    Really? How much per gallon of fuel used do your and your bicycle pay? Regardless of whether or not roads come out of general funds, a motor vehicle pays significant taxes that a bicyclist does not. Those motor vehicles owned and operated by bicyclists pay per gallon of fuel bought and...
  13. Almost killed yesterday

    On the day that people on bicycles are required to carry the very same liability indemnification that I am, pay the same taxes I pay**, are capable of the same speeds as me, and capable of stopping from those speeds in the same distance as me, I will grudgingly accept them on public roadways...
  14. Critic Magnet

    Jill's is a hell of a lot better but it's still a dreary looking thing. If it were me, I'd drop the tag line, no one is ever going to read it much less care, de-emphasize the roof line by emphasizing the 'ABSOLUTE', make 'Construction' part of the name rather than some sort of add-on, and...
  15. Not a "what would you do?" But a "should I do..."

    Exactly so. The question would seem to be one of producing shoddy work rather than one of copyright infringement. A watermark is only an identification stamp not a theft prevention mechanism. Even more so since the purveyors of stock images freely give out watermarked images with no...
  16. Mutoh questions

    That's one answer, now then, to what are your rendering intents set?
  17. Christmas postcard

    A journeyman job I'm sure. Other than Santa should be facing in, not out. Of the four objects casting shadows, one of them appears to be representing a different light source than the other three. As well as the disunited design elements sort of floating around the scene. Other than those...
  18. Prints coming up short

    Set the Output Size Compensation in Production Manager by select the setup and do Setup->Output Size Compensation...
  19. Contour Cutting Coro

    Cutawl. The tool specifically designed for this job. Failing that, a band saw or, third choice, a scroll saw. Using a router for this is swatting flies with a sledgehammer.
  20. banding on gradient prints

    Increasing the fountain fill steps might do something for you but if you have the option in your software select the highest quality dither and gradient algorithms. In Flexi these would be on the advanced tab in the Rip and Print dialog. In Flexi choose the top item on each of the menus. The RIP...
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