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  1. Coke art

    Interesting. Back in the late 60's/early 70's I had a dress shirt, bought at Macy's I do believe, that at first glance looked like a floral pattern. Closer inspection revealed that the 'flowers' were repeated full color images of Mickey humping Minnie. Do you suppose that Disney Inc authorized...
  2. Coke art

    Just do a Google image search. There's a plethora of Coca Cola images, old an new, to be found there.
  3. Four police killed

    Get your facts straight. The bad guy was in prison since he was 16 on a bazillion year sentence. The governor did not let him out. Rather he commuted the sentence to a lesser number of years thereby making the guy eligible for parole. He was subsequently paroled. Ergo the parole board...
  4. Cartoon Characters

    I should think that first I'd worry more about the god-awful typography than the silly acorn character.
  5. From corel to flexi

    The best way to export out of Corel and into Flexi is to use a cmx file. Neither Corel nor Flexi handle eps and ai files elegantly. Even with cmx files there are things to know. An outlne in Corel is a stroke in Flexi. Best to use contour instead of outlines in Corel. Corel has no feature which...
  6. 5 things you didnt know about me game

    1. I think all wine, except for Medoc, tastes like salad dressing. 2. I know why there was an equatorial trench around the death star in the first Star Wars production. 3. Like Woody Allen, I want to achieve immortality not through my work but by not dying. 4. I often ponder a...
  7. A Sign for the holiday season.

    Do not change type faces in the middle of a thought. Either that or reduce the two lines about the wonderland to a preface style tag line and increase, and please please no matter what change the type face, on the line with the bullet items. As it stands right now, it's jarringly discordant.
  8. layout critique

    Find a better pig if you can. Regardless, make the pig larger so that it impinges on the text and becomes part of the thing. Right now it's a disembodied head floating there. The try to do something else with the copy. You've got the entire space filled to the gunwales with text. No breathing...
  9. Most common abc's

    etaoin shrdlu is also what you get when you clear a line of botched type on a Linotype machine by running your fingers down the first two vertical rows of keys in order to finish the line and kick it out of the machine. Back in the days of hot type. Every now and then the erroneous slug would...
  10. BannerPro Banner Hemming & Pocket System???

    I could hem a banner with tape faster and more securely than I could this sandwich bag sealer on steroids.
  11. printing bad colors

    Who did the 3561 profile? where did you get it? If you don't know what rendering intents are your really should learn before you run out and try to print something. When you figure out what and where they are, set everything but bitmap to 'No Color Correction'. Set bitmap to 'Perceptual"
  12. Dealing with a client that doesn't pay. What to do???

    No, they would not. Police deal in criminal matters, such as your vandalism. They are unconcerned with civil matters, such as any claim of non-payment you might have. Since there is no such thing as a title to the work in question that is recognized by the apparatus. Any claims of ownership...
  13. printing bad colors

    What media are you printing? What profile are you using? To what are your rendering intents set?
  14. Dealing with a client that doesn't pay. What to do???

    Well then, Clarence Darrow, the worst and most likely thing that could happen is that you'd be in the slammer for some flavor of vandalism and criminal mischief. Not getting paid for a job is a civil matter. Damaging someone's property is a criminal issue. And it most certainly is their...
  15. Favorite masking tool?

    I've been using a single axle Weber for years. You can whomp one up out of a couple of pieces of wood, a length of 1" water pipe, and a couple of C-clamps. Just look at a picture of the Weber and you'll get the idea. I've tried the big squeegee and in this application it's a lot more trouble...
  16. Becoming a Vegetarian...

    The only reason you can become a vegetarian is because you live in a society with sufficient abundance to allow you to indulge this particular perversity. Otherwise you'd be falling on anything smaller and slower than yourself and devouring it. Regardless of the party line touted by...
  17. Flexi & Mutoh,,HELP!!!

    Try this... Create two jobs with "Hold in List" specified in the RIP and print for each. One job, job A, where you print the panel horizontally across the 64" media. Another job, job B, where you print the panel vertically on one side of the 64" media. In Production Manager double click each...
  18. need help quick plz

    Overlap, always. By 1/4" - 1/2" at least. More is better than less. Vinyl isn't absolutely stable, it changes size, shape, and position over time. These may be tiny micro changes but any change at all is sufficient to expose a butt joint. Moreover, the surface to which you're applying the...
  19. need help quick plz

    Are you familiar with the concept of a straight edge and a knife? If it weren't for the print margins, about which you're whining and which most normal people merely trim off, you'd be dumping ink all over your platen.
  20. sometimes words dont look right

    True. Most people never actually read words, they look at the shapes and supply the actual words themselves. This is why, back in the days of actual typesetting, a typesetter would set an entire book and never know what the book was about. Typesetting was done by transcribing words and letters...
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