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Perhaps you learned this bit of drivel when you attended some seminar at the Institute for Advanced Pollyannaism but out in the real world there is an abundance of stupid questions. For example: Does 7 divided by 3 taste salty or is it loud? Treating a real live stupid question seriously is...

What you want is the 'Sensor Offset Adjustment' in your manual. This adjusts the logical distance from the sensor to the blade to conform to the physical distance of same. If it is not properly set contour cuts will be consistently off in one direction or another. Y is the direction of carriage...

Create the drop shadow with the normal Flexi tool. Separate it. Convert it to a transparent bitmap. Use the bitmap blur tool full on 4 times. Full on is 16 pixels. This produces a rather anemic and somewhat unsatisfactory faded drop shadow.

True tangential cutting, as seen on some Summa machines, means that that blade is physically rotated to be pointing in the proper direction before each cut. Tangential emulation, such as that used by Graphtec, means that the machine relies on various positioning techniques to try to make sure...

Better than that, orders of magnitude better, get Alien Skin Eye Candy, especially the 'Impact' package, and make your own.

Use the shift key and select the other half with the same magic wand. Or enable "Select Similar" if the background color does not appear in the part of the bitmap you want to keep.

First off, the downforce setting on a Graphtec is not in grams or anything else for that matter. They're just numbers. Moreover it's not a linear scale, 20 is far more than twice as much as 10. Figure it out, the plotter goes from 20 to 600 grams yet the force numbers only go from 1 to 48. The...

How did you keep the taped top and bottom on the top line from bleeding into the wood from under the tape?

It occurs most often when you print a large gradient or a bitmap that's created from a gradient. Instead of a smooth transition from shade to shade the gradient shows distinct steps of color that really have no business being where they are on the gradient. This is different from seeing...

Regardless of specifics, chromatic banding is most often an artifact from the dither algorithm. Try changing to the highest quality and concomitantly slowest dither method offered by whatever software you might be running.

Being off 2" in 20' is an error or 1 part in 120. Not great. That same error in a 1' print would be 1/10". It sounds as if you need to set your output feed compensation. Do this in Production Manager. Select the printer setup and do Setup->OUtput Size Compensation... Follow the instructions...

Rantings of the copyright police notwithstanding, the notion of 'converting' a bitmap to a vector image is a bit of a fantasy. One does not convert a bitmap to a vector, one must redraw it. The information simply does not exist in a bitmap, even a bitmap that was made from a vector image, to...

Once in Corel an object is simply an object. There is nothing special about having been imported from this or that source. Using Corel's reduce nodes function requires that you select the object, invoke the Shape Tool, and then select the nodes you want to reduce with either a marquee...

All you have to do is either display the full ASCII chart of the font file in question, found under Start->Accessories->System Tools->Character Map or invoke whatever passes for 'Insert Special Characters" in whichever software package you might be using. They ALL have this feature known by...

When you say raceway do you mean the inner and/or outer bearing race, the cylinders between which the actual bearings ride, or do you mean the ways upon which the outer race of the bearing travels? If the former, a wee bit of silicone or 3-in-1 oil assuming the bearings are not sealed. If...

Simple. Just print a full Pantone color chart on the substrate your using. Then when you want a specific color, just find the color on your printed chart that's closest. If you have a color sample that's a tweener, that would be between two tones, go with the darker of the two. With digital...

Sure you can. All it requires is a little elementary arithmetic. You don't even have to do any long division. Better yet, if you're using Flexi, it will do the arithmetic for you. Attend... The 1204 has a right margin of 3mm. At least mine does, I seem to vaguely recall that you can set this...

When did you get yours? I received mine in February of this year and it's a Mutoh, not a Prismjet. The speed upgrade is, apparently, just firmware and if you insist SW will throw it in for nothing. They did for me. The biggest regret is buying the take-up system. It's very well made and...

Really? I've owned two 48" printers and never, as in ever, wished I had bought something wider. 99% of everything I print, excepting banners, is on 30" media. I find that size most convenient for one person to wrangle. The 48" ValueJet can run media up to 51.nnn inches wide and can print...

Stop, you keep setting off my bullsh1t detector.