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I have no clue about the registration mark issue but it would seem if there is a photo sensor issue with gloss material you could print a small area where the registration marks go and bypass any issues by making sure there is a matte ink under the registration marks prior to their printing thus...

Haven't really read thru this thread yet but in response to the original question,..always have been taught and utilized scaffolds over the use of ladders,...I found out a long long time ago you can get much more work done alot faster when you can walk the span of a walkboard instead of doing...

Kudo's to Fred here,...having been an administrator on a sign chat site before it is never easy to follow the rules and administer penalties once someone breaks the rules,..it's kinda like sewing a bullseye on your butt at a shooting range there's always someone who is going to take a pot shot...

hahahahaha great comeback maniac!!!!!! they actually can be specified by 2 co-ordinate points creating a vector on the x and y axis and in degrees if an original x or y axis axis is defined in the design specifications

GACO5 ,...I'm sorry to dispute you but you are confusing three dimensional criteria with two dimensional math,...your attempt at wit is however quite humorous,.... yet I'm going to waste my time disproving your bad math here,...that will cost me for my time involved,...if you really need it...

You are very welcome LindyM,...for those of you who still refuse to accept the facts,... suppose the artwork was 1/2" dots in a pattern centered and repeated in pattern any way you want to arrange them even if they were to be cut in half when LindyM made two separate panels once receiving them...

If I get Fitch right here he started this thread to ask why so many refuse to learn the very basics of the trade they so proudly practice,...I have to say Craig here has the best approach to this concept thus far,...he may not claim to be the best,..but he went to school for what he does and has...

Geometry is the math that dictates this decision. it has been in use since ancient times when the greeks invented it. it is the same currently, as it was 25 years ago the first time i went to college, and the same in ancient times as it will be in the future,...your order stated the width was...

I'm with Gino here,...I'm on lap 57 rapidly approaching lap 58 around an obscure star in a tiny solar system. Any of you folks who haven't completed that many laps are obviously behind me due to the simple fact of physics that you haven't traveled that far in time yet(time being the manner in...

Instead of wondering how you can get customers to come to you grab a handful of business cards and go to them,...don't try to make a sale every time you cold call a customer but be polite and ask them to consider your shop the next time they need or want a sign,be sure to leave them your card...

I'm with you here Joe,...been on my own since '72 and only got one unemployment check,..found the process too humiliating,.......I find a job two or three times a week here,....

I am 57 and about 17 years ago the company that I was a contract billboard illustrator and sign painter for informed one morning that my services would no longer be needed. Seems they had bought a new "digital printer" up until that time if they needed a large picture they had to call someone...

I still have and use my old letraset catalog(to check the names of fonts) they were great for referencing a font so you could freehand a pattern,......

If you want to trace logo's and designs for vector output coreldraw works quite well with a digital tablet.

i wonder how much of the fire dept.'s budget comes from federal and state taxes,if any?

I like to think of myself as a sign artist,having spent twenty-five years doing nothing but painting pictures for outdoor advertising firms(billboard companies for ya'll newbies). I was an artist first then apprenticed the sign trade after a couple of years of formal fine arts training at local...

I can remember when they quit using wood to build billboards and first came out with the steel monopole structures and the heights of billboards went from a max of about 80 feet to well over 150 feet in places. at first I appreciated the added security of the steel but then I ended up on a...

I genuflect (make the sign of the cross) whenever I step on the first rung of the ladder when doing high work(over six stories).

wish I had a quarter for every time I had to paint tha colonel onna billboard here,..we could all eat steak tanite,...

A long time ago I told you it ain't how ya get knocked down that counts,..its how you get back up and fight that counts,...After seeing these two video's it makes me proud to say I have met you,....I'll act like I know ya even though it does embarrass you at times,.....