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Broken poster from the atkinson collection,....http://www.thefontry.com/atkinsonvol1

Customer: I just sent you a file of what I need,... me: I looked at your file,its a 72 dpi jpg of a wrecker,its gonna looked like it was cut out with a chainsaw by the time I enlarge it for your 4x8 sign,.... customer:,...Can't you just enlarge it with the file I sent you? it looks great on my...

+ 1 on the matthews paint,...just started a refurb on about 15 signs we painted 15 years ago for the local university here(Wake Forest). the paint is still good and its hard to get off with a razor scraper when we scrape the old hp vinyl lettering off,...often as not we just barely nick the top...

I just got one for free on the internet,....thats what I call a deal!

it's either squash or a cucumber plant hard to tell just yet,...

Sjm,... "Imagine patrolling through Helmand knowing every step might trigger an IED which will take off your legs or kill you and most of your mates? Imagine being in a compound when the Taliban have surrounded you and are throwing everything including the kitchen sink at you? Ammunition is...

Be careful not to stretch the vinyl fabric in the process. you don't want any stretched wrinkles added to the mix,...also we used to use mineral spirits for glue removal then a quick rinse with denatured alchohol,...no failures to date,...

Buy a $20 pci io lpt card and stick it in your new machine,...plug the lpt dongle into that port,.... download virtual xp mode free from windows,....install it and then run signlab 7 from virtual xp,you'll have to unistall signlab 7 from windows seven and reinstall it into windows xp virtual...

Thank you gonna try this out here,...

At the awning shop I worked at we would use normal intermediate vinyl for eradicating mask,...be careful to seal the edges down good or the fluid will "creep" up under the edge and make a "blurry" edge,...the trick is to use what fluid you need and do it fast before it disolves the glue on the...

There is an old driver for an hp plotter that came with several versions of windows but it is all but useless for cutting vinyl. these guys have given you good advice,...get a software bridge for your design software or a dedicated cas software to drive the plotter,...

That was exactly what I was talking about,... no reason you shouldn't be able to cover the courtesy panel on front there like in your art,..it should work great as long as the greens match at night,..,

If its backlit we used to just wash the white face off with glue remover,prep, and apply translucent vinyl at the sign dept of the awning company where I worked. as long as the area is white I would suggest a dark green base close to the colr of the rest of the awning and add a bit of color to...

which direction is the cutting problem on? the one that the knife holder uses and or the one the whole top assembly moves on? sounds like debris buildup on one or the other rails that the pen holder rides on,....the slightest amount of grime buildup on either rail the pen holder rides on will...

why would one want to know the name of this style in the first place???????????

mickeysoft in their infinite wisdom decided to make all xp and before scanners obsolete with the demise of twain drivers in vista and windows 7,.....the new versions of windows demand a wia(windows image acquisition) drivers thus making alot of the old scanners instantly obsolete and creating a...

When you are 110 feet up in a boswains chair drawing letters tall as or twice as tall if you're sitting in the chair it is easy to miss a letter when the line of copy is over 30 or 40 feet long and you can only reach part of one letter at a time. paper patterns are not an option for work this...

beware of deals on ebay,..a friend just bought one here and by the time he recieved the cd the seller was removed from ebay for selling pirated software seems it didn't come with a dongle and he had to email some guy overseas with a code number to crack it he sent it back and hopefully paypal...

Ya know what? It did make my day,.....

Ya know I've been in this business since 1968 and it is beyond my comprehension why anyone would want to spend their entire career clueless about the knowledge about our trade that is only available in books about hand lettering,and sign painting,...Design principles, proper letter...