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No magnetics. It sticks to the machine, which has much metal. For magnetics, it's still best to print on vinyl and then apply to the mag. Gerber EDGE is good for the smaller fridge-mag biz. They have a thinner EDGE-ready mag material. Plus, less metal on an EDGE and it's tractor-feed...

It's not a copyright issue; it's a trademark issue. Using a logo sans permission is classic trademark infringement. Typically what happens is nothing. Next most typical is they send a cease and desist; you should. In rare cases, where damages can be measured, monetary awards are granted...

Print-cut and banners are near opposites. If you have a cutter that you can use to contour-cut, SignWarehouse has the end-all of printers under 10K. I don't see any deals posted on their Web site currently. But if they we're selling PrismJet VJ48s for 9K a couple weeks ago, they can match...

Yep; I'm in the sign making tools game. Hardware was getting brutal, even before the downturn. I like being with folks on the way up, which we are ... really strong growth numbers over last year ... which is nice for marketing guys. Way less stink-eye from the other departments at work :^)...

What kind of printing will you do? For print-cut decals DC4 roicks. For most other printing, eco-sol inkjet printing is vastly superior.

Rebuild the gradient in Flexi, or it will be splined, I think.

Hmmmm? I'll bet that the color-trapping problem grows slightly with each successive color/foil. Yes? Also, friction feed comes in lots of flavors. Some supremely accurate; much more so than tractor-fed. Others, terribly inaccurate. Factors affecting friction tracking accuracy are...

With all due respect to the owner of this fine establishment, (kidding) the issues you face are very different from the Roland machine. The EDGE will be off due to elongation of the tractor-feed holes in the vinyl. So the degree of error you'll experience will be consistent throughout the...

Thanks T Man! I'm having a blast, actually. So luck is already upon me. Work is fun here in Germany, but I'll be glad to get back to TX once the US op is up and running. Meanwhile, my daughter is flying over for a week ... in a couple days. Then the sweetheart comes for a couple weeks...

Hey! Thanks for the flattering words, Jim. How's things in MI? As cold as it is in Germany? (I am missing my TX sunshine!!!!) Danke,

Hi Checkers, It's been a busy month, and Germany has more holidays than the Roman Catholic Church, but some progress has been made this month on the Euro Website ... or at least we put some lipstick on it: German Yellotools Sign Tools site The US site is in the works; I'll send you a link...

SignWarehouse sells a Chinese cutter that's actually a good machine (made by Redsail). Plus they bundle it with some pretty solid software (Flexi-made). If I made signs, I'd base my biz on something stronger -- definitely Graphtec. But for the not daily/all-day vinyl cutter, R Series, from...

Oh yeah; CoCut is and has been for over a decade, the absolute best CorelDRAW plug-in. "Cutting directly out of Corel" is in fact the old way of doing things. CoCut now takes the design (all or just selected elements) and mmakes them into vinyl-ready vectors, automatically. This is a huge...

Howdy from Dallas!

It sounds as if you're describing a Summa T1010 Plus, the one with pinch rollers for no punched vinyl and variable width pin-feed sprockets for 30 or 15 inch punched materials. Is that correct? I'm not a prospect, but the 1010 Plus is unique and should appeal to momument-grade sign blasters...

It could be the culprit is Epson ... I speculate. But that is who makes the head, and the Yen has been climbing since mid January. I doubt it is greed. Price increases in a down economy are a last resort. My 2 cents,

Roland has an outstanding reputation for reliable, but low-performance, cutters. Graphtec is truly on a much higher level, and always has been. In recent years, with Roland's empasis on printers, which are competitive in price, features and performance, their cutters hhave fallen way behind...

I should add ... Summa build-quality on the internals, the platten and the cutting head is superb. The injection-molded endcaps belie the true quality of a Summa. Technicians will tell you after opening one up that the guts of a Summa are top-rate, even suprisingly top-rate ... even if not at...

Yep; I think that's a fair comparison; the build-quality on Graphtec cutters is superb. But OPOS contour-cutting is second to none. Best,

Oops, missed the T Series (motorized blade rotation) part. Hmmmm? I spent years at Summa believing it better. But I'd put a Graphtec drag-balde up againt a Summa T on small stuff or diamond grade reflective. It'll cut better and waaay faster; the lifting and turning on every angled cut on T...