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What Fred said. Sometimes these dialogs get positioned off of your display for some reason unknown to me. Bring up Flexi and make sure the missing dialog is enabled. Minimize Flexi and right click on your desktop and select Properties->Settings. Set your screen resolution to the highest...

Your sensor offset is not properly adjusted. I don't know where it would be in your FC8000 manual but in my FC7000 manual the procedure you want is section 6-19 "Sensor Offset Adjustment (method 1)" and section 6-20 ""Sensor Offset Adjustment (method 2)". Both methods involve printing a +...

If you want to print, you'll need a printer. If you want to cut vinyl, you'll need a plotter. Laminator? Rotary cutter? There are other ways. Spend the money you would have blown on a laminator and a rotary cutter on a couple couple of large tables [4x8 ok, 5x10 better, 6x12 best], cutting mats...

It's a set of filters that you can buy. Well worth the money. www.alienskin.com There are three packages that make up Eye Candy. Most people buy all three but the Impact package which does bevels and chrome, among other things, by far sees the most use. The others not so much.

Corel's bevel effect is really a transparent bitmap. Exporting to Flexi can be problematic, especially if you're trying to use an EPS file. Try exporting to a CMX file or publishing to a PDF. If the CMX works that's your best bet. If not try the PDF although when you import a PDF into Flexi, you...

True. Ideally blade depth and down force should be independent, especially with Graphtec's soft landing technology. But they're not independent. On my FC7000 I generally set the force to 20 and then diddle the blade depth to get that ideal crease but not cut indentation in the backing. This...

I have no idea whether it's a good thing or not, only that it offends my sense of propriety.

No. The manufacturer's identification identifies what the thing itself is. It says so right on the vehicle's registration. I refused to take delivery of my S2000 until a menial from the dealership removed their label, much to the chagrin of the upper echelons there at the dealer. It is a Honda...

Never. It's their space, not mine. I feel the same way about auto dealers that slap their names on vehicles they sell. If they want me to buy the thing and they've had the temerity to stick their name on it, they get to scrape off. Period. Not arguments, no concessions. Off it comes. It's my...

This is an artifact of a copyright system that was forged before technology rendered it ridiculous. They can huff and they can puff but, by their own rules, you're licensed to used a file filled with a specific pattern of 1's and 0's and any subset of any of that collection. A particular...

Let's see, I invest in a font file for whatever reason. Probably because I needed to set on or two words in it at one time or another. Now you expect me to let you benefit from my investment because??? If you want to be in this business, properly equip yourself. That means if you need a...

Nonsense. I get this every year from various clients. I tell them I'm a retail business no different than a clothing or grocery store and I have no 1099 relationship with them. I'm neither an employee nor a contractor, I'm a merchant. I have never, as in ever, sent any client a W-9. I explain...

Mostly but not 100%.

LHF Sarah Script, most definitely from Letterhead Fonts but it does seem to have fallen off their lineup. Go figure.

Try setting bitmap to 'perceptual' and gradient to 'Spot'. Perceptual generally gives a more robust and predictable bitmap and Spot yields far more predictable gradients.

To what are your rendering intents set?

I've been in this business longer than most of you have been alive. In all of those years there's been exactly 2 times that someone appropriated my work from proofs or sketches. One of those times the larceny was questionable and rather flattering, the other I took to small claims court and...

Fred has it right. It's just a layout. I don't charge for that either, I have to lay the thing out, it's simply part of making a sign and included in the cost. There are few things in life more irksome than a cheap chisler, or even the appearance of being a cheap chisler. That's what charging...

All a service contract is is a bet that you will do less violence to your machine than the cost of the service contract. Moreover, no one is doing you any favors by offering you a service contract. Notwithstanding the standard litany of horror stories wherein having a service contract saved...

You claim you can 'build anything' yet you can't throw together a simple table off the top of your head?