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RGB always and ever. RGB is the color mode of monitors and if you keep things in some other mode you imply conversions to and from RGB everytime you access and/or save something. Implied conversion because they may or may not physically take place, depending. Just assume the worst. Anytime you...

The red blade holder takes the sturdier .15 blades. The blue uses the .09 blades. The difference is more iron into the material and more lateral stability for cutting thick and/or tough media.

For rolls of media first make sure the material is wound reasonably tight and is dead straight on the core. Next make sure that the pressure rollers are set to maximum pressure. Put the roll of material on the two rollers in back and lock the front roller with the little lever on the...

There's no reasonable way to get there from here. At a minimum the plotter needs to be able to sense registration marks. The software may or may not be able to play in the game but the plotter has to. The problem being that the print will not be exactly the dimensions specified in the design...

Do you actually know if the shipper damaged the machine? If UPS damaged it then UPS is liable to make things right. Did you contact UPS to make a claim?

I do it on larger prints. Flexi/Graphtec often have a problem auto registering stuff much larger than 30-40 inches. If the auto registration fails, there's seldom any way to save it. Most often you end up scrapping the print and have to try again. The problem is that Flexi doesn't publish the...

I can tell you how to do it with a Graphtec but I'm not sure how much of that will translate into the Roland world. I do this all the time, use my own registration marks, in Flexi. There's no need to have Flexi even aware of a contour path if you go about it right. With a Graphtec FC7000 it...

In this shop, in Flexi, all work is done in RGB except for gradient fills, these are always set to CMYK. The rendering intents are all set to 'Spot' except for bitmaps which are set to 'Perceptual'. I print a complete Pantone chart on whatever media I might be using, which aren't all that...

I assume you're referring to the bottom line on the lozenge shape. Is this in the X or Y direction? Are the malfeasant cuts always in one direction or in both X and Y? Is the blade holder worn? Is it properly installed? Is it tight in the tool carriage? Have you greased the little ball...

One time, long ago, I was asked just how something worked. I explained at length exactly how it worked. The specimen who asked then said "Well, it can't work that way so come on, how does it work?" To which I replied "It works any way you want it to work." and turned and walked off. There are...

This is not a desktop printer on steroids. If you try to run it by algorithm you're going to be frustrated at best. Running these machines is far more art than science and requires the services of a skilled digital pressman, not reading off a checklist. Knowledge without understanding will get...

Historically Corel has included actual functional goodies in odd numbered releases and eyewash and pleasant screen arrangements in the even numbered releases. If you pass up all of the even releases you won't miss much. Get X3 which is Corel's way of saying '13' without saying '13' and then wait...

Are there two black objects, the outline and the drop shadow? If so make them one object by either separating the drop shadow and the outline, if necessary, and welding them or turn on 'auto-weld' in the cut and plot dialog. Note that the auto-weld feature sometimes does odd things, much better...

It's merely the decimal value of the character with a leading zero. There's a plethora of ASCII* equivalence charts, just do a search for 'ASCII'. Be sure and select one that's decimal and not octal or hexadecimal. You can tell if it's decimal if some character has a digit in its equivalence...

Sign Warehouse is neither bad nor good, it's rather ordinary. You can get better materials for a better price elsewhere. Especially with them wanting at least a $300 order before they ship for free. Any material packing 'Endura' as part of its name generally isn't worth the powder to blow it...

When you combine you end up with one object that will be, if memory serves, at the level of the first object selected for combination. The Object Manager is your friend in this. Open it and see just where everything is in the object stacking order. In the Object Manager you can drag objects...

Something distressed that looks as if it might have been penned by Thomas Jefferson. I used to have a few of these but they seem to have disappeared. I can't for the life of me remember where I got them.

My great grandmother was full Chippewa, which means exactly nothing to me other than I could score some sort of tribal largesse if I were so inclined. I'm not. If I were doing something with an indian flavor I'd probably gravitate towards Hobo or may be Mister Earl.

Hieroglyphics and curiously knotted strings. Indians, tomahawk not turban, were not much at written languages and even less at typography. Doubtful that there's any such thing as an indian looking type face. Apropos of nothing; why is it that gringos refer to them as 'Native Americans' but...

The handiest part of this feature is the ability to enter fractions. If you want to express, say, 7/16" just enter 7/16. A fraction being nothing more than notation for division, in this case 7 divided by 16. You can combine these expressions so that you can express, say, 7 5/8 by entering...