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That's what I figured. The color panels are far too well done to be the product of any algorithm I've ever seen. There is some software available but the results are too crude for my purposes. I guess I'll just do it by hand...

I'm seeking a posterization filter that will produce results like those in the Charles Schwab TV commercials. If one exists. The filter produces rather regular tracts of well defined color, not blotchy undisciplined blobs as does all of the posterization filters I've seen to date. If someone...

How large are the prints you're trying to cut? Flexi has problems with anything much larger than 30"-36". Do you have the latest and greatest firmware upgrade in your plotter? Is your Flexi 7.6v2? This was a chronic problem a couple of years ago and the combination of Flexi 7.6v2 and...

Clean your encoder strip. When you changed the belt you might have left a big nasty thumb print or something on it.

Thanks for the information. I guess I'll stick with OEM inks for the nonce.

Anyone ever tired Lava inks? I'm currently herding a Mutoh Falcon Outdoor 48 and all I've ever used have been OEM inks. They, of course, tout instant plug-in and 100% profile compatibility. The price is certainly right for the Lava inks but the stilted language and lack of a toll-free number...

No. It's quite simple. In fact you can construct most any envelope from those few provided. Hint: Envelopes are flippable and rotatable. Another hint: On some envelopes the ctl key will allow for individual node adjustment.

You can buy eye droppers at any drug store. You can buy syringes at any farm supply/feed store.

So do I...

You use a RIP because this isn't a desktop printer on steroids. It's a digital printing machine and you have to become at least a semi-skilled digital pressman to realize anything resembling acceptable and more importantly, consistent results. On a variety of sometimes wildly different media...

You want to select your text and then invoke the Envelope Tool. This tool is found on a flyout on the tool bar on the left side of the display

There's no real good way to do this via algorithm. It's a judgment job and you really have to handcraft these. But be of good cheer, there are single stroke fonts and, if memory serves, there might be a few included with Corel.

Learn to make your own registration marks, contour cut paths, and use the plotter's auto and/or manual mark sensing instead of Flexi's. Once you figure this out, and it's not particularly difficult, you'll never have to toss a job and start again. Basically you create your contour path the...

Are you keeping proper tension on the media roll? Are you starting off with a loose loop in your media? You want the machine to pull the media off the roll with just a bit of tension. This keeps the media flat as it proceeds through the feed rollers. You absolutely positively don't want any...

If you subscribe to the notion that truth is a product of consensus then they may be your cup of tea. For the most part truth is indeed consensus. As Ludwig Wittgenstein observed "Things are what it makes sense to say about them." But this doesn't mean that each and every fruitcake opinion...

You can contour cut bitmaps in Flexi as easy as with any other package. You don't necessarily need a discreet path, given the proper circumstances Flexi will construct one for you with the Effects->Contour Cut function. The proper circumstances being a bitmap with a transparent background. Flexi...

The most profitable thing you can print? Ransom notes.

You have Flexi. There's no difference between Flexi and LSi except for the name. None, nada, zip, zero. When you say 'Vinyl Express' do you mean one of those GCC Panther monstrosities? If so, therein lies your problem. Their OPS is a first class piece of shit.

Probably not a typeface. Oliver's been around since dirt and this was probably done by hand. Or not, who knows. You might start with Futura to give you the round 'O' and diddle what you need to make the rest match. Shouldn't take you but a couple of minutes to reproduce this.

Tape the corners to the table and mask right over the tape. If you didn't leave enough margin to do this then you didn't leave enough margin.