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This is pretty basic stuff. Make the bars one object or, failing that, a group. Select the text and then select the bars. Invoke the 'trim' or 'cutout' or whatever they're calling it function. There you are...

What does the manual say? Wow, right there on page 3.2 it tell you to hold down the 'Next' key down at the same time as the position arrows to move at flank speed. Fancy that.

On my machine it's called 'Caxton Bk BT' bold. A dead on match.

What does it matter? Just pick something close that's equally illegible.

Would someone be so kind as to explain the technique for cleaning a window with a bar of soap. I assume that Bon Ami is some sort of soap or soap-like substance. I've always used a mixture of lacquer thinner, water, and sometimes a bit of alcohol.

Wet vs. dry is roughly the equivalent of the sheepmen vs. the cattlemen. Do whatever gets you off. Dry inherently is the more secure method. With dry, when it's down it's down. With wet when it's down it's just sitting there until everything drys. As far as window washers and squeegees, if...

Just pour it out on the ground. Preferably someplace where you won't mind if it stains the area black. A couple of ounces of anything you're likely to generate isn't going to alter the course of history no matter what you do with it. This what I've been doing for years now. If it pisses...

You create them in Flexi and store them somewhere. Invoke the 'Add' function and browse to the file you want to include as a shape. Select it and there you are. But why would you want to clog up the mechanism with even more obscure shapes to manage? You can just as easily drag that same file...

This can work for non-bitmap data. Don't try it with a bitmap or it will look like an exercise in mud wrestling. While it can work sometimes, it's rather a naive approach. Far better to develop an actual understanding of The Way Things Are and exploit that understanding. While you may find...

You can spend the equivalent of the national debt of a small country to profile all of your equipment and media such that what you see on your monitor is what you get on the printer. Or simply become sufficiently familiar with your gear and you'll get to the point where you just naturally know...

I find a magnifier lamp, a large round lens with circular fluorescent around it, on a arm to be handy for those times when the stuff is small and/or there's insufficient contrast to easily see the cuts. Office Depot, Office Max, etc for maybe $50. Indispensable.

Make sure your marks are properly sized. If you're using your own manual marks then instead of selecting 'Auto Reg', select 'Manual' on the plotter and follow the instructions on the plotter's display. If you're using automatic registration via the software and it fails to find the marks...

My preference for type 2 marks in mostly prejudice but since these marks enclose the image it can give you another inch plus or minus of image area. The manual marks I use are made of a pair of rectangles .011 inches by .5 inches as per some long forgotten document downloaded from Graphtec. I...

You might want to familiarize yourself with the plotter's various pre-feed settings available to you. As well as check the down force settings of the pressure rollers. Pre-feed isn't just an obscure nicety, it's necessary for accurate operation. I have exactly the same plotter, properly...

Probably not, but it doesn't carry the death penalty either..

For openers, you might try using Flexi as it was designed. Contour cuts in Flexi are not paths with special names or colors or layers or whatever. Contour paths in Flexi are contour paths. You can make any path a contour path merely by doing Arrange->Contour Cut->Make Contour Path. You can...

Probably Flexi, not your plotter. The plotter is hard pressed to make any sort of cut without being told to do so. Are there strokes applied to the objects in question? Double check all of the various settings in the cut/plot dialog. Pay special attention to stroke handling.

The super turbo XL gold LXi. or whatever SW's currently calling the top version of LXi, is the same code as the next to top version of Flexi. Whatever they happen to be calling it. The top of the line Flexi Pro has no LXi equivalent. The major difference between Flexi Pro and the fire-burnout...

Avery Jupiter is available in 48" 13oz. Sign Warehouse stocks it. It prints as well as anything, just be careful of Avery's canned profiles, then tend to suck. I print it with an Oracal 3651 ultra ink profile and it prints perfectly. Your mileage may vary. To be real honest, there's not a...

The point to understand is what comes off your printer is the truth, nothing else matters. To this end, print up a Pantone chart on whatever media you're using with whatever profile you're using for that media. That then is the truth for that particular combination. Regardless of what you...