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They're great if that's your style. They're a bit too much cartoon to suit me although there's two I'll be collecting, Jill's favorite script and something called 'Marquee' for those odd times when I feel the need for a really casual sans alphabet. Perhaps a couple of others, who knows...

This is your version of sarcasm, right? If not, a 1/4 inch in 20 feet is unacceptable performance. Any machine worth the powder to blow it across the street should demonstrate repeatability of a couple of .01's on sizes of this magnitude.

Exactly what you do depends very much on exactly what software you are using, exactly what features your hardware has, and exactly what technique you have chosen. Until all of these variables are nailed down, it's impossible to say. As far as manually locating the registration marks, if your...

If you're off this much, you have something else going on. A 60" cut might be +-a fraction but not 10". The way it works is... The software, in your case LXi, knows how long, physically, a plotter increment is. Say it's .01mm, just as an example. The software wants to move, say, 60" in...

That was hand painted by that same mythical nephew than can draw. As poor a job of hand lettering as I've seen lately. Don't bother to trace this dreck, redraw it. You can see the flavor of it, now redraw it with a bit more attention to draftsmanship. Assuming that you, unlike the original...

It's late and the machines out in my shop are turned off so I can't verify any of this but... The other day my poll size was grayed out and refused to answer the helm. It turned out to be some other setting in the print/cut that preempted this feature. When I finally figured it out it was...

Sometime back I ran across a font that was a clone of the ultra-extra-bold Roman typically used on currency. I wasn't much interested at the time but, the laws of perversity being ever active, now I am. The face is much like Engravers Bold only bolder and the fillets on the serifs are curved...

Being an unreconstructed old Unix hand and having inflicted various iterations on Linux on myself it's my considered opinion that Linux is the product of frenzied enthusiasts. Sweaty clammy bad complected beings that know little and understand nothing. These specimens may have the odd good idea...

Ah, it becomes clear. You probably don't have enough blade exposed and with this much pressure, way too much, can be dragging the base of the blade holder on the media tending to skew it this way and that. The thing with blade exposure, especially with late model *Graphtecs, is you want...

Glad it's working but someone has some 'splaining to do. Either the descriptions of the problem were not correct and the error was indeed cumulative and not an absolute shift as described or else there's mice loose in the washroom. If the error was indeed cumulative and changing from type 2...

Very interesting that the error is constant and not cumulative and seems to occur beyond some fixed point on the Y axis. At least this is what I assume from the previous tsunami of posts. So either the printer is going short on Y or the plotter is going long on Y at this point on Y. If...

Do you have an actual reason for this? I ask because I'm planning on doing exactly that and see no particular reason not to do so. I'm planning on using Oracal 5600 cast which it touted as being flexible, conformable, and printable on a tailgate wrap. I figure I'd use Oracal 290 cast...

When you say 'width' do you mean in the plotter's X or the Y direction? X being the direction of media movement and Y being the direction of tool carriage movement. Assuming you went through some sort of traditional contour cut registration process to start the job and assuming when you say...

That model gives every appearance of a Chinese knock-off of a Fastsnap. Beware that some of these may have the dies mounted upside down so that the reeve is on the top and the grommet is on the bottom. It will work that way but you can't see what in hell you're doing if you're using...

Whatever you do with it, from calling a squad of beings in airtight suits to dumping it on the ground to pouring it down a convenient drain, will have no measurable effect on anything. The probability of using it to destroying civilization as we know it is exactly zero. Just pour it out...

Pretty much, it's supposed to be a standard independent of manufacturer. I always buy whatever might be on sale from whomever has the best deal of the moment and have never had a problem.

Perhaps I used some word or invoked some concept with which you are not familiar. That's all right, ignorance is its own reward... Sad though, the apparent state of public education as demonstrated by what seems to be your somewhat less than incisive knowledge of elementary geometry.

Exactly so, but to do it correctly you need two yardsticks arranged in an 'L'. Then draw your rectangle, now square, over the yardsticks, mask the photo into the rectangle and then make the rectangle 36x36. This will properly scale the photo and account for both horizontal and vertical...

Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, your typical wide format printer is not a device known to XP or any other flavor of Windows. It's not configured as Yet Another peripheral connected to the computer. This printer must be completely driven by it's very own and very specialized software. It...

If your plotter does not possess an automatic registration sensing apparatus it's perfectly possible to do acurate contour cutting. As long as the same software does the print as does the contour cutting and is aware of both. This is how it works, in Flexi... Create a contour cut path...