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I have no idea, nor do I care. I was simply recounting what one can do, not what one ought or ought not to do.

No magic incantations, no secret decoder rings, no other applied paranoia, just install it like always. There's no mechanism to prevent you from installing your copy on every machine in the western hemisphere, all you need is the code printed on the box for each installation.

Hah. I experience this error and my size compensation is right on the money. Or as near as I can determine with manual measurement. Moreover, when I use my own manual registration marks the plotter detects them within 2 or 3 1/100's of an inch of right where they're supposed to be. I know this...

You're absolutely correct, the Graphtec ARMS works incredibly well. But Flexi has problems with it, that's why it's quite common to be unable to register a print created with Flexi. The anomaly seems to be directly proportional to the length of the print. Anything over 3 or 4 feet stands a real...

Ok, heres a copy, with dimensions, of the reg mark I was talking about. The width of each leg wants to be .013". You put one of these in each corner of the rectangle that bounds your print. They MUST be square with each other. The light pen is easy, try this... Load some media, any media...

Questions... What software are you using? What registration mark type? You want to use type 2 if you can. Does it read any marks at all? If so, on which mark does it fail? Do you have sufficient space betwen the pinch rollers and the marks? If you're using Flexi, it seems to have...

The new features fill a void but the implemetation is maddening in some cases. The new trace is a thing of beauty and is worth the price for that alone. The step and repeat function only allows one direction at a time which is annoying. Likewise the color adjustment lab and the cutout...

Aw shucks...But to answer Vinnie's question, yes, leave the settings right there unless you have some actual specific reason to change any of them.

Perhaps a couple of things to check. First make sure that both pinch rollers are set to max pressure via the levers on the back. Second, especially if the error occured when feeding media back into the machine, check your pen up speed. You want it to be no more than the pen down speed, if...

EPS==Encapsulated Post Script. Ecapsulated, as in a wrapper. An EPS file is a container for layers of vector, text, and raster objects. What was put into the file is what comes out of the file. If a bitmap comes out of an EPS file then a bitmap was put into that EPS file. If that's all...

Try a bandsaw instead, preferably one with a speed reducer for cutting steel.

Traditional wisdom holds that you can't run a standard vanilla Centronics cable much farther than the 6 feet or so that it is long. No doubt you can take heroic measures with all manner of specialty hardware, but the simple cable all by itself pretty much is limited to 6-10 feet.

Not a group, in fact they can't be a group. Select each and all of the black and white objects to be combined. The Combine function should now be enabled. Invoke it. Depending on just what was where, the combined image may be white instead of black. Just change its color.

Here is the definitive answer. XP can install Type 1 fonts with no problem, the ATM is built into XP, all editions of XP. The standard Start->Settings->Control Panel->Fonts->File->Install New Fonts will work just fine for Type 1 fonts. But whether or not the Type 1 fonts show up on a font...

It's always amusing to encounter so much mis-information in one stack. This is the soil in which urban legends are grown. 1. Not only is it not against any law [specifically in the USA, I can't speak for other lands] to load and run Flexi on multiple machines, their very own user's manual...

Yes, but the machine with the hasp key has to be running Production Manager. And Flexi will only allow one iteration of itself to be running at one time on the machines in the network. You ought to share your C drives as well. Unless you're keeping secrets from each other there's no reason...

I do this daily. I have two machines, one in the shop and one in the house, each with a Belkin wireless card set up on a peer-to-peer network. The machine in the shop has the hasp key but Flexi is installed on both machines. I don't do this as a stunt, this is how I work. No tricks, no stunts...

Did you rotate the image in the Rip and Print or in the Production Manager? Flexi has some real problems rotating EPS files. It'll sit there processing and ripping away for seemingly ever then, more often than not, come up with a rip error. If that's the case, try rotating the image to the...

As previously noted, repeatablity. Repeatability is returning to the same point from whence you started, regardless of blade up or down. Did you check the tension levers on all of the feed rollers? Are they all set to maximum pressure? If they aren't set to max or, worse, they all aren't set...

Ah, a repeatability problem. Ok, on this plotter the feed rollers have two force settings, make sure that all of them are set to max. Organize the job by optimizing the cut order so you're not running the media back and forth needlessly. That's about all I have to offer, not being...