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I'd rather be beaten with chains than participate in any way with EBay, and it's vicious offspring, PayPal. It's not the way gentlebeings should do business.

Did you align the capping station after you replaced the maintenance station? From the looks of things, you didn't do this. The machine will do this for you if you invoke the maintenance menus at power-on time and then select the proper functions. The procedure is outlined in the maintenance...

And I'd probably tell you that those might look stunning to you there in 8 and 12 point but blow them up to significant sign size and what appears on your business card as harmonious may become somewhat discordant on a sign. Moreover your sign might look more like something that indicates a...

There's no real functional difference. There is, however, a rather large philosophical difference. Offhand I couldn't think of anything more useless, actually counter-productive, than 20,000 fonts. Most all computer font file type faces are inappropriate for sign work. If the truth be known...

Simple. Assuming that you used Effects->Contour Cut, separate the contour from the object. Now you can tidy up the line that represents the contour using the standard node editing tools. The line will remain a contour line regardless of how you mess with it. Unless you invoke Arrange->Contour...

Corel's a snap. Just put the bitmap over the gradent, or vice versa and use the interactive transparency tool on the object that's on top. Flexi's not so co-operative. You really can't get there from there.

Knowing the correct nomenclature is at least half of all understanding. To 'crop' is generally accepts as to remove a geometrically regular subset from an image, a rectangle, an oval, whatever. To contour cut is to trace an arbitrary line on an image. Usually the outline of the image itself...

If an object requires lots of nodes, then the object requires lots of nodes. For any image there is an optimum number of nodes required to render it faithfully. Any more nodes than actually required and you get artifacts. Any fewer and you lose detail. If you have an object with so many...

If you do a quick trace, you get pretty much what Corel gives you. If you use the Power Trace, by selecting anything but Quick Trace, you can can control the number of nodes generated with the various controls this dialog provides. Don't worry about what the type of image, Line, Logo, Clip Art...

If memory serves that's a rebranded Graphtec. An FC7000-100 I believe.

It's some sign writer's hand, not a typeface. Look at the weird slant of the 'c' and the 't' as well as the difference in thickness of the 'e' and 'o'. There's lots of other clues as well but those are sufficient.

Expanding upon the original query... Using Flexi 7.6V2 and a Graphtec FC7000. In Flexi's cut/plot dialog there's a selection on the Advanced tab to enable cutting optimization within an arbitrary area, default is 10". The plotter also has a sort option to optimize X axis media motion with pen...

Perhaps I didn't explain it clearly. I do pretty much as you do with the exception that if I don't happen to have any of something and have to buy a full sheet, then that full sheet is charged against that job, or jobs if circumstances permit. Alumalite, Dibond, and, gag, MDO fall into that...

Think again. I certainly would, and have. I make no bones about it to the client if they have to buy a whole sheet of something. They know this up front and they're welcome to cart off the remainder. They paid for it. Having them take it with them means that I don't have to find a place to...

Your analogies are specious. You cannot compare custom goods to mass produced commodities. Even the oil change is essentially a mass produced commodity. If I have to trot out and buy specific materials for a job the job must pay for all of those materials. Be that some special media...

As previously noted, fundamental to this trade is the written word which includes but is not limited to elementary spelling and grammar. If you cannot demonstrate the ability to deal with these basics, how then do you expect anyone to understand what you want, let alone supply it? If you want...

It depends on content. There are some things that Flexi seems unable to handle. Simple vector stuff comes over straight away, usually. Various combinations of complex fills, transparencies, drop shadows, and bound special effects tend to upset it.

You confuse an injunction against doing something with preventing someone from doing it. Not the same thing. All the former does is provide for some sort of action should you be caught doing whatever it is. Those using the questionable material are merely getting away with it and unless someone...

Trace isn't a stand alone executable in 13. It's just a part of Draw.

You might want to read about the 'Expand' setting in the plotter's manual. Even without the Expand set to something besides zero, 2 1/2" is silly. I routinely give up about an inch or so and I'm fairly generous with the roller settings. If I tighten it up some I can reduce the total margin to...