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I had to reload windows due to some particularly tenacious and obnoxious mal-ware and thus had to reinstall Flexi and create new stetups for my printer and plotter. Note that all this gear functioned perfectly before the re-install. Windows XP Home Flexi 7.6v2 Mutoh Falcon Outdoor 46/48...

No. Flexi is anal about a single, as in just one, iteration of itself running anywhere on the network. In this case network is defined as all the machines that are running off a single hasp key on one of them. Flexi enforces 'One hasp key, one iteration.'

I do exactly this each and every day. You can install and run Flexi on any computer in a network as long as the Production Manager is running on the machine that has the hasp key installed. The only caveat is that Flexi will only allow one iteration of itself to be running at one time. I.e. only...

Technically? Confiscation without reimbursement is a remote possibility. No different from buying a stolen anything in good faith. Really remote. Reaslistically? Not a damn thing. The entire body of copyright law has been based on the non-existence of casual reproduction capabilities. In...

Wrong question. You should ask 'How do I become sufficiently adept that I'll know the answer to that question?" instead. Every one who's worth the powder to blow them across the street has a defiinitive style and uses typefaces that complement that style. Not vice versa. And not a whole hell...

Brush look? Hand done? Only if you mean finger paint I should think. That is as large a collection of complete crap as I've ever encountered. Sail on god people, jesus might love you but I think you're a squad of inept doofi. If someone wants actual money for that dreck, they are also the...

I use the cmyk.swt. Open it and you'll find two blacks right up near the front. Delete one of them and change the other to 100% K and 0% CMY. Save it under a new name. Then do View->Create Swatch->Current Pallet. Do some judicious text editing and arranging then print this table on whatever...

Keywords, lots of keywords. Both contextual and specific keywords. All else is a distant second to having lots of keywords. How many keywords? In computers there are only three values: 0, 1, and n. n is the proper number of keywords. Any given image should have as many keywords as is necessary...

Interesting. I called Calgraph [Denver] last week or so and make arrangements for their regional tech weenie to stop by and resuscitate my ailing Falcon 48. Cross country moving apparently had some ill effect. Probably altitude sickness or something. The tech called and said he was having...

There's a difference between a good feature and what you're used to. Centering the image on the point of zoom puts a far larger portion of the zoomed image in context as well as preserving the cursor location relative to the image for subsequent zoom operations. Since the cursor is left...

What do you want to know? The typeface for 'Hold 'Em" is most often called 'Goldrush', it's one of those faces where a little tiny bit goes a really long way, generally too far. You can get it for free at The top line is any number of Roman faces. The rest of the text is illegible. The...

Since the skip is regular and in both the X and Y directions, it's unlikely there's any mechanical problems. Fire your technician, it's incompetent. You probably have the tool set to 'POUNCE' and the spacing to .25" or whatever it is in millimeters. Have a look at the condition you're using...

Print the image, including margin marks if it's a rectangle or a hairline outline if it's some odd shape, on vinyl and apply it to the magnetic media. Then manually cut out the finished product with a sharp utility knife or scissors. While it's possible to print directly on magnetic material...

Odd. Did they happen to mention why? Mutoh Falcons are rebranded both by SSK and Sign Warehouse. And others I would assume. Perhaps they're only OEM'ing them. Or perhaps not even that. Depressing, if true.

Neither the additional down force nor the additional speed mean anything per se. You'll never use either. What they do mean is the the machine with the larger limits is operating with more normal parameters in a more controlled manner. The farther down from maximum, the more control. Generally...

Cutters cut from roller to roller, regardless of the actual width of the media. They don't sense the media width, they sense where the rollers are. If you load 30" media with the rollers only 5" apart, then you can cut 5". With a couple of really obscure exceptions, if you have 15" media the...

You can do this, sort of. You need either a separate chunk of code to run between Illustrator and the plotter OR configure the plotter as a vanilla HPGL plotter like HP->Hewlett-Packard HPGL/2 Plotter or something similar. Assuming that Illustrator supports HPGL output, which would be surprising...

When you do, let me know. Someone of the cognoscenti in these matters explained it to me once but I can't recall the details. Is has to do with the larger color gamut of RGB and the translation of the RBG into LAB space and hence to CMYK by the RIP. I think it's just magic, but, being a...

In Flexi when you weld it's an effect applied to two or more objects. Each object still exists in it's orginal form. When you separate a weld you transforn the multiple objects into a single object. Basically when you separate a weld what you're saying is 'make it permanent' and generate a new...

You can do Effects->Lens in Flexi but that's an overall transparency, not the full boogie interactive gradient transparency that you can get in Corel. If that's what you need, create the entire image in Corel and publish it to a PDF or export it to an EPS file. Then bring the PDF/EPS file into...