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no, seriously... not meaning to make fun of an unfun situation... have you used the parallel port on that computer for anything else recently? if so, it is helpful if you can say for sure that the port is functional & that the port you are plugged into, is in fact lpt1. When you say no...

yep... hurry up and put your wife in the drivers seat before you ruin a perfectly good plotter :wink:

I didn't say you're not a fool... ..I just said you are not a lone besides.... who you callin' old? :Oops:

me and rep feel better already, knowing we are not lone fools destroying laptops within hours

been there, done that... returned the damn thing for another & learned to live with Vista on my laptop. I had XP all loaded fine too... except the drivers for the soundcard, video card, card reader ports etc. etc... none of that crap worked.... this shot an entire Saturday, because after...

I used to have to get the calculator out to figure the percentage of enlargement I was going to be using with my 8-1/2" x 11" prints before pasting up & running sets of actual blueprints... then I'd work backwards to determine what scale to draw at.. to end up with 1/4 inch = 1 foot or whatever.

after 15 years.. my brain thinks in 1/10th scale. Sure working full size would be nice... but moving a decimal point is easier for me then learning another illustration program... so I'm sticking with Illustrator. (1/10th is much easier then 1 inch = 1 ft. if you inches to convert and not just...

well... your signature says you are the head janitor :rolleyes: ...yeah, regarding your other comment, I think George may have overlooked that perpendicular orientation... I think the fuzz factor creates marks parallel to head travel. Have you trouble shot this issue with various media...

your printer has rollers that touch the media after the ink goes down? mine only feed the media to where the printing happens and could never be "picking up ink" ...but one time after cleaning the heads, I bumped into a roller with the solvent swap & left a little residue that resulted in a...

Flexi doesn't have a lot of bitmap editing tools, but it does have a few, including a magic wand selection tool, which can be used to select and delete white areas. This may not be good with a lot of text, where selecting the centers of O's etc. could be annoying... but for simple bitmap images...

13oz? are you sewing hems at all 4 sidea? ...or selling for indoor use? I made the mistake of printing on 13 oz when I started printing, but with the inferior grommet reinforcement I was using (only hemming short ends... adding a 1" sq. cloth behind grommets) ...I found the results to be...

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another plus related to printing spot colors, is the consistency of color is 100% accurate if you remember which foil was used... unlike inkjet output where a greater number of factors could result in a shift in the color printed from the same file on 2 different days. another minus is, of...

I did that once, for a ford tailgate. You need to trace a pattern, job should be worth $150 min. If he doesn't want to spend that much, there's no helping him.

Mac... I'll bump this up for you so you can see what Fred found for you. Also, click on your own name, check your profile, & check "find all threads started by mac34... this is how I found your post.

It's the best machine for quality. It takes a little longer to maintain the heads (5 minutes to 10 minutes a day) and you are required, as opposed to just encouraged, to vent the fumes... which anyone with any amount of solvent fumes should do anyway... but it is a great machine. Once you get...

there are "regular" ones, often made for PDA's that many posts have identified as insufficient for plotters, and then there are "high speed communications" ones which have been the solution for those previously unsuccessful attempts i read about.

I consider my used edge, envision & Omega to be still worth $20,000.00 8 years later... it has put out half a million dollars worth so far, and I fully expect it to put out another $500K ...unless you think all the veterans here are a bunch of wasteful cash-happy idiots ...why don't you...