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  1. Newbie

    You may find the vast majority of sign customers need long term outdoor durability that your printer can't provide, but you can be in the poster business now.
  2. New to site

    welcome! Are you not doing a contour cut? If you are, the cut line would be cut off, so I assume you are just printing. If you are printing in Omega & not needing to cut, in the GspPlot program, you can click on the 123 icon & you will see your foil colors listed. The color that is...
  3. New to Site

    welcome from a former northwest surburbs of chicago guy
  4. When to wet

    generalizations are ALWAYS wrong!! did I say Always already! ... ok most of the time then!
  5. .eps file problem

    if you are printing it on the edge, you will be running 11-1/2" panels anyway, so have the huge file cut down to12" sections with a 1" overlap. I would also still want to preserve the vector artwork if he has the text in vectors, so lose the bike photo from the .ai files & they will be...
  6. .eps file problem

    if he's on CS1 it may be slightly more complicated to "save down" like it was with the PC version... but in any other version he can save down to illustrator 6. (just "export to legacy .ai) That is what kind of illustrator files I open in Omage every day. I never try to include the .tiff...
  7. Another one!

    www.nofont.com/chainyank.ttf
  8. Photoshop print/cut flow?

    you will need flexi to output the jobs, but I would suggest you spend your time learning Adobe software. You can compile your digital elements, Juice Drops, client photos, other clip art images etc... & also create vector art in illustrator, typesetting, client logos, or cut paths... ...then...
  9. Mystery plotter...

    wow... no teflon strip under the blade? I agree that doesn't sound like good design to have the blade over the grit roller... even when the blade is not set too deep.
  10. Gerber Manuals

    ok, so far we have a "monitor" and a "sprint" what else ya got that might help? seriel cable? Software? dongle? a computer? Operating system?
  11. Does your sign company have a website?

    yeah... I remember when I took the call I was still a one man show, but I always said "we" or "our company" ...and when we were done with the deal, I remember I just had to ask how bid of a sign company they (Arrow Sign Co.)were. When he said 50 people I, just said "hmmm, ok" ...but I was...
  12. Does your sign company have a website?

    About 8 years ago I traded 2 pair of magnets for a web guy to build me a template to my specs & write up the code for 6 navigation buttons to go to undesigned page names I specified. Then I spent close to 100 hours learning the basic code required to make the 6 sections, many of which are 2...
  13. first time vinyl wet application problem

    Good luck salvuser, hopefully you have left & have not seen the all too familiar b!tchfest that became the reason for this very impressive amount of responses. Vinyl application is really quite simple & I'm sure you will learn almost all you ever need to know in very short order... but then...
  14. What is this application called?

    no, your not making sense still... ...when most people say "take a color picture ", the word "take" means the act of photographing, the word "picture" means a photo, (& in this case it would be a color photo) ...but when you say take a color picture", you mean what? Something to do with...
  15. first time vinyl wet application problem

    I didn't know there was any "officially" sanctioned "home made formula" featured here in the signs101 forum. sounds like a combination of too much soap in the formula, and/or too much fluid to begin with (regardless of soap content, or ratio) ...and possibly poor quality vinyl, combined with...
  16. suddenly got a horrible test draw on my Mimaki...

    thanks chi-town ...I hope thats it, because I even have those onhand already & probably am due for replacing them. My printer is 20 months old. I had a tech out here to replace a few heads under warrenty almost a year ago & those may have been changed then also, but not since.
  17. suddenly got a horrible test draw on my Mimaki...

    I just was showing my new employee how to do our cleaning procedure on the Mimaki, just as we had done last Thursday. After we were done, I did a "test draw" and got almost perfect results. (the bottom one in my pic) Then we set up a few 46" x 46" prints for construction project signs. I...
  18. Cartridge empty? I don't think so!

    Mimaki's will also stop allowing use of a cartridge that is out of date. Check the date on yours. It is programmed into the chip & you will usually get a notification that says "ink limit" (except on mine, the "t" didn't show for some reason) Once you get the limit warning, I think you get 30...
  19. Mike Steven's "Mastering Layout

    ok, ok ...I've made my "confession" here before, but I think maybe I went into my psyche theory, hoping to solicit permission to look ahead at the pictures :Cool 2: Though I haven't formally announced it, I did hire an employee who shows excellent promise, which has turned my mind towards...
  20. Mike Steven's "Mastering Layout

    hmmm, maybe that's why I haven't read it... a self preservation form of denial :rolleyes:
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