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Nobody has ever said anything remotely like that to me before. Thanks so much for your candor. Ironically this tips everything I thought I knew on its head, I thought it would be all about UV and Latex. Would you mind expanding on why Solvent might be better for wraps? Your info about the films...

I can understand the defensiveness if you guys assumed that I'm from outside the trade and implying that you're a bunch of slippery con artists. Sorry if it came out that way. I'm really trying to get a feel of the state of the industry today, what's current and hot. We are going to see things...

Jburns I appreciate your insight. Can you tell me more about why solvent may be better and what's considered high resolution? My experience with solvent printers is dated and not particularly favorable. Of all the testing I've done so far, I saw noticeably 'blacker' blacks from a latex printer...

Thanks Gino - I'm here to participate in a forum of professionals trying to support and help each other. If this is somehow an inappropriate topic then those offended should just give it to me straight so I can avoid stepping on the same landmine in the future. To answer your question about...

Would someone like to fill me in on where this attitude is coming from? Is this subject so controversial that discussion is not allowed? I realize I'm new here so please inform me if I've committed some taboo.

I've already learned something new from graysquirrel about the Epson sure color s80 having a max dpi of 1440x1440 (I bet that looks nice!) and from FireSprint about something called Zund cutting of which there isn't anything better. I'm not sure how to parlay that into finding my ideal vendor...

Why do you say that, is this a topic of frequent heated debate here? I've been buying printing from others for a long time but the equipment is always evolving so I don't know what's relevant anymore, nor do I trust my vendors to clue me in when something better is available. You know, everybody...

I have a need for a vendor to make my vehicle graphics and I want the best - the best colors, sharpness, and contour-cut accuracy on the longest-lasting, easiest to apply material available. My ideal vendor must be capable of producing small stickers of 3" up to medium-sized wraps of 30" or so...

Smartest move you could make...I couldn't imagine having to learn on junk brushes as they would function so radically different to quality brushes. Gino's tip about studying the speedball book is right on too - those basic moves combined with proper paint thinning, brush loading and tip control...

Ok, I found a Minuteman Press 10 miles away from my door that can scan my originals and email me the resulting full-size bitmaps ( or copy them to my portable thumb drive) for $6per page - WHILE I WAIT!!! I'll be going there tomorrow and let you know how it works out. I am so glad I asked smart...

Wow, great responses to my inquiry - thank you all so much for the advice. FYI, my first attempt at this was to divide the tracing into thirds, photograph them individually and stitch back together before attempting my initial vectorization - this proved useless as apparently all my thirds had...

I need a way to vectorize large paper tracings in a 1:1 scale so that when I plot them out they match the original hand-tracing very closely. I'm talking about originals that are up to 3' x 4'. I'm thinking that a large digitizer tablet or oversized flatbed scanner would be a good tool for the...