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  1. Giclee printing... Where to begin

    Have you seen these guys? They advertise like crazy. http://www.canvaspop.com/ I'm thinking that while your targeted market has some local value there might be more value partnering with local photography studios/photographers to supply their canvas prints. Your value prop. to them is that...
  2. Giclee printing... Where to begin

    Again, it's only ridiculous if the market doesn't support it. Your snapshot judgement of the price is meaningless. I think paying $2600000 for a Bugatti Veyron EB 16.4 is ridiculous but that doesn't make the price ridiculous, as it's set to the market--most of which is intellectual property and...
  3. Giclee printing... Where to begin

    :help How'd I know you'd show up--you can keep spouting your weird "it's just a product" mentality but the rest of the world will continue to function in reality where time spent and expertise have value. It's your choice to ignore the legal protections you have as a...
  4. Deposit how much to keep

    Am I reading it correctly that he walked off with a design you did and took it to another company? You own that art, if there hasn't been a final signoff with rights transfer you could take him to the moon and back. However it sounds like the customer is one of the rare "good guys" so I'd let it...
  5. Giclee printing... Where to begin

    She's selling her intellectual property--this is why we constantly harp in the forum about remembering to value your IP and not just the end products! Congrats and good luck, I have a four month old who just started teething--exhausting but amazing journey. Every day is different and the...
  6. Is anyone out there using G7 specifications?

    Read that earlier today -- it makes a lot of sense. It's what I'm looking for, a consistent baseline which we can then make adjustments off of to make the customer happy across mediums/processes. Cheers
  7. Android App for excel?

    VNC or Remote Desktop into your normal workstation. Weird that QuickOffice wouldn't support what you needed though.
  8. Does XP software work on Windows 7?

    You can't compare RAM usage in 7 to XP. 7 is supposed to use as much as possible at all times and smartly manage it, as all modern OS do (osX, Android, etc.) whereas XP tries to minimize usage (badly). The 7 method is vastly better. Unused RAM is pointless--don't you want to be getting the full...
  9. Is anyone out there using G7 specifications?

    That's what I've been noticing as well, started playing with GRACoL a few months ago and definitely saw an increased richness over SWOP. When I came into this company everything was unmanaged so it's been a process just getting to the point where color is semi-reliable and I'd like to push the...
  10. Is anyone out there using G7 specifications?

    Thanks for the quick responses dmc, stephen, merritt. I'm not sure we'd go whole-hog and go after certification, at least not in the foresee-able future. I think I'll implement a rough G7 workflow this weekend and test out a bunch of case scenarios. I had been putting this off waiting to get...
  11. Is anyone out there using G7 specifications?

    We're looking at adding a new machine or two and want to keep a consistent color across all of them, so that if a job has to be bumped from one process to another or a breakdown occurs and another machine has to fill in, the customer won't see a difference. G7 seems like a good way to go...
  12. Rocky Horror Show banner

    It's all about the dubstep.
  13. LOOKING FOR FAMOUS CHARACTERS images

    Interesting that any vendors would have this as celebs have a "right to likeness" that's essentially intellectual property law for your appearance. Are these celebrities that went to this particular school or something, what's the project? Just curious.
  14. Illustrator file gradient issues

    Haven't ever seen this in Onyx. Is the raster resolution set really low in the file? Is the gradient part of a gradient mesh? I print similar grads all day long using Onyx x10 that were generated in Illustrator (ICC Off is your best bet when specifying PMS color in this particular scenario--ICC...
  15. Tablet pc to make presentations

    There are a number of cheapo tablets ($200) that turn out pretty decent after you hack them to run Android 3.0 (honeycomb). I also can't find details on the Asus EP121's digitizer...I find it unlikely that it would be the same number of levels of sensitivity as a Cintiq, but if it is that's...
  16. Retro Eat sign w arrow

    Quit posting that Rick it's one of my fav projects in the last few years, very impressive. I keep looking for clients that will allow me to do something on that scale. letterheadfonts has a collection of 1950s style panels, worth checking there as a design starting point...
  17. Giclee printing... Where to begin

    It is but you're not really doing what it takes to get into that market. That market is largely reserved for giclee specific shops that shoot or scan the work, color manage it, do multiple press checks with the artist until it's perfect, coat it, guarantee the work, understand how to work with...
  18. My wife just showed this to me ....

    It's true. Or they're unimaginably bad. Worth the risk. If I liked breakfast burritos I'd stop at this dude's truck, sign successful.
  19. Our city gets 10% of the electronic sign?

    What Mainframe said sounds good and lobby your alderman, those dudes are usually bored and looking for a reason to stir up trouble.
  20. My wife just showed this to me ....

    Mmmm, BRACKFAS, my fav meal, comes right after Second Breakfast and before First Lunch.
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