I want to thank all the members that have upgraded your accounts. I truly appreciate your support of the site monetarily. Supporting the site keeps this site up and running as a lot of work daily goes on behind the scenes.
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Just came across and reported a bug in Omega 2.0.2
It is possible to set Y-Axis repeats for Edge prints that exceed the available image height. The system will print the job and the top of the image will simply not be there.
I have a customer that purchased my EPS clipart collections recently who runs SignLab, at least version 6 but not sure of exact version number. All of the EPS files are saved in Illustrator 3.0 format and are black and white.
The customer is having success using most of the files sent him but...
Posting pictures of your work in the Portfolio Board is okay but really isn't as good a choice as using the Signs 101 Gallery. By using the gallery instead you can post your pictures with descriptions but also with KEYWORDS which makes it a whole lot easier to find them later.
You can also...
Welcome to William Pierro our 700th member!
After pruning out older registrations that had never activated, that makes 250 new members since October.:thumb:
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I've been thinking about writing a piece on customer types and have a number of them in mind, like:
The guy that's going to bring you lots of business in the future but needs a deal today.
Or the guy that can't describe his business or what to say about it and wants you to play advertising...
Many members are negatively effected by artificially low pricing in their markets for sign work. The issue is complex, but in attempting to boil it down to a chicken vs. egg analogy, the question becomes who is the bigger problem:
The client who wants the cheapest he can get?
The sign...
On a different thread there is currently a discussion of the pros and cons of the font MS Comic Sans. In looking at the font, I was struck by how closely it looks to a very popular font from Adobe named Tekton Bold.
Tekton was one of the first fonts to be patterned after someone's...
The PhotoPost gallery software just installed, based on what I see at other forum based community sites, will become an extensively used and highly interesting area of Signs101.
The software provides the ability to "watermark" each upload with a semi-transparent image such as a copyright...
Let's talk about pricing our work. Both the theory and the reality. The good, the bad and the ugly. The nuts and bolts.
Regardless of the joy we may feel in practicing our craft, we are still doing it to earn a profit. Pricing can be like walking a tightrope. We want to sell the job for the...
Class, your assignment is to post descriptions of your favorite ways to apply vinyl in different situations. Photographs and graphics are encouraged and will be awarded extra credit.
Please remain on topic and no talking among yourselves during this assignment.
Your responses and content...
Here's a little goodie you can download for free. It is a keyworded searchable database of Corel clipart. I just tried it and I expect to get a lot more use out of my CorelDraw clipart from now on.
Romcat
Hi visitors.
I've been a Gerber owner since 1983 and have used Graphix Advantage - now Omega since it's introduction in 1991. I currently have two workstations using Omega and a Gerber Edge cranking out all sorts of neat stuff.
Let's talk and let's show and tell.
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