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Thanks for the information, just purchased all of Steve's fonts at signfont.com Should be fixed up on cool fonts for awhile. Thanks again Larry

We had a client come in today while we were out and wants his truck lettering done in an old school truckers font (I would guess a font that was used on trucks in the 40's or 50's). Anything with tails is out as he wants it arched on the top & bottom lettering. Can anyone suggest to me some...

+1 for an RS. Have one and love it- great laminator and even better for mounting prints. Larry

One of our suppliers that we use for clipart told me a cdr file needed to be opened with either corel or AI and then could be exported as an eps to use in flexi. I have had good success doing it this way. Works great if I want to change the text but keep the same look as in the clipart. Larry

Ok time to ask my dumb question for the day. Will the 3m edge sealer tape work if I can get the door edges up to cut flush and even dumber exactly who do you use the 3m tape? Jus put it partly over the reflective the wrap around the edge? Will it work and look good on the edge of the E's...

Lots of good information here and a real learning curve as well. TyrantDesigner we used an edge sealer pen to seal all the edges. Looks like the laminate is my main problem. I am going to try and lift the edge wrapped around the door, cut it even with the edge and use 3m sealer tape on it...

Ok here is an update. They brought the car in this afternoon and here is what's going on: leading edge of the E on passengers door is lifting up, where we split the lettering between the doors and wrapped around the door edge has come loose and the far edge of the E on the drivers door is...

As the title says we have reflective lettering lifting (not sticking) on a police car for the second time. We are using oracal 5600, printing ,drying for 24 hours, laminating and installing. The first time this happened the car was fresh from the body shop having all the old lettering removed &...

Thanks again. Its all ready to install. Larry

Thanks for all the responses. Trust me on the splitting of the letters its the customer, not us. The last vehicles they had done was split and came off within 6 months, so they want it this way. Thanks to strypguy who tweaked it, now it will work. I too agree with the weak look to the font, but...

I need some help this morning on the attached layout. We are doing several police car and I am having an issue with the door lettering. This is our first vehicle to do where we hav had to use both doors for the lettering. The word police is 5" x 60" and they do not want a letter split between...

I would also be interested in where to find blanks this size. Thanks Larry

I need help in finding the original (I presume) 911 logo (which I thing is the circle with 911 call in a emergency). I don't fully remember this logo and all our local vehicles that use 911 have just that. A police department that we are lettering several vehicles for wants this old logo and I...

Thanks for all the advise on this subject. I have been using my eye and measuring from various body parts and have been doing ok with this. Just thought having a reference line would speed up the process. Thanks Larry

We have a problem in flexi sometimes that when applying a contour cut to lettering and/or graphics, the cut line misses a spot or two (like it skips a small area then continues on). We have always used the effects-contour cut-set the other choices and sent to the cutter/plotter (versacamm)...

As always I am thinking of ways to make an installation job easier. I am wondering if a laser level (self-leveling would be the best) would work when applying lettering to a vehicle? We have 10 vehicles to do with the same lettering for the doors, front & rear fenders, crew cab doors, etc that...

Thanks for the information. I will give this a try later this morning. On the outlines, we are using this to create lettering and I always try and keep my lettering a couple of inches from door edges, inset panels edges ,etc so being close should work here. Thanks adain you'll Larry

We have both flexi 8.6 and lxi 8.? (don't remember) in our shop and I have a question concerning them and resizing files. Over the last year our vehicle lettering business has really grown and we now have 12 vehicles to letter in a short period of time, they are 2 different jobs. To help out...