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Use PhotoTex. Won't curl, won't lift, no need for bleed. Move it a hundred times - still good.

Good on ya Ron. It may have been more helpful if you said all that stuff in your original post. In fact. why don't you start a new newbie thread with your information above and see what happens? I'm pretty new here myself, in my few weeks here I've seen about 10 posts similar to your first...

Interesting aye Replicator? As far as I can tell they're genuine Roland machines. I guess Roland price for their market. I was tempted when I was looking for a new machine to import one from Indo to NZ but the problem was finding a tech willing to work on it. If I knew enough to do it all...

Also there's about a hundred billion tutorials for PS and Illy on the net. They're free and cater for pretty well every possibility. Email me and I'll send you my bookmarks for PS and Illy. Lynda.com tutorials are good but man that Deke's voice gets up my nose. If I want to get my wife to...

Thanks totalimage. Any ideas on where to get info on profiles and building them? cheers Simon

Hi all, I just got my new VP300 installed. The tech updated everything - VW and firmware. I have loaded the old profile I used on the SP300 for the product I'm using (phototex) and it's printing like crap. Dull, muddy and completely unappealing. The old profile was MCVP Matt Calendered Vinyl...

It's weird, for such a small country we seem to have a lot of competition between dealers and techs. Roland themselves have just pulled out of NZ and the master dealership has changed hands. So, a big shakeup going on. All of a sudden the guys who were doing the servicing are going freelance...

In New Zealand Roland offers a 5 year warranty on the same conditions. That was a major reason to buy a new machine for me.

If anyones interested, great Illustrator resource list http://www.noupe.com/illustrator/80-best-of-adobe-illustrator-tutorials-brushes-epss-and-resources.html#Adobe_Illustrator_Patterns

Very nice. I've mostly been playing with nature. I've got some great ideas just need a little more time :) Its a matter of crawling for a while before I walk. cheers Simon

Good idea Fred. Yes, I can see why you have to make them idiot proof/easy to use. Do you make all the art yourself or are they compilations of brought work? I'm just getting into patterns and tiles and the possibilities are really exciting. I've been experimenting with using photographs to...

Ahhh thanks for that Fred. Lot of ways to skin a cat with Adobe products. That's why I like them. The way I do it you create the vector outline ( you just want to use it to apply a cutline right?) in PS using a vector mask. That seems the only way to fool PS into making a vector (even thought...

Its the same file, 1st saved as a PS EPS then opened in Illy, cut lines added, then saved as a Illy EPS. Just one file resaved. Maybe I'm just confused? It's no big deal I was just interested in the resize thing as I do my resize in PS and have never had any problems. cheers Simon

So you construct a second file for your cut lines? I just use a vector mask in PS and apply the cutcontour color to the mask in Illy. Works for me.

Also avoid any size changes until you have the assembled Illustrator vectors and the Photoshop bitmaps back in Illustrator. Why Fred?

This seems to be happening all over the world. All tied to the Yen apparently. I'm not sure whether to believe them or not. Think they'll put the price down if the US$, CA$, AU$, NZ$ go up against the Yen? Na, me neither. I'd ring all dealers within a 300 mile or so radius and ask them what...

Yup, it all seems to be tied to the Yen worldwide. Your currency tanking against the Yen = price rises. I would look around for a second hand machine or a dealer demo model. I just brought a VP300 that was used short term as a dealer demo machine and saved myself $8000 against the list price...

Thanks all for the great welcome. rdmo1 - sorry mate (or matess) but it is a beautiful summer here. Even in the depths of winter its not too bad where I live, no snow or anything, but when you get that southerly roaring up from Antarctica its nice to be somewhere else. We often try to go to the...

Thanks all Shovelhead - Aussie and NZ are about 1800km (1000 miles?) apart. About a 3 hour flight. Its a given that an Aussie will try to give a Kiwi lip and vice versa. Similar to the US/Canada relationship. Lots of people from here move over to Aussie as there are a lot more opportunities...

Hi all I'm here to try and quench my seemingly bottomless thirst for knowledge. My wife Kim and I have recently set up a wee business making wall decals with a twist. For some reason I thought it was all going to be easy. 6 months in I now know better. We leased a printer to make sure the...