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  1. official vinyl color?

    Just curious if anyone out there has ever done any signs for Chevron fuels. If so, we are trying to figure out if they have an official vinyl color they use for their Chevron lettering. It looks close to Olympic blue or process blue. Any insight would be appreciated! Oh yeah, needs to be...
  2. so much for a productive day...

    this is not the first time our Mimaki JV5 has done this... maybe it's happened to you too? things here are pretty slow, so I don't do a whole lot of printing. because we don't do a ton of prints, the black ink doesn't go too fast (and it's rare that I do prints that use 100% black in large...
  3. matching Chevy colors

    thanks guys! I am currently working with our in-house painter to try to match the color. but why are there so many different variants and shades of the same color? what a pain! Chad... what shop do you work for?
  4. matching Chevy colors

    I am hoping someone can help me with this. I have a customer that wants me to do some magnetics for their company, and they want the magnets to match the color of the truck so you can't tell that they are magnets when they stick them to the trucks. Without them having brought a truck in, is...
  5. trouble getting stuff to print to scale

    I guess I forgot to mention that the prints actually came out longer than they were supposed to be, so shrinking from the heat wasn't the issue. Also, I guess what we consider accurate compared to what the customer needs it to be, is a pretty big deal. :)
  6. trouble getting stuff to print to scale

    One is 45" long and the other is 70" long. I think I am going to try printing them horizontally and splicing the long one together. That way I'm not fighting the rollers and heat stretched material. Thanks for the help!
  7. corel x5 acting weird all of a sudden...

    I won't be any help, but Corel decided to erase all the components of a file of mine yesterday, right when I was going to cut some vinyl. I wound up having to re-create the entire file from scratch based on my memories of the file. I have decided that Corel hates me and is out to see how long...
  8. trouble getting stuff to print to scale

    I tried this yesterday and got no help, so I'll try it again. I have tape measure that I have to print for a customer and it is very important they print to the correct scale. In my first attempt, I printed them and sent them off with the customer. They came back a few days later and informed...
  9. I need help!

    I am running a Mimaki JV5160S. I have some tape measures I am printing for a customer and it is imperative that they actually measure correctly. The first set I printed, I gave to the customer and he brought them back a few days later saying by the end of the tapes I printed, the measurements...
  10. EPS files importing without color

    Exporting as CMX worked! Thanks Tony! I know 2.1 is old... we have a couple 2.6 disks (also old, I know), but I don't have the password to upgrade on the CP key. It upgraded fine with the DS key and the plot key, but not the CP. So I had to uninstall 2.6 and re-install 2.1 just to get the CP...
  11. EPS files importing without color

    ugh. it has to be a software issue somewhere. I just made a simple shaped file with CMYK colors and they still imported as white shapes. someone shoot me now. I'm starting to despise Omega!
  12. EPS files importing without color

    Every line I select shows a white fill. Awesome.
  13. EPS files importing without color

    Because all the colors in Corel are PMS colors, I was going to try to run these as process. jhilldesigns... the lines are red, and there are no strokes with color... Yes, I am new to Omega and the Edge machine. I was hired into a position to take over a commercial department where the last few...
  14. EPS files importing without color

    every time I view - filled all it shows is a white shape of whatever I imported... the file I am trying to import now is oval, so all I see when I view it filled is a white oval. Can I not import a file with colors? I set up colors in Omega on the last file I imported because it was a simple...
  15. EPS files importing without color

    I am trying to import EPS files into Omega 2.1 and all it imports is the outlines. No color on the outlines or anywhere else there is supposed to be color. I've tried just about every option when importing and still no color. I'd like to keep the color so I can print on the Edge FX. Also, if it...
  16. Mimaki CG160FX trouble

    It is my production machine. GQMgr runs, it shows the plotter, but it only shows it as idle and can't get any information when I query it. The plotter runs fine out of Corel, so I know it's connected and working... just can't seem to get Omega to communicate with it.
  17. Font???

    Try this site: http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
  18. designing for billboards

    When I was in art school, we were taught to use seven words or less. If you can't get your message across in less than that, it's not effective. Especially with the 60/60 rule. I used to work for a church and had to very highly stress the "seven words or less" to my pastor/boss. My suggestion is...
  19. Mimaki CG160FX trouble

    Hey all- Here's the situation I have been thrown into... I was hired a month-and-a-half ago to run the commercial department at a well-established company. The kid I have taken over for and the previous employees moved the location from one building to another (and in the process either lost or...
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