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I'm looking for someone that can print a wrap for a big truck (a mobile bank) in pearl colors, including shades of "white". We also may need to send several proofs, working with an internationally award winning interior designer. It will be a one of a kind, fabulous wrap. The truck is being...

It really looks brighter than it seems to in these pictures. Most of the job was printed, laminated then cut using 3MIj180CV3/8518, with some HP cut vinyl for the smaller logos.

I know I should know this but I don't....

I'm in a sort of strange situation with a long time client (since 2000) that I have never gotten along with very well. We've even gone our separate ways for 4-5 years and still ended up doing business together for the last 5 years. This past January he feels like I charged him too much to wrap a...

The client provides an auto-cad line drawing and general info on their client and then uses the rendering for a sales tool. These are so much fun I could do them all the time and it always pushes me to learn more about photoshop.

A high profile corporate client is having some specialty trucks built by two vehicle builders who are basically competing with each other and the winner will be building several trucks for the client and the contract will go into the millions for my client. My client is one of the builders. The...

I have a client wanting me to quote a price per bus for 40 busses, mostly Bluebirds, to remove the old graphics/glue before re-painting and new graphics. We've done several of them over the years. Some have only required 3-4 hours and others 2-3 days because of excessive glue and cracked vinyl...

The question: Can you airbrush/paint these images on a small jet for this world-famous client? The answer: Of course! Comment to self, as usual: Are you nuts????? What are you thinking??? Why did I say yes? Gotta start researching, making lists, asking questions, sign painter's dance...

I've never had this happen! If the paint is still tacky after 14 hours should I give up and clean it off??? What a nightmare. I painted 2 old metal snap- in sign frames for a quickie free job and now this..... Arghhhh!

I may get slammed for this one by the experts here but here goes.... Since I wear all the hats in my shop I haven't had time to study ICC profiles and color management in depth so have a work-around that gets me through my workflow. I have printed Pantone charts from files on each kind of...

I designed the graphics on a monster truck and Mattell will be making it into a toy. The owner of the truck has asked for the artwork to give Mattell and I see this as being worth a pretty good chunk of change but have to figure out how to approach it and arrive at my fee. Any comments?

Trying to print a job and keep getting "RIP Error" message. Other jobs will rip and print, just not this particular one. It's a jpeg and I've re-saved under 3 names so far, tried to send and still have the error. All the details and settings and creation of the art are exactly the same as the...

I have a converted CJ500 running ColorChoice and I use it as much for plotting as printing. There doesn't seem to be any way to "sequence" plot with this thing. Today for example I cut a 140" long section with 4 lines of copy in reflective. It will cut the outside of an A then run all the way to...

Hi! I'm planning a project including a carved full size clown, face down with head lifted looking forward on top of a truck that will drop 35' out of the air on a regular basis. I'll use HD Styrofoam. Any ideas on how to stablize the head to take a lot of abuse? The body is a "box", so the...

I'm prepping graphics for a truck for Homeland Security. What a fitting job for today!

I admit, Illustrator hates me and I have issues with IT! I can't seem to speak it's language..... Anyway, I have great art made in photoshop: the colors pop on the prints, it's beautiful. I have to put them through Illy to get a cut line on them, and then the color on the print is dark and...

I am printing a project on white reflective and have it 90% done, but for some reason I can't get the logos to print the correct color without the ink crawling. I've tried 17 different profiles, every head height, any thing I could think of. The logo is solid colors close to a reflex blue...

I know I've seen this subject here before, but didn't get a response on search.... Every year or so the "financial partner" at my biggest client's company tries to re-train me to do jobs without deposits and I guess today is the day. Our arrangement for many years up until last year was 50%...

I used to have it, but that computer crashed....

Hi! Can anyone tell me how to install a profile into ColorChoice 4.5V2? I just converted my CJ500 to 1100 mild solvent, and it's printing fine, but I want new profiles since the existing ones are for waterbased. We have built a profile for 3M ij180-CV3 using X-rite, and can't get Color Choice...