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  1. Best Way To Sell Accuired Rolls of Laminates & Vinyls

    What is the best way to sell some roll of laminates and vinyls? We acquired thru a large sign shop that went out of business and don't use these particular ones. We have about 50 rolls of various items. Most are new, never used. Would the member to member classified forum be the way to go? Any...
  2. Large Overlapping Vinyl Installation

    Any final tips on installing graphics to a metal surface 20ft wide x 10ft tall? We are using 3MIJ180C-10 With 8518 Lamination. I made vinyl panels that are approx. 40'' wide x 10ft tall. I have about 1/2'' overlap built in. Not too much in the way of lining up art graphics from panel to panel...
  3. Falcon Outdoor Jr (Windows 7 & Flexi 10)

    We are getting a new printer in the next couple of weeks. We are still going to use our old Falcon Outdoor Jr. But with the new printer we are getting Windows 7 update (from XP) and moving to Flexi 10. Will the Falcon Outdoor Jr. work with both of these? (Windows 7 & Flexi 10) Any special...
  4. Flexi 8.5 (Greenish Tint To Raster Files)

    When printing, we are getting a greenish tint to "picture" raster file on the black portions. Everything else is printing fine. Is there some setting that was changed in our flexi or print management scheme that is messing this up? Is there some RGB setting that was changed, or needs changed...
  5. Cold Weather Application - Foam Tape

    Anyone know of double-sided foam tape (or vhb) that can be applied in cold weather? Most tapes have recommended mounting temp. of 50-60 degrees. Thanks! Brent
  6. Light Magenta - Not Showing Up

    Mutoh Falcon Outdoor 48'' Printer - We were having problems with cross contamination (yellow) so we installed a new Maintainance Assembly. Once installed, we were still get some contamination, so we were told to try to flush the system out and do ink fill to make sure no ink in the lines...
  7. Falcon Outdoor - Reset Home Position Failure

    So I just changed out the maintenance assembly on our Falcon Outdoor - Mutoh and got put back together. Was going to do a "reset home position" test but it won't work. I can get it to where you push media and the printhead should move around, but it doens't move. Sounds like it is going to move...
  8. 2 3/8'' Post Hardware

    I am looking to hang some larger signs on a 2 3/8' round steel post. I can get the standard double sided brackets that extend out about 3 or 4 inches, but does anyone know where I could get doubel sided brackets that extend out further so the sign is more stable? Sign is about 24'' wide, made of...
  9. Jpeg Background - How to delete unwanted?

    I have a high res. .jpeg picture of a car. i have taken out the generic background in photoshop and now want to put into gerber and add a solid black background behind the car.... how do i do this?
  10. Aligning Gerber Edge 2 Machine

    Question about our Edge 2 machine... When printing process, seems like Magenta is slightly off and is printing where it is not supposed to be. For example, the process color is next to a white border, but the border is not crisp, it has some imperfections where magenta, etc. is off just...
  11. How Many Lefties Are In The House?

    Just was wondering how many lefties we have on the site. All 3 of our designers happen to be left handed, just was curious if this is a trend. (Lefties are supposed to be more creative, correct?)
  12. Another "R" Type Font

    Does anyone know what this font is? Can't find the "R" anywhere! THANKS!
  13. Omega 2.5 USB vs. Just Parallel Speed???

    I was just wondering what the USB connection gains vs. the parallel connection. We just upgraded to 2.5 and were installing new connections. Is the USB run a lot faster and/or are their other advantages. We are running Windows XP Pro on all of our computers. We have an Edge LE and an Edge 2...
  14. Spinning Foil with 2.5 Upgrade

    We upgraded to Omega 2.6 last week and all the installations went good. Except now on our Edge 1 machine, most of the time we send jobs and the job is about ready to print the foil just spins in place and no printing is done and the vinyl does not move.... not all the time just most of the time...
  15. Omega 2.0 to 2.5 conversion

    Finally making the switch to Omega 2.0 to 2.6 today. We have bought two upgrade versions and two workstation versions. We run XP on computers. Anyone have any problems loading this or any tips I need to know before I destroy everything? Thanks, Brent
  16. Most Common Fonts Used?

    Just had a basic question for everyone that used Gerber Edge and Omega. What are the most common Gerber fonts you use in your designs? Just was curious what everyones "bread and butter" is! Thanks, Brent
  17. Any Deals for 2.5 Omega Upgrade?

    I just was looking at Hyatt's website for pricing on Omega 2.5 upgrade (yes still have 2.1!) They just ended a special last week where if you bought a regular copy of 2.5 upgrade you would get a workstation copy for free. Which works for our office becuase we have 3 graphic design computers and...
  18. Edge - Printing over top of colored vinyl

    Printing on Edge Machine. Trying to print a Bright Yellow foil on top of a Cobalt Blue vinyl. How do I make the bright yellow look "yellow" and not a dull green color? Is there a specific setting? Over Print, etc. Thanks, Brent
  19. Text Merge Function in Gerber Omega

    I have a listed of about 100 names and want them aligned in Gerber so they fit in a 8 x 10 box. So four names per box (spaced evenly). I don't want to type them out. I know there is a function in Gerber Omega that allows you to do this, but I am confused on how it works.... I know you have to...
  20. Japanese Character Conversion

    I have a Word doc that has Japanese character writing. I tried to paste it over into Omega Composer program but just came up as question marks. What is the easiest way to convert these word doc characters over to Omega to print on an Edge 2 for a label? thanks, Brent
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