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  1. Searching for Polarized Clear Acrylic or Adhesive Film

    Just an update- we weren't able to find a solution. Most of the polarizing products we came across were either for sunglass or camera lenses. Our first idea was using the P99, but this particular project called for a clear, glass-like finish. It is still in the works, but the current plan and...
  2. Keeping Small HDU Letters in Place while Spraying

    Hello, I have looked around and didn't find anything, so forgive if it has been mentioned before. We are painting some smaller (8-10"H x .75" material) HDU letters with an HVLP setup and are having a hard time keeping them in place while also keeping them elevated to dry. Being so light...
  3. Searching for Polarized Clear Acrylic or Adhesive Film

    Hello, all! We are searching for a solution for glare when viewing exterior clear acrylic. Unfortunately we aren't able to use the P12 or P99 acrylics, beause there needs to be optical clarity all the way through the sign. Does anyone know of a polarized clear acrylic, or perhaps a film or...
  4. Software Help Versaworks 6 not opening

    Well, I ended up calling into Roland, ready to buy the support plan, and the guy I spoke with ended up helping me for free! Somehow my ethernet adapter got shut off, so when I was running the ipconfig to get the IP's, I was reading from the WLAN, not the Ethernet. Just wanted to post the...
  5. Software Help Versaworks 6 not opening

    Hmm... still didn't change anything. We haven't made any new changes to anything lately. Everything was working fine when I left it last week, then I came in to open up yesterday morning and had the issue with VW not opening, then after getting a previous version installed, I ran into this IP...
  6. Software Help Versaworks 6 not opening

    I believe it is from the computer. The printer IP is 169.254.051.233 and the response is from 10.1.10.127. When I ran ipconfig in the prompt, my default gateway says 10.1.10.1, so I'm assuming it's from the PC. I'm not extremely well versed in networking, just what I've had to troubleshoot in...
  7. Software Help Versaworks 6 not opening

    I pinged the IP, and it has 4 instances of saying 'Destination Host Unreachable', then the stats say that 4 packets were sent, 4 received and 0 lost. I switched ethernet cables, just to see, and had the same results.
  8. Software Help Versaworks 6 not opening

    Thanks Joe, but I just did that, and now when I go to input the machine's IP address it keeps telling me it can't be found or verified correctly. I changed the address, in case it was a history/cache type of issue, but still, nothing changed.
  9. Software Help Versaworks 6 not opening

    Has anyone had issues with VW6 not opening? I am running Win10 and have had several instances since upgrading to 6 where all that happens when I try to open the app is the splash screen comes up, I get the 'Finding Device Info' and 'Initializing Job Database' messages before it disappears and...
  10. Recommend Website Builder / Hosting Company (Wix? Weebly? ???)

    Namecheap has an EasyWP hosting product now that I've used on a few small projects. It's a few bucks a month, cheaper than their standard shared hosting, and it automatically installs WP on the server and sets it up for you. Once in there, you can navigate around WP dashboard, and there is a...
  11. How do you build a sign frame inside a brick monument?

    You can also buy post/panel extrusions to accomplish something like your photo there, as well. We have done a couple between brick pillars like this, all unlit. We used an aluminum cabinet body and ACM panels. Made the outer measurements of the cabinet a couple inches smaller than the opening...
  12. Company moving to Illustrator. Advice please.

    We have had over 100 many times in one file. The InDesign route may be equally as viable, but I just work mainly in AI, so that's the way we've always done it. Just as long as your tiled artboards don't exceed the max working size in Ai, you should be good.
  13. Company moving to Illustrator. Advice please.

    As mentioned above, we do a great deal of ADA signage for healthcare facilities. These are often times orders with well over 200 signs with digitally printed elements. In order to provide the potential client with full color renderings, we use multiple artboards in one AI file to create the...
  14. Company moving to Illustrator. Advice please.

    We have a Vision Engraver and use their Expert 9 Software. It looks and feel like SignLab, and it runs on a similar CADlink based platform. It doesn't do too awful much, we usually do all of our design work in Illustrator and then output to Vision, which also runs the engraver.
  15. Company moving to Illustrator. Advice please.

    I haven't used Corel personally, so this is strictly from an Ai only perspective. You can have multiple art boards in Illustrator, that's typically how we produce multi-page files. We do a lot of ADA sign packages for large facilities, so sometimes we have over 200 signs, each on their own art...
  16. Shipping yard signs - (24x18) - Boxes where to...

    Back on the boxes, we have a local box supplier that has a wide selection, much like Uline. Maybe check for box suppliers in your area.
  17. IDB Signs

    Hey there! We just actually sent off our first batch to a printer in Nashville. So we are...

    Hey there! We just actually sent off our first batch to a printer in Nashville. So we are waiting to see how they turn out and that process goes with them. We are printing second surface CMYK onto non-glare 1/8" acrylic, then flood white second pass over the CMYK. The sheets are just under 24" x...
  18. Dealing with Removals

    For those of you that have used a removal company before- was/ is it much more beneficial to just charge your shop rate for the removal, then pay out of that to the removal company, rather than doing it in house? Also concerning the liability, I would think that they would have the client sign...
  19. Anyone taken the ISA Idealliance Color Fundamentals course??

    Hey guys, we have been trying to get our color management dialed in for some time now. Has anyone taken the Idealliance Color Fundamentals course through ISA? We have a color training DVD here that we've studied, but it's at least a decade old and still didn't clarify everything for us. The...
  20. Need Help Illustrator placing problem

    Hmm, Ai gives me weird glitches like that all the time. Yesterday it absolutely would not ungroup a set of vectors. The Edit tab would give me an 'Undo Ungroup' option as though it had, but nothing happened. Ended up just cutting and pasting in place and it worked after that. For your issue...
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