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  1. Newbie with Basics 101 Questions

    I don't have an installer, trainer, or tech so I am learning this new equipment all on my own. Yay! My shop set up is: Adobe for design, Mimaki UCJV300-160 for printing, and a new Summa S3 TC160 for cutting. I've used the Mimakis for about 4 years now and have done most of my cutting with...
  2. ECUT FOR AI PROBLEMS

    Hey there, I just purchased ecut for Adobe illustrator after trying the demo, but realizing that I was limited to access .. so I thought. In the demo all my shapes seemed to be stuck in a bounding box causing so much waste, but would demonstrate how it nested. Understandable, so I went for...
  3. Issues with Illustrator PDF Scale Exports

    Hello awesome community! I'm exporting a raster/vector image from Illustrator as a PDF and adobe keeps scaling it to a 1/10 scale. Thats all fine and dandy for the vector parts of the image of course. But the raster parts of the image after scaling it back up by 1000% are still not as sharp as...
  4. Illustrator CC default settings

    When the shop I work at upgraded the Adobe CC version from 2020 to 2021, the default new document settings got messed with and it's set up for video now (?). It has a green "video ruler" around the sides I never saw before, with a green crosshair showing the center. I kind of like that, it helps...
  5. Adobe CC Licensing Error

    Attn: Admin If this topic is in the wrong channel please move it to the appropriate channel. All month I have been struggling with Adobe CC licensing errors on my production PC. I'm running Windows 7 Professional. The license is under my manager's Adobe account but I'm the only one who uses it...
  6. Graphtec CE Lite 50 not communicating with CM4? HELLLLLLPPPPP!!!!

    So I have a brand new Graphtec CE Lite 50. I have downloaded all of the necessary drivers and the CM4 plug in for illustrator 2021. Unfortunately it seems as if CM4 is not communicating with my graphtec. When try to send a job to cut, it loads up in the cut window. When I try to click the "poll...
  7. Need Help Signcut Pro2

    Hi there. I'm a newbie to this software. Hoping some one can save me a lot of time working out the best way to attack this. I have just got a trial version at the moment and want to make sure it will do what I want before I purchase. I print a lot of labels on my Xerox production press (not...
  8. Need Help How to repair a damaged file in Illustrator?

    Hello, after saving the file on a flash drive Illustrator, writes that the file is damaged. As luck would have backup did not, immediately saved on a flash drive. Who the thread knows as quickly as possible to recover their work? Is it possible at all, after this?
  9. Need Help illustrator for Mac

    Whenever I open the Adobe illustrator for Mac an error message pops out saying that it is not able to start correctly. How to overcome this? I am hoping someone in this community could provide me with some answers. Thanks very much in advance for all your help
  10. Question The Illustrator graphic file is damaged

    Please tell me some good tool to restore the file adobe illustrator, the fact that the other day one of the graphics files gave an error that is damaged or may offer something else as help? Please help me as some files are important
  11. Unrecognized Format

    Hi all. Glad to join the community! Are there members who use Adobe Illustrator? I was given an .ai file to do a simple changes. But Illustrator won't let me save it. After saving the file this error message occurred: Unrecognized Format What's going on? Please guys, any help will be...
  12. Question Need Help

    I have a Artwotk of 15 X 2.40 Meter have multiple size thats more than 10 meter length and height more than 2 meter). My Roland Versacamm 640 and 158 cm is printing Area. As if i need to divide the artwork and print but illustrator last size 5.77 meter length. any idea i can divide in other...
  13. Onyx Rip and color Interpretation

    Alright, I'm new to the forums and this is my first post. So taking settings into account, Same profiles, Files built with same color palate in Illustrator, Same material, Saved as .eps ... So we have a fleet account and we are 2 vehicles deep into the fleet. They are two different models so I...
  14. Roland CutStudio AI Plug-in

    With the latest update available for Adobe Illustrator CC (2017 21.1.0) it seems as if the Roland Cut Studio Plug-In option for AI has been removed. I can't even seem to find "Extensions" underneath the Window tab. The plug-in works fine on all other versions. Has anyone experienced this yet...
  15. Cutline Issue

    You will have to excuse me if this seems like a dumb question, I am a newbie. I am really stuck making a simple cut line around a circle sticker. I have been using the same process as I would when doing a contour cut line but its not working when doing a simple circle cut line. I have the...
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    Looking to expand from Flexi Cloud

    What kind of benefits are there to adding Illustrator into our repitoire? Our niche really is our speed in finishing jobs, but I am trying to get the business to focus a little more on design while maintaining our production speed. Any advice would be helpful. Thanks
  17. Printing Pattern

    Design a pattern to Print on Wall Graphic Letters. Design the Pattern using Adobe Illustrator the pattern is perfect on letters at small sizes. When I blow letters up in Adobe it makes the Pattern to small on the Letters ruining the design of pattern. So basically I'm wondering what is best...
  18. I need help! Inner glow affect disappear in graphic,using Ai

    I have a project that needs to be printed. Its a gray swoosh with an inner glow...This is the part I have down...1) Created design and applied inner glow, 2)Expanded Appearance, 3)Flattened transparency with the preserve Alpha transparency checked,.... Then printed to make sure everything good-...
  19. AI problems in Omega 5

    We recently upgraded from Omega 3 to 5. Now that we have upgraded, whenever I open or import an AI file, the file will not print to our Edge printer. We are getting a GQMgr error stating, "Incorrect funtion. (1) File gq_pftp.cpp Line 1053 Try Again?" If I select yes, I get the same error...
  20. Color profiles and Color Settings in Illustrator

    Have been reading alot about color profiling and setup in versaworks re ink limits and the such since about last november - and finally getting my head around it all. The internet helped alot with the above, and I have been reading like mad about everything, and have enjoyed learning so many...
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