jbq7448
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Hi,
We are a husband and wife home-based Graphic Design firm in the Maryland suburbs north of Washington,DC. and have been in business for 14 years. We are much more print oriented and only do very minor amounts of web design.
We recently purchased a Designjet 3000cp, Daige Quickmount 3 laminator and Flexi-sign Pro 7.62 from a local sign shop that closed up shop when the landlord tripled the rent. Our intent is not to go into a full-blown sign shop, but to just be able to supply our clientele with additional in-house capabilities; ie, posters, tradeshow graphics and other large inkjet materials.
As we are home-based and do not anticipate that changing, we will probably not ever be considering solvent inkjet output. I don't think the homeowner association would go for that.
I anticipate that we will be looking for assistance in some material choices and some assistance as we feel our way into Flexisign. In return we can offer our lengthy experience with Adobe products.(We started with Pagemaker 3.0 running on runtime Windows 2 and are currently using Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium).
Our current 2 issues that we could use advice on are: 1) mounting board that offers more durability than foam-core, but that can still be cut easily with a hand-held knife.( We had also purchased an Exacto Pro-Cut Elite 63" but have found we don't have sufficient room to set it up.)
2)Our final layouts are usually done in InDesign and then exported as either a pdf or eps for use in Flexi. We find that we have to re-spec all the colors in Flexi in order to get output that is not way too black. If anyone can advise us as to how to get Flexi to recognize the colors correctly so we don't have to select each item and re-color it, that would be most appreciated.
Thanks
We are a husband and wife home-based Graphic Design firm in the Maryland suburbs north of Washington,DC. and have been in business for 14 years. We are much more print oriented and only do very minor amounts of web design.
We recently purchased a Designjet 3000cp, Daige Quickmount 3 laminator and Flexi-sign Pro 7.62 from a local sign shop that closed up shop when the landlord tripled the rent. Our intent is not to go into a full-blown sign shop, but to just be able to supply our clientele with additional in-house capabilities; ie, posters, tradeshow graphics and other large inkjet materials.
As we are home-based and do not anticipate that changing, we will probably not ever be considering solvent inkjet output. I don't think the homeowner association would go for that.
I anticipate that we will be looking for assistance in some material choices and some assistance as we feel our way into Flexisign. In return we can offer our lengthy experience with Adobe products.(We started with Pagemaker 3.0 running on runtime Windows 2 and are currently using Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium).
Our current 2 issues that we could use advice on are: 1) mounting board that offers more durability than foam-core, but that can still be cut easily with a hand-held knife.( We had also purchased an Exacto Pro-Cut Elite 63" but have found we don't have sufficient room to set it up.)
2)Our final layouts are usually done in InDesign and then exported as either a pdf or eps for use in Flexi. We find that we have to re-spec all the colors in Flexi in order to get output that is not way too black. If anyone can advise us as to how to get Flexi to recognize the colors correctly so we don't have to select each item and re-color it, that would be most appreciated.
Thanks
