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Flexi-Sign...who uses it? Poll??

Do You Use FlexiSign?

  • Yes

    Votes: 255 71.0%

  • No

    Votes: 104 29.0%
  • Total voters
    359
S

Service Sign Co

New Member
I just spent the last half hour locating the old win 95 laptop and the lpt key for Flexi 2.5 I used it for neon patterns in the early 90's. It took forever to boot up. I sure don't miss those painful waiting days.You could only open 1 file at a time
 
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weaselboogie

weaselboogie

New Member
Day Sign Co said:
I just spent the last half hour locating the old win 95 laptop and the lpt key for Flexi 2.5 I used it for neon patterns in the early 90's. It took forever to boot up. I sure don't miss those painful waiting days.You could only open 1 file at a time
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I bet that thing cost a small fortune.


8 colors in the color palette. .... :rolleyes:
 
Gino

Gino

Premium Subscriber
We have it on two computers. It's not my first choice for anything, but so many people use it that send us files, it is nice opening files in a same/same situation.

It seems like a pretty good program, I just have allegiance to other programs that I'm more familiar with at this time.
 
GAC05

GAC05

Quit buggin' me
Not much love for Flexi from me.
I use it to drive the plotters and the production manager to drop print files into.
Only reason I have it is because it was cheaper to upgrade from Inspire to Flexi than it would have been to purchase a RIP from scratch when I got a wide format printer.

wayne k
guam usa

(I'll bet Doug is surprised to hear this)
 
surf city

surf city

New Member
I use it for both vinyl and for my wide format printer. I like it it works pretty good but, I also like Corel.
 
H

HouseofVinyl

New Member
I use a combination of flexi pro and Corel X4 in my designs. I like the ease of flexi but use Corel for the more complicated designs.
 
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c-leb

New Member
Flexi-Sign... who uses it?

Wildpony said:
I use Flexi Pro 8 as my main design/Rip/Cut program and supplement it with Photoshop, Illustrator, and sometimes AutoCad.
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I agree w/Wildpony its a great supplement, but limited as a main design program. We use 7.5 on three machines so I dunno if the latest version has fixed some of the con's but yea...

Pro's (I've found): Vector welding (only rivaled by flash). Step and repeat is fantastic for ganging vector files with perfect distance, also useful in setting up multiple cut paths. Align, distribute, and snap-to tools are a step ahead of Illustrator and something Adobe should pick up on.

Con's: Limited capabilities with bitmap files. No tracing tools. Limited layer accessibility (forward one, back one, to front, to back... blah). Pantone color chart does not convert correctly (into Adobe) without changing color profile.

There are more pro's and con's but I use these daily. The program is well worth the $$ if your plotting, but for design and digital print production I'd stick with Adobe.
 
Wildpony

Wildpony

New Member
c-leb said:
I agree w/Wildpony its a great supplement, but limited as a main design program. We use 7.5 on three machines so I dunno if the latest version has fixed some of the con's but yea...

Pro's (I've found): Vector welding (only rivaled by flash). Step and repeat is fantastic for ganging vector files with perfect distance, also useful in setting up multiple cut paths. Align, distribute, and snap-to tools are a step ahead of Illustrator and something Adobe should pick up on.

Con's: Limited capabilities with bitmap files. No tracing tools. Limited layer accessibility (forward one, back one, to front, to back... blah). Pantone color chart does not convert correctly (into Adobe) without changing color profile.

There are more pro's and con's but I use these daily. The program is well worth the $$ if your plotting, but for design and digital print production I'd stick with Adobe.
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I love the step and repeat function! I don't do much bitmap editing with it, that's when I use Photoshop.
I'm using Flexi-Pro 8 and It has a nice Layer Pallet that gives you much more control than the forward, back, front, back
 
CrabbyOldGuy

CrabbyOldGuy

New Member
We have been using Flexi since 1994. Before that we used Sign-Tronic for 4 years. Have also used Gerber 3 and 4B's and the next generation with the screen. Gerber was a workhorse if you had the time to input all the lines and such. Sign-Tronic was very precise and very expensive. Flexi was roughly 1/10 the cost of Sign-Tronic when we switched. Yes, there are some drawbacks to the Flexi, but on the whole, I use it everyday for what it was intended. We also use Illy and Photoshop. It is all about what you are comfortable with and what is best for the job at hand. I will probably have Flexi in the shop for many years to come.
 
peavey123

peavey123

New Member
I use it at the shop I work for...but I really dislike it. If it was my choice I would just use strictly adobe products, occasionally Corel (which I use to cut vinyl from) and a good rip like versaworks or similar.
 
Ken

Ken

New Member
Yes, interesting about the vote count.
And thanks for all the comments.
I'm doing well enough with Corel..sending files to a Versacamm or a Graphtec (using bridge software). I'm not a high feverous production shop. So what I have is.."good enough"
Cheers!
Ken
 
cartoad

cartoad

New Member
We use Flexi for most sign design work, finding it easy to work with, also we use AI, and Photoshop. We also use Corel Draw for the engraver.
 
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