Was blind but now I see

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We custom paint cornhole boards, and have been using exacto knives and ink-plotted paper to cut out our designs. After taking 6 hours a board (not counting dry time) to do a 4 color 2'X4' board we decided "there must be a better way!"

There is! We are borrowing a Graphtec CE2000-60 and love the concept! we look forward to the help you all have to offer. As it stands we have the driver installed and can get an error message to show when we select the Graphtec as our printer on our computer.

With no software we come seeking advice on how to have the plotter do our exacto work for us and will be posting questions. Any helpful starting out advice is always welcome!

 

Thanks for all the input! For those that didn't visit the website, it is bagboys.net, or bagboys616.com (616 - area code on phone number here in Grand Rapids, MI).

here is some of our more labor intensive work so you can see our need for a plotter!

 

We know we've been skirting a "shut-down" for some time. We have been headed in the direction of doing work only for local companies that own their logos (Horny Goat Brewing, Jude's Barbershop, Fireside RV Rentals and a few others shown on the site - more on Facebook), and less of the university/professional team logos. Our season is done in Michigan until next Spring, so we are hoping to have the plotter up and running and we can do more family names or customize boards for each client and not use logos that we do not have the rights to - so we don't get "cornholed" as others delicately put it.

Freddy vs. Jason was hand painted vs. exacto'd, by a brother-in-law, not by us. He's done some other work for us too, but uses our marketing to get his products out there. I'll pass along the compliments!

 

"How are you getting around printing trademarked items?" - Signmaniac

Would like to make as clear as possible we are trying to no-longer do the above activity, and with your help we are getting close! It is NOT a fun way to operate, and we love doing to custom work for business owners as a unique marketing tool.

Process is simple in concept. I have a friend with a blue-print printer/plotter. He prints the images, and we use masking tape and cut out the shapes. Most of the stuff is pixelized, as we are taking a 2" image to make it 19", but we fill in the gaps where we need to. Here is our process - soon to change with our plotter up and running!

 

Cornhole is what we call it in Michigan - not a bad link. It is the backyard game, beanbag toss. Bags are filled with corn with an objective to have them pass through a hole on the board being thrown at.

http://www.playcornhole.org/

The "governing" body of the sport. Much like bowling in that it is a sport in which you can consume food & drink and play at the same time.

It is also known as bags/baggo/toss across.