Recent content by Fechin

We have two shops in the area and service the wider Chicago region. We're Signs By Tomorrow in Elgin and American Signs in Boy's Town area of Chicago.

Open the .Ai file in Photoshop and save the as a .Psd that is flat and has no transparency if it doesn't already.

I print out one of these for reference for each of my printers at value( usually profile off) to match the chart. Helps finding colors and knowing what printers can do, like my solvent hits greens better than my latex.

Why not make a guide? Take a piece of pvc/ poly/ whatever. Do the radial method on that or print and apply a guide to and make a half or quarter circle that you can use as a curved edge to pencil or cut by. Kinda like a big protractor.

I've sometimes noticed on very long prints that a length discrepancy happens. Though I found setting the length to 101.7% worked, but that was my printer and this 3.7% difference. It might be the feed rate or tension, but a little math can adjust it.

You don't, you do it in Photoshop instead. In fact, dealing with Onyx, any gradient or opacity effect rips and prints better if its a raster, even if its a raster element in a Illustrator/PDF file.

Would it be possible for a copy of it, or an outline of the alphabet in an eps or svg file?

Customer comes in wanting name badges, and previous maker has stopped because the machine broke and they don't want to replace it. It's engraved acrylic with this text. Closest thing I could find was "Sign Painter JNL" but not quite the same. I feel like it might be a font that's proprietary...

I just noticed recently that in Illustrator's settings, that you no longer allocate the size of the Scratch Disk. That is now determined by Windows itself. The default of which is set at 4gb. I switched it up to 20gb and noticed an immediate difference. For windows 10 you can find it here...

You could try this free replacement. https://www.culturehustleusa.com/products/freetone

Whether singular or some combination of Sentinel Protection Installer and Removing Avast. Its reinstalled now.

Avast but its disabled

Recent windows updates screwed over Onyx and couldn't get it to load past the splash screen. Uninstalled it and tried reinstalling it. Froze and license confirmation. Tried a few times. Same thing. As Admin. In Safe Mode. Avast disabled Onyx tech support, tried and same thing. Purged system of...

My best solution, I print out a color chart of what my printer puts out at that setting. I have an HP latex as well, with the attached I've been able to ballpark things quite well. And this can go two ways, one is with the profile. What color value you set in Illustrator or whatever, is the...

I got word straight from Grimco that it is the plasticizer on it. Apparently, the next newer printer model has a foam wiper for this stuff, otherwise it screws around with the Latex ink, but not the solvent.