Recent content by weareryan

Signature I deal with a shop (maybe someone on here knows them) that has this in their signature - “There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and he who considers price only is that man's lawful prey.”

Moonlighting It's whatever they can knock out in their spare time. I imagine they check their emails, knock out $10 worth of beer money design at the end of the day, and then hit the TV. At least that's how I'd do it. I know plenty of people where 5 minutes of their time would be worth $5...

Get A Picture Consider getting a picture of the actual boat from her. If you're going to the effort to draw it up, might as well make it personal and precise. "Honey, I've got a friend who just loves boats, and when she heard you have one she wanted to see a picture. Do you have any really...

Encad We started with a Kodak Encad that required coated media - so sad. Then we picked up a SP-540. Wow, this thing has been a beast. You're right about trying to work it to death. Managed to kill a cable or two, some part of the pump, but no head replacements. Every time it screws up...

Diamond Grade...they must be using actual diamonds. We use engineering all the time. Someone wanted the 10 year DG film and I foolishly guessed it at the EG rate. Had to come back later and correct myself in a big way.

I don't even manage the machine Thanks! We just learned how to force the printer to create registration marks at intervals so that no matter the number of decals, it will re-register every so often. It means we can do print cut on huge lengths without worrying about the cutting head getting...

Bleed Bleed is just extra color around the edge to hide the fact that the cut is a little ways off one way or another. Just add a same color outline / stroke to the object. Some software might have one or two button function to add it all automatically. Every printer / cutter is going to be...