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  1. Don't you love when suppliers screw up

    Ordered 10 yds of 15" 220 white for my edge...Picked it up got back. Opened it up and it is 10 yards white reflective..... I gonna call and order 10 more yards of 220 white...
  2. SignLab8 digitizing question

    I used version 5 for what seemed forever and when switching over to version 8, there was a learning curve to figure out many things that had changed....some for the better and some that I still don't get. here is one that I keep having issues with. When I bring in a scan or photo and...
  3. garbage rant!!!

    I am not sure in the US how your garbage rates are but up here I think they are way too high. I have a 4 yard container and pay $55.00 a dump. Considering what we throw away and how fast it can fill up that seems to be a lot of $$$$. The rant is this weekend I came in on Saturday morning...
  4. a simple question...about borders on signs going into frames...

    I know this is a pretty lame question considering I have been in business for over 25 years, but I don't think I have come across this in all that time. So I have some interior designer who ordered 20 - 2 post frame signs... I now get the artwork and it has a 1" orange border around the...
  5. edge le acting up again

    Every couple of months my Edge LE, if let sitting turned on, but idle will start beeping. I generally set it on the side and open the panel and push the boards in and tinker around with any connection I can find. 1, 2 or 3 tries and it eventually behaves and gets back to work. I now notice...
  6. why does Signlab 8 do this?

    I have seen this before especially when importing eps files... this file was a .ps but seems to import as either an eps or an ai, but it has these 2 letters jammed in and somehow connected to the logo. I know they don't belong there and if I try to break the graphic apart it ruins the real...
  7. anybody know this one?

    Not seen this before
  8. 3m - 2ml after 4 years

    This film is applied to the hood of a school bus that came in last week for minor fixes.... This vinyl was put on dry 4 years ago. OK I know it is on a black surface that faces upward, but a cast film should last longer.
  9. OK whats the deal with this file looking this way

    The designer is telling me this is a font. I have seen where a conversion breaks a font into pieces but not like this!! When I print the "P" that little overlap causes the background colour to show through. Now normally I would do a quick weld and get on with it, but this graphic won't work...
  10. wiper seems to be getting jammed!!

    My jv3 130spII although getting on in age (8 years) still prints good and I have kept up the maintenance quite well, or so my technician tells me. I had an issue a few weeks back with my black ink, and somehow 2 bottles were drained completely dry and I called him in to syphon the lines and get...
  11. easiest frost film to weed small stuff

    OK guys...I have what might be the most tedious frost job and I will need to cut quite a bit of it, and don't want to sit for endless hours fighting the weeding process...basically it is a pattern of something like 1" v's one upright the next upside down continuously and row after row of...
  12. 20 gauge galvanized steel...how does one round the corners?

    Just wondering if there is a tool that can do that...I have a round corner machine, but seriously don't think it can deal with thin steel...or can it?
  13. heat and chemical resistant stickers.

    I figure if a decal can sit on the hood of a car and resist the heat of the sun than that would be considered heat resistant? If I laminate the decal would that be chemical resistant?
  14. why do the "i"'s and the "l"'s look wrong in pdf files

    I have seen this before and today a client asked why the "I"'s and the "l"'s looked odd. I opened the file and you see these 2 letters much bolder than everything else...I also noticed if you zoom in they look correct. Any reason for this?
  15. anyone have a formula for print and cut decals?

    Sq footage pricing is fine for print, but what happens when you throw cutting into the mix? Not only the time to cut the actual decals but weeding and then cutting them all down... Up until now I have been winging it but never had a real formula for doing this. What do you guys do for...
  16. Laminator suddenly stops working in autorun

    Seal 54 el - I was laminating some vinyl to coroplast and it was running OK and then at the end of one board it suddenly stopped like something was blocking the electric eye. I ran the foot pedal to finish the last few inches. Put in the next sheet and no way no how will the forward button...
  17. What exactly is engineering grade reflective?

    is it like a cast vinyl or a calendered? not sure which laminate to use
  18. found this web site to convert cmyk to pantone

    quick and easy and good enough when dealing with clients who take forever getting pantone info from their designers. http://www.ginifab.com/feeds/pms/cmyk_to_pantone.php
  19. printing decals for 3M

    I received a small order from a promotional company to print some small 3M decals...Just occurred to me now as I am cutting them that I printed them General Formulations vinyl and used some no name Chinese lam...hahahaha.... Should have used Avery that way they would see the logo on the backs
  20. UPS put me in collections!!

    Received a letter from a collection agency today stating that I owed UPS money. Oddly enough I never received any calls from UPS or any mail stating that I owed them money. I might actually owe them this huge amount of $18.00 but I am sure it may have been because they overcharged me on...
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