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What can cause that fade out or modelled look when printing spot colours? Is it to much heat? or ink starvation? If it is ink starvation how does one remedy this situation. I dont get it all the time Ijust dont know wen it will happen or what causes it. I see it a lot on banners but yesterday...

yup, as much as I love digital printing I also deplore it. I feel so out of control over what happens to finished work. So I get a call yesterday from a very good customer and they need a rush retractable for their client today by days end to be shipped. I agreed but knew this is not good...

Sounds like a good idea? NOT I purchased 2 retractable cheapie banner stands and when I picked them up the lady at shipping gives me 2 rolls of some kind of banner material. I can't figure out what they are thinking here unless it is for people who cut vinyl only. I cant print on a banner...

I did the truck about 4 or 5 years ago and now he wants it stripped before it goes back to the dealership. I am not opposed to normally doing this but his logo is a 60" x 72" pure 2ml metalic gold square with a small knockout of lettering over rivets. On a good day 2 ml vinyl can be a beatch...

No big deal I guess, but I ordered 60 pieces of coro 36" x 48" and the company I order from will not take a verbal order on cut jobs ( I agree) and they send me an email to sign off on. I do and the stuff is delivered. They bring it on a skid with tie wraps on it to begin with which basically...

This was an interesting dilemma today. I received a pdf file from a customer for some short run prototype labels for small bottles. When I imported it into Flexi it came in with no font missing info and my only problem was that there were 6 masks on the graphic and when a certain one was...

Is it traditionally accepted that when we purchase rolls of banner that we are expected to throw away the last 10 to 15' of material as it usually has a crease that runs across the banner causes by the first X amount of winding? Does that make any sense? probably not. In any case I have 2...

So I am sitting in bed watching my beloved Golf Channel and I catch something out of the corner of my eye. I re-focused and there crawiling across the floor was a little mouse!!! He ran into the ensuite washroom and I ran in after him. I didn't want to lose sight of him and the ceramics in the...

Last week sometime we think our cat may have had an altercation with a raccoon. Oliver, although declawed as he was supposed to be an indoor cat way back when, has always been a scrapper. He would fight for territory with neighbours cats with claws and yet he would always come home the victor it...

I have a 15" envision plotter and even though we dont use it that much anymore I was wondering what sort of maintenance can be performed on the unit. The two steel wheels that move the carriage look like they could uselubrication but fear maybe your not supposed to. Not sure of anything else...

I now hear that General Formualtions sells a film for wrapping. Great price I hear. anyone here using it? If so I would like to hear your opinions on the product.

service loop or whatever they call wherby the machine goes out and then back before cutting. Sometimes it is very unncecessary and wasteful of time. Is there a way to turn it off?

I have been running my Summa plotter from my Laptop recently and I tried a 15 foot usb2 cable but it nothing happens so I bought a 6 foot cable and yesterday it was cutting. Today I tried sending a 48" x 72" vinyl cut and 33% in the plotter stops and the program manager is locked at 33% and not...

I just opened a pdf file from a customer and the grey I see in acrobat is coming in as black. I tried opening it in flexi 7 and 8 and both times the same results. What I am curious about is that so many people are sending me pdf's to work from and I just dont trust them. Is there a setting...

Yes it's Monday, and I had this belief that I was going to come in today and have a real smooth day. I am not sure why I always seem happy when I come to work cause within minutes my days are usually thrown into complete chaos!!!!!. at this point it is now close to 7 and my blood pressure is...

On my Graphtec I have it set so that if I ungroup everything that the cutter cuts everything as it comes through on the x axis and does not go out 8 feet and then back again line by line. This cutter runs off sinlab but my Summa ruins off of flexi... I have set it up to do the same although I...

I am not to sure why this stuff is so hard to work with. Are they all so thin and tough to even peel the backing paper off of? I just did a 4 x 4 sign and almost broke down in frustration as I went through close to 15 feet of the stuff. Just trying to peel the backing paper off drove me...

So last week I open Flexi and I get the box that opens that it has no idea what plotter or printer I have issue, which I have not seen in about 6 months. I plug in what we have and eventually it loads the drivers and sees all my current prints and cut jobs. The main viewing area of production...

I am printing a banner for the second time around as the first one I let print and left the room to do other chores. Came back and this light blue just sucked, so I reran at 720 x 720 8 pass uni high speed off. The banner has 2 blue bars running across the top and bottom and then just the logo...

Another sign shop emails me and needs 100 very simple red on white decals (rush rush rush of course) and with it I get a pdf file. I open the pdf file and in Flexi it contains masks so I unmask it and then what appeared to be an identical layout of the decal appers to the right of the original...