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I use the term silvering lightly here as I am not really sure what it is. Let me explain what I am doing. A client brought me a sample of an acrylic name plate that is 2" x 10" and 5/8" thick clear and either it was lasered, water jetted or flame polished. I am not sure but they are clean and...

Regular customer, never a problem.... then after doing a new sign face with new plastic I receive about 30 days later an email that this guys associate that he worked with is no longer with the company. Hmmmm , I tell my receptionist...you start calling to get my money and dont let it sit. Now...

I received a file from a customer for a retractable banner and it is made up of so much masking that to try and break them all is crazy. In any case I printed one of the banners yesterday and today I am looking at the second one which has shared info with the first. I see two of the logos which...

How o you duplicate a graphic in Flexi and move it on the y or x axis with the mouse. I use Flexi generally for printing so my setups are generally done in Signlab.

So I call my regular aluminum blank supplier (YMS) this morning to order 20 pieces of 12" x 24" 051 aluminum and as usual the woman on the order desk is her usual unfriendly self (they seem to hire foreigners with no personalty). I tell her that I need to order 20 pieces of 051 aluminum 12" x...

Now that winter is upon us and the heat is on the static issue arises. I find I can clean a surface as best as possible and even with lint free cloths but if your putting down digital printed masses of vinyl (even small 12 x 18 stuff) afterwards it always seems that foreign materials have...

Do you ever get a little confused with the spelling on the simplist of words, or question the spelling would be more appropriate. Sometimes I am typesetting and then when I am looking over the proof I stop on a word and it's like I have never seen it before and I question it's spelling. The word...

I constantly run into color problems with high end customers. Here is my dilemma on this current job. The file is set up in indesign. I have an inhouse designer who then resets it up the way I need it for flexi, then I print it. In most cases I want vector files because I need to match spot...

anybody tried doing this? I need to print sequential serial numbers plus there is a peacock blue and black. I dont think it will be a problem to print. The blue will take some tweaking. Anybody tried doing this? results?

This is a real minor question but I am curious why my software does it. I have Coreldraw9 in my main computer and I simply use it for opening eps and ai files and then re exporting them as eps files so that my signlab5 can open them. This is generally because newer eps file created from...

I have been left to do my own in house installs as my employee who takes care of all that is off for an undefined period. Had to do a large 4' x 20' banner with big 38" letters. I am so rusty and I started using a regular squeegee and I could hear the bubbles forming in the first letter and then...

Today is a strange day. First off I am in the process of having my domain transfered into my name from a friend who set it up 2 years ago. I filled out some stuff this morning on line and sent it off and then I start receiving a few calls from customers that their e-mails are bouncing back to...

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I just noticed one of my monitors has what looks like a permanent key line about 1/4 wide on the screen. I was cutting some graphics and I saw it there and tried to marquee it but it is not in the program but on the actual screen. Does thi smean my monitor is going to be toast soon?

I have no idea what is going on here but yesterday I decided to set up my Logitech USB speakers for my laptop so I could listen to the radio on line with decent sound. In any case this morning I set up the laptop and plug in all my devices and out of nowhere I hear yapping going on from my...

I have a customer who wants these neon sign boards that have either black lights in the perimeter or led's and you write with fleurescent markers and they light up on a black background. I know years ago up here there was a supplier. In the US this displays2go has them but they are 12 weeks back...

Here is a pic of why I cant run any of my jobs in this mode. Just awful. The pic is off my blackberry and pretty horrible but you get the jist of what it looks like. It looks even worse with your eyes. The colour is a 321 . The job is for a friend that run tradeoffs with and will be at the side...

I have learnt a valuable lesson today. Do not use the transparent function on a large print. I think I waited 45 minutes to rip this file!!! The bad part is I need 2 of them but only sent 1 at a time. If I send the second I assume I will have to wait that incredible rip time again. What if I...

After being absent since last Thursday, my regular nozzle wash that is done on Fridays had to wait until Monday when I returned. I am also low on a cyan cartridge so I know the wiper does not wipe the heads until that cartidge is changed. My magenta head on the test print has far to many boxes...

well it started Tuesday night around 9:30 pm....not sure what was wrong with me but I became generally uncomfortable and irratable, that was it and then Wed I went to work but had this anxiety in the pit of my stomach and a little heartburn to boot. Wed night the oncoming of a cold was what I...