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We used to sell a lot of Time-O-Matic message centers, and did so for a long time until a critical point where the company screwed up and lost our business. They refused to go by any kind of dealership program model. We had a competitor selling the units at cost, with no markup, just to get the...

Don't know how many in this forum deal with LED-based electronic message centers. But the Coldplay music video for "Speed of Sound" is really pretty cool for the huge RGB LED display that seems to resemble a big curved and louvered CinemaScope screen. The whole video almost seems like a showcase...

I use Eye Candy as a Photoshop plug-in. Some of the older Kai's Power Tools are pretty cool as well.

It might be worth noting that most of the brand marks posted on the Brands of the World website are treated in the same manner as that Host logo. Most don't have any compound paths, just simulated holes using different colored fills. Not all are like this, but most are.

That's a good point about the magnetic signs. At the very least a magnetic sign may give off the negative connotation that you're using a personal vehicle for your business. That's ultimately what gives off that part-timer tinge.

If you run an operation out of your house, car or at swap meets something like a phone book ad will be too pricey. Word of mouth and personal promotion tools (cards, flyers, etc.) work best. Now, if you run a "brick and mortar" sign company -especially a full service shop with crane trucks...

You'll have to export your artwork to a different format, such as EPS, Adobe Illustrator or perhaps DXF. The choice will be determined on how Flexi imports each of the format flavors exported. Software incompatibility is one of the major reasons why I tend to double up designs in at least two...

The font is Blue Island, available from Adobe Systems.

Depending on the version, it may be worth a lot more than $1000. The full FlexiSIGN Pro edition (including large format RIP) lists for over $4000. FlexiExpert lists for a little over half that price. $1000 is going to get you a more basic setup (if something is available in the version 7.x...

The Berthold fonts included with Adobe Illustrator 4.0 was one of the only reasons why I bought that app.

CG Omega as well as other CG clones like Triumvirate were included in the CASmate fonts disc. Some of those fonts survived in the transition to Flexi. Bitstream has a decent clone of Optima with its Zapf Humanist 601 family. There are several weights of it on any version of CorelDRAW released...

Take a look at House Industries font catalog. Their fonts aren't cheap, but they're of excellent quality and definitely nail the "retro" look for a variety of periods.

The MAC address authorization can be a highly effective defense against intruders trying to freely jump onto your Wi-Fi connection. For those who don't know, a MAC address is a unique machine ID number that only your computer will have. Newer notebook computers usually will list their MAC...

I take several steps to protect my systems at work and at home. Internet Explorer and Outlook Express are evil. PC users should not use those applications unless they absolutely have to do so. Using Mozilla Firefox for web browsing and Mozilla Thunderbird for e-mail will greatly reduce risks...

One more tip with Flexi when cutting vinyl. It doesn't happen everytime, but it does happen. Just to be safe, I usually make separate copies of the items I'm about to cut and give them a black fill. At times when you have imported artwork items with white fills (or no fills at all) Production...

Flexi is a very good investment. We upgraded our three CASmate keys to Flexi a few years ago and it has worked out very well. There's lots of tools within Flexi that are very CAD-like and not featured within the standard version of Corel. I'm not sure what additional creative tools Co-Cut may...

I know I've seen this font somewhere before, but just can't seem to find out what it is. I've tried using Identifont and the 'What the Font?" tools at the My Fonts website, but haven't found a match. Has anyone here seen this one before? The uppercase "V" is pretty unique. Note, I had to do a...

The Canon EOS 20D is definitely now the king of the hill in the "affordable digital SLR" category. PC Magazine posted a five star review on it recently, citing a number of reasons on why it bests the Nikon D70. The Nikon model has been out for a while now; so it would stand to reason Nikon may...

When it comes to Corel's auto reduce capability, I have typically used a more selective method. For instance, on a contour effect resulting in lots of control points (mainly lots of straight line segments joined together to simulate a curve) I would grab the node editing shape tool, select all...

It is not a "well documented fact" Corel is way easier to use than Illustrator. That's just your opinion, possibly coming from what you're used to using in the workplace. I've known a lot of people who were used to Illustrator or Freehand and totally despised Corel when trying to use it. Yes...