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Been doing more fire/rescue vehicles lately with the wonderful chevrons on the rear. I've got a customer that is requesting the stuff in all one piece rather than individual strips and I didn't think that was doable in the lime yellow/red combination. He sent me a link to a company that offers...

Hello all, Encountering a strange ink dropout recently. On this particular print it's very noticeable; the print has a solid block of color at the bottom with the text reversed and the same at the top. Center text is the block color. The blocks are printing fine; when the head gets to the center...

I know I had it before, but with a computer reset and clean out it seems my settings have been changed. A Summa T750 - when I send a job to plot, the machine will roll off as much material as it thinks it needs before actually cutting the job, i.e. if the plot length is 8', the machine will roll...

Not a full wrap, but pertinent: has anyone successfully applied this stuff to a compound curve? I had to chevron a police vehicle - one of the new Ford Interceptor SUV's (the Explorer variant) and just got a call that the DG3 is peeling up off the tailgate. I have yet to see it, but my suspicion...

Hi all, I have a customer (who is a tactical unit in our county) that wants one of their vehicles "decorated" with matte vinyls. It won't be a full wrap - they don't want to spend that kind of money, but the majority of the lettering and logos the do want matte: military green and black. Of...

I've got a regular municipal customer who gets new vehicles every couple of years. Their colors are a gold and red on a white background. They have always requested everything to be reflective. In long years past, I've layered the reflective gold and red on the reflective white, and have printed...

Been trying to use the auto trace in X5 and it's very hit and miss. Sometimes it works fine, others it tells me that the bitmap is too large and needs to reduce - when I ok that, the program terminates with a runtime error and Corel crashes. Can't quite figure out what's going on. I don't use...

So, I get called to one of the local ambulance groups to quote redoing a couple of their vehicles. They are merging, so the graphics will be much more basic - black and gold reflective. Boring, I know. But, I have to strip the existing stuff which I thought was going to be a problem. It was done...

I know it, just can't find it in the system. Close is fine as I'm re-vamping an existing emblem, dissected trying to see if WhattheFont could find it - it didn't.. Note the N and R configuration.. As always, many thanks to those who play this game! R

Probably covered before, but can't find it through the search engine; is there a way to "wrap" text on a cylinder in X5? I could probably edit each letter individually, but that would take a bit of time. I also have Illustrator c3 that I don't use much if there is an option in that program.

Hello all, I have a client that is based in France and has been bought and sold several times. Each time their new visual identity spec calls out for 3M vinyls that are EU specific - I haven't been able to find them here. I've been able to match relatively closely with available colors...

Hello all, I just had a fellow stop that owns a '51 Ford stakebody and wanted me to make some period correct signage to fasten to the stakes. Now, I'm not quite that old that I remember what truck signage may have looked like then, but I'm assuming it was a pretty mundane look, if stake bodies...

Dave and Chris just left my place at 8:30pm or so after a long day at the Philly NBM show. My Mutoh was throwing a finicky issue that Chris tried to diagnose over the phone, and suggested that there might be several issues going on. After a couple hours work, issues resolved and back in...

Unfortunately, that's the cleanest version the client has. Nice huh? I know one of you 'fontperts' will know what this is! Thanks in advance, Rick

I figure this would be the appropriate place to put this: I do not do any sheetmetal work sign related at all at my place, but I do need some for hobby projects. I've been looking at various pan breaks (or brakes, depending on your location and/or spelling inclination) and obviously they are all...

Did we cover this somewhere? I did a search but didn't turn up much. Has anyone been able to cut 3mm coro on a router and not have to deal with the fuzzies on the edge? I've got a bunch of shapes to do and I'd rather not deal with trying to clean the edges. I thought I had read somewhere someone...

Hi all, Weird issue that crops up occasionally that only makes a difference if I'm putting together composites: for example, I'll draw a square and draw a circle in the middle of it. Apply a color, say red, to the square and leave the circle as either empty (no color) or a random color. I'll...

Has anyone noticed that the new black and white Taurus squad cars have wrapped doors and roof in white? Who's brilliant idea was this? All I can see is my guys scratching the hell out of the vinyl, like they do the paint, with their keys and belts getting in and out of the car. My locals hold...

Hi all, I've been attempting to run a fairly large fabric banner - it's the Optisolve fabric stuff, so it's thin and very lightweight. I'll get about four feet into the print (which is not graphic heavy) and the fabric will slowly start "pinching" in the rollers, leading to ridges and of course...

This is more for a finishing technique than building a sign; I've got a customer that wants 30 to 40 small (10") routed 3/4" pvc items that have quite a few routed through details on them. All will be the same color, I'm trying to figure out the fastest, easiest way to get a consistent coat on...