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Many Happy Returns Fred. I hope you and Connie have a great day together celebrating. I will have a drink/toast to you when I get home from work.:toasting:
And this is the type of response that deserves contempt. Helpful information is given freely and you come back with that sort of response. Maybe should listen more to what is offered and either read it or say nothing at all. I did not see anything at all that was being rough on you.
No, I hadn't heard of him Fred, But I do know that us Aussies were ripped off something chronic. Esselte/ Letraset were the distributors of Gerber and they were in bed with 3m punched vinyl. We were brow beaten into taking "maintenance agreements" @ $1,000/year and if we used any other vinyl...
Does anyone remember HTD. That was a dog of a program!! I only bought it because it came with a number of fonts and it had a huge big noisy box just to drive the Gerber plotter. They were one of the first companies to go to the wall.
As my luck would have it I think the 4B came out about a month after I bought mine. I replaced a belt about 2 years ago. I could not bear to part with it, so I did not tade it up. I tell people that it would be akin to selling one's child!:covereyes:
I don't use it much but it is still here...
I got my first Gerber 4A in early 1985. Serial # 5646..I still use it occasionaly for cutting Scotchlite and sandblast rubber and for making pounce patterns. I have it set up with a Cadlink Fastboard which allows it to run through signlab.Fonts at that time were $500.
:goodpost: How many times has negative space been (Read Mike Stevens) discussed right here and yet older designers still don't get it. I think one of the very first things taught at trade school was to place an imaginary border around your substrate before doing anything else. The BS about "it's...
how many people here would ever believe that to be allowed to have the priveledge of becoming a master tradesman would require 5 years of learning to get a piece of paper called an indenture to hang on your wall?. And 5 years become 10 years and 10 years become 30 years etc. and one is still...
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