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  1. Font ID (kind of blurry)

    Now I'm curious who Ribs Bissonette is and what took him 27 seconds.
  2. Need Help Need suggestions where to buy sign blanks

    We get ours from Grimco because we don't buy in large quantity. But there's also Wrisco.
  3. Etched Glass vinyl application

    Depends what you are doing with the etch look vinyl. If you're cutting lettering and applying it as you would other vinyl lettering, do it dry. If you're applying large sheets to "frost" the window, do it wet like window tint.
  4. Looking for vector lake maps

    I've had to do maps for customers and found that the state has a pdf of the official state highway map available for download. It is all vector, and has all the major lakes for our state plus a few in Arkansas and one in Oklahoma (under the box of text)...
  5. Another Font HELP PLEASE!

    vectorized from a business card would be my guess.
  6. New Product Epson 60600 vs Summa DC5

    I used to run a Summa DC3 back when they were brand new. I would recommend getting the Epson. I use one now (after several years of using a Mimaki). The print quality issues you are seeing are from incorrect profiles in the RIP and the printer. Maintenance on the Epson is really minimal and...
  7. Water Printing

    Apparently hard to make a living at it. We've had several places have a go at it around here and none survived longer than 6 months.
  8. Just starting out in signs

    Mike, please, whatever equipment you choose to buy, do some research on what real sign shops charge for their products and why. The pricing for signs does not work the same way as pricing for printed materials. You will not be doing your neighbors or or yourself any favors if you think that...
  9. Need Help Print cut decal pricing

    A 3"x5" decal is just over a tenth of a square foot. Multiply that by 200 and you get a lot more than 4 sq ft. Maybe you were the one quoting against him?
  10. Suggestions

    https://creativemarket.com/StudioDenmark/594864-The-Authentic-Chalkboard-Bundle
  11. What credit card is good for receiving payment.

    I bet it's a deal like what is described in this article: https://www.cardfellow.com/blog/free-credit-card-processing/
  12. Trying to find old clipart.

    Unless it's just distortion from the vinyl peeling up, the teeth on the bucket and the cable leading to it make me think it might have been vectorized from a scan of a chidren's book or something.
  13. Font ID

    Darn Pinterest fonts! Hate 'em.
  14. Epson S80600 metallic/white quality

    That's how we do it. You have to let the print dry longer when you cut through color. I'm guessing my competitors don't want to wait.
  15. Epson S80600 metallic/white quality

    Wish we had the option of putting a cleaning cartridge in when we're not using the special colors..... As to white edges, though most of our competitors are putting white borders around everything they print/cut, we do not. I guess if they can see the very edge of the vinyl and that bothers...
  16. Epson S80600 metallic/white quality

    We were told the S70670 could do colored metallics, and were shown sample prints when we went to the product intro at our supplier. The samples looked very pretty. However, in practice we have not been successful at making pretty metallic colors with it. Metallic silver is also not UV stable, so...
  17. Need Help Mimaki CG-130SRIII crop recognition

    Do you have the manual? The series of button presses required to make it look for the marks is very non-intuitive. When loading the vinyl make sure it is straight and the outermost pinch rollers are outside the corner marks. When the machine is done checking the vinyl, the display should read...
  18. First time buyer questions - looking at Epson S60600/S80600

    We are using the previous generation Epson S70670 and find that laminating after 3-4 hours is perfectly fine, with no failures, no outgassing under the laminate, etc. It's still not immediate laminating so you still have to have a place to put the print for a while, but it can help to keep...
  19. Need Help flower clipart

    Trying to do a sign for a place that uses this clipart flower as part of their logo but all they have is this tiny image on their website and on their business cards (and it's a large healthcare corporation, believe it or not). Anybody have any idea where it came from? I thought it looked like...
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