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Seems like an easy question, but it probably isn't. I have a dell monitor, wide screen, and it doesn't display color worth a crap. I don't have any calibration process in place at the moment, as we don't have a wide format printer and don't do much print related work, until recently when we...

First, I don't own one, and I don't own a Mac, so don't go down the "fan boy" route to reply :covereyes: When the iPad was announced, the usual suspects came out in droves saying how stupid a product the iPad was and how it would never catch on. Remember all those conversations? Seems it's...

Greetings all, happy Saturday to you all. I have a customer supplied file that came from Freehand, sent to me in a pdf. It seems all of their outlines came across as a real mess and I need to clean them up. I've contacted the customer and they told me "just fix it, I'm not dealing with the...

Okay, fonts aren't a strong point for me, so forgive me for asking what may be a really stupid font related question. I have a file that a customer sent me and when I try to bring the pdf into illustrator to the work I need to do, it tells me the fonts "Helvetica-Bold" and "Times-Roman" are...

I have a dye sub printer and to match colors, they suggest using the TruMatch palette. That's all well and good, but when you don't have a chart, it's hard to match colors, other than on screen, and in many cases, I'm given a physical sample, so it would be nice to have a palette that's printed...

Can't seem to locate this font. Customer did it in PowerPoint, but I can't figure the font out. I get close with a few things, but can't get the "S" or the tail on the "y" to look right. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks- Steve

I resisted Illustrator as long as I could and I'm slowly learning to like it a lot. However, the same is not true for me and Photoshop, and I need a little help. I subscribe to Lynda.com and I've watched about a zillion Photoshop tutorials. I can hit perfect skin colors, lighten things that are...

I have a personal project I'm working on, scanning photos for a personal project, and I'm using my printer/scanner/fax/coffee maker/answering machine/sandwich maker to do it and I'm at the beginning of the project, having to scan 100's of photographs. I'm not convinced that the scanner is the...

I'm well aware that being exposed to light fades materials and you end up with ghosting, but I've had a few occasions that made me wonder about it a little more. I've had various materials, most recently anodized aluminum (clear anodized) and I put some vinyl lettering on it, customer called in...

Hello all, I need a little font help. I thought this one was simple, but I've looked through 1000's of my fonts and I can't locate it. The picture is on an angle, so the usual automatic methods don't work. Can anyone shed any light on what this is or something close? Doesn't have to be exact...

We use Advantage for many of our supplies, but find they don't offer some basic things we are forced to buy from others. Since they are a MM here, I thought it might have some value to tell them, as a group (if you are using them), what you'd like to see them stock, or what you can't get from...

Anyone seen or used any of the tools to pull u-channel posts out of the ground? The one's used for no-parking and handicap signs? I have 50 or so of them to remove and replace with a different style. Most of them are just driven into the ground. I thought I had seen a tool for that some time...

Had a customer supply me with an InDesign file and it's got me baffled. It's a layout with shapes and colors, etc., and then text. I can click on the text and delete it or move it fine. However, the shapes, I cannot click on or move. It's as if they are locked, but I'll be darned if I can find...

Anyone got a source for inexpensive 3/8" diameter chrome standoffs? All my sources seem to stop at 1/2" diameter. Need inexpensive as well, if possible. Have some $20 signs I need to install and they aren't too willing to spend $40 in standoffs to hang a $20 sign, and it's about 25 of them as...