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  1. Cutting Mats

    With a razor.
  2. Computer type

    Yep, even better than lego for standing on with bare feet. And we can fit a two prong euro plug in, with the aid of a screwdriver in the earth socket.
  3. Adobe Ai and Graphtec Cutmaster 4 and 5 help

    Thank you. Gonna take a look at this over the fertive season.
  4. 1641 Page Feed Issue

    I've seen no drop in image quality (and really picky clients) by setting up the media correction in Fiery. We run a whole bunch of papers from matt bond 80gsm to 340gsm thick art papers. You already have all the data you need to make the correction (input size 120", output size 119 5/64th")...
  5. Getting a better quality image from a low quality image

    I think it's not too different to the auto tracing in Illustrator - get the settings right, and you can get a good output from a web grab logotype. Just that GP can be very slow, and I've not yet found the fine manual to read.
  6. Need Help Cutting DiBond after flatbed printing

    We print aqueous (Canon 8400) and mount onto DiBond. Mostly, work flow is cut DiBond 2-3mm smaller than the print, then mount on laminator and trim down. Many of the (art) papers are very fragile, and it is the sharp scalpel cut from the back, on a cutting mat. On occasions, we've had to trim...
  7. Getting a better quality image from a low quality image

    Gigapixel runs amazingly on M1/M2 architecture. My ageing 5.1 macpro struggles in comparrison to M1 MBP. Gigaphoto can throw up some "interesting" results - finding faces in backgrounds where none were present (the application offered to download, and I thought why not). This looks freakish...
  8. Employee side business

    He got me over a few hurdles I was having He built you a step ladder?
  9. Employee side business

    I can see a couple of angles on this. You're in a small community, one or five local competitors, doing the kind of work where you could set up shop with below $10k of kit. You've got a facility like Victor's, or you pull permits, get drawings, have bucket trucks; the sort of thing that has you...
  10. Computer type

    1.5GB for a 12x16" monochrome print. 300p/cm, rather than 300ppi, as a 16bit RGB file. 3x display port on the graphics card will do, and there's normally an HDMI port as well, if you're looking to use an existing monitor.
  11. Hiring a business coach

    There IS a manual?
  12. Computer type

    I shoulda had a second screen on my laptop in the kitchen to watch Wales play.
  13. Computer type

    When someone sends you a massive file with lots of paths, transparency ect, you'll want a a quarterway decent graphics card (if you haven't then turn off the layers tab in illustrator) and then a couple of 27" screens. Excel, chrome (many tabs...), firefox, Photoshop all eat into available...
  14. Cutting shapes from 4mm Chloroplast

    Fresh sharp blades, cut first face, then through corrugations and back face. Depending on your surgical skills, having the table clear so you can rotate the patient for the optimal cutting angle can help. If the radii are all the same, having a physical template for the rounded corners can make...
  15. One man shop growing pains

    That looks like a space to work in! If additional power oulets need to be fitted, would be a great time to install "paintbooth" wall lights as well.
  16. One man shop growing pains

    If you've done the figures (and sounds like you have), then just do it.
  17. eCommerce Website

    That looks like what I've been looking for, just as we're about to move over to squarespace...
  18. I need recommendations for a new printer

    Scraps, while already paid for and waiting to be profit are time vampires. I know, I've got ends of silly expensive rolls carefulllly stored, from years gone by. One day soon, I'll order a skip, and a beer for breakfast, and they'll be gone, along with the 20" pvc and acp offcuts that feel too...
  19. Dealing with cheap real estate agents

    Steven, we call them estate agents. Do you venture as far south as Lincolnshire?
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