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Maybe some of you "hip-er" cats can help an older cat out. But what's up with all these skull designs being used in advertising? I'm quite sure I'm missing some of the subtleties here. But just exactly what does the use of skulls in a design "say"?

Hope this is enough to jog someones memory.

I was wondering if you could say a few words about the actual job of administrating a forum such as this? (Understand you're busy with day to day stuff), but I thought it might be enlightening for us members to get a better handle on how complex the job is, some of the challenges you face, if...

If there's a setting, I can't find it. Running SP-540v equipment with Versaworks. Anyone know?

Printer: Roland Sp-540V Situation: Cyan not printing. Test print shows black in place of the cyan. So I'm getting black, black, magenta and yellow in my test prints. No drop outs, just no cyan. BTW, I did use the search function but finding nothing on this very topic.

Scan off an engraved plaque. Need to replicate on the engraver.

Here's an older vehicle with a new wrap. 2003 Chev Quad Cab. Client wanted quite a bit of text on the tailgate, wouldn't be talked out of it, so it's a little "busy". Wood grain planks from Istockphoto.com. Worker on a ladder from Istockphoto.com. Logos from client and manufacturer...

As some of you know we recently (last year) added a complete service engraving, awards and trophy business to our 24 year old sign shop. Here's a couple of pics of my wife and Sandi (employee) trying to keep up with orders. Neither pic is posed. I just went out there and snapped before they...

Been dying for a martini since I started work this morning. Wife and I will jet up to the club as is our habit on Fridays. We both enjoy our cocktails....and it's been one h*ll of a week. Believe me.

Searched the archives here and see some notes about Corel's Bitstream Navigator and also something called Suitcase. We use Corel, Adobe, and Gerber. Here's what I'm sort of wondering. 1) We have fonts strewn across disks, HD's, our NAS, and native fonts in their applications. 2) Is there a...

Any help would be appreciated.

Ok we applied some reflective (Scotchcal 280) on a newly re-painted van. I know, I know, but the client said that the bodyshop cures the paint in an oven and it's fine to go-ahead and do it. Well, we've got very small, but consistently patterned bubbles all throughout. I'm telling him that...

One thing always bothers me when I continually see it here on the forum. I'm referring to a particular strategy on how to "walk" certain jobs (customers) out the door. Presumably these are either people that a shop doesn't wish to work with, or the work itself is not to the shop's liking...

We recently purchased a trophy and engraving shop. When an order came in, the previous owner just jotted down the particulars on a pad which had her name and not much else. We find this woefully inadequate for a ton or reasons. My quest is to find a sample order form or at least obtain some...

Is anyone else having the same problems I am with the new ReAction chains in Smart Edit functions? I'd love to be able to disable this. Is there any way? Or alternatively, find a work around for this "new, improved" function that I find far more cumbersome than the old one.

I'm seeking opinions on software that will allow special effects such as chrome, brushed metal, shiny gold, etc. Not fills, but filters. I have EyeCandy 5 by Alien Skin but it won't run on my new 64 bit machine. Is there something better than EC5? The features I'd like are: 1) Ease of...

Just updated our engraving room's computers from X3 to X5. Now I find that earlier files, when opened, give a message stating that the required fonts are not available. I'm pretty sure when we loaded X5 that we loaded all the fonts, although I didn't do this task myself. Does anyone know...

Looks like our Epson 1400 has bit the dust. A replacement, a Ricoh, is on the way. My question is this: Is the little bulk ink system that is attached to the cartriges have any value? Or does it go to the dump with the printer? Obviously I'm new to this, having just purchased this engraving...

Purchased an existing business recently. On the two computers that came with business are Corel 12 and Corel X3. Since the previous owner is not available to ask, and we can't find any manuals, program disks, etc. how can we learn if these are legit copies? I've called Corel several times...

Need a sharp eye on this one. Both fonts?