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We have a reflective job coming up. How long does the latex ink stand up to weather, washing, and general abuse compared to vinyl or screen ink?

Thanks. There is wiring for an old floodlight. I'll recommend LEDs to replace old flood and definitely will have building owner contact electrician. Our customers ask us to check into stuff for them, and this is a good place to ask questions.

Can anyone recommend solar floodlight supplier/brand? We're working on a carved sign to go on a stone wall and customer doesn't want to run wiring. Don't think the stuff at Home Depot or Lowes will do the trick.

Just some FYI: http://www.webmd.com/depression/guide/detecting-depression

Unfortunately, just talked with the homebuilder who swears nobody touched the faces of the signs. He's been a super customer for over 20 years, so even though I believe someone did do something to them, he doesn't know about it and we have no choice but to eat this one. This happened over the...

The power washed sign looks just like what is happening with ours. Before I call Art Essentials, I will call customer to see if the sign was cleaned. I never considered that-I've just NEVER seen a sign fail like that-until I saw your photo! Thank you.

If the failure had only been to one sign, and to parts of it instead of uniformly throughout both signs, I would've thought size was too dry-however, we sized and gilded the signs on different days just so we would not have that problem and they both took the gold perfectly and looked great when...

Is that an interior sign? Ours are exterior and we did the border with Australian gold leaf and the letters with Oriental gold leaf (both from Art Essentials). The border is perfect and the letters totally failed on both signs. Here's a closeup. We have NEVER had this happen in over 30 yrs of...

Has anyone had any problems with Chinese 23K patent gold leaf? We recently did 2 V-groove carved HDU signs and tried the Chinese gold leaf for the first time (we usually use Australian or German). Customer just called (I know, it's Saturday at 5pm) to say it is flaking off. We've been doing...

Due to a death in the family, a friend is looking to sell &/or get information on a Copam CP4500 54" vinyl plotter. I know the issues with Chinese plotters of various kinds (we use Graphtec), but I said I'd ask. If anyone is interested, please PM me so that I can pass along information. I...

Thanks for reply-I'll try that. The dog says thanks for the compliment. C

Check with your local community colleges or schools. Ours has an ink cartridge drop off box(as well as one for batteries and old cell phones)-they collect them and send them off for recycling. I think the school gets some $ for them which they use to buy supplies. you can also call your local...

Hi all: It's been a while...can someone tell me how to save a Flexi file as a Jpeg without the black border? I usually hand paint or cut vinyl, but have been asked for some digitally printed banners and when I save as Jpeg, I get the border... thanks for any help. Carol

best wishes to you and hoping for a good outcome. Hang in there.

We use Zinser Bullseye 123 primer on our pressure treated posts-We let them dry thoroughly first. It's a pain, but when you paint over wet posts, the sun hits them and heats up the wet which will bubble up and ruin your paint job. I've had to strip and repaint posts that were'nt thoroughly dry...

Old Paint-my neighbor had one of those horses when I was a kid-boy that brings back memories. JK-very nice work. I'm getting inspired to take all that scrap HDU and...

I have a 4B available for parts. PM me. Carol Coyote Graphics

Ikea has changed it's typeface from Futura to Verdana and the Internet is abuzz with protest.

My condolences as well. Words don't exist... Carol

I use Flexi for vinyl cutting and designing some print graphics and have been happy with it. I've used Gerber Omega and find Flexi easier. When you consider that the first vinyl cutting plotters made by Gerber went for upwards of $14K and that they had no screen, no memory for saving designs...