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Even Picasso went to art school. Whatever you can do to learn about what constitutes good design should help you. Not all of us are geniuses out of the box. Your degree, if it's from a reputable organization, gives you credentials. Your imagination and skill get you customers. Hopefully, along...

We don't do wraps, but speaking as a consumer-there's a lot of really bad design out there and the advertising message gets lost in the clutter. If I can't instantly get the message at 60mph-or even at 25 as I drive past a worksite or intersection, then what is the added value? I suppose I'm...

Do you print on mesh? Looking for a small banner (72" x 36") printed on mesh. Hems and grommets for hanging on a fence. Do you prefer EPS or JPEG? Carol at Coyotegraphics@comcast.net

I have a friend who has a 4B practically brand new w/boxes and all that he is interested in selling. If anyone would like information, PM me and I'll pass the info to him. He's moved on to making fantasy art and masks and Gerber has not been touched in years. Unlike mine, his works perfectly. coyote

We just charge an art charge up front for vectorizing a bitmap image or cleaning up an EPS that is not good quality....depending on how much time it takes. Then, we can email it to whoever they want....if they want it burned on CD, we charge for that. Easier to do it up front than to try to...

Run away, run away. C

Just my 2cents worth: you can get a Graphtec CE5000 (craft robo 15" plotter) but that will kill your entire budget at $900. This is the most inexpensive but real cutter that I've seen-very adequate for what you are discussing. It comes with it's own cutting software-it's complicated but it does...

Our living room holds the computer and plotter, the basement has the wood shop, layout tables, back sun porch for gilding, yard for painting-we have an 8' x 20' storage "Cover It" shed for toys and materials-no permit needed to put up a "temp" structure-it went through hurricane Isabel and a...

painted and properly sealed MDO and vinyl will outlast a digitally printed surface-most folks want to get years of use out of their MDO panels---I'm sure at some point that print will replace vinyl-if the longevity issue can be resolved. Don't take it all away from us, please.... Carol

Depends on what version of Flexi you have....my Flexi sign only works with black and whiteimages---you might have to go into Corel or Illy to separate colors, then change to grey scale, then vectorize....check your literature or the Flexi site to find out what Flexi Starter will do---they don't...

If I had my druthers, I'd love a sprocket plotter-dead accurate tracking. I like my Graphtec, but it's a pain to line up the material to cut long strings of type or graphics. Maybe I just need to fool with it some more. I'd like to see some of the full length grit roller plotters....does that...

I'll check out plotterdoctor. thanks for the heads up. I was placing an order with a supplier while the old beast was cutting away and the sales person said....I know that sound!!! haven't heard that in ages...." etc. Carol

HI all: I'm still learning how to use my Flexi Sign-but have run into a snag....my Text Flyout is grounded---is this because I need to upgrade? very frustrating. I'd like to arc some text on a boat transom and wanted to match the curve of the stern.... I can do this in Corel, I suppose. Just...

I always wondered if the ole 4-b could be hooked up to a computer-to run Omega or whichever and was told it wouldn't happen.....This was years ago, before I even knew there were such things as sign forums... Our 4B is in the basement-we use it to cut really heavy sandblast materials or run...

Doesn't this belong to the "you're a sign geek if....." thread? I thought you folks were talking about a car. so, you know you're a sign geek if you talk about a new printer with words like "sexy". C

Love being able to ask advice, give advice, say horrible, rotten things :)-but mostly I've been able to expand into an area of the business I would never have even thought about- digital printing (subbed out of course). I can offer my customers better prices and can keep up with what different...

Just out of curiosity: how much do the stick figures sell for? and what size are they? I guess I live in a cave, cause aside from the vinyl Calvin peeing on a Ford (or whatever make of car),"Fear this", or Kokopeli, I haven't seen them. I guess my main question is: is it worth making up a...

What ever happened to really cool, original cartoons? Not knocking this trend, just missing originality, art and humor.... Carol

I prefer to wrap the meal in aluminum foil and place on the engine block of the car. In about 8 hours or so of doing deliveries and running errands, I can come home to a nice hot dinner. If you have a big enough engine, you could probably cook dinner for a group of about 15 or so. Carol

Well, that's fair enough. I think I will go for the teacher version, since I really am a teacher. I'll have the snazziest materials at the community college and will probably get roped into doing stuff for everyone else when the word gets out. What really gripes me is that the school has...