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  1. Streaking or Something Like It

    Looks like the repair guy could be right. Can you see if the media is buckling up where this problem is occurring? If so the likely cause is too much heat. When media creases up like that you will get a light streak where its too close to the heads. If if gets worse the heads can even scrape the...
  2. I Need help with the Print & cut

    yes Fred it is casual to this obvious observer.. I often wonder what strangely spelt signs are out there..
  3. Print & cut ploters

    I got a Roland soljet, and a Summa cutter with opos for contour cutting. Works well for me.
  4. Heres the pic of Mutoh issue

    does it happen on other media? I've had something similar on certain vinyls
  5. New Here, Doin' Vinyl Since 1998

    While I think it's a good idea to set your own pricing and not worry about what your competition is doing, comparing local prices to chinese is nuts. We even have a chinese sign/print company here in our city, and yeh they charge half what everybody else does... but know what? they don't have...
  6. Hi, got a couple questions....

    C 50 M 50 y 50 K 100 black is the darkest use as much of it as possible
  7. Graphtec help/No Help

    hey i have the same model, first machine i ever bought still goes fine, they're built to last..last supplier i went to for parts told me the same thing.. get something newer.. well i did but kept the graphtec as a backup cutter
  8. Building Profiles ?

    If you want accurate repeatable colour you really just have to bite the bullet and learn to profile your own media. Or be satisfied with customers who really don't know what to expect.
  9. Photoshop question

    sometimes a simple auto levels will do - hit the keyboard shortcut, worth a try anyways shift-ctrl-L
  10. Hi, got a couple questions....

    yup
  11. Font Help

    try trebuchet ms not exact, but knock that bit off the "i" and you're close and a bit cheaper than $700
  12. I Really Need Opinions

    Corel was/is easier to use and cheaper than Adobe products, and ran on PCs so got established in signshops. Anyone doing print preferred Adobe. Any Corel user will know that from the look on the face of any printer when you gave them a Corel file to print.. now I do large format print for pay I...
  13. Need MAC files opened

    you can probably open them yourself if you have them on your computer already if you know what type they are just add the right extension eg .jpg or .tif
  14. Encad 1000i / Kodak 1200i : Feedback wanted

    I've got HP5000 pigment ink prints outdoors with decent cold lam coming up to 3 yrs now, fair amount of UV too.. starting to fade noticably now. A lot depends on the laminate. Re print quality. I have an Epson 4000 for small photos, slow as a wet week but excellent quality. For prints over A4...
  15. Drop shadow "bounding box" printing

    you can just open the ai in photoshop if you want to rasterise it, then check the offending boxes.. but why not just save as eps and send that to the rip? opening in photoshop then ripping is kind of like ripping the thing twice
  16. Help Me Decide Please

    Just bought a Summa D120SE and am very happy with it. If you get into cutting printed shapes it works great too. Had Graphtec and Roland plotters previously. 2NinerNiner2, Macs ARE Pcs now lol, I've had both types of computer too, and there's nothing you can't do on a PC these days..
  17. Legal Software and Music

    um yeaaaaahhh everything legal here too lol
  18. Help with Choosing a Cutter

    I've had Graphtec, Roland and now Summa go with Summa they track better
  19. Sign Wizard design software....anybody use it ?

    I use v4 and its fine, easy node editing and general use saw no need to upgrade
  20. Enlarging with photoshop

    that'd be the way I'd do it, theres a couple of new sharpen options in that dialogue, try bicubic sharpen for enlarging
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