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When I was hand lettering years ago, I was surprised at how many times someone would see me letter a truck and ask if I could letter a sign. Or watch me letter a sign and ask if I could letter a truck. I always thought those were stupid questions. The best though was when an old farmer watched...

I use a Mimaki CG160FX. Typically, for a 37 degree blade cutting intermediate vinyl and digital print vinyl my speed is set to 20, the pressure at 113 (this will vary with each machine, blade installation and material), and my offset is set to 0.3. I don't know how much that may help but it...

I wondering if that "A" were brought down to the height of the other letters would it look too short?

DiBond carries a Class A Fire Rating.

I lay a straight edge along each side and eyeball cut about 1/8" all around. I've got a pretty good eye and they turn out very well. It also give the sign a more finished look as there's the "frame" all around it perimeter. This shouldn't be done with all signs/designs but for the majority of...

We have changed to Seiko inks. Seiko makes those HP printers so the ink is the same ink you get in an HP cartridge at a much reduced price. For us there have been no pros or cons. Switched cartridges as needed and nothing changed.

Back in the day when everything was hand lettered I always signed my name very small in an appropriate location, (something like the consideration of where to put the "TM" or "R" on a logo or tag line). It seemed pretty much everyone did that back then. But nowadays no. Though sometimes when I...

Something else that happens is that if you have masking tape running over the vinyl and squeege over top of that tape it will leave a texture on the vinyl where the tape was. I usually squeege before the tape on one side of the hinge then pull the tape off to do the other side to avoid going...

We us Nelson-Harkins out of Chicago

Has anyone seen Grimco's "Daily Deals" emails wherein they use movie scenes, characters and such in humorous ads? I wondered when I saw those how that is allowable. Way, way back, when I went to a business college I was told that typically if an owner of copyrighted material finds you using...

Plus, I understand that for a digital printer. But for offset? I'm still confused. Nothing new though. :wink:

No, it's a file we got from Mimaki. Attached is a .jpg representation of it. Original fiile is an .eps. Trying to attach a .PDF of it to this post keeps failing. It's 3.7MB. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Even keeping within the 800x800 size restrictions it fails. I'm sure it'll fly...

Now I'm confused. If RGB has a larger, broader color gamut than CMYK then how does printing an RGB file in CMYK work when CMYK is incapable of matching the (out of it's own gamut) colors that are within RGB's range? Last I knew offset printers print in CMYK inks. How then do they prevent out...

Ok, I'm a certified piece of crap. Got back to this thread probably too late to be of any help. At any rate, we ordered 2500 poly bag signs. First time for ordering poly bags. I knew nothing and Jeff (he always answered the phone) was very helpful. Service and call backs were good although I...

Actually placed an order with them for 2500 political signs. Poly bags with wire frames. The frames arrived yesterday. Jeff is the guy I dealt with. He was very helpful all though the process. The price was the lowest by far. I'll post more when the signs arrive.

Nelson-Harkins in Chicago. nelson-harkins.com nhi@nelson-harkins.com You can email them a sign schedule and any detail specifics. They will quote you quickly. After placing dozens of orders with them I've found them to be flawless. Superior product, great packaging and always on time.

Mike, thanks a million. But for the heck of it, and with no confidence whatsoever, I tried jfiscus's method and dang if it didn't work! I'd have never expected that. jfiscus thank you for a great work around!

I have an Illustrator .eps file I just received from a customer that was created in a newer version than I have installed. It's 370 KB in size. If someone could open it and save it back to an earlier version I'd really appreciate it. I'd need it saved to CS3 or CS2. I'm not sure of the...

4over is definitely the best I've found but they keep booting me for not doing enough business with them. We've done 7 business card jobs in the past 3 weeks but can go two months without doing any. 4over apparently wants their customers to do a certain volume consistently. I've been using...