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Here's a relatively easy read on the RGB vs CMYK debate. This guy has credentials! http://www.hudsondisplayservices.co.uk/rgbvscmyk Gennady Petrov is Corel's resident colour scientist/expert. He wrote the "Designer's Guide to Color Management" available at the following link...

That is weird! Any modern wide format digital printer is easily capable of producing many more colours than are available in the "U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2" profile. Dan

Fine to use CMYK for printing PROVIDING you're outputting to a "U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2" compliant offset printer. A wide format digital printer is a completely different beast. There's a RIP between your design program and your wide format digital printer. It's job is take your RGB input...

Print out that PDF from the link I provided earlier in this thread. Read it over - two, three, or more times if necessary. You'll soon find out that working in RGB is the proper way to provide artwork for output to your wide format digital printer. CMYK is VERY device specific. Roland's yellow...

I've used these guys when I get swamped with work. They do an excellent job and their prices are very good. Dan

No no no. CMYK is used when you require separations. When preparing artwork for output to a wide format digital printer design in RGB - that's the input your RIP was designed to expect. Download the PDF available here: http://coreldraw.com/wikis/howto/designer-s-guide-to-color-management.aspx...

Quite honestly there isn't anything that looks like the real thing. Dan

A lot of banding problems can be solved by setting up the "media compensation" from the front panel on your JV33. Run a test print, adjust the media compensation up or down until the banding disappears and Bob's you dog. Dan

OPOS sucks on the Cricut. I don't think the OP was price shopping so your comment is a tad odd. Starting the weekend early? Dan

I think if you update X6 to X6.1 you'll eliminate the problem of the offset reverting to a default. After the update it should remember your last used offset. Dan

I used to work at a screen printers and we used to screen print metal plates with some kind of ink that we baked on using a toaster oven. The metal plates were then riveted in place where they were needed. With the solvents you're up against I don't think there's an ink or adhesive that's going...

Tough call. Pantone colours are created using 14 base colours so you're going to run into problems trying to create a Pantone colour with a CMYK printer. What two Pantone processes? "Pantone 4/c" is something I'm not familiar with. If you mean matching the colour output from your digital...

+1 to that! There are a ton of clueless "designers" out there with nothing more than a mail order diploma. No concept of colour (that's the way we spell it up here) management or for that matter colour harmony let alone any kind of design sense. I run into this daily. If the...

Whose CMYK inkset? Everybody has a different formula as CMYK isn't any type of standard. Thing to do is properly linearize your digital printer, or hire someone to do it, and then do all your design work in RGB. Your RIP will handle the conversion from RGB to CMYK. If you're sending your...

Good Call! Dan

Not something I recall seeing before. Are you just recreating the layout or do you need some missing letters? Wouldn't take too long to just trace it (the photo you have posted is a little blurry though). Dan

Top Notch work there Phillip! Customers that AREN'T Art Directors are the best a guy (or gal) could hope for. Dan

Sounds like your tech guy is more interested in selling you a new head than making sure it's NOT the capping station. I would suspect the capping station more than anything. Dan

The one I like is Art Station Vehicle Templates. The reason I say that is the various elements of each view are properly grouped so that if you ungroup in stages the whole page doesn't ungroup to 1500 or more separate objects on the first click of the "ungroup" tool. I've used the others but I...

I agree totally. Why let the Department of Redundancy Department handle it when there's a good chance the original is out there somewhere. That said, in the event of a hostile response or no response at all I would hand trace it. That's the only way I've found of achieving acceptable results...