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Like I said Bob, "You don't have a clue about color management!" Your methodology is nothing more than a duct tape and haywire work-a-round. Please don't call it "color management". It's not! I'll patiently await your overly verbose response but I'm sure not holding out any hope that there...

Well Colin, I find that Bob lumping everyone that has a grip on color management and referring to the lot as, "legions of profile and calibration obsessed dipsticks...", annoying to say the least. He is not offering a solution to your original post. In an attempt to put himself on some form of...

Colin, You would be wise to pay attention to what Josh is saying and ignore what Bob is saying. Bob makes it abundantly clear that he doesn't understand color management no matter how hard he wrangles and mangles the English language in a concerted (if not pathetically comical) effort to...

If you're working with an ICC compliant workflow and you're equipment has been properly linearized then RGB is what you want to work in. Let the RIP handle the details - that's what it was designed to do. Working in CMYK means you'll need to print out a color chart for all your output equipment...

This being a sign forum I guess I just assumed your were outputting this to a wide format digital printer. Didn't see any mention of the output being sent off to some printer. The trouble with CMYK is that it's NOT any kind of standard at all. Roland's yellow could be entirely different than...

Simplest thing to do is work in RGB and let your RIP handle the details. Every RIP I've ever used prefers RGB files. Working in CMYK over complicates everything and generally results in substandard output. RGB is what you want to work in.

Is that a stretch limo or some kind of mobile beer fridge?

We just received a request to quote on lettering a Smart Car. It got me to thinking, "Why hasn't someone turned one of these into a stretch limo?" Dan

Personally, I've never been to a chiropractor as I see it more of a dose of chicken swinging, gut flinging (and spray pattern interpretation and analysis), voodoo, loco-mojo, hokus-pokus than anything else. On that note though, I know many that swear by the treatment. One thing I have noticed...

Not from Dog River by any chance? Lots of luck in your new venture. I too ended up in the sign business after many years as a goldsmith.

More than likely you have your "Convert spot colors to:" checked in your export dialog. Make sure it's NOT checked.

Try renaming it then deleting it.

A few things I should note is that in the shop I used to work at where we had an ongoing problem we were using the Bayer polycarbonate that came on huge spools. The vinyl we were using was either Avery A9 translucent or 3M translucent. The 3M vinyl was better but still had a problem. Never a...

Really! I disagree! I worked in one shop - concrete slab floor - likely no vapor barrier under the slab - near a swamp. We bought our Lexan on a big wooden spool that would last us anywhere from 4 - 6 months before we had to replace it with a new roll. Had an ongoing problem with the bubbling...

That's probably the thing to do. Doesn't give your substrate a chance to absorb moisture that can be trapped under your vinyl only to cause problems later on when it's out in the blazing sun.

So you would suggest I believe you then??? Are you always this opinionated??? Outgassing, trapped moisture, magic gas, call it what you will. The issue of severe bubbling (Pickle skinned is merely a descriptive term I use) is a very real problem that has little to do with how the vinyl was...

I've been laying down vinyl for a lot longer than I care to remember and have no trouble applying vinyl bubble free using a dry application. I can assure you that pickle skinned vinyl on polycarbonate is a VERY REAL phenomena whether you care to believe it or not. Did you not read my previous...

The only problem there is the recommended procedure is to pop it in a recirculating oven at 250 degrees F for a few to several hours. Not really an option for most sign shops.

There tends to be a lot of misinformation regarding the "outgassing phenomena" especially in respect to polycarbonate substrates. The following link is 3M's index to it's PDF archive of product and information bulletins...

Individual glyphs that magnify when you click on them. Ability to use your own sample text. Easily magnify samples with simple sliders. Ability to tell at a glance if a font in your secret stash of fonts is an installed font or not. There are a multitude of things that can be done using...