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Not familiar with the Vinyl Master cutter that you have, but many other plotters required a Null Modem Serial Cable, that have pins 2 and 3 crossed. This is true with Graphtec and Roland vinyl cutters that use(d) RS-232 serial ports for connectivity. I would guess that your plotter may require...

Not gonna happen with (eco) solvent ink. All papers will require a coating for compatibility with the solvent ink. You'll get tremendous bleed and terrible color without coatings. You would need another chemistry of ink (UV-curing or some aqueous) to print onto raw uncoated paper.

First, run a test draw test print. Assuming that you see nozzle outs (holes in the pattern), run cleaning(s) to get the nozzles firing. You may also benefit from the various washes available in the machine firmware.

Are you running Roland inks, or 3rd-party ink?

Your best bet would be to upgrade FlexiSIGN. Only way to do it without upgrading FlexiSIGN to version 8+ would be to use Windows 7 Pro Virtual XP Mode to install Flexi into. Google Windows 7 XP Virtual Machine to see if your hardware and Windows supports this.

At one point Onyx 7 was having an issue with IE7, but I'm not aware of any compatibility issues with Wasatch/ ColorRIP.

Assuming that you are referring to Windows 7, not Internet Explorer 7, I would expect that you would need to run those legacy applications via Windows 7 Pro (or higher's) Virtual XP Mode.

Designjet 800 was a dye-based aqueous machine that was released in the year 2000. Not a good fit for outdoor applications, but the machine did a nice job on paper-based medias.

Concur. Head strike.

Please.....dying to know who came up with that one.

Glad to see that ISA is rebounding with exhibitors this year. Las Vegas has consistently outdrawn Orlando in terms of attendees. I'll be there from Thu to show close.

There is no 'upgrade' from Windows XP to Windows 7, as there is with Vista to 7. You'll need to perform a clean installation.

Graphtec FC2100

Thte new VersaCAMM will be announced to the public on the 16th of Feb. Not supposed to discuss anything about it before that date.

I would echo Bobby's comments. The SAi RIP in Flexi and Photoprint is rarely able to deliver optimum image quality without significant configuration, including the creation of custom output profiles for your printer and media configuration. On the other hand, many, if not most Versaworks...

The book you referenced (Fraser, Murphy et al) is a terrific overview of the theory of color management, but it is unlikely to help with application-specific questions, unless that application is Photoshop. In my opinion, Versaworks is a very solid RIP which can compete feature-for-feature...

Roland has placed a profile creation document onto their web site for profile creation using Versaworks 3.x. Their US web site is www.rolanddga.com. Search for a document called 'Creating Profiles with Versaworks'. It should be pretty straightforward, although it's content discussing ink...

I agree with Bob that the method I describe above does not produce results that are equivalent to using Illustrator or even CorelDRAW, however the OP was looking for a Flexi-centric approach, and that is what I provided.

I recall seeing a tutorial on this, possibly on this site. The gist of it was to create the vector shadow (drop/ block etc), rasterize the shadow, and then use a blur to diffuse the edges of the shadow.

The Intelicoat DMCVLA3 is the only cast vinyl for the aqueous HP that I know of...