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why is that ALWAYS the case?!?!?!

Forgot to turn the upstairs thermostat on last night, it's been so warm we have not needed the upstairs furnace on. Way windy all night, woke up this AM it was 49° in the hallway, 17° outside. DOH!!!!

glad I'm not the only one that gets those funny looks at walmart with my cart full of iso alcohol!!!!

Wow, that's so revolutionary! I was printing out and tiling pieces for comps back when, 1992 maybe? Off my Mac IIsi no less. Monochrome printer and monitor, too. It's such an amazing piece of software we conned a stupid "IT person" at the school district to spec it and they bought a gazillion...

thumbs up on the fletcher terry. there was a used one on craigslist NJ (north I believe) just recently.

a really good voltmeter goes a long way in our business. http://www.drillspot.com/products/118863/Fluke_T5-600_NIST_Digital_Multimeter worth it's weight in gold for servicing and troubleshooting printers, plotters and routers. A cheap meter wont work for the kind of diagnostics a good phone...

Second what aaron says...or save a .plt out of artpath on your old computer (which u said you have) and either import that or get it converted to ai. pm me if you need I can send you a saved as ai for the 408. Reminds me, I have to mill mine too. yuck. every precious (fraction of an)inch of that...

have always used freehand and illustrator and photoshop. Dont need or want flexi to make signs. illustrator plugin works fine for the plotter, and postershop works fine as a rip for the printers

sorry mr bailey.....13 years, spray bottle filled with h20 and half a cap of woolite. Never once a problem. Of course, after a few years we only used it for floating full coverage backgrounds on plex before router cutting the vinyl. Please, use app this time and learn to lay without it in the...

I have printed 3M 680 reflective wit grea success on both the colorspan UV and the hp9000. not sure if the HP8000 inks are different but the 9000 inks do work well. They stand up to film and liquid lam on the reflective quite well.

uv lamps=consumable = not covered under SC. Find a good colorspan dealer like alpha imaging and buy enough ink to get free lamps.

Do you want to cut stuff off of your flatbed? Why do you need the eye? We cut lots of stuff off the flatbed on the router without an eye no problem. You do need to watch your media feed calibration for length. Just print a 1 point stroke black rectangle around your design and register that to...

Local for us is at least 60 miles away. So, as local as we can get is Harbor with daily delivery, Pioneer with every other day or so and the cowboy with UPS whenever we need it.

the client is stealing the design from the person that designed it for him. Knowing the boat biz it's doubtful your client paid for it. We see this all the time on our lettering website. You'll never win duping someone elses work. Take the professional route and explain to your cleint that you...

everyone in jersey is in the sign biz!

Please, do not do as gerber suggests and try to scrape off the old gray PVC sheet they used, or buy their overpriced PVC. You'll still have to drill and pocket cut what they send you. Plus, if you go down to the aluminum You'll never get the adhesive off. instead, surface cut what you have left...

3651 best material ever in our arizonas and now our HP and colorspan. I'd bet on a heater setting or media feed calibration issue. Have you created a media and calibrated the feed? 8" is not enough of a media feed calibration either. A few weeks ago our heater timed out somehow and we noticed...

It's simple....Freehand, Illustrator and Photoshop. All you'll ever need to create. Low cost bridge software plugin for the cutter and postershop for a rip. 12 years and never a limitation on any of the above packages, and we're always pushing the design envelope. All of the above do what flexi...

One thing that has not been addressed is cleaning and feed speed. The platen, grit and friction rollers need to be cleaned to prevent slip and drag at high speed that occour AFTER the reg marks have been read and compensated for. Slick back material like controltac slip more easily at high speed...

need more info to help. We do A LOT of mask and rout. What type of paint are u using, latex, alkyd, brand, sheen? How apply the paint, brush, roll, spray? How long after paint to apply mask? what brand of mask? Have you changed any of the above lately? We have dealt with every mask issue there...