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  1. Reflective Pricing

    Tru Dat...heavy reflective even wears on your rollers so sometimes you have to do smaller runs to avoid slippage on large cuts... there is always a few more messed up letters while weeding too, sometimes you might even be able to save the letter but you can tell the reflective layer is messed up...
  2. Reflective Pricing

    (Material Price x markup) + (Shop rate x Time spent)
  3. Silvering Patches

    Hard to see, if that wasnt visible in the print I would try another roll of laminate...check the roll, something like that should be visible in the laminate before applying... Those spots look different, if it was from the roller they would look the same and happen every turn of the roller. I...
  4. Truevis VG3-640 Versaworks Cut Marks - Print failed at 90% salvageable?

    Only way I have salvaged something like this... find 2 other crop marks from another finished/cut print... Take your unfinished print and carefully measure out what would be the bounding box for your print and mark it out with stabilo or marker to find missing two corners... Then look at how the...
  5. Help creating this vector bevel

    put a .09" inline on shape then another 0.09" inline on the inline you just made... combine them together and then draw an intersecting shape that you can use to trim away the dark sections... it looks like its supposed to be a quick and dirty beveled highlight but its just got some lighting...
  6. Convincing a customer that their file is low resolution

    Ya, try topaz AI, it does a pretty awesome job of upscaling photos... It does more than just upscale dpi...some of the very small detail goes a lil weird but it does a good job actually reconstructing things...
  7. Question Is there a way to distribute shapes like this in illustrator?

    Easiest way in illy would be to make vector box same size as artboard and then copy/flip it left and flip another one to right then distribute shapes with equal spacing between...
  8. VG3-540 Print quality awful, help!

    I used a VG2 for years on "Generic Vinyl 2" profile with great detail and colors...i have never used the material specific profile. I had trouble when I first got my VG3, as the black on its Generic Vinyl 2 profile was not very black no matter what i did and 3m did not have a 180c profile for...
  9. Grommets

    Wont a punch crush the coro? If crushing doesn't matter cant you just use self punching grommets?
  10. Sticker/decal production cost

    Most of those variables will depend on you, the skill of your team, the jobs you have to print and the deadlines for the jobs... Many here have experience with all those things but if your team is just learning the info won't help you much or give unrealistic goals based on different machinery...
  11. Corel Upgrade

    If I had to uninstall I would have stayed with 24 as it finally fixed almost all speed/stability problems I had and works good... Didn't even look at the new features 25 supposedly has...i clicked the download link very gingerly as I didn't want anything to mess with my current setup, would...
  12. Corel Upgrade

    Hmmm, thats weird I have no problem installing and running both side by side... I found the last update of 24 fixed all the stability/speed problems I had with it so I am not rushing over to 25 but they are both installed and working right next to each other... also have x18 installed for a...
  13. Corel Upgrade

    Upgraded to 2025 right next to my old version... Havent used it much yet but I have them both running right now while I setup hotkeys on new one... I have the subscription...not sure what you are seeing but are you sure it wasnt saying you had to unregister the old one? When I got my new...
  14. Question Boxing Ring vinyl??

    You would have to ask the facility with the boxing ring what their process is just like an arena...might have their own graphics company do it or at least have a spec sheet for sizing/materials. Sometimes the graphics are included in the price of the sponsorship.
  15. using ChatGPT for sign design and logos

    Ha, Shutterstock is just adding all the unused AI generated pics to their catalog...
  16. using ChatGPT for sign design and logos

    Meh, I dont take much artwork from clients as I do it for them...but I have been able to get/use a few decent pics out of a couple AIs. Some are better than others, but you cant blame customers much as AI generation/editing is built right into Photoshop/Illy now... selecting the weird screwed up...
  17. Considering buying a spectrophotometer to make matching colors easier, suggestions? Recommendations?

    Are you wanting to match colors to mix paint or print? The NIX thing I bought is ok and lets you match to different paint libraries or spits out a CMYK or RGB value...I dont know how well it matches their included paint systems but you are not going to sample something and just print that color...
  18. Creating Layers in Corel

    When exporting from Corel to psd it combines and flattens everything on each layer together as a bitmap layer. When I export a design from CorelDraw to CorelPainter I export to PSD but first select and run this "ToLayers" macro, it puts each selected corel object onto its own layer... That way...
  19. Need Help Changing ink colors on Roland Truevis VG2-540

    Sorry, didnt actually change colors, my VG2 has CMYKklclmO and when I got the vg3 I got them to load it with CMMYKlkOG from go...still have the VG2 We have a good tech in the area so I would get him in if I was switching ink just to save time figuring it out...
  20. Print on aluminum technique

    Ya ya the good gloss lam with 180c for long term and we use 40c with 8509 for cheap shorter term golf course signs...I can never remember the lam numbers, thank god I can tell the rolls apart...
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