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see if anything here works for you... I didn't try downloading it. http://logos-vector.com/logo/vector_John+Cooper+Signature_99828.htm

I might not be following your train of thought correctly , but what I think you are wanting to accomplish is done by what you weed ... instead of weeding what you normally would ... weed the letters . Make a 8 X 3 box around the letters . I think an outline looks much better than a square box . edit ; you want to negative weed , instead of cut anything negative . My buds FouASH ( Ash ) & Bay ( Bayotle ) have had the same problem mutiple times ... I tell them "I can explain it to you over and over, but I can't understand it for you."

welcome, Congratulations on the purchase of the Graphtec, you did not go wrong there. You will enjoy it.

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Everyone has good points but I like the idea that I control all of it the shipping the quality of the job so on and so forth. If the order is screwed up it's me. What I can't understand is if you are doing shirts or even vinyl then you should have the material on hand. I don't understand a lot of the folks on this forum that don't seem to have any type of stock on hand. They want to buy vinyl but the foot etc.?? It like owning a auto garage and then not having oil in stock and when a customer comes in you run to walmart and pick up five quarts of oil. Or call your brother and ask do you have five quarts of oil I can borrow. A great point on the size of the graphic in relation to the shirt. I know nothing about screen printing but right now I am doing nine shirts a 18 month old a 6t and a 5XL all the same graphic along with a design on the sleeve. I make the design the best size to fit the shirts, I don't even know can you do that with screen printing? If you cant stock the basic material like a roll of black & white vinyl then your in the wrong business!! And I don't sell any shirt for $9.00 I do custom shirts and my price is lowest at $12.99 and up.... On a final note you are assuming that customers are knocking down everyones doors and we are all swamped with work, I bet many are very bored with nothing to do right now.....Again nothing personal and I am sure there are many cases that it does pay to have them screen printed....

Whenever you aren't getting clean cuts anymore, and made sure everything was dialed in correctly, that's when I'd replace blades. You can typically keep dull blades for bigger, less intricate jobs. But definitely buy some cleancut blades. They're like adding more RAM to your PC.

I'm a screen printer, but if you want to maximize your time I'd use Transfers. You print all colors at one time and heat press them. You can buy 50 for 50cents to $1 each, lite And 50 for darks $1 to $1.50 each and about $20 to ship

Try Camber in PA. They make their own products. They have really good t-shirts. They also carry 8.1 oz t-shirts short and long sleeve.

Very good point Freeze.