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New to this Forum but not new to T-Shirt making. I have been making shirts for several years. I look forward to getting some useful info from all the members as I expand into the Ghost White printing realm.

That old you will probably be doing it custom.

Totally sorry - I didn't mean it like your question was stupid, I meant it like I was asking the stupid question. I wasn't sure what font constraint was. I had an idea, but wasn't really sure. I totally apologize that it came out the wrong way. Mahalo everyone for the clarification and vote of confidence! I can see how easily things can get misconstrued in text, over face-to-face, or voice-to-voice.

Yes, it is a stepper. I never knew that, I was always just turned off by it, because it was only 20" and it didn't have a stand. I saw Coastal has it.... price. $799. Free ship Open box, It does say high precision. Guaranteed.

good catch on that - surprised they sell a stepper motor - I am sure it is a finer resolution stepper but after having a servo would be very hard to go backwards here

I have to say Graphtec in any size. Most of us old timers have Graphtecs. You will need a servo cutter for quality . But go with the best you can afford.

Inkscape has some support for CMYK, (none for spot colors.) But it is buggy, (some ICC profiles won't work correctly.) Worse, even if it were not buggy, the color profile can't be sent to anything most printers and print shops can deal with, like PDF. It can produce a color managed svg, but who knows what to do with a color managed svg? The common open source solution is to make the svg, bring it into Scribus, and produce a color managed PDF from Scribus. No fix likely to be coming soon. 1.0 alpha doesn't address it.

Yes Guest Chris, you are taking their reply wrong. They are stating that THEY have a stupid question.

Dude Chill............... He was implying that HIS question was stupid when he was asking "What is it" He was asking what lock you're talking about.

Free Free Free Free.

Yes, you can just use a regular USB repacement socket, or even attempt to reseat the existing one, but be careful with the soldering. Regarding the belt, just remove the left-hand side endcap (there's a few screws, easy to take the endcap off) and adjust the tensioner on the belt.

You're most welcome, glad to have pointed you in the right direction. Another WINNNING thread !!! How come I just don't get tired of WINNING?!!! (hat tip to DT)

Yea, just did all that too...worked out perfect! Didn't take me three minutes though...lol...! Thanks for the recommendations...!

Kronick, I've clearly explained what to do. Vector just the kitty. Add the circles. (I managed to remake this entire design in three minutes).

even the bar and shield is fiercely protected by HD - knew someone that had words that didn't even begin to sound like there name in the bar and shield learn that one. The most famous one on our forum was the person asked to decal a race car - a bumper sticker sized protected artwork brought a $15,000 suit - it was all a set up by one of the trolls hired by companies. some battles are not worth the fighting

Talking with my cousin this morning, she bought the jpg only from a site called "canva". She never got it from shutterstock. She even sent me the email of the receipt showing that she paid for the image in jpg format. I'm sorry if I got a little hostile, but being in the screen printing business for over a decade, I know these laws and how they work. I wasn't trying to skirt copyrights/trademarks, I was simply asking for recommendations on how to make this image cut ready. I fully understand where skeeter is coming from, but I felt like i was being lectured. I will make sure moving forward that I will clearly state that any image I post is owned by me or that i have paid for it. Wildgoose, I also have had issues with Harley Davidson, their legal team is very tough to deal with, but it got resolved in the end and we were able to come to an understanding.

I speak from true experience Kronick. I was once a newbie and argued with this very forum about a design that I actually built which was a parody of a HD logo. I literally spent a few weeks delving into the true nature of copyright and even went as far as emailing HD about my parody and explaining why I felt it was well within the Fair Use protection. They sent a Cease and Desist letter back and told me to pound sand and should I go into production I'd promptly find myself in a lawsuit. One of my good friends is an attorney and after a conversation with him I found that yes I was clearly within the Fair Use protection as an obvious parody HOWEVER they could still sue me and basically how much money did I have to fight the ominous HD corp? No where near enough. I quietly dropped the subject and moved on with my life and kept my house and cars. In truth most small operators like yourself or myself will rarely do enough business to draw the attention of a major corporation and if noticed a cease and desist letter will generally be the end of it (if obeyed) because they don't see enough potential payback for the legal fight. But if the forum somehow facilitates copyright infringement then the forum owners are liable and they DO have some money behind them so you better believe they might go after US Cutter. Thus the touchy subject.

and that just about covers that - good response by goose - Skeeter was just informing not lecturing. Don't be discouraged as it is part of the learning about the business.

Sorry Kronick she is right on the money as far as the forum stance. I'm going to leave it up simply as a reminder to others that the forum holds no illusions about the copyright laws. It is against forum rules to post copyright protected content. It is NOT necessarily against the rules to discuss the topic however so: To answer your actual question in a hypothetical; that particular design should you get access to the vector version (Shutterstock sells several options many of which are not vector format so it's quite possible that the one she purchased was just a jpg) it will be a real mess to try and cut with vinyl. At least that would be the case should you attempt to include all the highlights and shadows. Once in possession of the actual vector file you should be able to pull it apart and sort out all the elements that aren't going to be compatible. Due to the nature of that design an auto trace in any program will result in a big mess as you sound like you have found. Often the contributors to Shutterstock design specifically in ways that make auto trace impractical in order to preserve their potential revenue streams. We see a lot of folks come through who are wanting to copy protected work illegally and the forum is particularly protective of this because many of us are artists in our own right. The bottom line is that the forum can't and won't help out with things that might cause liability to fall on the people who fund this site. We kind of like it here and want them to keep it going so we act as watchdogs so to speak. If you feel offended by the way you were responded to just realize that seeing literally hundreds of different posts, most of them make similar claims that they have the license etc... but like she pointed out if that is the case then there would be no need to trace it so it naturally raises suspicion. My recommendation is to let it roll off your shoulders, move on and refrain from the subject in the future.

Unleashed Productions have MX5's but don't seem to have earlier ones. Maybe it would due. Some and I think this one are free. Others you have to buy their package. CorelDraw's Connect library has a 2004 one, if you have access to that. https://vehicle-templates-unleashed.com

That is a very old build, please download the most recent from: http://fcws1.com/usc1.htm

What version of SCALPS are you using..If you need help send me a PM . I run scalps also. Im always willing to help everyone with in reason.