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  1. Posted

    I think I understand what your saying.... I would make "Stephanie" the size you want it then save that file when you go to cut "Amy" open the file and just erase "Stephanie"  and type in "Amy" and it should use all the settings saved in that file from when you cut "Stephanie"

    Hope this helps

    MM64  :thumbsup:

    Thank you for your help, but I don't see how I could do that, because I would have to save the "Stephanie" file in Corel, there isn't a way (that I know of) to save it from the Cut/Plot screen where you set the width, nor is there a way to change the text in the Cut/Plot screen. You have to do all of that in CorelDraw and then send it to the cutter where you set the width. Do you see what I am saying? I just believe there isn't a way to make this work. It would seem to me if I made a word a certain font size, 24pt for example that it would be that size when you send it to the cutter, but it doesn't seem to be the case. Argh. Thankyou for your input.  Kristen

  2. Posted

    Hi everyone,

    I am soooooo hoping someone can help me. I know there has to be a simple answer for my problem and I can not seem to figure it out, and it is driving me crazy.

    Say I want to cut the name "Stephanie" and I set it up in CorelDraw and I make the font size 24pts, and I send it to the Graphtec and I make the width of the name 8" and it cuts. Then two days later I want to cut the name "Amy" but I want it to be the same size proportionaly that "Stephanie" was, I can't figure out how to do that. Even if I make "Amy" the font size of 24pts in Corel, that seems to have nothing to do with the final size that you cut, correct? It is all based on the width and length you enter once you send it to the cutter, true? So, I have just been manually trying to guess what the finished width of "Amy" would be to be the same size as "Stephanie".

    I hope you can understand what I am saying, and I hope someone can tell me what a dummy I am and how easy it is to make this come out right. I am totally frustrated.

    Thank you!

    Kristen :'(

  5. Posted

    Hi everyone,

    I am hoping someone can help me. I have the Graphtec CE5000.

    Several times the cutter has not cut out the center of a letter, usually the "B". Then today I sent a design to the cutter and it didn't cut out the center of half of the letters in the design and totally didn't cut an entire letter in a word. There is just a blank there. It isn't one particular font that is doing it. I can not figure out what I am doing wrong to make this happen.

    Please help!

    Thanks!

    Kristen

  7. Posted

    Hi everyone,

    I am wanting put a vinyl letter on a clear glass plate used for cheese balls or dips. I am going to mirror it and put it on the bottom of the plate. I am using Oracal 651. My question is would the letter be okay if it got wet but not submerged in water? I thought about putting a sticker on the packaging saying "please hand wash and do not fully submerge in water". Is there anyway to protect the letter? Any suggestions would be great. I don't want to sell a product and then have the letter peeling off.

    Thank you!

    Kristen

  8. Posted

    Thank you all for your help. I finally was able to get a few shirts done. I wasted about 8 transfers and several shirts getting there. I set the press at 385-390 and heated it for 11 seconds. And immediately pulled it off. It did pretty good. The instructions said 8 seconds, but that just left half the design on the paper.

    I even called PW and they were very rude. She told me that my press must not be registering the temp properly (even though vinyl and transfers from Howard Graphics do perfectly) and that she could get them to transfer with no problem and she didn't know what I was doing wrong. That was a big help.

    Does anyone have some other good sources for transfers besides ProWorld? They had an awesome selection, that is why I used them.

    I appreciate everyone's advice. It helped me get these shirts done and I don't plan on getting orders for anymore!!!

    Kristen

  13. Posted

    I've had similar problems with some transfers and its really hard to figure out why it happens sometimes, but usually more pressure is the answer for me.  I don't see the problem very often indoors, but when I'm pressing outside at an event it can be a really major problem.  So, besides the pressure, watch for humidity, temperature, & if there might be air blowing around from a fan, heater, or air conditioning.

    Once you get near 400 range its easy to scorch shirts, but sometimes its just a dirty press.  I've noticed some ringspuns discolor more easily.  Using teflon or parchment paper can help avoid the scorch. 

    Thanks Renegade! I appreciate the help!

  14. Posted

    Thank you for your input everyone. It is transfer number A13045 from ProWorld. I have used some from them before and never had any problems. I had been using the press for about an hour before I tried these shirts (with no problems) so I can't imagine there were any cold spots. I also think my temp would be right because I press vinyl all the time and I did some transfers from Howard Graphics today and had no problems.

    Does anyone know what causes the shirt to turn yellow? Is it simply too much heat on it?

    Thanks again for your advice.

    Kristen

  15. Posted

    Hi. I am hoping someone can shed some light on this problem for me. I purchased some heat transfers from ProWorld. One design said to press at 390-400 degrees for 8 seconds and then peel hot. I first pressed it for 8 seconds at 400 and hardly any of the design was on the shirt. I ruined a couple shirts trying to get it right. It finally took about 50 seconds for the design to press to the shirt, but then the white tshirt hard turned yellow, I guess from so much heat?

    I have several of these shirts to do and don't know what to do to get it right.

    Thank you for any help!

    Kristen B)

  18. Posted

    "The CE5000 does have an overcut setting. It will be under the Condition option settings for your tools. I run a FC8000-75 but the settings are the same. Usually the overcut is to make slight continuous pass across the starting point and the ending point of the graphic to assure that the path is closed. I set mines to .04 or .08, this usually works for me."

    The condition setting I see under "enable driver options" only allows you to choose 1 through 8. Is that what you are talking about? It doesn't let you type in anything but whole numbers.

    I greatly appreciate your help.  :thumbsup:

  21. Posted

    Hi everyone,

    I have the Graphtec CE5000 and I am very new to this. I was doing decals with little thin letters and I was having the hardest time weeding it. The letters kept sticking to my tweezers and to the parts of the letter that I was trying to weed.

    Someone suggested to me (that has a different brand of cutter) to turn the over cut on and that helps with small letters. I can't find that option and didn't know if my machine even has that. I use Corel as my software.

    Any help you can offer is greatly appreciated it!

    Kristen

  25. Posted

    Hi everyone, got a question....when a woman places an order for a t-shirt do you order a shirt made specifically for women or do you sell the same shirts to men and women? I have used the Gildan 2000 in the past for both but if my customer seems to be picky and is a woman I sometimes mention I can get a shirt cut especially for women.

    Just wondered how other people handled this.

    Thanks!

    Kristen