prettybird

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  1. Hello, Anyone know if the Oracal 631 matte vinyl is supposed to stick to walls that have been painted with flat paint? I called the vinyl store where I get it, and they said you should be able to get it to stick, but I've read online that it doesn't stick. I sell wall word decal stickers and someone bought one from me that has flat paint on their wall and they can't get it to stick. Any suggestions on what I can tell her how to get it to stick? And is there a better kind of vinyl I should be using for the wall words that has a matte finish? They said at the vinyl store that the 631 is temporary and they can't guarantee it to stick to anything for very long. But I thought this was the right kind of vinyl to use for this type of thing so I could use your input. Thanks so much!!
  2. Hi, we recently got a Vinyl Express Qe60 vinyl cutter. We got it used and were told that it works good but we can't get it to work. It will turn on, but none of the buttons do anything and it won't cut anything. I've posted a picture of what the display says when we turn it on. Any suggestions on what we can try or what it could be? Thanks, Deanna
  3. Hi, we have a Roland SC500 and when we print, the vinyl gets a bunch of bumps in it and someone said we need to adjust the vacuum so it sucks the vinyl down tighter while it's printing. So anyone know how to do that? Also, when I send something to cut or print, it tries to do a prefeed of the vinyl and a lot of times right when it tries to advance the vinyl, it gets a motor error. It doesn't get one every time, but most of the time. Then once I shut it down and restart it and resend the item, it works without a motor error. Any ideas what could be causing that? Thanks so much!
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    Shelf life of 651 vinyl?

    Hi, does anyone know what the shelf life of the Oracal 651 vinyl with transfer tape applied to it would be? I have a customer that wants to buy another piece of something and save it for later just in case but he wants to know what the shelf life would be. Thanks, Deanna
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    Shelf life of 651 vinyl?

    Thanks for all your input everyone - I guess I'll tell him he probably shouldn't try to store any for later on.
  6. Hi, does anyone know where I can buy t-shirt designs that I can print myself? We are getting a heat press to start doing some t-shirts and we have a Roland printer/cutter so I would like to print some designs myself but I don't know where to buy them form. Any ideas? Thanks!
  7. Thanks - I will check out the T-Shirt Factory stuff. The vinyl items I cut now are more for wall words, etc. so they probably wouldn't work on t-shirts too much. We will probably design our own too as time goes by but we are just getting started so I'd like to get some stuff I can just print too
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    Stencil Material?

    Hi, I would also like to know where to get stencil material. I've read that some people use 7 mil mylar and I was wondering if anyone knows where to get that? Also, I have a Roland SC500 - does anyone know if I could use that to cut the mylar if I can find some? Thanks
  9. Thanks - we will try to contact graphtec and see what they say, or maybe take it to our local repair place
  10. We tried to reset it, still no changes. Does anyone know if there is a way to test the main board to see if that's it before we spend the money? thanks for the help
  11. Thanks, I found that manual also and tried to do some things and it won't do anything. The only thing it seems to do is turn on. It doesn't register media, and none of the buttons do anything if you push them. It doesn't ever change from the first screen I showed in the picture. The trouble shooting tips in the manual don't seem to help either. I emailed sign warehouse and asked them if there is a repair manual for it that I can get and they said there isn't one available and they thought maybe it's either the power or the main board went out. We'd like to know for sure though if possible before we start buying parts for it. We got a really good deal on it because we bought it as is without seeing it work first (even though they swore up and down that it worked great). We heard these were good machines so we didn't mind putting a little more money into it if needed, but don't want to buy parts we won't need.
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    instructions on vectorizing?

    Hi, I was wondering if there any instructions on this site about vectorizing with Flexi? (I tried to find some but couldn't) I have Flexi Sign Pro 8.1 and I need to vectorize something. It's a picture of a Gnome inside a black circle and I need to cut the black circle off of the gnome so I can print just the gnome. I would like to figure out how to do it myself if possible because I have a couple other items to do also. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
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    instructions on vectorizing?

    Yay! I worked! Thanks again
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    instructions on vectorizing?

    Thanks, I'll give this a try. I appreciate all your help
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    instructions on vectorizing?

    Hi, thank you for the instructions! I really appreciate the help. Sorry for taking so long to respond. I tried to reply but I couldn't get on the forum for a few days because I was getting an error for some reason and then I got really busy. But when I try to do the steps above, that makes it so I can cut all the colors separately, but all I want to do on this one, is get a cut line around the outside of the gnome because I am going to print it out. So I can use another program to paint over the black circle that is around the gnome and get rid of that, but I can't seem to get it to make a cut line only around the outside of the gnome, so I would I do that? Thanks again
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    instructions on vectorizing?

    It has more colors than black and white. It has black, blue, green, red, white and tan. (the person that made it doesn't want anyone to use the picture so I don't think I can post it.) When I try to vectorize, I click on the black part so it outlines the black but there is also black lines in the other parts of the picture that it is also putting cut lines on. (there are black lines on a white beard and stuff like that). So how can I make it only outline the outside part and not the other parts? I really appreciate the help
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    instructions on vectorizing?

    Thanks for the suggestion. I tried that (painting the black part white) and then I opened it in flexi and tried to contour and it won't contour, so I clicked on vectorize and then on autotrace and it looks like it put a line around the outside but it also put several lines on the gnome too so it looks like it wants to cut more places than just around the outside. How do I get it to just vectorize around the outside? (is this something I should be able to do in Flexi or do I really have to use another program?) thanks
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    instructions on vectorizing?

    Been trying to use that and haven't been able to figure it out so we need a little more help
  19. Hello, I am using Flexi sign pro 8.1 and I have some open type fonts that suddenly quit working yesterday. (two of them are bickham script and filmotype honey) It seems like all my open type fonts quit working, but my true-type fonts still work. I opened my paint program to see if the font works in there, and it does work in there, just not on flexi and they were working fine before yesterday. Any ideas on what I can try to fix this? I tried re-downloading the filmotype one from where I purchased it from (myfonts.com) but it still doesn't work. Any help would really be appreciated. Thanks!
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    Open type fonts suddenly stopped working on Flexi

    Here is a link to a corel draw forum where they are talking about it being the windows update also, myfonts.com sent it to me: http://coreldraw.com/forums/t/37077.aspx
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    Open type fonts suddenly stopped working on Flexi

    I'm using XP. I've been trying to do a system restore but it won't let me for some reason so I guess I will try reinstalling flexi and see what happens.
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    oracal color swatch

    Hi, does anyone know where I can get a current color swatch table for the Oracal 631 vinyl that I can use with Flexi? I tried downloading it from the Oracal website, but it doesn't include the newer colors on it (like maize, olive, etc) Thanks!
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    oracal color swatch

    I'm not too concerned about the monitor - it seems to be working pretty good, I just need to download the color swatch for the 631 vinyl with the newer colors on it because I post some of my designs online in some of the various colors.
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    oracal color swatch

    I need the one I can download and install into Flexi so I can use the 631 colors for samples in my designs.
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    best vinyl to print bumper stickers and labels

    3165 is what I was talking about