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The Graphtec CE5000-60 (24" version) package from US Cutter has EVERYTHING you need to get started doing professional quality vinyl decals and lettering. The only thing not in the boxes (3 large, heavy boxes) is a computer and the knowledge/experience, but you can glean a lot of that from reading these forums. The Corel Draw X3 with Graphtec's Cutting Master plug-in is a vast improvement over Inkscape & SignBlazer in my opinion. You can do all your design work in Corel and when you're ready, cut directly from there without having to worry about exporting into special file formats, etc. The vinyl that comes with this package (a dozen different colors of 24" x 10' rolls) is a great starter vinyl for practice and getting your feet wet, but you'll find most people upgrade to Oracal brand vinyls and recommend those for vehicle decals or anything else that will be used outdoors. GreenStar vinyl is cheaper than Oracal, but when you look at the actual cost per square foot, the cost difference is pretty trivial and it's well worth it for the longer life and much broader color selection that Oracal offers. I just bought that package a few months back after being generally disappointed with the cheap cutter I bought off of ebay. It was slow, loud and not capable of small details. It was a HUGE difference right out of the box. If you can afford it, then I can't think of any good reason not to get a Graphtec. With regards to the multi-color decal you mentioned in an earlier posting, as long as you're sticking with solid, primary colors like that (white, black, purple) it's fairly simple to do multi-color decals with only a cutter. It will take some practice to get it right, but do a You Tube search for "layering vinyl" and you'll find plenty of videos that show how it is done.

deer antlers ? really ? pretty abstract. mark-s

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Give this a try, I did a quick manual trace in inkscape. You may need to adjust a little but should get you started. smtv-copy.eps

I got it handled, thanks thou!