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Friday night I decided to do print and cut on the Graphtec well after 2 tries the third one was a success. First one I didn't notice the printer didn't print well, second I put the image on the carrier sheet the wrong way and the 3rd was a success. Till I scratched the ink off accidentally however I still pressed it and wore it. I think it looks good for my first real successful print and cut on the new machine.

here are a few of my projects i have many more in the works i would like to hear your honest feedback

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I bought a fairly expensive Wacom tablet a few years ago and tried it out for about an hour before I suddenly realized you actually need real drawing skills to use one effectively (which I do NOT) luckily I was able to box it back up and get a full refund at best buy or wherever I got it. I determined that I can't draw as good as my 10 year old kid and never have had that ability.

Broken blade tip? Vinyl scraps in the blade holder? Try a few drops of light sewing machine oil etc in the blade holder... Messed up teflon cutting strip? Make sure white wheels of carriage head firmly down in the track and nothing in the track like dust etc.

Primal said, "… my original use was for editing pictures on instead of using a mouse" and , "where can i find the help in how to use this for tracing" Let me start by reminding the reader that the tablet is just a tool... it won't instantly impart any special voodoo to make one a master at tracing (or drawing, painting, photo manipulation, etc) That said, here are a few tips; Fact is, it won't move you any farther ahead at all when you first start using it. It's more likely to slow you down for a good while till familiarity and muscle memory catch up. At this stage, what's most important is putting in the time and practicing with the instrument. Use it in most, if not all, of your programs. Get used to the feel of the instrument and work out the awkward difference between it and the mouse that you're so used to. Get used to looking at the monitor and writing in your lap or on your desk, or wherever you prop the pad is another unnatural difference to overcome. Some folks have a hard time with this and set it aside at this point, unable to clear that hurdle. Hang in there and spend some practice time dialing in it's action with pressure and feel. Getting familiar with what commands are most helpful assigned to the tablet’s HotKeys and which ones are better used at the keyboard. I tend to have one hand on the pen and the other on the keyboard where I use a lot of keypad shortcuts. When the pens in my hand I want to reach for the mouse as little as possible and try to complete all the pen work together, at once. Work with the different settings and different brushes to get it to respond how you'd like. Make it feel as much like a real pencil, pen, or brush as you can. I have a piece of paper taped over the writing surface of my Wacom to add a little drag (friction) between the nib and the pad. Just keep practicing and tweaking till to get comfortable with it. IMO, those are the biggest hurdles with the tablet. Getting it to feel natural. After that, the tablet can definitly enhance abilities you already posses. It is indeed a 'better mouse' for drawing, painting, and photo editing. Thing is, those 3 processes lend themselves more to raster work than vector. Which is why I don't use the tablet as much within my vector programs. It's fine with the freehand pen or brush tools but, for rendering and modifying basic geometric shapes/objects in vector, the mouse is my go to tool. Every project will have different requirments and everyone will have different workflows. Usually, by the time I'm doing vector node work, the heavy lifting (raster) has been done in Photoshop or Gimp with the pen & tablet and I'm am down to (vector) fine tuning it with the mouse. The projects where I begin in Vector are most often rendered with the mouse. (That's if I don't begin with the Path tool in Ps.) This is just my workflow, you will need to figure out where the tool is most useful to you. Where can it save you time or help you render or manipulate and image better. It's proficiency with the software that allows the tablet (in the right hands) to shine. Otherwise, it's just a linear mouse. These attributes will surely improve with regular practice. skarekrow

Thank you for the heads up i appreciate that i removed the ones i didn't have legal permission for thats also good im not limited to copy and paste

Hi there kingpin. You might want to consider making custom License Plates for the front of cars and trucks (I believe that Michigan is one of the states that doesn't require two plates).

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Welcome from SW Florida

At first I was like, OK high heels............... then I noticed the bulge between the legs and I was like I didn't know Caitlin Jenner bow hunted.

I am currently running my Titan with a 6 foot plugged ito a 10 foot extension with no problems at all.

Every thing I've read about Win10..every expert...all say wait a few weeks.

So this should work then, huh?

https://www.pennstateind.com/store/LXMSET.html Cheap at the price and you will LOVE it.

ok... watched a few video's..... dang it any info on where to get the best deals on pen stuff? Blanks, parts, kits etc? (again... dang it) When you said the "mini" lathe.... did you mean the $125 dollar bench top one or the $530 dollar "precision" one? dang it dang it dang it.... don't do it...... walk away.... walk away quickly....

this what i came up with--- OPTICopperplate (Regular) OCopperplate Plain (Regular)