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Ross at cleancutblades blades. Still offers the discount

If I was going to get into it, nothing less than a 6 color press. mark-s

Hint Hint wink wink Contact Jaybird and oursource

King Blue vs Old Glory seems a little ironic if you ask me.

I guess I missed that Jay was doing it.... I have something coming up pretty quick that I need to out source...... guess I gotta contact Jay!

Why not test the market with Jay before committing to equipment that takes up the whole garage....gives you time to check out what's available. Sue2

Good Advice! Jay does a great job. Sue2

I mean technically I think most application fluids are pretty much the same. I think it really comes down to preference. I see some people love RapidTac2, but I don't care for it too much. I use RapidTac. Maybe these guys that know more can help you more.

I have no experience with this vinyl but looking at the spec sheet it just looks like standard cast vinyl. It's 50 microns thick which is about 2mils, which is what the Oracal 751 vinyl is. Don't believe you'd need to do anything special other than slight adjustment to blade depth and/or pressure just like you should do any time you change vinyl, even different colors of the same type of vinyl can need slight adjustments to cut settings.

Seems like this would be a pretty easy image to practice vectoring. You said you needed help, were you actually asking for help in how to do it, or just hoping someone would do it for you? If you're actually wanting help, what have you done/tried and what did the results look like?

Tomk I have bought from Scott in the past and everything he has printed for me looked that good

1. Type your text and add your contour using the contour tool. 2. Break contour group apart using the menu or control+k. 3. Copy your text to clipboard with control+c. 4. Select your text and your contour. 5. select "back minus front" from the shaping menu. 6. Press control+v to paste the text back. This will be a very tight fit with no gap. If you want a small gap you can add a smaller contour first and break that contour group apart and then add a second larger contour on the first contour. Then you would use back minus front on the two contours. You can also do this using an inner contour. I hope this makes sense, my internet cable got dug up yesterday so I'm on mobile.

I'm blown away by the quality. My Gerber thermal could never produce that quality, not sure if the newer FX or Summa DC5's could but that is just awesome!

I hope someone answers as I was just asked for some the other day too

With any new material you'll have to sacrifice a little bit of material to the vinyl gods. Cut some small text until you get it to weed easily and just barely score the backing paper.

This is America. You can choose any color of blue that you want! Color is all in your head anyway. The square on the bottom is the exact same color as the square on the top. Hold something up so that it covers the middle part were they meet and see for yourself.

The nonsense I cant stand is taking peoples money and running. We had a guy hand us a print off from CL on a picture of a $30k Jeep Wrangler listed for $7500,he asked us what ya think about that? Were like its fake!! handed it back, He says NO ITS NOT its being shipped I payed for it already! We said well your screwed and lost your money, he storms out and comes back 3 hours later about to cry.... Lost all of his money!!

Contact avery through email ask them the blade type and pressure is different on all machines. Do some test cuts however I would use a 60 degree blade.

Thanks I ended up fixing that also

dang and all I was usin was roland cyan, magenta, yellow and black

I prefer cobalt blue myself.

These are the official colors if you want it the right way: Old Glory Blue Pantone: 282C, RGB: 0, 33, 71 CMYK: 100, 87, 37, 51 Old Glory Red Pantone: 193C, RGB: 187, 19, 62 CMYK: 8, 100, 77, 1 White RGB: 255, 255, 255 CMYK: 0, 0, 0, 0

Thanks, Dakota... I ended up giving the boots back to the customer. She said she had another person lined up who could do it, so I would rather lose the little bit of profit I would've made than put out a product that wouldn't last.

problem is sign vinyl is not made to flex but be applied to a solid surface - so things that flex like the boots really are not what it is made for. read a lot of this on an entertaining fb group. HTV flexes much better but then again applying htv to something that melts at such a low point really doesn't work either. The great thing about people that sell those decals online for that- they do this with no regard to what the outcome is - only to get the item out the door cause they saw it on pintrest or other site and say hey I gotx me a cricut and can make those. the people in it for the long haul care if the product last and how it looks a year from now when you see printing on these boots it is usually a flexible paint or even a rubber product that is molded in at the time of manufacture - the decals you see on the shelf in the store on them are the ones intended to be taken off from what I have seen

If you know how to use the contour tool, then you're already 90% of the way there. For what you asked above, you want to start with silver text and add a single red contour to that text. If you want your red outlines to be physically separate from one another, make sure to increase the inter-character spacing (tracking) so there is room between each letter for the expanded outline. After adding a contour to your text, select "Break Contour Curve Apart" from the Arrange menu (I'm doing this from memory, it may not be exactly that, but that should steer you where you need to be). That will separate the contoured curve from the original text and give you a separate curve that when cut will form a perfect background layer for your text. Obviously if you make any changes to the original text after this point you will need to re-do the contour or it will no longer match. If you're only going to cut a single letter, then you can cut a smaller letter in silver and a larger letter in red and layer them - if you're planning to do multiple letters and words, the contour method described here is superior as your spacing will already be perfect, otherwise you'll need to manually place each letter in the top layer to ensure they are centered properly.