I'm a little confused
Am I 'mathing' wrong? If the SC has a limitation of 144" in length, and the 'word' that you're cutting is 16" long, then you can only get 9, out 144". (Although you don't state what height the text is, so I don't know if you're tiling it or not)
And wasn't this originally about a tracking issue with a flag that was 45" long?