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    If you do anything with vinyl or posters you know what a pain it is to laminate. In addition to the hassle there is the considerable expense. With a liquid laminator

    you can get the job done easier, faster and it costs much less money.

    The laminator I am selling is an Axiom that was designed for media up to six feet wide. It is set up for

    solvent lamination but can be converted to water as well.

    I am located in Oregon and will deliver it free of charge to anywhere in Oregon or Washington.

    I also have a couple of other sign shop machines for sale including a Summa vinyl cutter. It is a D620 Summa cut and this machine is very accurate and can

    cut intricate patterns as well as contour cutting. Summa Vinyl Cutter $500

    If you are thinking about getting into the printing business a good starter printer is the Encad 600E. This is a wide format printer that can print on paper as well as

    other media. It is one of the few non-solvent wide format printers that has an ink that will work outdoors. This printer comes with some cartridges and ink.

    Axiom Liquid laminator $2200

    Summa Vinyl Cutter $500

    Encad 600E $300

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    The PLTdraw program works very well with Autocad. When you are done with the design you can "plot to file" That file is a .plt file. The PLTdraw program did a much better job cutting than Signblazer however it can be a little frustrating to use.

      Occasionally the program will lose the connection so I will have to unplug and replug the usb connection.

    It will also occasionally have another error message come up but turning the plotter on and off will solve this.

      PLTdraw is much more accurate than Signblazer!

    Hope this helps

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    There are a few things to do that will help you import autocad drawings into SB

    1) Check your units in both autocad and also SB, if Sb thinks that your units are in miles and not in inches, you probably won't be able to see it. It is probably best to set the units in both programs to inches/feet.

    2)  Make sure that at least part of your drawing in autocad is located at 0,0. This is center of what gets imported.

    3)  When importing to SB, there is a setting in the view menu called outline/wireframe. If you click this, the black background will disappear and you will be left with the objects you created in autocad.

      When importing autocad drawings into Corel 12, the first two of the above suggestions apply and you will be asked to choose the file to import. After you do a window will pop up giving choices as far as 3d projection and scaling. If the drawing you are importing is coming in as a single line instead of the shapes you drew in autocad,  then there may be a problem with the 3D projection. If you created the drawing in top view, you want to make sure that is what is showing in the 3d projection. If you created it in top view but it is showing front view in the 3d projection then the program will just see that view of your drawing and it will show as a single line.

      I was able to import autocad R12 and R14 into both SB and Corel. If you have an earlier version you can get a free download of a program called dwg gateway. It will convert one version into another. Here is the link:  http://www.dwggateway.com/.