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    Hi, does anyone know what the shelf life of the Oracal 651 vinyl with transfer tape applied to it would be?  I have a customer that wants to buy another piece of something and save it for later just in case but he wants to know what the shelf life would be.

     

    Thanks,

    Deanna

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    Hi, I would also like to know where to get stencil material.  I've read that some people use 7 mil mylar and I was wondering if anyone knows where to get that?  Also, I have a Roland SC500 - does anyone know if I could use that to cut the mylar if I can find some?  Thanks :)

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    Thanks, I found that manual also and tried to do some things and it won't do anything.  The only thing it seems to do is turn on.  It doesn't register media, and none of the buttons do anything if you push them.  It doesn't ever change from the first screen I showed in the picture.  The trouble shooting tips in the manual don't seem to help either.  I emailed sign warehouse and asked them if there is a repair manual for it that I can get and they said there isn't one available and they thought maybe it's either the power or the main board went out.  We'd like to know for sure though if possible before we start buying parts for it.  We got a really good deal on it because we bought it as is without seeing it work first (even though they swore up and down that it worked great).  We heard these were good machines so we didn't mind putting a little more money into it if needed, but don't want to buy parts we won't need. 

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    Hi, thank you for the instructions!  I really appreciate the help. Sorry for taking so long to respond.  I tried to reply but I couldn't get on the forum for a few days because I was getting an error for some reason and then I got really busy.

     

    But when I try to do the steps above, that makes it so I can cut all the colors separately, but all I want to do on this one, is get a cut line around the outside of the gnome because I am going to print it out.  So I can use another program to paint over the black circle that is around the gnome and get rid of that, but I can't seem to get it to make a cut line only around the outside of the gnome, so I would I do that?  Thanks again :)

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    It has more colors than black and white.  It has black, blue, green, red, white and tan.  (the person that made it doesn't want anyone to use the picture so I don't think I can post it.)  When I try to vectorize, I click on the black part so it outlines the black but there is also black lines in the other parts of the picture that it is also putting cut lines on.  (there are black lines on a white beard and stuff like that).  So how can I make it only outline the outside part and not the other parts?  I really appreciate the help :)

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    Thanks for the suggestion.  I tried that (painting the black part white) and then I opened it in flexi and tried to contour and it won't contour, so I clicked on vectorize and then on autotrace and it looks like it put a line around the outside but it also put several lines on the gnome too so it looks like it wants to cut more places than just around the outside.  How do I get it to just vectorize around the outside?   (is this something I should be able to do in Flexi or do I really have to use another program?) thanks :)

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    Hi, I was wondering if there any instructions on this site about vectorizing with Flexi? (I tried to find some but couldn't)  I have Flexi Sign Pro 8.1 and I need to vectorize something.  It's a picture of a Gnome inside a black circle and I need to cut the black circle off of the gnome so I can print just the gnome.  I would like to figure out how to do it myself if possible because I have a couple other items to do also. Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks :)

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    Hello, I am using Flexi sign pro 8.1 and I have some open type fonts that suddenly quit working yesterday. (two of them are bickham script and filmotype honey) It seems like all my open type fonts quit working, but my true-type fonts still work. I opened my paint program to see if the font works in there, and it does work in there, just not on flexi and they were working fine before yesterday. Any ideas on what I can try to fix this? I tried re-downloading the filmotype one from where I purchased it from (myfonts.com) but it still doesn't work. Any help would really be appreciated. Thanks!

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    I'm not too concerned about the monitor - it seems to be working pretty good, I just need to download the color swatch for the 631 vinyl with the newer colors on it because I post some of my designs online in some of the various colors.

  22. Posted

    Hi, does anyone know where I can get a current color swatch table for the Oracal 631 vinyl that I can use with Flexi? I tried downloading it from the Oracal website, but it doesn't include the newer colors on it (like maize, olive, etc)

    Thanks!

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    Hi, I have a customer that wants some printed stickers about 4"x2.5" They will be printed with our Roland SC500 and will be black with white letters and only two words for the name of their farm. They might want around 100 stickers at a time. Anyone have any suggestions on what to charge for these? I haven't really sold anything that we printed before so I'm not sure how much to charge to pay for the ink and the time, etc. Any help would really be appreciated. Thanks!