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I was wondering what the degree of curve that could be used for making my windshield banners. Thanks, Jack

Anyone use their cutter for making rhinestone patterns? I am curious if anyone has and if they could point me in the right diection. Thanks, Jack

chromatic ink was 43.00 qt

This isnt vinyl but it is some shirts Im screen printing for a wrestling tourny. The scrolls are actually over printed with photo chromatic ink so they will change to golden yellow when the kids go outside and areexposed to the sunlight.

If you dont have a taxt number you are limited to some of these places listed. Jiffyshirts.com is good and they have great prices.

SCREEN PRINTING by far is the cheapest way to produce shirts. Ink is cheaper than vinyl..... You can build a decent basic four color press for press cheap. the most expensive things will be the hinge clamps. Thats how I started several years ago. Ive got all kinds of fancy equipment now but honestly I very seldom get a customer who wants more than 2 or 3 colors. I got a book when I first started years ago and it is still available. it is called screen printing for fun and profit. Also in that book are some plans for a basic four color press that I biult and used in my garage printing for 3 years. Dont let anyone say you need a big fancy press to start. My second order was for over 5000 dollars printing 762 shirts for a baseball league. Never had a problem with registration. We are talking spot color not four color proccess so before some start to jump on it. The vinyl cutter comes in handy when you are doing names and numbers on the backs of shirts which has a price of $4.00 additonal per shirt. Just do some reading and practicing and youll do fine.

Yeah I think everyone has used that skull I see it everywhere...... BUT I STILL LOVE IT.

good job

I use corel draw for all my artwork. The best advice I can give you is just start tinkering and you will make changes here and there. My logo is nothing like I first envisioned it but when I got done after working and tweaking for days here and there I like to think its nice. check it out on my website. To add on what someone else said is we are in the graphics arts biz so you reaaly do need to come up with something nice to represent. www.4dscreenart.com

Personally I prefer Bullzip... Its free and will let you printout anything as a pdf file.

Yes I use corel draw. I learned how to powerclip from a website called coreldrawtips. here is the link that will show you how to power clip (put into a container is another term) Once you learn how to do this you can make your own clipart and not use the same stuff as everyone else. That will set you in a different catagory than some others. Check this out it is really good http://coreldrawtips.com/site/powerclip-in-coreldraw

Im assuming you are talking about making a picture of a car into a one color eps file you can cut on your cutter. Customers are getting very savy to the quality of work some can do these days with vinyl graphics and the faster you learn how to the better it will be for you. With that said what you will need to Is start using other programs such as Photoshop or Corel Draw to outline and prep your artwork and export them as a jpg. Then you open it into a free program called inksckape to trace and save as an EPS or SVG file. Then all you need to do is import into signblazer and cut away. I know it sounds like a lot but once you do it one or two times it will not take long at all. The proccess took me about 25 minutes to produce the EPS file attached along with an illustration of what I was talking about. I also use this proccess for producing clipart for my screenprinting customers. Regards all 56.eps 56.eps

I use Firstmark sold by signwarehouse. It is the least expensive Ive come accross and it works awsome. I have done probobly over 1000 names and numbers using this stuff. 16 buck for a 11 foot roll. This stuff works great on50/50 100% cotton and I even used it on UnderArmor shirts.

Ive been looking ad I cnt fint this font anywhere..... Anyone know what this may be? Im looking to identify the word shadow. Thanks in advanced. Jack

There are thousands out there. Here is two. www.digital-clipart.com http://www.actionartclub.com/index.php I dont know how much you are looking to spend. If you are looking for some general files Ebay has a ton of them or just google vector clipart. Learning to make your own from basic clipart is invalueable though.

I was cutting some names and numbers last night and I had slowed my cutter down for some smallar fonts. I slowed it down to 16in/sec and noticed the lines were like your test cuts, but when I changed it back to the normal 24/in speed it was fine agian. Have you tried setting your speed faster?

which holder r u in? the cut through or the one closest to the system?

I got my new order weds. and it was missing one of the tree rolls for a job I have due this weekend. I guess it is time to find someone more reliable. -Jack

What do you think? If you don't know my biz name it is 4-D ScreenArt. I know its not anything I can cut on my cutter but I do screen printing as well so I think I need to have something more than a basic one color design. I used some how tos I watched on www.coreldrawtips.com If someone has a printer/cutter that will print this out to a 18x18 email how much and maybe we can work something out... Looking for some feedback. I was looking for a metallic look. Jack

I cant see where I can add a pic to my profile can anyone give me a tip where to do so? Thanks, Jack

I use post cards as my business card. Here it is.

One time the order was shipped out 4 days after I oredered one time. They said it was in stock when I ordered but when I got the email when it finally shipped the email said "My back oreder has been shipped" I still made my deadline but it did urk me a little.

Dont take offense to this but I think it may be you. My cutter has perform flawless from day one. I have made A LOT OF MONEY with my 500 dollar cutter paid itself off the 1st week I got it. Biz wise it has been one of my smartest parts of business I have added on. Vinyl doesn't cost much and turn around time for customer is fast. Im sorry you are having issues but realistically you can get a lemon in any product. I use to be a senior tech for Dell and even when I would capture a customer's "lemon" when I got it in to begin working on it 9 times out of ten it was some type of software or driver causing all the problems the customers were experiencing. Good luck. -Jack

Flyers at your local soccer field works wonders sometimes. I do maiilings for my screen printing biz sometimes and I mail out post cards because they are 28 cents each to mail as opposed to a leeter which costs 44 cents. I use to think they didnt work but people hold on to those postcards for a day they want to use them. Most of my customers I get from a mailing recieved the post card as long as a year ago. On my post cards I also include what is called a call to action. Like on mine they also say 10% off for your first order. Hope this helps. Jack

Excellent deal for you..... Congrats.