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Jean – there is a job log in one of the headings across the top

I think it might be in VIEW

I’m not certain of the functionality of the log but I presume you can retrieve printed jobs from there

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Just wanted to add this here incase it’s new to anyone…

A few years ago I was adding some text out on site to a chemists fascia (powder coated aluminium) – I’d priced to give the whole sign a bit of a clean while I was up there but the 3M surface cleaner I was using wasnt having any effect

Customer handed me a bottle of Vim cleaner – it was remarkable how easily the dirt and grime came off

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The issue isn’t whether your workmanship is up to scratch or not – the issue is whether the vinyl is up to scratch or not

From the photographs I would say that after 4 years in an exposed environment the vinyl is holding up well

I wouldn’t be offering to redo the work and if she pursues the issue, I’d be asking your vinyl suppliers rep to have a word with her

Will it clean up at all to regain some of its gloss?

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How have you got on with it Paul?

I’m trying to get a hold of some but it’s like hens teeth at the minute

[Glenn Sharp]

Fount also helps find fonts within a website

Follow the instructions on this link – it can come in handy at times

https://fount.artequalswork.com

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I’ve seen metal caging cut and curled to form a nozzle fitted to the front a space heater

Like a silencer fitted to a gun for want of a better description

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I can only think that the document colour management settings differ from each other

Compare them both to make sure they match

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You could try these Warren..

https://www.w-co.co.uk/

although we have had a mixed response to enquiries in the past

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We also use Trello

Can’t fault it really

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Thank you all for the advice

A job that I had envisaged taking at least 3 hours was done in an hour

A very appreciative customer as a result

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That’ll do me

Thanks very much everyone

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Sorry Alex – I’ve managed to convince the customer to go with a tray on this occasion as I started to have real doubts that the trim without springs was the correct way to go

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Hi Fred,

The NovaTrim Composite 204 is specifically for a 3mm panel so I’m hoping its up to the job

The customer was offered the folded box option (which was slightly more expensive) but favoured the trim

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Hugh

Middle of the night and just on my tablet so can’t remember exactly but look for ‘find and replace’

you can set whatever criteria you need to search for. – colour, outline colour, etc etc

Hopefully that should do it for you

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can dry wipe lam be applied without a laminator ?

can it be applied wet ?

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All good thanks Martin

Aye – looks like we are safe and ready for another year of struggle next season :awkward:

No signs of Ashley doing one at the minute either – I just hope Benitez can exert some pressure on him but he’s shown no signs of that in the past 3 seasons

Hope all is well with you ?

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Love it :thumbsup:

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I recognise the potential problem but would it not just be as easy / quick to ring the contact telephone number and ask them to confirm who has come for the vehicle ?

[Glenn Sharp]

We are using Blackburns at the minute…good prices and good quality

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fantastic

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quote Chris Tennant:

We got this in last week to wrap.

was that for an actual body Chris or is it a symbol for where the club is at?

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I’ve always used these people….

http://www.e-shopfittings.co.uk

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Eeeee ffs Martin – my apologies

I was replying to an email from Colin whilst I was typing that out

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Thanks Steve and Martin…

My colleague managed to find this – it is a free download called SignLoad designer

Sign up to there site and go to the downloads tab at the top and look for SignLoad Designer in the little list

http://www.buchanancomputing.net/downloads.html

this is the interface and is pretty much exactly what we were looking for – it allows you to put in the sign dimensions and ground clearance etc – there is a drop down list for estimated wind pressure and – once you’ve inputted all of your dimensions you just click ‘suggest section’ and it tells you which diameter of tube to go with

We’ve literally just used this once but it backed up our gut feelings based on past experience but please use your own discretion if deciding to use it

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I’m good Martin thanks….hope all is well with you

yeah – I’d searched for wind loadings etc but it was coming up with results for roofs etc

Couldn’t find anything that you could just input the size of the sign, ground clearance etc and it would just tell you which diameter to go with

I was actually helping a colleague with this and I’d asked him if he checked with Ashby – he said he had but I’ll have another look

Thanks for the reply

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I’m not aware of any way to change the settings on the fly but I would recommend doing one of the machines ‘built in’ cut tests if you are using different materials

Just a quick cut test and adjust the pressure accordingly

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Great selection again Dave…the Inside of The Chicken Club looks fantastic

Thanks for showing

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Great work Brian….

Just interested to know…does being a ‘lefty’ present any problems when sign writing or is it no different to being right handed?

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It’s strange how you can have so much respect for a person that you’ve never actually met but Johns character was evident in his written word

He not only offered advice…he offered GOOD advice

A very sad loss

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Can it be welded or combined David?

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they look like bubbles to me…

A good tip I heard many moons back (could very well have been from Rob….one of those obvious things that you sometimes need to hear)….always make sure the vinyl comes into contact with the substrate through the squeegee……never let the vinyl contact the substrate first and then squeegee over the top

The letters have probably worked purely down to their size…not enough surface area to get air bubbles trapped in

My guess is that you have placed the image on the van and then squeegeed over the top rather than starting at the top and working down whilst holding the graphic off the van until the squeegee passes over it

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Neil,

Thank you so much for that…

It didn’t matter how many times I googled the subject, using different terminology each time, I just didn’t come across that page at all

Thanks again,

Glenn

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Many thanks for that Rob, just to explain a little further…..

It was actually an employee who set the shop up for us but he is no longer with us.

He had various conversations with Godaddy about controlling the prices globally but was told it could not be done…it’s not that I’m disbelieving him, it’s just I can’t believe something fundamental like that is not an option.

I just got involved in a conversation yesterday and was hoping if I asked on here I might have got a ‘yes it can be done’ or a no it can’t be done’ answer

I’ll take a look at the vids….thanks again

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Thanks Phil……I need to do some more digging

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A good broad selection there David..

Really like the Butterfly Cafe

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we’ve recently had an enquiry in from a pilot who has had work done from another company in the past – he was stipulating Avery 900 vinyls

It’s not our kind of work so we didn’t get into any details but that’s what he was asking us to quote on

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That’s gonna take some beating :thumbsup:

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Some great looking stuff there Iain….enjoyed looking through them

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Thanks James….just pinched the small one

Thanks for sharing

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Another possibility Lorraine would be to find out what font they’ve used…..if possible you could then retype the text, space it correctly etc and make your own mask to sit over the top of the bitmap….the mask could be any colour you want it to be

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Opening a restaurant in Australia would seem the easiest option to me

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we’ve always been happy with e-shopfittings (Hobday)

http://www.e-shopfittings.co.uk/sign_fi … 87_0c.html

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We’ve made this type of stand for Correx signage…don’t know if it will be substantial enough for your requirements but it might give you an idea…….

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I was trying to guage the time from the shadows and I’d guesstimated 2hours 27 minutes 😆 😉

I love watching these

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How long did that actually take to paint Simon?….once you were up there with templates in place etc

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Just double check if you are colour matching under daylight bulbs.

We fitted our print room out with them but greens were doing weird things under the daylight tubes…took the print outside and it looked totally different to how it did inside (only really noticeable on the greens for whatever reason)

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Love it…something really satisfying watching it in time lapse

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Thanks Kev,

I’d looked at that in Corel but when I tried to create a bitmap using that option it just produced a low resolution pixelated image.

I’m not even sure whether I’m using the correct terminology as there is such little information on it when I google it but Corel definitely calls them ‘Paletted Bitmaps’ when they are imported in.

It just seems like there is a ‘magic formula’ in that a bitmap can be easily handled (I’m presuming low file size) but perfect to look at when zooming in

Just for clarification I have only ever seen these as phone numbers, or address lines etc rather than pictures or photographs

I’m sure I’m missing something but can’t seem to find any info to go looking in another direction

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yeah David…I couldn’t get the capital 4 to work as the adjacent dot always looked too close

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Quick attempt from me….not sure I totally like the 4 but it might give you some ideas

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Have you had any response to your comments yet Hugh?

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Surely that’s a wind up Hugh ??

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white & gold

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those pirates were tough old cookies…….holding a heat gun inches away from her hand and loving every minute of it

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Mike,

When you click and hold on the eye dropper tool it gives you a choice of two……it hasn’t defaulted to the Attributes Eyedropper has it?

If that’s not the case it isn’t set to select from desktop rather than the drawing page?

That’s about all I can think of as far as the settings go

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Fantastic work Tim

there is nothing there I don’t like but my absolute favourite is the Didier Vaneylen van (I take it he is a decorartor?)

Brilliant stuff :appl:

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It’s difficult to get a scale of things but the ‘wobbles’ on the lines look too big just be the blade holder at fault

The material seems to have a definite thickness too it…what is it?

Is the material slipping at all in the grippers?

Are you using the correct blade type for the material?

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Bloody Hell Mike!….all the best on the road to recovery

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I like them

They would look good in the home bathroom or kitchen with some of the modern day messages printed on them

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The Ferrari desk looks impressive, the Connect van looks good, for some reason the fridge is my favourite but I’ve got to be honest Dave and say that the kerning around the A’s on the Cheryl Fitzgerald signs is doing my head in

Thanks for sharing

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New front page ??

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I love it..

I can imagine people wanting to read what it says in the +

Fantastic looking van

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Is the ink suitable for printing onto correx?

I’d have thought your ink supplier would have advised you that retarder would do the opposite of what you require

assuming the ink is air drying you can accelerate the drying time by pushing warm air over the prints but you would have to check the data sheets to see whether it is safe to do so

If you are new to screen printing are you thinning the ink down too much initially ?

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I haven’t actually done this before Cheryl but I would imagine Isopon would do the job….you may need to stick a piece of dibond or similar inside the tray first and then fill the holes with this…

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stor … yId_165625

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Nick,

Import that PDF into corel and and send it through to yor RIP from there

with our setup exporting into the rip as a PDF will give different results to exporting it as an EPS

once you have your printed chart/charts use them as a reference to match to an actual Pantone reference. You migh tfind that actual Pantone 300 is 301 on your new chart…or it might be that the CMYK chip (left hand side) is closer than the pantone (right side)

Once you import that chart into corel and click on the individual chips you’ll see what I mean

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we use this one Nick

The pantone chips are on the right with their CMYK equivalents on the left

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he’s a genius is Rob….he can even make the sun come out on a dull day 😎

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Any good Hugh?

http://www.naturesigndesign.co.uk/index … ent&id=344

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Ewan..it’s late, I’ve had a couple of beers and I’m away from a PC but try putting an outline round the original text and then play with ‘extrude’

[Glenn Sharp]

would velcro do the job Cheryl or do you need something more permanant ?

[Glenn Sharp]

Speak to Tecman Cheryl…I’m sure they’ll be able to help you

http://www.tecmanuk.com/

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quote Brian Little:

oh thats a shame glen try it one day …..see how happy customer would be ill try again one arrow to the right on one side and go round other side of board and also have an arrow pointing to the right i think youll find ones pointing to road the other to shop….mabe ill do you a line drawing tommorow

Not sure why you’re getting touchy with me Brian………I’d love to see that line drawing though :lol1:

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I’m out 😮

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Brian….draw an arrow pointing to the left on a piece of paper….draw another arrow pointing to the right on another piece of paper.. mark the top of both bits of paper so you know you have them the right way up

hold them back to back and they will both point in the same direction…i.e. the shop

Merry Christmas though, I’ve enjoyed this one

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I finish tonight until the New Year (hopefully)

Just like to wish everybody a great Christmas and a prosperous New Year

All the best

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As has been said, it’s all about volume.

It’s a bit like comparing a bus fare to a taxi fare.

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Fantastic

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I think I need to clean my monitor….I reckon coffee and chow mein splashes can be blamed for at least 5 of my ermm mistakes 😉

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I was just going to post a similar thing Harry…….A background would help bring the whole thing together

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Steve…the machine didn’t need any altering at all to produce the positives

It just printed what it was told to print once we found a film that it would recognise

We used the Ultrachrome inks with it but you have to run it at a fairly high DPI to get the density

For halftone work we used to run it through Wasatch but if it was basic block colour we would print directly from Corel

As I say…we never got to the bottom of why the machine would detect some clear films and not others but it was a real headache finding one that did….I can’t remember the name of the one we used but we bought it from http://www.mclink.org.uk/

[Glenn Sharp]

we used to use an Epson 9800 for this purpose with great results

The only problem we had and it could potentially be a bigger problem now is that the printer struggle to ‘read’ certain makes of the clear film. When we bough the machine we were recommended a clear film that worked withit but after a couple of years it became obsolete…finding another one that the machine would recognise was a bit of a headache.

The sensors on the printer just couldn’t pick up some of the films and thought there was nothing loaded…we tried milkier films thinking that that would work but it didn’t…we eventually found one that did work and there seemed nothing visible to make it any different to ones that didn’t work

The machine that Jamie posted will no doubt be calibrated to work with a specific type of film…….you might just be tied to that particular film though because there was very little choice a couple of years ago

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Thanks for all the help on this one….I’m now sifting through all the suppliers trying to put together a decent start up package based on what’s been said

Cheers

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Hi Lee….I have but I believe it’s against forum rules to post it

I’m not sure how to work around it 😕

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Thanks for all the help so far…..

Lee..I think I would prefer to buy the printer from new, I don’t have PM facility but would you mind giving me some info on your press if you are willing to sell separately?

Nick…thanks for the info…..could I ask you what you print on the A3 that you couldn’t on the A4 ?
Is it a physical size thing or is it you can just print more multiples on a single sheet?

Graeme….what make was your first printer that went in the bin?

Thanks again chaps

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Howeh man Derek…..where’s that Geordie spirit?

get yersel back down to London Town……chin the bloke who caused it, chin the pavement (again) and swim over to Paris in yer shreddies 😉

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I’ve had similar problems Simon and never really found a solution which has worked everytime….

I put our problems down to the file rather than the media and I always assumed it was the fountain steps created in Corel that weren’t converting properly in the rip

I had some success converting the background fade to a bitmap…it will probably throw your colours out but all I did was create a new colour swatch to pick from by converting the pantone chart to JPEG and printing it

I could be way off but it always seemed to happen when the background was a fade so I always assumed it was a file problem and not the media

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Gareth…

I don’t have X4 but have a look for cutout Lab under ‘Images’

you basically just trace round the outside of the image with a highlighter pen and then fill the area you want to keep

very easy to do but it’s up to you how accurate you want to be with it

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I’ve always found that EPS creates larger files than PDF…..

One thing I have learned though Nick is when I publish to PDF I delete everything else from the page and make the pige size exactly the same size as the image you are exporting

It was something I realised by accident…..what I used to do was centre the image I was sending through to the page…reduce the page size to the exact size of the image and then Publish to PDF but leaving anything else on the screen without deleting…….when this came through to the rip only the image was visible and nothing looked untoward. I then realised that when I brought that PDF back into Corel that it was including everything else that had been on the screen at the time of sending it through creating a much larger file than needed

I hope that makes sense…..to try and simplify that

centre image to centre of page

make page size the exact same size as image

delete everything else from your screen and then Publish to PDF

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http://www.tradesignz.com/BANNER-SUPPOR … 60r9jlk3o4

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Hugh…I know you’ve already mentioned in the other thread that you didn’t want to go over kill and attract the wrong type of customers….

Personally I would go fairly subtle on the outer building itself with some quality built up letters and then use the windows to show examples of what you do…….high quality photographic images direct to the glass in one window and maybe LED light pockets in the other window with various examples of your products

Just thinking it would attract people upto the window without shouting accross the street too much

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Fantastic Warren……..it must be a pleasure going into work nowadays?

I could live in there 😀

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try taking a bit of magenta out using the correction curves in the rip

we had a similar problem with our greys printing ‘greeny’ and adjusting the yellow channel in the rip helped…..ultimately though you might need your printer correctly profiled

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Great news Hugh….all the best

I’m sure you’ll make it work

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Before and after….took two minutes tops

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Nicholas…….I just used ‘Desaturate’….then the undo brush to bring the colour back to the specific area

It really was as simple as that.

Done in Corel PhotoPaint though….not CorelDraw

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I’ve just tried this in Corel PhotoPaint using the undo brush and it is so easy

I’ve now just found a new hobby 😀

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Warren….I got an email regarding this stuff a few weeks ago.

I haven’t used it but the ‘blockout’ might be worth taking into account

http://www.allprint.co.uk/solvent-print … DS3047.htm

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https://shop.grafityp.co.uk/catalog/par … o=70040004

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I’ve found that the way you send the job through to the rip can give you variations of colour aswell

publishing as PDF for Document Distribution and publishing as PDF for Editing should give the same colour chart a very different look

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Done

Some nice signs in the competition but I stand by what I said at the time you posted it…yours is one of my favourite ever signs