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Old Sep 21, 2012 | 09:15 PM
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Just made 3 more.

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This particular roll of purple vinyl is some cheap crap I bought, before buying Oracal Vinyl.

This stuff is super thin notice the little center pieces in the small letters missing, they flopped out as they were being cut. I just use this no name vinyl stuff testing how small I can cut somthing then go to Oracal for actual use.

Just trying to use it up.


Old Sep 22, 2012 | 01:53 AM
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A couple more cut.

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Next up will be a 4 Color Decal, I set it all up and cut and weeded all 4 colors just need to put them all together. Larger size Older Logo.

Black
White
Green
Red

Are used in this one. Will post pics later of it.
Old Sep 22, 2012 | 02:19 AM
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Talking Very Nice great work...

looks great all i can say!
Old Sep 22, 2012 | 03:15 AM
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Originally Posted by jeff schaffer
looks great all i can say!
Thanks.

4 Color one coming up with Pics of it going together soon.


Old Sep 22, 2012 | 04:41 AM
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The one color Decals must be getting boring.

So, here is my first 4 color large decal. It's 19" Tall X 26.5" Wide.

Older 7 Up Logo. Red, Black, White and Green Vinyl were used.

I saw the jpeg image doing a Google search for images at one time or another, saw this older 7Up picture and Liked it.

So I opened it up in my FlexiSIGN Pro software and Vectorized it and had to Edit it some so the Colors were Seperated and so the Green did not run Under all the other colors.

Then it was ready to be sent to my vinyl plotter and cut each color out.

First pic shows the 4 colors stacked to show the Registratiom Marks at the Top I used.

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Then the colored layers layed out to see the Parts that make up the Sign or Decal, whichever you want to call it, depending on it's use really.

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Bottom is the Red, then the Black, then the White, and lastly the Green went on.

Notice how I am lining up my Regitration Marks with each layer.

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Just need to place some "Transfer Tape" over it and it's Ready to stick on.

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Turned out real Nice I think.




Old Sep 22, 2012 | 04:50 AM
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Oh and this is the original jpeg image I used.

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Old Sep 22, 2012 | 06:21 AM
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That's hot!
Old Sep 22, 2012 | 02:28 PM
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Originally Posted by foolmoon_design
That's hot!
Thanks.

Working on another 4 color one. Gonna take Alot more Vectorizing work to get it Cuttable.

The Old "We Use Genuine CHEVROLET Parts" Round Logo.

Blue
Yellow
Red
White

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Not sure how long the Vectoring is gonna take me yet. Trying different things in Flexi to get the Best results Before having to do all the little clean up Details. Lots of open/broken Paths in it, so far but i'll keep trying till I get it.

I'll post a pic once it's cut.

Then I have a few others I wanna give a try.

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And then after several others are also done as well, I want to give this 1955 Chevy Advertising one a shot.
Several shades of each color will be needed to get it to look like the Ad.

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Old Sep 22, 2012 | 10:37 PM
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Which plotter are you using? Are you aware of http://www.brandsoftheworld.com ?
Old Sep 23, 2012 | 12:21 AM
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Originally Posted by toolbender
Which plotter are you using? Are you aware of http://www.brandsoftheworld.com ?
I have 2 plotters.

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34" MH-871 Refine (uscutter)
And a Graphtec CE5000-60 24"

Using FlexiSIGN Pro 8.6 V2.

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I also recently got myself a Wacom Cintiq 21UX

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And I have a INSTA Swing Away Heat Press for T-Shirt stuff. Bought it used on craigs list, older unit but it works well. I don't use it much, just wanted to have one on hand in case I needed it.

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I have 3 vinyl racks now like this, this was the first one, I bought it New, then found 2 others used on good ol craigs list.

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First set of Decals I ever cut a couple years ago.

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And Yes I am very aware of BOW.




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