I promised more on this, and my company website shows some of the results of this side of the business.<\/p>\n
On the technical side I finally gave in and bought a copy of Corel Draw version 12, not the latest by a long way, but available at a reasonable price with all disks etc off trade me. This has the advantage of working on all the old computers I have in my network, including the one I have in my signmaking workshop. No real problems adjusting from Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, in fact I probably prefer it for signmaking. On top of this I added FineCut 7, the Mimaki software that goes with the vinyl cutter I bought (CG-60ST). The cutter is the reason I had to buy software in the end, it has its own proprietary language, rather than using the standard HP-GL language. This means that none of the open source options work with it. As the finecut software only works with either Corel or Adobe, I had to bite the bullet.<\/p>\n
The cutter only works with the Com port on a PC, which I though would be a bit of an issue. However, most desktops seem to come with a Com port, even very recent ones, but just in case I bought a USB to serial adapter, which also works a treat, meaning if I want to I can drive the cutter with the netbook or similar.<\/p>\n
Other than that, it is all pretty basic stuff, design, cut, apply, make out an invoice! Now we just need some customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I promised more on this, and my company website shows some of the results of this side of the business. On the technical side I finally gave in and bought a copy of Corel Draw version 12, not the latest …<\/p>\n