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"Thanks Kathy, I sent a message to Imprintables to make sure there is no PVC in the material.  That is what, many laser owners, say is bad for the machines. Love the Austin Powers reference too."

"How did you cut the twil, with a plotter or laser?  I have a laser and this would be awesome to try on that, I would be concerned with the PVC in the material affecting the laser optics though."

"I finally got the red issue solved.  I went back to FlexiSign to do it rather than working in CorelDraw (I am sure it an export setting in Corel, just not sure).  If i use the Roland Colors in Flexi, apply a cut line on it and export as an…"

"That does look great. :-) Thanks for posting the pic. I will keep a look out for this media if I keep my machine."

"Well said Ken! Nothing wrong going with CMYK only if it works for you. I say it a lot but sometime sit gets lost in the shuffle - there is no 100% only correct way to do things. Let that sit for a second....... wait for it...... yes - now you all…"

"Yes I come from a offset printing background and use CMYK for pretty much all my work.  Since I don't have one of those fancy new printers with more than CMYK ink I think my methods should work okay. Will CMYK have the wider color…"

"Smile Irv taught me well I avoid CMYK like the darn plague!   Coming from a screenprinting background, it was a non-issue for me. Actually I was grateful that I didn't need to switch gears I guess the people who did a lot of offset…"

"I agree Lady Di - I love to print the stuff also. I use mostly RGB palette for my artwork and allow Versaworks to convert the colors. If you start in CMYK - the colors will be limited as Irv pointed out. I have had very good results with a standard…"

"Thanks All.  I will give all the feedback a try today as I have about 30 shirts to do this week and would loike to print them rather than trying to lay down 3 seperate colors of vinyl to do them. I have tried working with Max Impact and other…"

"Steve, this is interesting to me. I love, love, love to print on Arlon...............always so smooth and bright and clear Not sure if the vivid color will come thru on this crappy phone pic but the red is so vibrant (in real life)   "

"Great, I am a sponge for knowledge, can't wait to hear more, it's great that you guys are working to improve the profiles, I am so glad I chose Roland, the support is outstanding. J Hyde "

"John - with GCVP on Arlon 4560 GTX it is not a drying issue but rather a dot gain issue. There are many factors at play when working with profiles and dot gain and ink limit (drying) are commonly confused. By slowing down the speed, you are allowing…"

"Good point John, environmental factors - ie temperture - affects prints."

"All good stuff, sometimes slowing the head speed down a bit can improve print quality also when using max impact, GCVP head speed is 760, using max impact the ink doesn't have time to dry, I slow it down to 550 and the results are dramatic on…"

"Working in CMYK is never a issue when printing with a CMYK printer. However, if we compare three color ranges to a vertical building where the only access is by elevator - RGB -3 stops 8th floor; Roland Color Palette 2 stops 6th floor ; CMYK 1 stop…"

"Personally, I work mainly in CMYK.  If I want a red I know 100% Mag. and 100% Yellow will give me a nice red in most instances and on most materials I use."