xara in the sign business

[chuck borges]

Hello, I thought maybe some of you would like to see a vehicle we did yesterday. I used Xara to produce the bevels and shadows. What a neat program.
-Chuck

[chuck borges]

Hello, I thought maybe some of you would like to see a vehicle we did yesterday. I used Xara to produce the bevels and shadows. What a neat program.
-Chuck

[gdavidson]

I'm impressed!

How do you get the image onto the vehicle - it looks too good for cut-vinyl, with all those graduated tints on the bevels and shadows behind the letters?

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Graeme

[chuck borges]

Thanks Graeme, I made the design in vector format, then brought that into Xara. I assigned the colors, then produced the bevels, and shadows. I then saved it as a tiff, brought it back into illustrator. Created the contour cut and ripped it to a Roland pc-600 thermal printer. The printer prints then cuts the vinyl. After that i applied a 1-shot UV clear.
-Chuck.

[gdavidson]

Thanks - I think I understand now... you use a thermal printer to print onto the vinyl which is then cut to the desired shape.

Things have moved on since I last clapped eyes on a Spandex vinyl cutter with an LED display and font ROMS [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

Nice work!

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Graeme

[gwpriester]

there's a way. Outstanding solution for your origial question.

Great looking bevel. Was your client thrilled?

Gary

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