Okay, so the current business environment is in a slight pause right now. Here are five suggestions to make the most of it.
3 Reasons Why Color Printing is Such a Struggle
Take back control of your wide format printer. Attend our 5-day MUTOH webinar series on color printing the right way!
Read MoreWhy is Printing Color So Hard! Here’s 1 Reason and an Awesome Solution!
You did the research. You saw the samples. You picked a printer. Then after the installer left, it won’t do what you want! What the %$#&!
Don’t Let Your Wide Format Printer Take Control!
It’s time to take control of your wide format printer! How? You just need to attend our week-long MUTOH webinar. Every day, for one hour for five days we will tackle the topic of wide-format color printing. We’ll look at all the issues, bitmaps, vectors, profiles, and then we’ll show you how to take back control of your printer. This is not a technical class, it a solution-driven class with real-world solutions.
MUTOH wants EVERY wide format printer owner to attend. This is not about MUTOH printers, it’s about taking back control of ANY wide format printer! Look, HP, MIMAKI, EPSON, CANON, And other users, let us make your life easier by showing you a practical way to print from design to printer and manage colors the entire way!
No more orange-red. Get Red REDS! No more Pantones that almost match get an exact match No more bitmaps or photos that just won’t pop! Print photos and images that will make your customer coming back for more and more!
Color Management Made Easy
What’s it going to take for you to attend?
How about $10? Attend each day for just $10 and even if you can’t attend one or more days or even not at all, I’ll send you all the recorded links so you can watch the webinars anytime you want!
Just use the link below to get further details! I expect you there!
PLEASE! Get the help you long for from the expert in color management with real-world solutions, not theory! Click the article below to find out more!!!! SEATING IS LIMITED so we can make this personal!
Take Control of Your Wide Format Printing! Awesome 5-Day Webinar!
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Read MoreWatch the Awesome MUTOH FlexiSIGN Marathon 5-Day Webinar Series Replay
DID YOU MISS OUR MUTOH 5-DAY FLEXISIGN WEBINAR SERIES?
If, so don’t worry because you can still take the 5-day course through replays of the actual webinar. Everyone who signed up received a replay link as part of registration, but if you saw our invitation too late for the live event, you can still watch those replays!
Yep, you’ll still get all the handouts and the BONUS materials! To get the learning online RIGHT NOW, just purchase your webinar replay seat below. You’ll get access to the replays as well as all the handouts and the BONUS materials!
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Info about the FIRST Webinar series in August
Read MoreAmazing SGIA Product of the Year Results for 2020
MUTOH Wins Six SGIA Product of the Year Awards!
What an absolutely amazing accomplishment! Six of the MUTOH wide format printers have won the Product of the Year from SGIA. read all about it below.
MUTOH Product of the Year Support Team
Shout out to Chris Padilla, Ken Parsley and Randy Anderson, the Product Managers behind the prints that were entered in this competition. They are amazing! They are also the experience behind the support for these products each year!
Congratulations team!
Get FlexiSIGN Training Nov 2-6 2020! Find out more here!
Read MoreMUTOH to Host Second Awesome FlexiSIGN Webinar Series Nov 2 – 6 2020
A Webinar Series for the Sign & Print Professional
These MUTOH webinar series are 5-days in a row of 1-hour educational webinars packed with secret tips and tricks for using not only FlexiSIGN & Print, but also many other time saving programs. If you own a wide format printer and want to learn from the world’s expert then these webinars are for you.
New, intermediate or advanced users of FlexiSIGN. Flexi 10, 12 or 19. These webinars address many subjects that every shop faces.
Here’s what you missed in the first series of FlexiSIGN webinars
DAY 1: Top 10 FlexiSIGN Features – Let’s get you going again!
DAY 2: All About Design – We’ll focus on the design layout and sign elements.
DAY 3: Vehicle Wraps and FlexiSIGN – Add images to a vehicle photo and production.
Day 4: Tools you need to add to FlexiSIGN – Third-party tools, Adobe plugins & more!
Day 5: Application Day – We will highlight applications such as braille, print & cut & more!
Don’t worry you can still want the replay of those topics, because every webinar is recorded and anyone who registers has access to them forever! Want to see these topics, click here.
What you’ll learn in the second series of FlexiSIGN webinars
DAY 1: Finding, Installing & Using Adobe Plugins for Creating Awesome Effects
DAY 2: Solving FlexiSIGN Issues
DAY 3: Three Ways to Match Colors in FlexiSIGN with Your Prints
Day 4: RIP & PRINT Options in Production Manager
Day 5: Application Day – Wallpaper, Murals, Borders, Home Decor.
Could be, you’ve used Flexi for some time, but just want to see a few more tips by attending a webinar led by the world’s expert. No matter your need, I can assure you you’ll learn more in these 5-days of webinars than you could on your own!
- See how a few Photoshop plugins can change the way you design!
- Learn how to solve find solutions to FlexiSIGN issues yourself.
- Match colors using one of three ways for better output.
- Make sure you take full advantage of all the Rip & PRINT options available to you in the Production Manager.
- Spent an hour discovering how you can print wallpaper, murals, borders, and add a new profit center to your business.
If you own a wide format printer, and it doesn’t have to be a MUTOH, and you use FlexiSIGN, then this webinar series is perfect. Here is the best part.
5-Hours.
5-Days.
$50 period!
(Ask you reseller about a discount code!)
During the LIVE webinar, you can ask the expert, Mark Rugen all your questions. Then afterward, you’ll get a link to the recorded session that you can use to review again and again!
Can’t make it for all five days, got other jobs you just need to get done? Register anyway, you’ll still get the recordings you can watch anytime!
SIGN UP RIGHT NOW
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Incredible 5 Day FlexiSIGN Webinar Marathon Session #2!
MUTOH America Announces it’s 2nd FlexiSIGN 5-Day Webinar Marathon
This is a learning event like no other for all levels of FlexiSIGN users. Your instructor, Mark Rugen, is the world’s leading expert with FlexiSIGN and wants to share some of his greatest tips & tricks with you over a 5-day series of webinars.
We asked you to tell us what you wanted to learn. The topics below were some of the top answers in our survey.
DAY 1: Finding, Installing & Using Adobe Plugins for Creating Awesome Effects
DAY 2: Solving FlexiSIGN Issues
DAY 3: Three Ways to Match Colors in FlexiSIGN with Your Prints
Day 4: RIP & PRINT Options in Production Manager
Day 5: Application Day – Wallpaper, Murals, Borders, Home Decor.
Could be, you’ve used Flexi for some time, but just want to see a few more tips by attending a webinar led by the world’s expert. No matter your need, I can assure you you’ll learn more in these 5-days of webinars than you could on your own!
If you own a wide format printer, and it doesn’t have to be a MUTOH, and you use FlexiSIGN, then this webinar series is perfect. Here is the best part.
5-Hours.
5-Days.
$50 period!
During the LIVE webinar, you can ask the expert, Mark Rugen all your questions. Then afterward, you’ll get a link to the recorded session that you can use to review again and again!
Can’t make it for all five days, got other jobs you just need to get done? Register anyway, you’ll still get the recordings you can watch anytime!
Visit the mother ship: www.mutoh.com
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Read MoreShould We Be Using Blue Colors in Our COVID-19 Warning Signs?
Based on a recent article found in FlyerTalk ( https://www.flyertalk.com/articles/the-reason-why-airplane-seats-are-blue.html ) perhaps signs made for warnings about COVID-19 should have lots of blue in them. Should a mask be made of blue material to keep people calm instead of black which may symbolize death? If you use a wide format printer, this could be something to consider. Read the article below and decide for yourself.
This Is Why Airplane Seats Are Blue
Airlines have a long history of changing colors in the cabin to try and make things more friendly for flyers—like delightfully 80s-style patterned fabric on the bulkhead walls, specially colored lights to ease jetlag, and more. But the one color that never seems to change? The blue airplane seats.
A lot of work goes into designing airplanes. It’s like an ever-changing hotel room, with bathroom sizes fluctuating, bins getting rearranged, legroom slowly but surely disappearing. But one thing that always seems to stay the same (no matter how much an airplane changes) is the seat color—a cool, calculated blue.
Turns out there’s some surprising science behind the particular shade of blue airline seats seen in almost every major carrier’s fleet.
First off, the color is calming and sends across a feeling of relaxation.
“The idea is to give airplanes a more residential feeling, with relaxing colors and restful designs,” Shelly Zundell, a senior manager with Teague, an industrial design firm, said in a Boeing press release.
Physiologically, it also helps to make you feel cooler because blue is typically associated with ice and water. That means you don’t feel as stuffy or warm when you board a plane.
“Colors also can influence a person’s perception of humidity, temperature and aroma,” Virginia Tripp, another Teague designer, said in the release.
On top of that, it’s a professional color, hides stains well, and everyone pretty much seems to like blue—or at least there haven’t been many registered complaints about the color of an airplane’s seats.
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Need a wide format printer that works all the time? Check out www.mutoh.com for the widest variety of wide format printers from eco-solvent to dye sublimation, to direct to textile to UV-LED.
Read more on the color blue here: https://www.verywellmind.com/the-color-psychology-of-blue-2795815
MUTOH Announces It’s “Imagine It” Webinar Series
MUTOH America “Imagine It” Webinar Series
On April 1, 2020 MUTOH began its “Imagine It” webinar series for users of FlexiSIGN, Adobe, Corel and other design software users who print to wide format printers.
Our theme says it all “Imagine it”.
Imagine your images printing perfectly, image being better and faster in designing your work, imagine being able to match colors with ease, imagine the business you will have when we get past this pause in business!
In this series of webinars to be held weekly, MUTOH’s professional staff will discuss dozens of topics that will assist attendees in the design and printing market.
Want to be notified of future webinars? email: kthompson@mutoh.com
We’ll put your contact info on our notification list and send you an email with all the right information to sign up for the ones you want to attend. For now you can use the links below.
April 1, 2020 1 PM How to Setup & Use Soft Proofing for Better Printing (Replay Here)
April 8, 2020 1 PM Are You Testing Your Printer Each Month for Performance & Quality? (Replay Here)
April 15, 2020 1 PM Is a UV-LED Printer in Your Future? MUTOH Has Something Special! Register Here
April 22, 2020 1 PM How to Match a Solid Color (Spot Color, Pantone, Logo Branding) Registration Pending
Let’s use our pause in business to get better professionally.
Read MoreWEBINAR: Setup & Use Soft Proofing for Better Color Printing
“Why don’t my colors match what I am printing?” The answer is simple and the solution can be simple if you watch an expert show you how!
MUTOH INVITES YOU TO A SOFT PROOFING WEBINAR
On April 1, 2020, at 1 PM, MUTOH Director of Education, Mark Rugen, will conduct a 30-minute webinar where he will show you how to set up and use soft proofing for better color matching from monitor to wide format printer.
Register for the webinar here: https://my.demio.com/ref/eEdtVnUIq0vOvM0J
LEARN THE EASY WAY TO GET BETTER PRINTS
Mark has taught thousands of people in the wide-format sign & print market to use their software to get previews of what their printer will do. In this webinar, he will show you some places that need your attention to set up the ability to preview what your printer will print. He will open a file and show you just how easy it is to set up this capability properly and why it is so important.
In addition, he will talk about how customer provided images can be tricky as well as show you how to look at them a bit differently and set them up for better color output.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Anyone who works with Adobe, Corel, FlexiSIGN or any other design software that has color management properties and uses a wide format printer for out pout should attend. Not a time you can make it? The webinar will be recorded for future viewing as well, but you’ll still need to sign up if you want access to that.
Let’s make the best of this pause in business and learn something that will REALLY help us when we get back to work!
MUTOH Makes It Possible!
Need more training? Find out about some of our LIVE events.
Read More5 Positive Things to Do in Your Sign & Print Shop During this Pause in Business
Use Your New Time Wisely
ONE: Do Some Maintenance & Upgrades
Now is probabaly a great time to do maintenence on your wide format printer and other shop equipment. You should sit and make a list of things that need to be done that your too busy to typicaly accomplaish. So is that a throurough cleaning? What about your computer? Can you sit and orgainez your files? How about getting rid of temporary files? How about backing up your entire hard drive? You might also think about upgrades to your computer like more RAM or move to an SSD harddrive to improve speed and capacity.
In adidtion to hardware, how about your shop? Can you move items arouns for faster access or does it need a good cleaning? Does your own signage need to be upgrades?
There are lots of things you can do to keep busy yet productive in this time.
TWO: Learn Something
We all need to get better at what we do. Now is a good time to take that online course you’ve been wanted to take or maybe just sit down with Adobe or FlexiSIGN and Print and work with color management. Try a few new settings, find out more about how you can control the colors that you print. Maybe you need to go to Google and hunt for more or different ICC profiles etc.
As far as FlexiSIGN and other topics, you can visit www.thinkmutoh.com and find lots of topics to read as well as online video lessons that are made for wide format printing.
THREE: Sort Through Emails
I don’t know about you, but I’m always a little ebind in my emails. Not only that but there are old emails that should be archived or better yet deleted. Doing so will improve your email speed, make it safer and if you setup some rules or folders and move items around a bit, orgainizing them, it could make it much easier to handle emails as they come in when business get faster soon. Need some help?
Here are a few websites to visit that could assist:
https://zapier.com/blog/outlook-tips-and-tricks/ : 7 Microsoft Outlook Tips & Tricks for Better Email Management
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2688099/outlook-organization-tips-5-ways-to-tame-the-email-pile.html : Outlook organization tips: 5 ways to tame the email pile
Why not spend the time to organize those emails.
FOUR: Plan & Market Your Business
When the pause comes to an end, why not have a business plan in place to accelerate your business. Also, why not touch base with current customers and create a marketing plan FOR THEM!
Now would be a good time to re-examine your own business plan. What can you tweak or change to make your bsuniess better. Will prices need adjusting? Are there things you are doing that are not really profitable but tkae you time? Take a look at your business and make some decisions now becasue you can give them thought rather than rush to that decision.
In a similar way, your customers will also be suffering a bit in thie pause. Why not touch base with them and come up with a plan to help them when things get busy again. Maybe offer a series of weekly or monthy signs or banners or something to help them back into the real pace of busniess. They will thank you for it and you’ll have business ready and can even get some of it done while you wait.
FIVE: Get Some Rest
Sure you can worry about business, but get some rest as well. Rest is not only good in helping your body with resistance to all forms of illnes, it is also a good thing for your family. Use this time to be with your loved ones and spend time reconnecting with friends and relatives. This will make you feel better and you’ll be able to hit the streets with a new and more pisitive outlook.