Okay, so the current business environment is in a slight pause right now. Here are five suggestions to make the most of it.
Watch 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!
Find Out More about MUTOH Printers
Info about the FIRST Webinar series in August
Read MoreUnderstanding Blending Modes in FlexiSIGN & Print for Awesome Designs
What are FlexiSIGN & Print Blending Modes?
Why understanding them will enhance your creative powers!
Find out about the blending modes in FlexiSIGN & Print for some great design effects. Understanding these will greatly increase your creativity with Flexi.
And if you want to learn even more attend our up coming FlexiSIGN 5-Day Webinar Nov2-6 2020!
You can also learn a lot with the SAi blogs. You’ll find those here
Finally, if you are considering a wide format printer, consider MUTOH printers, the widest range of inks and application, MUTOH Makes It Possible.
MUTOH America is the leader in training & education for the wide format print market. They are also the leader in wide format printer types and offer the widest range of inks for the widest range of applications.
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
Generate All Kinds of Design Effects Online
Read MoreGenerate All Kinds of Design Effects Online
Design Effects. Chrome lettering. Beveled Lettering. Graffiti. Color Enhancement. Who doesn’t want these and more from time to time? But getting those effects can mean using or purchasing plugins for Adobe or FlexiSIGN. Check out this website, called Picture to people, and see what you think. We were impressed.
The Picture to People Project
Picture to People is a huge Computer Graphics research and development project. It has been made from scratch and already has over two million lines of code.
The main focus is on free software, innovative graphic tools, easiness for the final user, and online releases.
As you can gather from the above snapshot to their website choices, you can generate many effects right online and then download them all for free. We did find some limitations, but for many users, this could be a simple way to develop more effects without installing plugins, etc in the design software of choice.
In addition, their focus is on creating these effects for use on the web, so they’ll be lower resolution, but other programs we use could take these files and resample them for use in our sign and print market.
Example of the Picture to People Effects
Below is just one example of just some of the hundreds of effects you can generate on this website.
Click the images to go directly to the Picture to People website for that effect.
Online Text Logo Design Generators
See below our main online text effect editors. Each text logo generator (or group of generators) has at least one example image, so you have a basic idea about the style of text design it can create.
Most of these online text effect makers are versatile and can be configured in many different ways, creating a lot of cool text effects, text designs, text logos, text banners or whatever you need.
http://www.picturetopeople.org/images/professional_special_material_text_effects.jpg
It’s the most complete collection of free professional realistic 3D text logo creators ever published online. There are more than 1350 first-class text logo makers covering more than 35 themes. These great online text generators render astonishingly realistic graphics and all of them have the option to create 3D text effects with transparent backgrounds, so they can be used to make any composition you can imagine. You can see a list of all text logo themes at the Realistic 3D Text Logo Generators index page.
Bevel Text Effect Logo Makers
http://www.picturetopeople.org/images/realistic-bevel-text-effect-logo-1.jpg
Use the Beveled Text Effect Creators to generate the best bevel text logos with customized design and transparent background.
Realistic Carved Text Effect Generators
Embossed Text Effect Creators
http://www.picturetopeople.org/images/realistic_engraved_text_effect_1.jpg
It’s the biggest and best set of free realistic carved text effect makers ever released online. Here you have for freemore than 940 world-class text effects. All these advanced text renderers can, among many other features, make text effects with transparent background (it’s especially useful when selecting rounded corners), so they are perfect to create images ready for any composition you can need. You can see a complete list of all text effect themes at theRealistic Carved Text Effect Generatorsindex page.
This site is worth a look. Let us know what you think?
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Read MoreGraphics Download the Beautiful Bundle of 1000+ High-Resolution Graphics!
1000+ High-Resolution Background Graphics Bundle
Instructions to Get Your Graphics
You MUST USE this Link, in the README FILE will be another link that then takes you to the download page. These images are about 36×56 inches and 72ppi. Good quality free graphics to use for any purpose. Just keep in mind, you can only download today August 20, 2020
https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/1000-high-resolution-backgrounds-bundle/
System Requirements:
Compatible with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Elements, Corel PaintShopPro or free programs like Gimp, Pixlr, Paint.net, Seashore, SumoPaint, Krita, CinePaint, Serif PhotoPlus, PaintShop Pro, and Pixelmator
Publisher:
Homepage:
https://eldamar-studio.com/product/2000-high-resolution-backgrounds-vol-2/
File Size:
2.8 GB (the final bundle size)
Licence details:
Lifetime, commercial usage
Price:
The program is available for $14.50,
but it will be free for our visitors
as a time-limited offer.
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WEBINAR: 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.