A lot of people ask me which is better, CorelDraw or Photoshop. Actually the two cannot be compared against each other. Each has a very different purpose. The correct answer is in what you plan to do with it. ...
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Printing a nozzle check before you start printing for the day will allow you to see if your printer needs any maintenance. If your nozzle check does not print normally, then your prints will not ...
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Christmas is around the corner. It's time to break out the old Christmas tree and decorate for the season. Conde offers a variety of items people will be looking for to decorate for the holidays. When decorating the tree people like to find new ornaments for many different reasons. Some people like to have a keepsake from each year and others just want to replace. Conde has a complete line of porcelain ornaments for sublimation. These ornaments are a...
Continue readingThe Power Clip function of CorelDraw is a very powerful tool yet is very simple to use. It enables you to place one object inside of another such as a picture inside of a shape or other object. Most of our Corel Templates were designed with the Power Clip function in mind.? They have the outline of the sublimatable image. All you have to do is import your picture, size it and then Power Clip the picture into the template. Let me show you how it works. The first thing ...
Continue readingPeriodically we change the oil in our automobiles, rotate and balance tires, etc… because we want reliability and confidence. When we turn the ignition we expect performance and assurance we will get from “point A to point B” without having to stop and perform timely procedures that could be prevented with scheduled maintenance. Here at Conde, we think about our sublimation ...
Continue readingI get a lot of phone calls from people who have an issue that just a simple fix. It’s not always obvious what is going on but just a few mouse clicks and you’re done. I want to point out a few of these issue. In Corel when you are having problems that “don’t seam to make sense” or if you have accidentally closed a tool and cannot find it to re-open it. One thing that might help would be to reset Corel back to it’s original settings....
Continue readingI get several calls where people are asking me what sublimation instructions to use for cotton shirts. The correct answer here is that you cannot sublimate to cotton, however a lot of times what they are really asking for is the proced...
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It’s time to show off your creativity! Participate in our Hanging Mural Contest! Show off your design and see what others are doing with the exciting new Wavy Tile Murals. You guys and gals who took part in the Flip Flop Contest did such an awesome job, we just had to go and do it again. For inspiration, we have anteed up another Apple 16GB iPad for the 1st place winner; 2nd place prize a $200 account credit; 3rd place prize a $10...
Continue readingHave you ever gone through the complete sublimation process onto your chosen product and upon removing the sublimation paper seen “light and dark” places on the intended “master piece”? If so, then you are a victim of “bad pressure”. You may be wondering how to determine the correct pressure for sublimating to Conde products. I have a sure method for determining that. First, you must know some general information abou...
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