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Starting my stickers & decals business and planning to get my first 54 inch laminator. I am totally new to these things. We would be laminating self-adhesive vinyls, car wrapping vinyls and sometimes even fusing different surface films onto each other up to a thickness of 0.5 mm.
What kind of...
What would be the best printer in terms of high resolution sharpness and color gamut. We are looking for our first printer for our wraps business and will be printing a lot of intricate graphics and text. Already tested Epson S40600 and still not convinced by the sharpness and resolution of the...
How big is the difference in print quality and the color gamut between the Epson S40600 and the Epson S80670? has anyone ever printed the same design on both the printers and seen a major difference in the color and sharpness?
I am on the fence to buy an Epson SC series eco-solvent printers...
How can you print with 50% opacity in such a way that the media on which you are printing is also partially visible.
Like in this decal, the holographic effect is visible even after printing the design on it. So we are trying to print some color graphics on a holographic film but want even the...
How can you print with 50% opacity in such a way that the media on which you are printing is also partially visible.
Like in this decal, the holographic effect is visible even after printing the design on it. So we are trying to print some color graphics on a holographic film but want even the...
Can any desktop sized pigment based ink printer printers like Epson SC-P407 print on printable Vinyls like IJ-180c etc? Or do we need a special ink to print on such vinyl?
Which printer do you use for designing your prints?
Can any desktop sized pigment based ink printer printers like Epson SC-P407 print on printable Vinyls like IJ-180c etc? Or do we need a special ink to print on such vinyl? Which printer do you use for designing your prints?
We are looking to add a desktop printer for sampling and proofing our decals/stickers print designs on vinyl and presenting to customers.
What desktop printers can print even on Printable Vinyl media? Any models from Canon or Epson that can print good even on Vinyl?
We have a few designs with lot of pure white colors to make the graphics (vehicle wraps) standout. As white doesn't get printed and the base vinyl's white is what gets highlighted but the vinyl (IJ180 series) is not as white as we would like for these designs.
So how do we print white colors...
Looking to print lot of graphics containing lot of white colors for vehicle wraps. Vinyls with bluish white tones are not looking great.
What's the smoothest and whitest cast film out there from brands like 3M, Avery, Oracal and even LG?
Can Avery overlaminates 1080z or 1060z be used on 3M 180 series films for car wraps? Anyone have any experience of mixing the 2 brands?
Also how is performance of Avery 1080z and 1060z overlaminates in terms of UV and overall protection of the prints? (with any vinyl, not specifically with 3M...
Looking for suggestions on some good printable Cast Vinyls from Avery, Oracal or even LG for High resolution printing with a good adhesive system that applies well on complex curves are smooth in finish. Will be printed on Eco Solvent/Latex. Looked at the 3M IJ180C like the pure white color of...
Have a lot of wraps which require an ultra matte finish. 3M 8915 Ultra Matte overlaminate is not available easily. Any suggestions on other Ultra matte laminate options from brands like Avery, LG or Oracal that would give the same smooth Ultra matte finish?
I have got two samples of some decals purchased online. They are 3M but unable to identify them. They are printed and laminated.
Vinyl 1 : 0.25 to 0.27mm thickness including Matte Laminate. Adhesive side is Black. Liner 3M Controltac Graphic Marking System.
Vinyl 2 : 0.24 to 0.25mm thickness...
We are looking to make some ultra smooth Matte finish stickers/decals in solid colors (pastel/neon etc) using 3M materials.
Which 3M Vinyl and laminate would be the best suitable for this job if smooth matte finish and solid color output are very important requirements.
We have lot of artworks, almost more than two thousand, individually grouped and named for identification, which we want to convert into layers without losing their identification names.
There is already a layer option to convert all groups into layers but the groups names are not getting...
We are trying to open/import an illustrator file with around 50 individual artworks into Flexi but Flexi would place all of them only as a single group (check the attached image After importing.jpg) and then when we ungroup, it ungroups everything (check attached image After_ungrouping.jpg). We...
We cut stickers/decals for phones etc and have a lots of different sticker outlines (based on lots of mobile phone models) that we need to cut in a single job. Currently we select and move each artwork as required from various master files into a single cut file into a boundary that represents...
My FC8600 started behaving strangely suddenly in between a cut job. No matter whatever what we do, it will only cross cut the material and doesn't cut anything at all. Even tried resetting the machine. Has anyone faced a similar issue with their graphtecs and any idea on how to resolve it?
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