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in the drop down add more color layers to include the white background. If you just have a 2 color logo then in the drop down have 3 colors to trace. If you only have it set to 2 then Flexi will disregard the white.
My shop runs 3 inkjets and a Gerber Edge 2. Thermal is good at what its good at. Clear decals with white or color over white. Reverse print on cling and stuff like that. I keep our Edge in service just to print a few things i cant print with inkjet.
so if a Gerber Edge is what will work for you...
I would outsource if all I was printing was 10 to 15k decals a year on a machine. Printers love to be printing and hate sitting idle. But If I had to buy something I would buy a used Roland Ecosol printer. Any model would be fine but if you wanted to not spend a ton and if the heads were to go...
We use the Desktop subscription. We did the same, upgrade after 2 or 3 years. It sucks to be on their subscription plan but I didnt want our books to on "their" servers. And we also use print boss addon for our check printing, if we migrated to online it would have been a royal PITA to print checks.
We used to run glass tops and they are good, except when someone tosses a tool on it and it breaks and glass is hard on blades. I've switched everything over to either yellow tools or mcmaster carr.
https://www.mcmaster.com/87875K64/
http://www.yellotools.us/Cutting/Cutting-Mats/
Busy as a cat covering sh*t. Slowed down on our big fleet clients due to vehicle shortage but picked up on individuals. Have been printing some fine art lately that fell into our lap.
I have an old 54in laminator. The bottom roller has a slight cut in it. It still runs good and would work for an application machine for hard substrates. I just bought a new one when the employee ran his olfa knife across it.
You pick it up or arrange shipping and you can have it.
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