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Did you know it's not just shops and realtors in Florida who are taking part in this craze for banners? In fact, banners are not becoming a favorite, but have been commonplace as a favorite method of temporary advertising for more than a century!

Bleaching won't work. It's not a shadow of the old lettering; it's fading of the exposed acrylic, and the color goes all the way through the plastic, not just on the surface. Look at the "shadow" of the retainer. Like the areas behind the lettering, that's the original color of the acrylic. For...

I've never printed 8 oz mesh banner before. But mesh banner that I've ordered felt quite stiff. Does it curl? If you really are concerned, print a small piece, say 1'x4' where one end has a color bleed and the other is just white. Lay it on the ground and see.

Antique Olive Nord that's Italic and stretched

What is your reasoning for this question? Why add extra material beyond what you want?

If that's all you're getting from cast vinyl you're doing it wrong. It lasts 8-10 years looking great and much longer than that as still readable. Printed signs eventually disappear and turn white, or the laminate "burns" and turns black long before the cast vinyl becomes unreadable.

And colored sign vinyl lasts more than twice as long as that.

I am not including shipping when I say nearly 5 times. I am comparing their square foot price ($1.25) to mine. I sell a 4x8 banner for $192. If you do a 226% price including shipping, you're getting $3.50/sq ft. We were charging that 20 years ago when gas was cheap and rent was half what we pay...

I don't know why you would be upset at someone wanting a single banner. It's a banner you're selling them that requires minimal investment of time. I sell banners at the same price whether I print them or I have S365 print them. Which is nearly 5 times their square foot cost. If you're only...

I use an S80600, which replaced an S70670 in November 2023. I set the machine up myself, though a tech came at the earliest possible scheduled date about 2 weeks later to go over it. I left the automatic cleaning on the setting it came from Japan with, which was OFF. The machine still does some...

Run a dehumidifier? How do you achieve air temperature of 70 degrees without having lower humidity? Our shop is air conditioned to 75 degrees and it makes the humidity 32% at this moment with outdoor humidity currently 80%

I have never used a Mutoh, but we typically see around 5 years life from prints on our Epson (and also our old Mimaki). Sometimes more, sometimes less. The prints last longer if done with cast materials (car wrap type material) because what you see more often than not is failure of calendared...

After you add the font online in the web browser you have to open the Creative Cloud app on your desktop and have it install the font to Windows. Periodically it will uninstall fonts and you have to go back and reinstall them for Windows.

Most likely expanded PVC, brand names Komatex, Sintra, Trovicel, etc.