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Hey All, Can someone explain to me how they mount unlaminated digital media? Right now I'm using premask on the printed vinyl but it isn't doing the best of job. Should I just laminate the piece and be done with it? If I try to mount without anything the print distorts and stretches. Thanks

Before my PROII will cut any sort of vinyl it will prefeed the required media 1/4" at a time until it reaches the desired amount. This is highly inefficient and takes forever. The printer is taking longer to prefeed the material then to cut it. Sometimes up to 15 mins of prefeeding...

Hey All, Quick question. I'm painting dibond and mounting dimensional letters to it. Wondering if the dibond should be cleared?. I've go three coats down already, dibond was scuffed. Just seems to be really delicate and scrathes easy. Used exterior acrylic. Thanks!

Ladies, Gents, Got a few sign painting projects coming up and I wanted to pick the brains of the mighty old sign painters here on the interwebs. I'm new to traditional sign making as you can see by my few posts, anyway I have some general questions with regards to 1shot and painting. 1)...

Client wants to go do reverse gold on their store front. Gold leaf is out of the question, and I do understand that it's quite expensive so thats fine. Anyway, does anyone have any pictures of double gold applied to the interior of a window? Either Avery or Oracal, just was wondering how it...

Alright, so, I run cut jobs alot through my PRO II and I was wondering if you can adjust the prefeed speed time? Say I'm cutting 24" material. The job is 48" long, the printer pre feeds the 48" before cutting. It pre feeds this SLOW, 1/4" at a time!!! It's painful. Why does it do this and how...

Hey Guys and Gals, Currently have an SC-540 PRO II. We've got a few heads that are going to need replacing soon. Rather then do this we've been looking at new printers from our supplier here in canada. All Graphics Supplies. Would love to pick up a VS-540i. However the prices' are still...

Local pizza place changed their name, I created a new logo. Including new sign. Artwork was approved and sign has been installed. I left out the phone number on the sign because to me it makes no sense to have it. Now the client has returned stating they want the number on there. Obviously...

Hey Guys/Gals Started to practice some gildings on an old sign blank we had kicking around the shop. The letters are V-carved and the material is HDU. I've primed, painted the surface as well as using 1 shot gold on the letters behind the gold leaf. Question is the gold leaf is going down...

Hey All, Working with an ancient Pro II thats about to be sent to the curb... 4/6 heads are crud, colour matching is a joke.. yada yada. Anyway, I have an issue with banding and also color fade. When I send a job through the color on the left hand side of the material is always darker and...

Hey All, I've been working with a client in a neighbouring city with regards to some reverse channel letters. They mentioned that they would be going to another sign company to get another price. Seems ok. So, I send along the concept that I created and they seemed to like it. (I actually...

Hey Guys/Gals, The company I work for just purchased a CNC table. I've been working the past few days getting it up and running and teaching myself how to use ArtCam (i've had experience with vectric software before) So I do have a bit of knowledge with the whole thing. So far I've cut a...

Hey Guys/Gals Anybody have suggestion on how to remove acrylic letters from a wall(paint/drywall)? They have been double faced taped on. Figured I would just heat them up and use a putty knife. The paint is thinner stuff not thicker foam. I advised the client they would most likely have to...

Hey Guys/Gals I seem to have an issue with my Pro II. When I try to print a jpeg image with any bit of white/gradients to white, they turn a yellow colour. Almost as if it were a negative. Looks horrible. I've tried flattening in illustrator, I've tried multiple profiles, cleaned the...

Hey Guy/Gals, Check out our new website! Before we were lacking the web presence, I decided to take it upon myself to design us a very simple clean website that prospective clients can view our work, and find us! Very small company (3 employees). I'll be making updates to the gallery once...

I've got a pickle. The local Fire department just moved into a new hall. Within this hall they have a large sliding wooden door that covers their bar and is in the gathering area. The door is made up of 1.5" tall slats. The chief is wanting to get the maltese cross on there somehow. We've...

Hi All, Just replaced the cyan head on my Pro ll SC-540ex, followed everything in the service manual but now it's not printing anything from the head i just replaced. Performed a powerful clean thinking perhaps there was air in the lines with no avail. When I do a test print...

Hi all, Looking for a service manual for the SC-540 PRO II Please send to: graeme@throopsigns.com Thanks so much!

Hey Guys and Girls, Hoping you can help me out with a issue I'm having. Currently theres a municipal election going on and I'm in a rush to get lots of signs out the door. Printer model is a Sol-Jet PRO II SC-540. As it stands I'm experiencing overspray on cyan only. All the signs I'm...

Our company is currently expanding and as the leader of our studio the boss has asked what I want in the new building plans. We're currently in construction with a 30x60 fab shop. But this studio will be separate. Couple offices up front with a bathroom and large studio in rear including a...