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We typically get UL approved stock as we work with large industrial manufacturers. Material life is dependent on the tier of material you select. On the Flexcon website they break down the material tiers pretty nicely. FLexicon uses a nice 90lb polycraft liner on their sheeted stock. It's...

Flexcon is the supplier we use for sheet cut screen printable media. Typically we use uv ink but I am assuming you don't have a UV dryer so any vinyl ink would work fine. It has a strong smell so make sure you are working in a ventilated area if you go that route.

Assuming this is with a c02 laser?

We've got a stable of lasers at our facility. big one is 3kW fiber by Ipg. Also have a 100w co2 Rofin based and a 3 axis galvo (100w) scanlab/ipg based. All of them equipped with camera recognition.

We do tons of variable data, uid, and blank pad plates. Always use metalphoto or galvo engrave them. Then laser cut them on our 3kw fiber. Hardly ever silkscreen nameplates these days unless they are multicolor.

Transparent media profile is too saturated when you use a higher quality setting like fine art or high def (if it is not getting backlit). Try generic film.

We have a oce 480gt. If the acrylic is not getting backlit, I usually use generic film profile (in onyx thrive). What rip are you using?

What print mode are you using? We have a 480gt and I know that when we print second surface using hd mode on generic transparent media the colors become way saturated like your example. I figured we needed to make a custom profile to fix it.

We are running a 480gt with the 256 inks. The adhesion on acrylic is acceptable. We normally use the DA acrylic but they don't make it past .25 in so for thicker acrylic prints you don't have a choice. The 258 inks are not close to the 256 in color gamut no matter how you profile it. It is far...

Both. Not screen printing shirts or apparel. Industrial screen printing (manufacturing support) and digital. Actual company name is prestige screen printing inc. Founded 40 years ago.

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So we want to add a larger sign above our shop and have been kicking around ideas. We want to do a 4x8 sign on aluminum. This is the rough design that our designer came up with. Its ok but I was hoping to pick everyones brain. Our building is medium brown. We are not married to the color...

Have you looked at the océ 460? That model is upgradeable if you need the additional speed later. In my opinion the océ has better print quality and I have compared samples printed from my supplied files from both machines.

I am guessing they printed that using a pad printing process or even a flatbed UV instead of cutting vinyl and sticking it on

Yup Metalized Mylar and gloss laminate freaks out my graphtec too, I use a small piece of scotch tape on the reg marks to matte it for the sensor.