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  1. 3M Materials Shortage

    Anybody here using Avery 1105EZRS and laminating with 3M 8518? From some of the stuff I've heard here I kind of want to steer clear of Avery overlaminate but wanted to give Avery a try on a wrap job with the IJ180CV3 situation. I am looking to try the Avery but don't have very high expectations...
  2. Yellow turns green in sunlight.

    It sounds like your lighting is not accurate. Lights are rated on a CRI index of how accurate they are compared to natural sunlight. If you have a Pantone book there should be a lighting indicator to see how accurate your lighting is. If you can see a difference in the two swatches your lighting...
  3. Question Life span of a print from an HP Latex 560

    I've printed some billboards that are left up year round. They wanted them cheap so the sponsors could change out their advertising after a couple years. We did Arlon DPF510 vinyl with no lamination mounted to 4mm coro. They were printed at 10P-CMYKcm-90. A few were up for 3 years and they had...
  4. Question Life span of a print from an HP Latex 560

    Wraps and anything that is long term outdoor gets printed at 12P-CMYKcm-110 Banners are 10P-CMYKcm-90 General Decals are 12P-CMYKcm-110
  5. Question Life span of a print from an HP Latex 560

    Odd... We wrapped our flatbed in November of 2016 and it still looks like new but we only wrapped the vertical surfaces, no hood. It never gets washed or waxed and it sits outside all the time. It's never garaged and sees Ohio's winters and summers. We used 3M IJ180CV3 and 8518, printed on our...
  6. Office Depot has a large format printer? Good riddance.

    Funny that this conversation comes up. A building right around the corner from us has been renovated and is about to open up as a new department store. We were never contacted to install any of their signage but received a call last Friday to put up a grand opening banner for them tonight around...
  7. 3M 7125 Series Vinyl

    I love 3M 180mC.
  8. Font ID Help

    Looked through my fonts, and used whatthefont. I can't seem to find this font and this customer is super picky about making sure his new trucks are identical to his other trucks. Anybody recognize this font?
  9. Best Computer for designing??

    Just finished building one. Right now some parts are hard to come by if you build one. It took me a couple of months to get the GPU I wanted without paying the scalper prices on ebay. All in all I've got one hell of a computer for $2500 and it wasn't that hard to build (first one) if you've got...
  10. Panaflex/Flex Face

    I did my first flex face about 6 months ago and it took longer for install than I thought it would. It was a 5x10, double sided, 20' to the top. I quoted and charged $2,500. If I had to do it over again it would have been at least $3,250. One tip is to find out what system it is and buy extra...
  11. Need Help Joining ACM

    Manufacturers of ACM facade systems for buildings use large sheets sizes if there are any somewhat local to you. I've got one company local to me that stocks various colors in 62"x196" sheets.
  12. Discussion Printable Reflective

    Can you just print on your reflective and then laminate it to a low energy vinyl?
  13. Busy December?

    I was closed for reasons other than Covid. Had a kidney removed at the beginning of March and as soon as I got out of the hospital things were closing up.... Kind of worked out for me because everybody was closed and I was stuck at home recovering. I was back to work before I should have been...
  14. Sophisticated SPAM phishing!

    Just received one last night from a customer. It was an encrypted zip file that supposedly contained a word document. I called him right away and he said he had a trojan horse and not to open it.
  15. Wall Wrap Material Recommendation

    I've got a customer looking to do an interior wall wrap on painted concrete block walls. I don't really get into wall wraps too often and am wondering your guys experiences with 3M IJ8624 and 3M LX480mC. I noticed that the IJ8624 is only rated for 6 months outdoor while the LX480mC is rated for...
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