Recent content by Pideas

Great advice, thanks. I appreciate all the advice on this forum. We do a lot of signs and wide format but vehicle decals/lettering are a very small part of what we do. In fact, we may only get a handful of requests for this type of work in a year.

Thanks for the suggestion Stacey. I have cast vinyl here and I can do the flame and cut on the Summa. I think my worry was mixing the two medias (cast for the flame and 751 for the lettering) and then having to provide them with some kind of alignment sheet like the squares idea that you...

The pounce pattern should do it. Thanks, Gino. Does the 751 material need laminating? Also, I was planning on using the 3M IJ35 for the flame portion of the decal.

Dumb question. How do you go about lining up this logo next to the wording so it's dummy proof for the client who will be installing it? The flame logo is to the left and the lettering is to the right. Normally, I would just give them a full sheet of lettering so they can apply it themselves.

I don't do a lot of vinyl lettering / decals for vehicles. I have a job that requires printing a 4-color flame logo plus white lettering (company name and phone #) and a second job with the same 4-color logo plus black lettering. What kind of vinyl would you run this on? For lettering by...

I don't think we've ever adjusted the depth. We have a Sooper Ace grommet machine. We also have a hand punch one. -Thanks Gino. I will look into the long neck grommets as well.

Would I need to purchase a #4 die to use these grommets?

I have a grommet machine that I use for my banners and 4mm coroplast. The same #2 3/8" grommets do not fit well onto ACM. What kind of grommets can I use for 3mm ACM boards where I can use my same grommet press. When we try it with our existing grommet press, the grommets do not fit securely...

Ok, we figured it out. I left it up to a new employee and the issue was not with the clear media. For some reason, every now and then, my Summa cutter changes the alignment mode from XY OPOS to OPOS Barcode. The Summa was looking for a barcode instead of the black dot.

I printed some decals on a clear stock (GF 206) using my HP latex printer. After printing, I put the material in my Summa cutter to kiss cut the labels. However, the Summa is having problems recognizing the OPOS marks on the clear material. The clear material has a white backer. I get a...

Thanks. The part is on its way. We’ll give it a try.

I've had my HP Latex 310 printer for about 6-7 years now. The brown belt just snapped during a job. I was able to find the part online. Has anyone ever changed out the belt on their own? Do I need to contact HP service to perform the service? What's the cost for an HP tech these days?

I just ran into this same issue on my Summa. The issue was not the margins on the left and right edges (I only left about 5/8") but it was on the top and bottom edges. I only gave it about an inch of space and it was not enough space. Since I had already printed the job, I just taped an...

Do you mean you just run regular cuts but rotate the knife 1/2 to 3/4 of a turn clockwise? I have my knife pressure at 120g now. Do i need to bump that up more?

For my job, I was using a Briteline 3222. This has a fairly thick liner. We had punch out each decal but the decals did not come out clean at the edges. For those using the Summa roll to roll, are you using a 30 / 45 or 60 degree blade? From what I read, I need to use a 60 degree blade...