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3270 is the laminate to use with Arlon SLX, not 3170 - though 3170 has a great price point and is an 8year laminate, it was not designed to be used with cast digital vinyl. 8508 is only 4year and meant for flat areas and simple curves - 8518 is the better laminate and is 8 year. You want really...

I echo what the others have said. Easiest is to feel the thinness of Cast, it is also more shiny than Calendared with the exception of Matte colors. I would never store everything jumbled together - wastes time when looking for exactly what you need for any given job. That said, many creative...

We have a FluidColor R84F Turbo - 4x8 with Ricoh Gen 6 heads and CMYKW. Love the Gen 6 heads: fast, reliable, great print quality. The folks at FluidColor have been great and they even had a training in Kentucky that we sent a guy to. These guys started out reconditioning Flatbed UV printers and...

Which version of IJ180 did you buy? There are several.

There is a calibration process too if you cuts are not tight. There was a discussion about this a year or two ago and I posted the Sensor Adjust Cross Hair Pattern. We adjusted ours about 1 year after we got it and it has been on point since.

Looks like you are already putting Contour Cut Marks on in Flexi if able to get the plotter to cut from Flexi. But in case you are not: Choose the graphic to print and plot; make sure your Cut Contour is not Grouped (as sometimes some sections will not cut) and Click the Contour Cut Marks...

We have one and cut directly through Flexi's Production Manager - got the drivers from Graphtec online. This ancient beast is everyone's favorite plotter and it will cut to the very edge of the vinyl if you need to.

We used to use a masking tape that worked really well. Then we got the bright idea to save a few bucks and get a different kind - the new tape would let go before we finished laying things. No one had kept track of what we used to use, so went experimenting with several kinds to find similar...

The buckling is from humidity level and a result of too thin a liner... That said, have you considered General Formulations vinyls - American made quality vinyl. If you want a clear adhesive (no one uses a white adhesive, just clear on white vinyl so the white shows - vinyl adhesive is clear or...

Not familiar with the durability of HP Latex inks, we use UV and EcoSolvent, but I would use a good UV laminate. I think the 8518 is a 7 year, we usually use Oraguard 290 Gloss which is a 10 year. But in any case, laminate it. I would print onto the IJ180 with a diecut on the lettering and...

We have a Fluid Color UV flatbed and really like it. It was delivered in a large crate in a box truck. The Truck did not match our dock height, so we hired the tow company next door - they used a flatbed tow truck back to back with the box truck to remove the crate, waited while we unboxed the...

Gerber Edge Positive and Gerber Lexedge. Grimco sells them as do many other places

Definitely worth your time to take a national class. Learning how to wrap will improve your application skills whether you are wrapping something or not. A color change on a car would start at $2500 - so a full wrap is not cheap - a printed wrap can go several times this amount. 90% of your...

Looking to find an alternative source for filters for my flatbed printer (Handtop - FluidColor). Looking for Last chance UFO shaped filters, black, Luer-Lock type. Where do you get yours?

Removing the mirrors would have been a good idea. Laying middle stripe first without mask , then other two without mask. Marking the gap distance from middle stripe with a grease pencil every few feet to help hit your mark. Having heat handy - you can fix stretches and some wrinkles (just...

Because we also had tape measures and knew how to check for square...

They charge your shop a flat $25 registration fee and include lunch - so if you have 4 people coming you still only pay $25 but you get four lunches... You gotta figure the $25 only helps to cover costs. Combine this with the 10% coupon and it is not really costing you anything but your time. So...

Yes, most of our shop is headed there. Since they are not charging $25 per person, but per shop, that only helps pay for the free lunch... ad the coupon, and it is a great deal

Cast to Cast or Calendared to Calendared, yes. Cast on top of calendared, yes. Calendared on top of cast - NO.

You get color problems like this sometimes when you design in CMYK but add a RGB element - with the items joined/grouped - the rip software sometimes has issue with interpreting the colors as the same. check to see what Color Modes you are using and , if possible, try to be sure you have the...