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It looks to me like the substrate is moving while you squeegee. Do you have a sheet of steel or steel composite (SCM) around? Even a metal door? If so, that would allow you to flatten the magnet, getting the arch out of it, and keep it from moving while you squeegee. We use a table laminator to...

Haven't used GF830 over rivets yet, but it lays really nice. It is engineered for cold stretch and not warm but otherwise similar to many wrap vinyl. I like it. That said, it cost them less than the 3M stuff to fulfill their part of the agreement. I would want the promised material even just to...

I would add two things - you can finance, and you get what you pay for. Quality and durability come at a cost; there are machines that cost much more and are even more productive if you have the volume of work. There are also machines that cost less and have terrible issues and go through heads...

Forgot to mention MarkSnelling on here sells them. He is always on here answering questions. They have a lot of models, so best to chat and see what would work for you.

On our XR-640 you just go to the machine, go to menu, go down like 8 times to Ink Remaining and open that. It is still bars, but they are more accurate bars.

Here are the settings I use - slightly different version of TopJet. What I believe is happening is that your parameters under Print Mode/Layout are creating a situation where you are pushing the start point too far out into the print area of the machine so that adding the job size to the...

We got the 4x8ft and between 90&100k for CMYK plus White and one row of Ricoh Gen 6 heads. They have promotions sometimes and I think we caught one. Now the price included setup, ink, and training. Be advised you need to be able to get it off a box truck and into your building. We used a flatbed...

On a window graphic we only allow 3/8" bleed all around: 1.5 inch is ridiculous and a sign that the widows were no measured. That much extra material makes the corners much harder to apply and trim. Now on a panel for a wrap, we leave several inches to make it easier to line up panel and to...

We have a FluidColor Flatbed printer with Ricoh Gen 6 heads. Great combination of durability and resolution for the price. (The Gen 6 Ricoh heads are great.) Prior to that we had a CET with Gen 4 Ricoh heads. Definitely a more demanding beast to keep quality up. Both are HandTop machines...

Not sure what you mean by "don't treat it like other ink technologies". can you give specifics on that?

They install the same with only minor differences in things like cold stretch or percentage of stretch before color changes. As long as the vinyl is low initial tack and repositionable, it will install nearly identically - same squeegee techniques, same way of working over convex areas, etc...

I recommend Training vs Certification. Certification is more likely to lead to employee shop for jobs with higher pay. We sent our employees out to train and paid their way (the wrap training was only 1.5 hours away, but for other equipment trainings we have flown). We have never asked them to...

Not sure how old your machine is, but if it uses LEDs then there should be controls to adjust brightness level. Aside from that, I know the glass protecting the lamps needs to be cleaned off periodically. Lastly, you have the ability to run leading lamps, trailing lamps, or both. Leading lamps...

8 months of experience is still a green employee - unless they did wraps elsewhere previously. Since you are new as well, the organizational work ethic and attitude may be holdovers and there may not be a history of being fair or supportive to staff. Some folks manage using a whip, some a...

Have you done a calibration with the Graphtec Sensor Adjust Cross Hair Pattern? Once a year we check ours - first time it was off, last few times it has remained dead on. The other thing that can happen is when the grip rollers are not clapped down correctly and the vinyl can "walk" a little...

Sounds a bit like a bad grip roller on the Epson, but could be a calibration issue. Epson support is your best answer. I would put a little pressure on the company that sold it to you - polite, persistent insistence...

We use mostly 60/40 and do mostly business windows. Keep in mind that whatever side has the light is the side that cannot see through. So during the day, if applied to the outside of the glass, people walking by see the printed message but cannot see through. At night, you can't see out but with...

Interesting. We don't have banding issues with our Roland (XR640).

Once had the same issue, it is the quality of the Coroplast - some manufacturers have it digital print ready and some do not. We use Solv S1000 to clean before printing on untreated plastics. https://tubelitedenco.com/inx-solv1128.html