• I want to thank all the members that have upgraded your accounts. I truly appreciate your support of the site monetarily. Supporting the site keeps this site up and running as a lot of work daily goes on behind the scenes. Click to Support Signs101 ...

Search results

  1. Suggestions Adding slitters to roll laminator?

    Uh oh. Hope they aren't that stupid? I'll rig up something if need be. What head is in that printer? I've bought quite a bit from China. As long as you do your research and buy from the source you can find good products. They are really easy to deal with if you know what you want but they...
  2. Can you make pole pockets without a banner welder?

    You guys have all the good stuff. What about solvent weld? That's easy
  3. How do ICC profiles work?

    I'm sort of following this point. So it essentially measures lab values from a control point, then your printer output, runs through software which adjusts the ICC to match the control, reprint and check again? Or do you have to tweak parameters over and over until it tells you the match? Is...
  4. HELP! 2 Graphtec plotters not cutting right OR Oracal 651 material has defects?

    They have a couple models of plotters that are decently priced and heard good reviews on them. We have a print/cut machine and used that to cut for a long time, it's slower on this vs a stand alone but it's really accurate. We recently got a summa s2t160 with opos cam which is a great plotter...
  5. Suggestions Adding slitters to roll laminator?

    We also ordered one from Lefu, they have a good reputation from what I could find. You can see the digitally controlled slitters this one has. I really got it for the swing out air shafts but if these actually work it'd be nice.
  6. How do ICC profiles work?

    I know this is a dumb question but will ask anyways. Are ICC profiles universal or RIP specific? Could an i1 be used in Flexi and transfer that over to an older version of Flexi or even use in Onyx or any other RIP? Can you create profiles independent of your RIP? I'm not real sure how this...
  7. Suggestions Adding slitters to roll laminator?

    It's a Chinese machine, not sure if I need to say more haha. If it works I'll report back, if not I'll keep quiet to avoid the I told you so's. We've had pretty good luck with the import laminators and thought we would give one of the big units with swingout air shafts a shot. It's 1500 lbs...
  8. Suggestions Adding slitters to roll laminator?

    We ordered a new laminator with slitters that have a sensor and motor that is supposed to adjust the knife position to compensate for skew. It'd be nice if it worked but don't have high hopes
  9. Suggestions Adding slitters to roll laminator?

    If you can figure out the bar, you could probably have someone copy the steel ends but make them taller so you have more travel?
  10. What laminations do you use?

    It didn't used to be that bad, now it's pushing the price point of a low end cast like Briteline and GF so kind of pointless. You do get what you pay for though, I see some stuff we did 7-8 years ago that doesn't show the slightest bit of age and that's in Florida sun.
  11. HELP! 2 Graphtec plotters not cutting right OR Oracal 651 material has defects?

    It did it to us this morning with 651 white on the Graphtec. You can't walk away from it while it cuts because sometimes it's so bad that it jambs up the cutter, bad on the graphtec but less on the summa and mimaki. I'm not a fan of the graphtec. at all Maybe vacuum is weaker which makes it...
  12. HELP! 2 Graphtec plotters not cutting right OR Oracal 651 material has defects?

    The paper gets wavy like it was in real humid air. We don't notice any static issues and it's only oracal cut vinyl that does it.
  13. Weeding small labels

    put a cutline down the middle
  14. What laminations do you use?

    Thanks, I'll have to give it a try. The one thing that annoys me with every other brand of cast laminate is the rolls are always a little wider than the material where 3M is pretty exact. Trimming off a 1/4" of overhanging laminate on a full roll so it doesn't get stuck on the plotter platen...
  15. Question Everything I've learned about perf cut/die cut stickers

    You can contour cut first and perf cut second in VW on the same line or outside. It seems to work better that way but still sucks.
  16. Will you rate my long overdue baseball card design?

    I saw "bottoms" on it and was expecting a picture of texassignmaker
  17. What laminations do you use?

    They told me the same thing. I hope they make it in house and not rebrand GF or some other product that can be bought anywhere.
  18. HELP! 2 Graphtec plotters not cutting right OR Oracal 651 material has defects?

    We get a lot of buckling with 651, could be from that. Even at 35% humidity it's a problem. We still use it but we FWIW we've never had this issue with 3M series 50 but the price went way up on it.
  19. Cutter or Router: Colex v Shop Sabre

    Something to do with it vaporizing the PVC which releases the chlorine? I just read a lot but have seen this warning in multiple places. It's bad on the machine but the health concern is huge.
  20. Cutter or Router: Colex v Shop Sabre

    also makes chlorine gas which will rot out your machine real quick.
Top