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  1. Delamination of ink on acrylic

    Not familiar with Mimaki ink chemistry, but for our UV flatbed printer Denatured Alcohol would do this to the ink - in fact, we can spray/flood a printed piece and let it soak in denatured for about 10-15 mintues and it peels up completely. I would guess some overspray is hitting these or fumes...
  2. General Formulations GF830 Automark vs Arlon SLX+

    The edges stay down just fine. Individual letters tend to move on the wax paper and then the transfer mask will pull them up before you post form heat them. We have used Arlon SLX for several years and love. Laminated, you don't use any transfer mask and it lays beautifully. I will agree that it...
  3. Best printer for murals

    We have a Roland XR 640 and it has been a workhorse. The Eco Solvent inks are not odorless but are not strong by any means. But we have never had a panel that didn't match the next panel on the Roland. That said, the Epson will hit a wider range of colors and seems to produce richer reds. We...
  4. Best Paint for MDO

    We have traditionally used 1-Shot for our MDOs, but have not been able to get it in white for the past year and a half and have used Ronan's Bulletin Enamel white. We notice that oils from hands are harder to clean off of the Bulletin than the 1-Shot Lettering Enamel, and this matters when we...
  5. Lettering enamel

    With supply issues being what they are, what paint is everyone using on MDO these days. We do a fair amount of flatbed UV printing onto MDOs still. Have been using Ronan Bulletin White to paint the MDOs, but 1-Shot gave us less issue with fingerprints (from hand oils). We do clean the boards...
  6. Roland RE-640

    How full of printed jobs is Versa Works? We are using VersaWorks Dual Version 1.6.11 (2015-2017) and when completed jobs stack up in the queue ours will do this. We usually only keep about 20 jobs at a time in the queue.
  7. Need Help I was just curious about laminating non printed white vinyl

    You are very unlikely to extend longevity to vinyl using a laminate. Best reason to laminate blank white vinyl is to match the white in printed and laminated white vinyl. Second best reason is to change or match a finish - matte. luster, gloss. Other than that I would not laminate it.
  8. Application Roller For Existing Table. Any Ideas?

    We have a CWt - no heat assist on ours. We use it to laminate, mask wide format prints, and we apply vinyl to wide things, like reverse weed translucent onto acrylic our polycarbonate faces. Love it.
  9. Looking for Canon Oce Arizona feedback

    the 365 is faster in all print modes - but only by a little. Same Picoliter drop sizes, but the 365 has two 318 nozzle printheads and the other has one 636 - same number of nozzles total, not sure the advantage of two printheads over one. Have never run an Arizona, we have a FluidColor and had a...
  10. RollsRoller Adjustable Table Height

    Here is an owners manual. In English on page 50... https://www.rollsroller.com/media/1121/rollsroller-owners-manual.pdf
  11. Discussion New machine or repair old

    Seems like the XR-640 cost about 16k new some years ago. Hard to justify putting that much into it. That said, we had a bad head strike a little over 4 years ago and replaced the heads. Machine is running great still. Head strike is caused by material tunneling as it feeds - often unequal wear...
  12. Need Help Wrap removal on an aluminum tank truck

    One thought this morning: remeber the angle you pull the vinyl up at impacts its ability to come off in one piece and with the adhesive (to some degree). Try pulling at 45 and 90 degrees, usually 135 degrees and 180 degrees are both too much. Scrapers and Lil Chiseler are to start the vinyl, not...
  13. Need Help Wrap removal on an aluminum tank truck

    Wall-paper steamer... dangerous to use heat (though sun will warm it up for you), but when you need heat on any fuel vehicle a wall-paper steamer is the way to go. Lil Chiseler scrappers help. We also have 4" Plastic Safety Scrapers (Item SRWGPO) we got off of Amazon. Some Rapid Remover to get...
  14. Environmentally Friendly Print Media, with Adhesive... Please Recommend!

    Orajet 3981 RapidAir Premium Digital Eco Print Film and then there is Oraguard 289F PVC-Free Laminate to put on it. Not cheap, but 10year outdoor life and suitable for wraps. You can read a bit of it on Grimco's site, though they are out of stock right now...
  15. panel size

    We have some very OLD ones still here. Can't promise yours is the same size, but ours takes a 39.5x95.75 panel and the channel accommodates a .75" panel.
  16. Blurry, Grainy print quality -- Zhongye E1800

    I am not familiar with this brand, but looks like what you get when your flatbed printer negative pressure needs adjustment. Sometimes an air bubble can do something similar, but consistency points to negative pressure (the negative pressure setting holds the ink in the head until printing, too...
  17. Bonding Recommendations

    Read the directions... used to be with Liquid Nails, you put the adhesive on one side, lay on the substrate, pull back off and wait 10 seconds (or so) and then put it back on for a better bond.
  18. Bonding Recommendations

    Liquid Nails Fuze It All Surface would be what I would try now. I think what we used to use was Liquid Nails Extreme Heavy Duty
  19. Bonding Recommendations

    On big stuff, we used to use Liquid Nails. Care must be taken to spread it evenly on you see slight ripples in the aluminum. Now we hardly ever need do that - instead we buy Aluminum composite (ACM), which happens to come in brushed aluminum finish as one of the colors.
  20. GF HTAP 201-AE - Looking for suitable application tape

    Haven't used 201HTAP, but can say 3M SCPS-55 or R-Tape 4075 Conform RLA do not stick real well to GF 226HTR and MacTac Rebel 228H. They will work, but you have to remove the wax liner from the masked vinyl, not the vinyl from the waxed liner. Might try 4076 Conform RLA Higher Tack or 4885 Super...
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