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  1. Rant Has windows defender ever caught a VIRUS?

    Last week out of nowhere windows defender would identify Onyx as a threat when I click print and would shut down Onyx. Was able to allow the "threat" and back to normal now I have never used any anti virus and haven't had a virus in 20 years after I stopped using LimeWire as a teen
  2. Best way to cut premask cut vinyl

    I have a flatbed but most of the transfer tape stuff we trim with a keencut type cutter. Sometimes gotta put the manual work in. Scissors are my go to if it doesn't have to be perfectly trimmed
  3. Best way to cut premask cut vinyl

    A step up from ruler/knife would be something like a keencut a step up from that would something like Royal Sovereign Electric Trimmer A step up from that would be a flatbed cutter
  4. Best practice for cut vinyl ACM sign

    C , easiest way to make it and will last many years.
  5. Sticker Lamination on UV Prints. needed or not?

    Everyone loves cheap 6 mil vinyl!
  6. Sticker Lamination on UV Prints. needed or not?

    Promotional type stickers no, any ink type, latex, eco solvent, UV will last many years without lamination for promotional hand out type stickers.
  7. GFP Laminators

    I've done hundreds of rolls on the laminator now, no issues. I have heat , seems like it's good to have heat
  8. Need Help Onyx overlap problem

    You just create an AI file with overlapping artboards, insert your image and export artboards as pdf. You have ready to print files of each panel
  9. Need Help Onyx overlap problem

    Open the PSD file in illustrator and export panels, I do most of the designing in photoshop too
  10. Epson r5070 - anyone got one?

    I used to do with eco solvent without a problem. Set up a good fan on the print while printing and it comes out dry and ready. I do not see any benefit over eco-solvent and added complexity with the heat and optimizer. if the R5070 inks don't dry/cure right on the printer the prints get waxy...
  11. Epson r5070 - anyone got one?

    On vinyl there is no difference in scratch resistance between R5070 and Roland ecosol in my testing after 12 hrs. Banner after 12 hrs also the same, Roland TR2 inks On wallpaper type material such as phototex, eco sol has better scratch resistance than R5070. Colorado has by far the best...
  12. Need Help Onyx overlap problem

    It is easy once you learn and set up templates in AI. I do 6 rolls daily this way. It is as easy as clicking export artboards in AI once everything is set up. You can go back in 6 months and reprint any panel exactly how it was on the original print
  13. Need Help Onyx overlap problem

    I tile in illustrator. If you ever need to reprint a panel you have a pdf file of the panel. I have looked at tiling in onyx but feel safer with illustrator as I know exactly how everything will be paneled
  14. Getting Started

    You are better off outsourcing your prints, focus on selling. Once you sell something it will be very easy to get it outsourced.
  15. Rate my very first sign

    Start over, more practice will be good. remove and start over for more experience
  16. Ink Disposal

    Search for Hazardous waste disposal (your city) My city has a couple sites that accept residential amounts of chemical waste for free. I have not had any problems dropping off 5 gallon buckets
  17. Best high resolution printer

    You're not going to get better print quality than the Epson solvent printers
  18. Epson r5070 - anyone got one?

    Print quality is excellent. Best print quality printer I've owned. I don't have a direct comparison to S40 but I would imagine a little better (less grainy) some colors due to LC and LM but not as wide gamut as S80 as it has additional ink colors. Although after using the printer for 6 months I...
  19. Threat of Closing this year...

    The warehouse complex I'm in lost about 5 tenants this year, used to be 20 out of 20 occupied now about 15 / 20 units occupied. I see more and more for lease signs popping up in similar warehouses, 1.5k-5kl sq ft
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