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I appreciate the feedback, been doing these for about 3-4 years and they hold up fine without the lam, I think mostly because they are only up for 2-3 months at a time.

ok, yes that should help then. I am so new to printing (3 years) and the jobs I get are large murals for museums. So I can't imagine laminating it all, hard enough to get the print right, if it gets screwed up in the laminator then I am rback to square one. Of course I am back to square one if...

I been printing for 3-4 years now, I have struggled with how best to pack my prints because my customers do not require lamination so I am limited by how much I can move them around. My current process is to lay them out on a very clean floor or table. I then make sure all the edges are...

I cut a lot of stickers and labels on all sorts of materials. Graphtec is the only way to go IMO. I tried a Summa, and despite their great rep, my experience was awful. I got a lemon, could not cut right. I swapped the motor, the carriage the cutting strip the blade holder and a few other parts...

I went through this years ago. Not sure what your doing or what machine your using to cut, but I ended up buying a Graphtec only for the versatile and amazing software Cutmaster. ITs a plugin for illustrator so you can click and cut. Lots of users on here use it, maybe you know of it. Just a...

how do you set the printer and or Onyx for CMYK only? I didn't know that was possible, It kind of sounds ideal for these prints.

I got a HP latex 315. Every now and again, basically every 2-4 months of printing about 100-150 feet per month on average my HP will start printing greys with a pinkish hue. I usually print on 3m white vinyl, or Britline white vinyl, sometimes on phototex. Here is what I have tried: Head...

Ive been searching for a window frost for a massive job, I need about 200 feet by 48". Neither Grimco, Fellers or Glantz seems to have it all saying there is none on backorder either. Anyone out there have a good lead on this material? I need something that frosts the window white so its...

how do you do that in illustrator? Is there a way to do that all at once. like if you have hundreds of letter?

yes I have done that. We call it weed on wall, or WOW techinique!

I usually have it dialed in so well that I can pull a whole 24" sheet of 1/2" text 20 lines or so and loose less than 3 letters and a fe I dots. If I had to slow down to the pace your talking about I would be out of business as its only me. The down side is that its a deep cut so sometimes on...

Recently I have had inconsistent weeds. I mostly cut large section texts for museums so lots of 1/2-3/4" sans serif letters. I use a graphtec and mostly Oracal matte material. This last job was cutting on Oracal 751 had it perfectly dialed in on the previous job, cut the new job and lost about...

really? Can you elaborate or provide a link that elaborates? Onyx salespeople told me otherwise.

Check the rails that they are lubricated, those are not replaceable and if they didn't use it much its probable they perhaps did not know or forgot to run that maintenance. The oil drys out over time....

I agree. I love the way onyx is so easy. Its also great when you need tiles at a certain width. I wouldn't trust myself to do it in AI but its nice to know the bleed procedure for other stuff. The only thing I wish onyx did was provide a tile map so on the install you have a reference.

thank you this is very helpful.

I should know this, but didn't know you can set a bleed in illustrator?

I actually meant tables, cutting surfaces layout etc....

I used to, but I've had issues with tiles being a 1/8- 1/2inch off. There are numerous threads on this topic but mostly seems to stem from take up reel tension heat and bad luck. There is also a HP video on it. Do you have a HP, I'm thinking of getting an Epson for my larger jobs

I'm starting to get larger and larger LF print orders. I like to line up my tiles to make sure they are matching. I currently do this on the floor because my tiles range between 50-55" so on the table just doesn't work as my table is 60" x 12'. I'm thinking to get clamps and clamp prints at the...