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Wholesale printers aren't priced "to figure out" customer files. Wholesale printers have specific file guidelines so they don't have to "figure it out" odd files/artwork like in a retail environment
substance has a good floor laminate at a much cheaper price than the 3m option
https://substance.com/products/icon-tl-6100
substance makes some of the toughest vinyls/laminates for MX and helmets
Use a permanent adhesive vinyl
I saw a discussion about a city fining a company for coroplast signs with their info, I told the company that got fined it's time to order some signs with your competitors info and put them all over town
Returns are a huge problem on Amazon.
it used to be that a buyer had to contact a seller before returning. Now it is all auto approved, auto return label generated full refund on first scan. Receive damaged item or no item back. Spend hours going through the Amazon process to maybe get the...
Some of these companies have multiple business models/brands which allows them to keep equipment busy and scale up.
On Amazon there is a big poster/acrylic/wallpaper company, that is also a big "trade only printer" (you mentioned them in your post) . Helps keep volume/scale up to justify the...
You went all in on equipment from day one when a lot of the tasks the machines do could be done by hand/manual process or outsourced.
Anytime I try sell a new product I'll do it the manual way or outsource until volume justifies getting a machine to do it. I sell a decent amount of...
I've played around with printing on silver before but doesn't turn out good imo, too dull/dark but I haven't tried print on clear and back with silver. Ill play around with it
This is as specific as they got "metallic pastel colors or metallic bright colors"
In the past I've used holographic film , gold and chrome and rose gold for this customer, this time they want something similarly cool but different from what has been used in the past
National jeweler using it...
this would be cut lettering/cut designs not simply mounting a rectangle.
do you think it be possible to cut the mounting film on a flatbed cutter with adhesive facing up and then reapply the backing sheet?
It is not common for trade printers to accept. Psb.
Most require jpeg pdf tiff.
Too risky to accept other formats as they could change appearance etc when opening
yes i need to figure out a way to make the from side sticky.
I'm thinking of applying to clear, adhesive side to adhesive side then cutting the clear with an offset to create a clear glue edge. will test it out
Create overlapping (if you need overlap) artboards in Illustrator
place your .psb file into illustrator, will probably have to use large canvas option.
Export artboards as pdf, you now have pdf files containing panels with the overlap you need.
You might need to crop the .psb inside...
Is the print getting tiled to print? If so tile it yourself and send the multiple tiled files.
for murals that large I work in .psb, and export individual panels/tiles in tiff or pdf
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