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I believe Epson Dashboard will tell you the ink calculations, and I think Onyx also has a feature for this. We don't use either here though.

I don't know if you can swap them out between the two machines but I BELIEVE you can, it's been a few years... I do know The Plotter Doctor sells refurbished rollers for around $1000 with core trade-in. (IIRC)

We have a Vision CNC Router. It does a good job and is pretty reliable. The software that comes with it is not for 3D/contoured routing, but you can upgrade to it. There is a little bit of a learning curve to using a CNC, but overall it is not too different than a plotter and most of the errors...

I'm still fighting flame polishing the edges here. We are using map gas, but sometimes it'll burn it before it polishes it and other times it turns out great.

On your Epson printer, go back into the media setting that you are using to print and re-calibrate the print material. That will help it print better (less banding) and also help ensure that it is feeding it through correctly. You may also want to measure your prints versus your original file...

It'll be just fine. I've done a decent amount of fire boats. Use 3M 280 series vinyls though. I remember doing one once when the water was WAY up and they couldn't take the boat out of the water... hanging over the sides of the boat out in the river squeegeeing vinyl SUCKED!

We planned all of our walls when we moved into our new building, but it took over a year to get them all installed, and the production dept ended up doing a lot of the installs. Now, we'd never get them installed... can't hardly keep up with orders!

We use iStock and Adobe stock here usually for source images. However, most customers want to use photos taken with cell phones. Do yourself a favor and get Topaz Gigapixel AI, it is seriously magic for enlarging images. On the bonus side, it is also cheap. It will take the images you couldn't...

If this is for a commercial wrap, then you're going to cut the hard edges and see a little bit of white on the dimensional aspect, but the vinyl will not fail that way. I can't see vinyl NOT failing somewhat in that complicated recess pattern. You will also want to use some 3M Primer 94 in any...

What thickness? What material? I'd say most places with a CNC wouldn't have much trouble cutting something like that if it is just routed letters. I know we can cut anything up to 4'x8' here. You're going to be using a lot more material though going over 4' since you have to use the majority of...

Is it the solvent or latex version of the vinyl? Looks like a coating issue that you usually only see with very cheap vinyls.

I would just have some acrylic cut for these. Get a sheet of clear acrylic into something like 2x2' pieces and apply the variety of vinyl to each. Some 1st vs 2nd surface vinyl, frosted crystal, perf, etc. We have a lot of different signage throughout our shop to try to illustrate to customers...

Everything sounds good except for the pay rate. That is what general production/vinyl weeders make here to start, most of them make the high end of those numbers. Designers, quite a lot more.

Most "wide format" printers are roll-to-roll machines. Only some printers now accept "pieces", and I'm not sure whether or not you can get heavy enough material as a roll stock instead of sheets? In our industry over the past couple years most materials only available in the most commonly used...

Put some ads out there for employees, it'll take a while but young people that like to work in the industry CAN be found. We have around 15 people here. Youngest is 19, most are 20s & 30s, owners are just over 40, oldest employee (long-time installer) is 62.

Definitely not the correct set/size for the rear door. Looks like a king cab instead of crew cab.

We use a Graphtec that reads the barcodes continuously as long as you left-justify your prints. We load the roll on, hit barcode mode, set it in front of the first barcode, and walk away for an hour or so and it is done. It uses intermediate marks every 12" or so (whatever you set in your rip)...

We like Onyx here for the RIP. The lines between passes is a material calibration setting on the printer itself.

Here you go - https://www.signs101.com/threads/free-stuff-for-yall.118411/page-4#post-1443392 https://www.signs101.com/threads/free-stuff-for-yall.118411/page-5#post-1527598 https://www.signs101.com/threads/free-stuff-for-yall.118411/page-6#post-1536739 There might be a few more in the...

Yes, you can pause (briefly) in the middle of a print without issue. A slight head strike, maybe on the material clamp if it is dirty, can knock out a few nozzles during a print.