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  1. Declining jobs based on moral/ethical grounds

    we pretty much will make what you pay for. i guess maybe we draw the line with printing recruitment forms for isis or the Taliban or the nazis ? but we print dem or rep signs, we have printed banners for the porn convention. actually did these magnets for a college kid for one of her classes...
  2. Illustrator FINALLY increased canvas size by 10x

    one thing that always baffled me was that photoshop also made by adobe would go larger on the art board and most of use these programs hand in hand but then illustrator didn't have that capability.
  3. Flatbed Printers

    if you could find a roland LEJ, used in good condition in your price range that might be the way to go. it's not fast but quality is good and easy to use. it's hybrid printer so you can print on rigid material up to 1/2" thick and also roll/flexible media. another important point already...
  4. Metal Overlam For Acrylic Letters

    try this company https://www.wrisco.com/
  5. UV Printer & Prints Making us Sick

    unfortunately being in the business for over 30yrs i don't smell the inks or chemicals any more, just normal every day..haha we silk screen uv inks all day long, run an fugi/acuity uv printer and roland LEG printer with no issues as far as smell. the silk screen department has the dryers vented...
  6. Cutting problem

    we usually die cut our adhesive because that's what our applications require but we have done this on our plotter (roland) for small qty's. based on what you are showing could be a few things. first not cutting deep enough, blade cutting too fast and getting the adhesive bunched up and the blade...
  7. 10m coroplast hole punch recommendation

    i have to drill all kinds of material here (aluminum, composites, acrylic, sintra, styrene....and so on) and Gino is right just put a piece of wood top and bottom and you are good to go.
  8. Roland TrueVis VG2-640 Issues

    we had all kinds of issues. took roland and our vendor almost a year of rebuilding our VG-540 before it was working properly. printing issues, cutting issues, tracking issues, head/cap top issues, pinch roller issues, then i believe there were also a couple of recalls. i told them to come get...
  9. Vinyl removal from hell

    i did an awning a few years ago and the customer went out and got some special paint and painted the awning himself because it's wasn't something i felt i could do successfully. but he actually did a good job, did multiple coats and the new vinyl stuck great. still holding up after two years. i...
  10. Advice

    based on the wrinkle you show in the pic i would say that's not acceptable for what it is but why couldn't you just patch the 20 or so small areas or at least the ones that look as the o ne you showed us. on the rare occasion i have had something like that happen i have been able to just replace...
  11. Back-ordered materials- what are you having trouble finding?

    for us it's been random as well but probably the most common are cast vinyls. we did have some issues with acrylics and poly carbonates but that seems to have gotten back to normal
  12. signs 101 website issues?

    no the coconut Carmel cookies (like the somoas, girl scout cookies)
  13. signs 101 website issues?

    anyone else getting error messages when posting or searching the site? "oops we ran in to some problems"
  14. high temp vinyl?

    customer wants to wrap his food cart. wondering if anyone has any experience with these? trying to find the best material that will handle the high temps? was going to use oracal 3951HT currently using that on paving dump truck bodies (recommended for high temps from orafol) but having trouble...
  15. Anyone Heading to a Trade Show this year?

    used to go to the NJ shows but they have really gone down hill so unless i am looking for a specific piece of equipment that i could go see there then probably not going
  16. Suggestions Oh boy..........................

    i would try to repair it if possible like already mentioned with the polish kit if that doesn't work offer a discount of some sorts but sounds like this is just a problem customer who wants something for free. unfortunately been there done that. sometimes it's gotten to the point where how much...
  17. static cling profile for latex printing

    we have two HP 560 latex printers and 90% or the time we run backlit material on there which is great but that business has slowed and trying to feed some other work through the printers. just wondering if anyone with similar printers have had luck printing static cling and what profiles you are...
  18. polycarbonate stickers for instrument panels

    need to confirm what they are using them for. we make polycarbonate nameplates and we use different types of adhesive depending on what they adhere to. you can use cast vinyl and poly carb lam but still need to know what they are sticking them to because you may need to use a high tack vinyl...
  19. Cost effective outdoor plates for e.g. memorial benches?

    also look in to metal photo nameplates. that's how we do all our military nameplates. extremely durable
  20. Vinyl Banner Scrim for cut vinyl NOT print

    same banner material for printing as for cut vinyl. we use ultra flex banner materials with good results. you can get that from most vendors. fellers, nazdar, N glantz, s&f supply
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