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  1. Surfacing MDF Spoil board issue

    Those of you who dont surface MDF.... Do you use a vacuum pump? MDF has a skin on it, and surfacing it breaks the skin and allows it to be more porous. You're "Supposed" to surface both sides and seal the edges for optimal suction... I wish we could get LDF, I've heard great things...
  2. Surfacing MDF Spoil board issue

    MDF warps a lot in heat. Ours will look like a banana overnight if someone leaves the heat on. You can most the board and throw something heavy on it and leave it overnight and it'll re-form itself back into being flat. Our vacuum is strong enough to hold it down even when it's warped by a...
  3. Care to share your Epson experience?

    Unless you're in a really open area, and even then the Epson is a much stronger smell than the latex. I don't mind the smell, and most people don't, but it is definitely stronger. The epsons are great printers. I went from a latex to an Epson s40 and then back to latex... Although I went with...
  4. Small wrap shop ready to upgrade printer, advice

    Epson R50! You can print right at the edge of the media with no crashes. The Epson Resin printer is like running the Solvent epsons - With the benefits of Latex. And only 1 head at $900 to replace... and the head lasts as long as a solvent head (Apparently, I've had my machine for 2 years...
  5. Small wrap shop ready to upgrade printer, advice

    We run an Epson S40 and a Latex. Our latex gets 10x as much use, And we use it for traffic - We go through 1/2 as much ($ wise) Heads on our latex as we do on our solvent... Granted we only had to swap our solvent heads out once, but at the price point of it... Latex heads are less for us...
  6. Thrive

    My guess is you can't move.thrive over because you don't have the printer install files. You can grab your whole onyx folder and copy it to the new computer and it'll run just fine. ... That's the easy way. Proper way would be to install thrive if you still have your install files, export...
  7. Am I the only one seeing all these junk posts?

    I don't get it. Does anyone actually read the spam posts, or buy the product? I get it costs them pennies and they just need 1 person to buy it to make it worth it... But jesus, I saw the wall of text and didnt even read what it was about... who in their right mind reads it, then decides to buy...
  8. Don't understand.............................................................................. ? ?

    I think "whats new" only shows the latest XX (Lets say 20 to make it easy) topics - Now A$$hole spammer posts 15 posts, you hit ignore... And your 20 new topics is now only 5 new topics, because although you ignored him... his topics are still considered new. Thats why I usually use new...
  9. This forum is drowning in

    Let's be honest, were on a very niche forum that has like 20 active participants.... And maybe 50-100 active users who don't participate. If it takes more than 12 hours to remove some spam forum posts, who cares. It's very easy to get rid of them by blocking the user. In a perfect world one...
  10. Small shop using Latex 365 looking to upgrade, tell me what I should buy!

    I've had a 110, 360, 560, and now a 700. The 560 was my fav.... I hate the 700. The first print on the 700 is always a bit smaller or larger... So when paneling the first print is garbage. Unless you tape it to the take up reel and run a 2-3 ft print before hand.... Then it's all bang on, but...
  11. 3 Sign Shops Closed

    I think the whole raise your price advice thing isn't an across the board thing. If something takes you forever to do and it's low margins, that's the type of work you raise your prices on... Or better yet outsource. It's like banners. There's a dozen shops that sell them for $2 a sqft.... I...
  12. Niagara Falls

    The real question is, which side was better?
  13. Laminating 100s of Sheets at a Time

    I hate doing it because the paper tends to crumple after awhile, We use a seal as well. My royal sovereign came with a second roller specifically meant for kraft paper.... Never tried it out though, so maybe it's better. We use a 5x12 rolls roller - lau them all flat and do it that way, it's...
  14. Laminating 100s of Sheets at a Time

    like this. But obviously you keep going for all your sheets
  15. Laminating 100s of Sheets at a Time

    You put the laminate on your roller, and kraft paper as what you're laminating... Then you just feed the sheets into your laminator. The kraft paper is used as a waste, and prevents the laminate from sticking to the roller. You waste a $20 worth of kraft paper.... But you save however long it...
  16. Okay, I think I have a winner here..................................................................................

    Don't worry... He came through with dimensions! I shit you not, this is what he sent for dimensions. I just stopped replying to him.... So 4 hours later he showed up.... To tell me the windows 66" wide....and he told them we'd install it on Monday. If you forget what it looks like... Refer to...
  17. Okay, I think I have a winner here..................................................................................

    Another one from yesterday. We should have a sticky thread where we can post these.... Would be good for a Friday laugh. Sister screenshots a Facebook post, texts it to me and asks if she should give them my name. I replied "no... I already told you to stop giving my information to...
  18. Okay, I think I have a winner here..................................................................................

    We sold our used Latex printer to a sign shop - The guy shut his doors down during covid, and bought the printer a year and a half ago to get back into it, since all his printers (5 of them..) are solvent, and were put away into storage without proper draining... We still have the printer in...
  19. Thrive

    We have 4 printers, so our PC is always ripping and printing. Half the rips, and the operator is sitting there twice as long ripping stuff before he can hit print and move onto the next printer... by the time he's done with 4 printers he's usually back to the first as well. Ontop of...
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