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What about a thin acrylic or single-sided polymetal option? Too much weight?

Buy Gerber vinyls instead of Oracal. Cheaper than a new plotter. For the detail that the Gerber Edge/plotter combo gets you, you are going to want to stick to sprocket-fed rolls. It will work fine with friction-fed plotters if all you are doing is cutting vinyl graphics (not print/cut) but the...

I downloaded the file and checked it. It is grayed out because it is already rasterized. It is not a vector/smart object anymore.

Will VHB stick to them? You could print on a vinyl like Arlon DPF8000 and just stick the vinyl directly to them.

One thing we started doing here to help us find the time was to create orders for in-house projects like these. If you put an "order" in for work around the shop and put it for a couple weeks out, you are able to plan for it when the day gets here and know that the block of time is already used...

If that is stainless steel then use a vinyl specifically for stainless. 3M makes a vinyl 180SLS that we use for trailers that are stainless or have stainless rear doors. After we switched to that for those areas we no longer have any peeling issues with stainless steel wraps. The white on those...

Upgrading laminators was a great "small" change that helped a LOT. Went from a Seal that took 2 people to work properly and didn't do R2R correctly to a GFP that one person can do in 1/4 of the time R2R. Another good simple upgrade were creating a "chuck" that fit into a drill out of a hole saw...

Get a GFP563th. One of the best upgrades we've made here at our shop from our old Seal and GBC laminators (we have a couple of them now). Easy, dependable lamination. We just recently purchased a Graphtec FC8000, but the jury is still out on how happy we are with it for cutting/accuracy. It...

https://www.signs101.com/threads/permanent-adhesive-fabric-canvas-media.128903/#post-1268627 He is a Merchant Member on here, shoot him a PM or contact him directly and he will send you some swatch samples out.

What about a metallic print media with standard inks? Gans Media makes some really neat looking materials that look similar to Phototex but have metallic/holographic look to them.

I use a method I posted about here a LONG time ago, it should work great on your Polaris. https://www.signs101.com/threads/phototex-for-templates.119932/

We just upgraded from one of these to a new Graphtex FC9000 and it is night and day difference on cutting and accuracy. The summa always seemed to struggle pulling materials. On our older Mimaki plotters we put a thin piece of tape around (and slightly down) around the sensor head to block out...

My guess is bad ribbon cable. Could possibly also be a dirty encoder strip.

I have had issues with running the latest upgrades of Photoshop and Illustrator a couple times on Windows, thankfully you can "downgrade" back to the last version easily and wait a couple months till they fix the issue and release the next version.

All the guys at Trigon are great to work with, we've bought our last 4 Epson printers (and our laminators and plotters) from them and love their knowledge, honesty and support. They're about a half hour from here, but it looks like you're a ways away (in Tulsa?) so they might not be the best bet...

There's a coating some dealerships put on that our installers have to remove with a torch. I believe it is something like an armorall product. You can watch it burn off like moisture/humidity does.

Looks like Trajan Pro, with a flipped O and an upside-down G?

Stick with vertical for sheet stock. You ALWAYS need a sheet that is buried and have to unload the shelf to get to it, then re-load the shelf. We haven't any warping issues with vertical storage besides foam core that has sat for years. Make yourself some rolling shelving for odd-jobs waiting...

Here is an ambulance body I had to draw up today. Add a PVO cab and you're good to go! 10% Scale.

Recently we completed a dimensional display for a customer which now needs a display case created to protect it from dust and prying hands. I have not done a case or anything like that before but I assume there is a few ways to accomplish this. Does anyone have a suggestion as to how to...