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We're already on to our 2nd living wall sign. Did a few things differently this time. Pics below should explain a lot of the process for the curious. ;)

You need to profile your printer yourself and create your own custom profile based off that. After that, you need to fix your files' color-space issues.

We keep our printers and print media in their own room so we can control the humidity around them better than the entire shop. We have AC or heat running constantly and still run 3 dehumidifiers constantly year round, one of them is in the print room.

Thinner lines and lettering are more prone to peeling/failure over time with air release vinyl.

Get a GFP 563th. We had a Arctic Titan and Seal laminator and they were horrible. Finally got a couple 563th laminators and they blow them away. Full rolls all day every day without issue.

Looks like straight on photos of the real cars are what you need then. Take photos at the dealership and apply cut paths. Scale them to whatever size for your kits.

Then it sounds like something in your RIP has changed. Onyx can be a PITA every now and then.

So, this file always prints "incorrectly", but do the other files you've created using this same pattern also do this same thing now? One really weird thing I have to look out for in Illustrator is different color setting in documents/versions. Like you can open an older file, make changes...

photos posted, in case you wanted to see them

Not the best photos, but everything turned out awesome. We pin mounted the letters and welded the pins to rails (painted black). Hung the whole thing (around 2 pounds) by thin black wire off of 2 hooks at the top. We added adjustable legs to the back so that we could get it to sit flat with the...

For applying rolls of app tape to rolls of vinyl I really like the GBC Arctic Titan laminator. We have one that has done probably 50,000 rolls of mask. Really, any laminator works for this, but simpler actually is better for app tape.

We use GerberMask here since we always have it in stock. Some customer's walls are always painted poorly so be sure to use as low of tack vinyl as possible unless you want to deal with paint pulling off. We have our own router so we always make our own patterns for letters/studs.

Do an offset path to your original art of about 1/8". Then reverse cut and weed the letters out of cheap low tack vinyl. Apply that to the wall, install the letters and remove the template. Easy peasy.

What are you printing on it?

Removal is going to be its own project.Then, re-creation of something similar is going to be its own project. Making stripes similar and applying them shouldn't really be hard. Use a straight on photo and good measurements and it should go smoothly. Hints: make them at least 1" larger than...

Contact your vinyl distributor (Like Grimco/Fellers) and they should be able to tell you who your local 3M rep is. I've put IJ35c on a few cheaper customers' vehicles in the past without issues, not full wraps, but print/cut graphics.

Yes, you can just insert a cleaning cartridge into those slots. We've never needed the silver ink so we just keep a cleaning cart in its spot.

Does the Plotter Doctor work on them?

Shoot me a PM with a photo of the end product/adhesive setup. I'm not 100% with you on the "selective adhesive" product, but I think it wouldn't be that hard to figure out. I've got an idea how its done already but would have to see photos or a physical sample to be totally sure. We make a...