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  1. Need Help Reflective sheet printing

    try re-laminating the sheets to the release liner. that should help with the bubbles. also you may have to raise the head on your machine so you don't get the head strikes. also could be a temp issue with the printer, maybe too hot and causing the material to bubble up. try some different settings
  2. hand sanitizer stations

    no worries. i am not a huge fan of the things we have to do now. i wear my mask when mandated and wash my hands..blah..blah. i am doing what i have to so i can work and keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. not making light of the situation but with that said the government really...
  3. hand sanitizer stations

    explain that to the wife of the guy i worked with that died
  4. hand sanitizer stations

    anyone need a hand sanitizing station for their shop, office, church, school or maybe you want to sell them? let me know and i can get you contact info. one of our customers makes them. just sharing the info
  5. Yoga Mat Printing on UV Flatbed/Hybrid Printer

    i have printed on yoga mat with roland LEJ-640. everything went fine and adhesion was good. the issue we had was customer complained about the smell from ink
  6. clear & translucent vinyl installed- squeegee marks

    installed some mactac bubble free clear with custom printed color per customer request. now they are complaining about squeegee marks. printed on roland eco-sol printer (pms2130- blue) w/ gloss lam any tips or tricks to not get squeegee marks? will they fade over time? pic attached but keep in...
  7. designers and large files? venting..haha

    the main thing that gets me is if my computer gets slowed down working with the file so did the designers so why didn't they fix the issue so it's manageable. then throw in all the other issues that go along with it..haha
  8. designers and large files? venting..haha

    is it just me or does anyone else receive art from customer with large graphics masked off and make the file size huge and hard to work with? why would you leave a file like that? am i missing something? it's so annoying when you try to move a file in illustrator and it freezes up while it moves...
  9. XC540

    the XC is a work horse we have had ours for years but it does need some regular maintenance when stuff like that happens. i usually start with the cap tops. then dampers then a head soak over night after that a head might need to be replace but that i have to call a tech in to do.
  10. Dont know about you, but my buisiness just stopped

    we have slowed down but still have work. unfortunately we have had to got to a 4 day work week starting next week to try and save some money. could be worse, at least we can still work
  11. Need Help Turning off printers potentially for a long period of time

    i would double check with your tech but we have roland machines and a fugi flat bed all have been left on during our 2 week company shutdown and they run their regular cycles of self cleaning and ink renewal. if that is not an option and you have to shut them down i would flush the lines with...
  12. Anyone seeing a slowdown due to coronavirus?

    https://sdgmag.com/news/coronavirus-having-major-impact-trade-show-and-special-events-industries?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20200312_SDG_ENEWS%20(1)&utm_content=&spMailingID=22993298&spUserID=MTcxMzkyNDAxNzI0S0&spJobID=1700715707&spReportId=MTcwMDcxNTcwNwS2
  13. Anyone seeing a slowdown due to coronavirus?

    overall not really but we do have one area it's starting to disrupt. we do work with a few event/party planners and do graphics for weddings, parties and other events. just had two jobs canceled. one was a big one for GOYA luckily no special materials were ordered and no printing had begun yet
  14. Question Solvent printable adhesive backed kraft paper

    i have not seen anything like that before. you probably have to buy a roll of Kraft paper and a roll of mounting adhesive then just laminate the two together
  15. TR2 Ink Conversion for Roland Printers

    we went two years with little to now issues and then all hell broke loose. our dealer covered everything and after a long drawn out process and a lot of down time they have everything converted to the T2 ink, software and firmware and it's been about 6 weeks give or take and things are running...
  16. Question truvis ink

    not sure this is the correct way to post this so i apologize in advance , first time doing this but... i have a few truvis ink cartridges we can not use if anyone is interested. 550ml brand new , unopened. my cost was $128 each best offer gets them thanks
  17. Suggestions anyone use laser measuring device?

    saw a a guy using a laser bosch laser measurer and wondering if anyone uses them? how good are they? any thing to look out for?
  18. XR-640 is out of Warranty - should I switch to 3rd party inks?

    we use the nazdar inks also with good results but only their solvent inks. do not use their UV inks. we had some issues with them but nazdar is a good company and they came out and did all the neccessary repairs to get the uv machine back up and running and refunded us for the uv inks
  19. Yard Sign Stakes

    we get our stakes and coro from N. Glantz . they went to the Chinese stakes for a while and same thing happened so they switch back the USA stakes and i have to make sure when i order i specify which stakes i want .(they have a few boxes left over they are trying to get rid of so need to make...
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