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According to the manual you might want to check the step size and make sure they are set to the same value on the cutter and in the software.

Hey Phillip, does that plotter have an adjustment for the pinchroll pressure? It almost looks like the vinyl is slipping when it's going back and fourth in the cutter. Does it do it on regular vinyl or just the paintmask? Do you have a pen attachment on your plotter you can use on some paper...

What material?

in this case your material costs are really not that critical, on a small run of 50 pcs, the big cost is setup time, setting up files, loading the machine, loading the cutter, weeding, cutting the decals out etc. all of those operations take the same amount of time really if he orders 50 or...

I agree, most of my best clients I've never actually met. Orders come in via email and we ship the product to them.

There used to be a guy down the road from us who was pretty shady. One of his favorite tactics was when someone emailed him to get a quote on changing out a sign face, he would send his installer out to take the face down and bring it back to his shop ASAP. Then he would call the client and...

do the ink lines actually have ink in them? if so it's going to be a big job to fix as the ink will have dried out throughout the lines, printhead etc. if you never got the printer to actually load the ink then you might be in luck. either way used printers are not usually worth much, even in...

Yes we have, a sharp knife is key.

You can do this with phototex since it is a fabric, you install like normal with an overlap then take a knife and straight edge and cut the overlap off leaving a perfect butt joint, because it's fabric it won't shrink back like vinyl will. If he wants you to install vinyl without an overlap...

We make a lot of interior acrylic signs, we always try to paint the reverse side instead of using vinyl for this very reason. I have stuck some small acrylic room signs up with just VHB tape and have had issues where after a few months you can see exactly where the tape strips are on the back...

That seems like a strange workflow. You should be able to open the file in acrobat to view it and to take any measurements you might need. From there you would drop it in the rip and do any scaling, cropping, colour adjustment or add any bleed you might need. If clients are supplying you...

Ones for jumping a car battery wouldn't run a heat gun for very long. What you need is an inverter you can attach to your car battery and leave the truck running.

They make vinyl for low energy plastics like this, look for a vinyl labeled as high tack or specifically for dirtbikes and atv's

Both options have around 3 man hours invested in them, I'm not counting print time for the roll to roll because it doesn't tie up an employee while it's working. At the end of the day you have to decide what setup works best for your shop, I assume anyone who has a flatbed also has a roll to...

Yes and no, say your flatbed takes 8 minutes to print a 4x8 sheet, you load the sheet, hit print, prep the next sheet to go on (wipe it down) and you have maybe 5 minutes left before you need to remove the sheet and start all over again, from a productivity point of view, what can you really...

does signs 365 not panel the prints for you? I would imagine you can specify the amount of overlap you want etc. If not then set the panels up in photoshop and submit each panel as a separate file

Use a cast film, the difference in cost between the 2 for this project would be around $20-30.

We call them "hinge handles" up here

Not much of a story really, just always surprised when we do trade work for other shops how poorly artwork is set up, and when I explain how I need it done I usually get blank stares. Also most are extremely cheap...

The market segment they are catering too, mostly contractors and maintenance people, in my experience won't use this service. All of our dealings with there people (and we do a ton of work for them) want to make a single phone call, order what they need and move on with their day, they don't...