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I'm doing my homework to buy our first flatbed cutting machine. Right now we are between the Colex SXC1732 and the Esko X24. We will mostly use it to cut rolled material like vinyl but will start to do dimensional sign in-house instead of sub it out. For the cutting we will mostly do 1/2 thick...

I have the 700w for 9 months now and love it so far. There was few minors problems but nothing to really shake our production schedule. With the last firmware update in august, everything is smoother. My last printer was a L260, so it's a big jump generations. For the take-up, I have an office...

Does you material is square or you need to cut an arc like the page 5 in this document?

I have the HP 700. With almost all materials, if I don't use the take-up, the material will jam in the curing unit even if I advance the material outside of it at the start-up. The problem with this is I lost 5 linear feet each time I load a job. For smaller jobs, that is a big lost. Right now...

It's pretty basic machine. I'm almost sure it's China made. But at 650$, it's interesting. I've found a fully automatic machine made in Holland. I'm sure it's expensive, but if the jobs picks up, it will be very interesting to use.

I've tried to find something local or "brand name" and did not find anything. Do you have any suggestions or link? Maybe I don't use the right keywords?

like the title says, I'm looking for an acrylic bending machine to make mainly displays. The only one I've found so far that is interesting is this one on sign-in-china.com I would like to have some recommendations if this one is garbage. I'm planing to use it at least once every week. Right...

How precise are the cuts?

If you could only buy a track saw or panel saw to cut everything related to the sign industry (in my case mostly acrylic), what would you choose? If you have a specific brand/model in mind, I would like to know. Thanks.

My cutter is a summa D160R and I'm using the winplot software and illustrator. It seems doable, but with the premask, the material is very rigid and I think the cutter will not be able to cut the premask and the liner.

I got a Summa vinyl cutter. I have over 400 numbers to cut. I was wondering if there is a way I could cut the job, apply premask and put it back in the vinyl cutter to use the flexcut function. I know it would work on a flatbed cutter, but was wondering if it could work with roll-to-roll...

I will sure check "regular" paint shop. But I would like to what it would take to do it myself. 80% of the stuff that will be painted will be for indoors (mostly office lobby). So it need to look right at close range. Also, most of my customers want a mat finish. I like the rattle can idea, but...

We currently outsource all our dimensional job to Gemini and a local guy. We are bidding on a job that would justify the purchase of a CNC machine. I've done my homework and know what I will buy. But now I need to figure out the paint part. I've considered to subcontract that part, but the...

Yes you can print at 260% white. I did not tried it tho because we only print white on clear. I'm sure it would be very expensive and long to print. I've sold a 5 layers job and for the time and ink consumption it take, it's not something I will sell. Took around 6 hours to print a 40sqft job.

Well I never left the white head unused more than 12 hours and in that time, I've lost only around 2$ worth ok ink. Maybe it I would have left it more than that it would have drain the ink cartridge. 1= The only smell I have is heated vinyl. Backlit is the worst. Regular vinyl, no problem. 2=...

I have the 700w and use almost more white than the other colors. We are still in testing for different opacity but it really depend of what you want to do. most of our job will print fine with the 60% (6pass) white profile (if it's a spot). For black on clear, if you indeed use a backlit profile...

I'm trying to create a grain gradient in illustrator that will be printed with white ink. So I need it to be a spot color. I can use the grain effect, but cannot use it as a spot color. So I will probably have to create a ''gradient'' vector, but can't figure out how to do it. Yes, I could just...

So with the trade show currently going, is there a promotion for the summa s2t vinyl cutters?

Tried 3 times to contact them about this. Never got a reply.

I've forgot to check with that. It's a big help to figure things out. To do 70sqft in 5 layers, it took 763ml of white ink. That is insane. But at least, it give me a startup to calculate things.