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we were doing quite a bit of it then in our area it died down. I can order a lot of the stuff needed now through ASI and get it cheaper than what I could produce it for.

we used to pad print but dont anymore. We used to burn our plates. The laser plates were just coming out and at that time I was not impressed.

do you put webbing in the seams? We recommend webbing on all large banner going outdoors.

I have the EFI 24f and its a solid machine. The 30f is the newer version with the larger bed. Not sold on needing a larger bed as 98% of the substrates printing on is 4'x8'. We did beta testing with EFI and had the 24f before it was even announced. Had their first one ever out the door...

gotta learn how to do it. DO NOT do it wet use the proper material that has air egress and learn how to apply vinyl. I use the timber maxx when I need to do it. We bought UV flatbeds 7 or 8 years ago and don't apply many large pieces anymore but when needed it can be applied in about 5...

If the head is under warranty HP will send a new one. There are dates on them and then they can check to see how much printing has been done with it. If within those guidelines they sent a new one out. We always keep a spare set on hand and change them out so we can keep printing then deal...

I got one of the first ones when they were released. Great machine but slow. Its been a few years but a 4'x8' CMYK print takes about 18 minutes or so. This is entry level as it has 2 heads and the speed is slower. We upgraded to an EFI which has 6 heads and print a sheet in about 7 minutes...

Here is the work around. 1) Find you a tech that is cool as sh!t. 2) You plug in your laptop and they remote into that laptop and open their program which allows access to the service menu. 3)fix your printer.

we print a ton of the Sihl 3686 and 3689 paper and do not have any issues.

The chemicals needed to remove screen print would destroy the surface of the plastic.

general rule of thumb on standard material is I take my cost per square foot, add in the ink cos(about $0.25/sqft) then add 175%. this gives some room to work with when they have quantity if you want to give a price break.

Stay away from Direct Color. There are a few in town that the businesses keep coming to us to get stuff printed because their printers are always down. We run small format UV with 2 Mimaki machines being the 3042 and 6042. The 6042 we have had for about 6 years and only had 1 tech visit in...

I always tell people that mesh banners need to have webbing in the seams to be able to last. In house we stitch them in but depending on if we order them in for size or quantity they heat weld them in. Taping a seam on a mesh banner is not going to last long you need the extra support.

We use the timber Maxx from YelloTools. Works great and very fast. Don't apply much printed vinyl anymore though now that we have flatbed printers.

I run the EFI 16H that has the 3M flex inks in it. Not sure if they are flexible enough for thermoforming. EFI make the 1625-SD that is meant for thermoforming. I would imagine anyone that has that printer is probably printing for themselves only though.

that printer will not work well with ecosolvent inks, it was not made for that.

Mutoh makes great printers. It was our first and ran for 7 years with the same print head. We got a second one as we were busy enough to need the two. It is still running great after 5 years. I finally got rid of the original one as it started to finally start printing bad but after 9 years...

just charge your hourly shop rate. Treat this just like any other install you just don't have to drive anywhere. We are at $75/hr with a $50 minimum.

there is some noise not sure if it is fans or not. Just remember that all of the electronics and the computer are still on so to monitor the status even when "asleep" so there could be small fans running. As far as breakers I only turn them off when doing work on the machine which is rarely...

Get a 30" roll of laminate. On a boat you will want the extra layer of protection. Liquid laminate wont be good enough for a boat.