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It looks like your problem has more to do with the fact that it is mounted on glass, than with the material. Glass is a problem. Stickers/Decals often don't last a long time on glass. We always warn the customer that stickers on glass probably won't last as long as decals on painted metal...

Congratulations for expanding your knowledge you've gained making your own signs and wraps into the commercial world. When I started this business, I had even less knowledge of sign making. But there were at the time a lot of trucks without any signage in our area and the machinery to make...

It sounds like your problem is that the printed media won't stick to the backing so when you weed it, the letters go a walking in all directions. If this is the case, what you need is a stickier media along with a thinner overlaminate. If durability is an issue, go with a sticky cast like 3M...

Walk away. You did your job.

If you haven't stopped already, my advice is just stop. Cover or re-paint the problem and come up with a new solution. The paint is going to come off the wall and pull the drywall. It's going to be a disaster. Phototex might be a solution or even Oracal 631 (I have a test wall of printed 631...

We have had a Dmais Chinese made 62" laminator for the past two years. Works fantastic. (Knock wood.) Has pneumatic (small air compressor) loading to raise the roller. No adjustment required. There is a heater for it, but we never installed it. Had USTech (Chinese) 54" laminator before that...

Story time: I had this customer who was notorious for slow paying, but kept returning so I kept doing business with him. One time he ordered signs in a rush job and, what the heck, I produced them. It was 200 bucks. But when he let it drag paying out for two or three months, I was ticked off...

This is easy. In Flexi, click Edit, the Job Statistics. It will show you the square footage of the design. Edit: Doh - I see that I've been beaten to the punch by a few minutes.

Tae Kwon Do is Korean karate. Okinawan karate is from Okinawa. Doesn't make much sense to go to Okinawa to study Tae Kwon Do. I've been to Okinawa twice to study karate - not Tae Kwon Do. No one sponsored me, but then I didn't think to ask...Won't you please send an old man to karate camp...

I know this thread is getting a little long in the tooth, but it sounds like the OP is having a firmware problem similar to one that we had a couple years ago. We never used third party inks, but there was some reason or another to upgrade VersaWorks, or perhaps it was just the firmware. There...

I always heard that Windex was bad for vinyl adhesive, so never use it except on glass, where it cleans very well as claimed. Maybe that's an old wives tale, but I have stuck with it.

We have a Chinese made laminator similar to the one shown by the OP. It has worked great right out of the box. Well, we did have to find instructions for it online as they weren't included, but it was simple enough. You only need the air compressor to change rolls of laminate. That is, the...

We thought about trying Arlon 3170, but the specs seem to indicate it doesn't have UV protection. On the other hand, we use a lot of the 4600 GLX high performance calendared for decals, so perhaps its worth a try. To date though, we've been using 3270, and other cast laminates when the 3270 was...

Outgassing is a problem with Eco-Sol ink and wrap materials (and when I go to Taco Bell), but not much of a problem with lettering. Letting a wrap dry overnight is fine for the image, but the material is ultra-sticky...especially if we print on a high pass setting. If we can, we let the wrap...

I'd go with a new Chinese laminator. You get the same warranty (none). But it's new and you can get one for under $3,000 will all the bells and whistles. By the way, we have an eight year old (also Chinese) 54" laminator. It only works properly up to 30", maybe 36" in a pinch. We keep it loaded...

We spread the unlaminated print out on a long table and use the take up roll to capture it. Our shop is organized with the printer, tables and laminator lined up at the side, so it's pretty efficient. Roll to roll is fine, except our laminator lifted the feed roll out of its holder once...And...

After reading your stories, I almost told you mine. But then I realized, we have the same customer. And for some reason, he - or she - keeps coming back.

My mistake. 170 has Comply air release, but doesn't have Controltac, pressure activated adhesive. Lettering with air release is a must for us when the lettering and logos are wide, because wide vinyl traps air. 3M 7125, to my knowledge, doesn't have air release and is (much) more expensive...

I have to letter a box truck next week. The vinyl will be all white and there are some white logos. Most of the lettering/logos are wide so there should be a lot of surface area for adherence. The box has rivets so I want to use a conformable cast material. I'd also like to use a vinyl that...

This is not really a wrap. It's just sticking contact paper on a car that will look fine from 100 feet away. If someone came to me with real artwork that could be put in the machine and printed at $2.72/ft. and our costs were 60 cents a foot, then maybe? It's a little light, because of the...