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  1. Question Better way for making a template??

    This is generally problematic for most people as most people use their phones and they have a natural distortion to them. In order to do it correctly you would need to invest in a decent camera. It's tough to get a straight on shot, and you have to use a camera not a phone due to the...
  2. Ashfault Art

    Did you post heat and roll?
  3. Question Does the Latex 310 have the ability to overprint

    So you want to mess with the ink density. So I would look at increasing the number of passes, ink density and since your laying down more ink but you are having more dwell time you will still probably need to tweak your heat setting as well. Maybe look at doing something like 16 pass with 120%...
  4. Question Better way for making a template??

    If you have a scanner in the shop you can us it as well. I create my template piece, cut it out, sharpie the edges, create a criss cross pattern on it and scan it in a few pieces. Place it together in Illustrator and trace. No need to go to an outside place or spend extra time or money. Most...
  5. How to Find Car Dimensions

    Using a vehicle template from someplace like Artstation.
  6. How do you dress at work? Uniforms?

    It's Alaska, winter is coming.
  7. How do you dress at work? Uniforms?

    Dark work pants (Duluth flex), Thermal top layer and a t-shirt on top
  8. Printing white, chrome or gold on clear

    That small and thoese colors, I think that something like the Gerber is going to be your best bet.
  9. Really, really OLD vinyl removal product/technique recommendations

    Heat gun and time... Rapid remover to remove adhesive. Depending on how long the stripe has been on there and how much UV damage is on the original paint, there's good sign that you will see difference under the stripe. As far as the wheel goes, I have a guy here that used them all the time...
  10. Question Need to pick the brain of an illustrator guru.

    So is illustrator. In fact you can set up you work space with all the customization and save it. You can than go to another machines and log in and still use that customization. Corel, Illustrator, Flexi, Omega, these are all just tools to get the job done.
  11. Question Motivation, Incentives, Production Increase

    So your probably just venting and I understand the frustration. However if your serious probably the first thing I would suggest is taking a step back. As a business owner you are quite vested in you business and the day to day options so sometimes you can't see the forest from the trees...
  12. HP360 Service Menu

    Works on my 570.... nice.
  13. Silly Question ... Spray Bottles

    Not a silly question at all. We use these, I've had one for over 10 years. They are awesome. Great squeeze action, durable and chem resistant. They only time I've seen one fail is when it has fallen and physically broken.
  14. Hourly shop rate

    That's just fucking dumb. I'm sorry man, I thought it was bad up here when guys are charging $6 a sqft. How can they stay open at $1.75... I know that their still making a little money but damn, that's scraping the bottom of the barrel.
  15. Need an opinions on this printer

    HP has just released a white ink with their new R series. Might be a little bit but I wouldn't be surprised to see it pop up in the next gen or two on the roll to roll printers.
  16. Hourly shop rate

    So this not necessarily a yes and no question. A lot of it depends on what your doing. For example lets say that a client wants 10 12x18 parking signs. So rather than charging 2 minutes of shop labor to apply each sign, use a flat fee for that size sign. But yes charge for artwork...
  17. Need an opinions on this printer

    So I used an older HP Latex at one of my other shops and yes, it was a pain int he ass. The spindle front loading was a bitch and one reason we had kinda looked over HP when we were looking at new printers. However HP has updated their material loading and is just at easy as anything else I've...
  18. Looking for some 3M material

    3M has basically shut down for the summer to update their system. They have been doing this world wide. Should be back up and going any day now.
  19. Window Perf Looking Hazy, Not constant clarity.

    Post heat and it should start to clear up. This is a known 'issue' but it should clear up after a few days in the sun.
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