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Solvent if you want wide gamut. Latex if you want fast drying. Latex white is also decent. What’s the benefit of UV if you are going to laminate it anyway?

Many thanks for showing us your setup. Interesting that you are using UV for all your decals. Would you be willing to share which brand/type of laminates you use? Thanks!

When commercial printers apply foil to paper they normally print a heat activated resin. The prints then pass through a foiling machine that rolls the foil onto the print with heat and pressure and the foil sticks only to the resin. Never heard of this done with a wide format UV printer but I’m...

Ha ha, not sure about a hazmat suit but you'll definitely need gloves. You don't want UV inks on your skin :) I'm not trying to scare you away from UV, it produces some cool effects, but I have worked around eco/solvent printers for almost 20 years (I even had a Versacamm in my bedroom when I...

UV inks themselves smell, not just the smell emitted during printing. As a test you should order a UV ink cartridge, open it, and leave it in your apartment for a day. They just emit a strong chemical smell, all the time. We store ours in a sealed cupboard. Dealers will tell you anything to...

Wait, you’re going to run a UV printer from your apartment? Do you think that’s a good idea? Apart from the health issues of being around these printers, UV inks smell really badly and I can’t imagine how you are going to deal with that for yourself or your neighbors. When our Roland was...

Piece of cake to do back slits on a flatbed. It’s possible on a roll cutter but glossy decals get scratched as the vinyl travels through the cutter face down. You can rotate the decals so the back slits are on the x axis to minimize travel. You could apply some kind of felt to the cutter to...

Does it read the first registration mark? Do you get an error message? The artwork you send to the Roland should be the original artwork size without registration marks. Then you enable crop marks in versaworks and send the cut data to the cutter. You will need 2 files. Let’s assume your...

This should work. Does it read the first registration mark? If you have crop marks enabled in versaworks then it should look for the first registration mark when you send the job.

If you run it as a dumb printer, it doesn’t care what cartridge is installed, as long as there is a cartridge there that has ink in it. You lose ink level monitoring in the rip and on the printer however.

Never heard this before about orange and red. We haven’t had a complaint about fading in the 7 years we have been running orange ink and we print a lot of 021C.

Onyx will do it. You’ll have to run it as a ‘dumb’ printer and do all the profiling in onyx, but it’s possible. You’ll also have to rig up a way of running different inks. Either a bulk system or a way of using another brand of cartridges. Also for white you’ll need ink circulation, so it’s...

I don’t think he has printed on the material yet. He has some laminated material which shows silvering that he intends to print onto with his uv printer.

Maybe he wants the matte or varnish effect on the wrap. In which case, printing on top would be the only way to do it. Have you tested how well the ink sticks to the laminate? Have you tried printing some and stretching it round a compound curve? Those are the things I would do before offering...

You can set multiple versions of cut server to send cut files to the same network folder (set cut to file in cut server). Then point barcode server at that one folder. We run 2x pc with 2x onyx and 2x cutters and we share the same network folder for both cutters so we can put any job in either...

Correct, the new machines have green but they are discontinuing metallic ink, although they said support and inks will be available well into the future. Both eco solvent and dye sub will share the same chassis. The dye sub has neon ink. Release is sometime in 2025.

We did that. Updated everything. Running gosign pro pack. We got barcode recognition working with cam but had to revert to using opos for all reg mark jobs with media profiles in the cutter rather than camera profiles in gosign. There is some kind of issue with the camera which the engineer...

I’ll try creating a new camera profile, although that’s what the engineer did on the very media we are using. Unfortunately printing white or yellow under cropmarks or reg marks in a different color isn’t really an option as all marks are added in onyx for our workflow.

Thanks, I have camera profiles, including two that were set up by the engineer but they don’t work.

We recently purchased an S3 Cam specifically for reading barcodes and reg marks on chrome and holographic vinyl. The engineer set up the cutter and got the cutter to successfully read a barcode on chrome vinyl. Now we are on our own, it won’t read barcodes correctly. With barcodes we get a...