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I threw my care away long ago; if they want bad & ugly - give it to them! Hit print and deposit the check. It always amazes me when we get a new customer with a fleet of trucks to re-wrap and they aren't at all interested in at least getting a decent logo to start with instead of just their...

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We don't mind the smell as it isn't that bad. Our latex was more "stinky" than the Epson printers we have now are. For quality, long term signage you should wait a few hours before laminating, but for shorter-term projects you can laminate them almost right off the printer. I would wait at least...

Ther are a few different options you can try using OnOne's Perfect Resize. Sometimes the final outcome does come out looking a bit "painted", but that is it trying its hardest to enlarge the square pixels without making everything blocky at the larger resolution. Original image was 33x7.2...

Removal and reapply (or just partial R&R) shouldn't make any change, as phototex does NOT stretch. I am betting that the bubble is from not installing it correctly or trying to stretch/bend it, when it wants to stay flat. Actually, if it (the phototex) inst fixable by squeegeeing it down, there...

Bad cable or slider board.

Pull the phototex off the wall, wipe the wall down with alcohol TWICE. Reapply phototex. If the crease wont go away, use heat to make it happy again.

After 2 strikes I would definitely switch materials. (I would switch brands)

I have never heard of UV ink for wraps. Are you sure it was properly outgassed before lamination? Try a UV lamp? A torch can make things magically get better but can burn things quick too.

You're probably looking at a new Y-axis motor soon if you can hear it starting to go. However, first make sure the carriage bearings are lubricated and the rails are clean and lubricated. That will reduce drag on the motor. I believe there is also a bearing/pulley that can go bad on that...

Phototex for Templates

I installed an additional cutting software program on the same PC that my RIP is on. It is the same software that we cut to our other plotters from, but we hardly ever use the RIP pc to just cut. We have a lot of plotters though.

A laser can both cut and engrave if you're looking for just wooden tokens. Kinda like a print/cut machine. ;) Just use different power/speed settings for each function and have a common X/Y axis origin.

It was pretty close to Flange, but not perfect, Flange is almost $300 for the font, so I just got a better photo and traced it. The graphic in the photo was originally made by Leo's, so it shouldn't be a Pierce font.

I would bet that buying decent poker chips, then making a template to inlay them into (for mass production) then laser engraving them would be a really nice end product.

Drop shadows in Illustrator always seems to kill speed for me too, so I avoid them whenever possible. Most of the time you have to flatten the effect anyways if you're doing print/cut.

Does anyone know of anyone buying used cartridges for the S70670 series printers? Getting ready to pitch a mountain of them.

Well. By the hour. Without installers you are dead in the water as a wrap shop. With happy, quality installers you are a successful shop.

If you're doing wraps you will want to start off doing them right, so check out which school you would like to attend. PDAA & 3M both offer training courses. I assume Avery, Oracal, etc also still offer them.