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I like Arlon products too. YMMV Maybe useful, maybe not: Installer friend wraps trailers of all kinds. Wraps are sent to him printed on 3M with liquid lam. Said they get at least two years out of them.(road salt, temp extremes etc..) By then the marketing campaign changes and it's time to...

UV Flatbed, Indigo, three solvent roll to roll and one aqueous in the lab. Roll to roll printers are in the wrap bay but the access doors are never closed. Zero issues and the equipment is run hard.

Vinyl going bad is what makes them look like that. Only way to make them last is to paint second surface on clear polycarb then spray translucent white flood coat. Learned that from an old time sign guy I worked with from time to time. He did a lot of backlit work, some of which is still in my...

Cut him a deal, take your lumps, and learn. Did that with a color change on a large fishing boat. Never touched one prior to that but my good friend and part-time installer isn't afraid of anything so we took the job. Undercharged by a bunch but it was our first go round. Learned an absolute...

My experience with white inks echos what others have said. No experience with silver but I imagine it causes the same issues. Friends of mine had a UV flatbed with white. They said it's great if you don't mind throwing away $400 in white ink every month. FYI listen to SolventInkjet(VanderJ)...

Cheap cotton Jersey gloves. Pair of them is always on top of the printer.

Folks in Texas can't catch a break. Seems like Oklahoma isn't far behind. Boggles the mind those types of issues are still around. Last I checked it's 2021 right? Wonder if generator sales spiked too...

If you end up with a Mimaki let me know. I'll send you my instructions for using Rasterlink with Illustrator.

If I were in your shoes I would buy the Epson. Help is just minutes away. Print quality with all new printers is absolutely incredible and should not worry you. Hard to go wrong with any of them. One thing to remember is Epson still makes the heads for some of the best printers on the...

The Mimaki CF2 in the lab at school runs well. This week I was cutting Omega board with the reciprocating knife. Weird control interface though and Rasterlink 6 is well...Rasterlink. The CF2-912 would fit your price range. I would ask for a demo before committing.

Buy from the dealer in your town even it it costs more. Everything breaks and when it does you want the tech within minutes not a day or more away. Until it's printing again you own a brick. Been there done that and lost an unholy amount of money and clients because I went for the "deal".

After all these years I asked my wife to build me a spread sheet in Excel. Booking lots of boats this year and there is no way to keep track with paper notes and a dry erase board. She built a User Form for me which so far is working well. It has fields for data pertinent to the job along...

Finding espresso size could be a problem. If I get back to Brady Street in Milwaukee I'll take a look. After I get done eating 1 or 3 made to order Cannoli.;)

Thank you for answering my question.

Delivered a museum sign last year. Client looked at me and said "What's wrong don't you like it?" I said: "It's just the fact that after you do something for the first time you figure out a better way to do it." :doh: Anyway, a few days later I got the check with a handwritten note saying he...

Close enough for government work...

Fuzz on the head. Quite possible to only show up on one side. There is a physics principle involved but my last physics class was decades ago. Basically the "inkcicle" bends back against the direction of travel keeping it off the print. When the head changes direction this causes the...

3M Bluetooth over ear protection limits the volume. Funny to read the complaints of people that bought them then can't blast their music while wearing hearing protection.o_O I just need noise canceling. Noise in the lab when everything is running wears on a person.

Check here: https://ckwraps.com/training Been watching his videos for years. His cold feed technique tinting a Ford truck headlight in amazing. Oh to be that good...

Can you still hear normal conversation? I need to hear/answer student questions when the lab is in full production mode.