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  1. 3M™ MCS™ Warranty for Traffic Printer question

    Print on some 3290, take a washcloth and rub it a little bit... :) one guy on here printed a bunch of signs on 3290, didn't overlam it since they were temp....and within a week he got a call because they turned into blanks. 3290 is not latex compatible and 3m won't warranty it. In a pinch it...
  2. Summa S2 120 t series

    I havent used a Summa much... just a few times in a demo. But if you've used a graphtec for years... picking up on the summa wont be hard. It has a few different terminologies, and being a Tangential instead of drag knife there will be a few other things to learn... But it's a great machine...
  3. Large Vinyl Install advise

    We do lots of 10-20 ft applications by hand. For something like this... We would rapid tac it and do it on the rolls roller, just because it'd take 1 minute instead of 10 and it's so easy a monkey could do it without bubbles. If you have no rolls roller... Do it 50/50 wet applied with a...
  4. Rant I've frickin' had it.............................................

    Have you considered installing windows 7 on your pc? In most cases it'll work fine, unless you have a rare pie e of hardware that has no drivers for windows 10... But most things do since a lot of people / businesses run windows 7 still.
  5. So.... What is everyone going to do for Thanksgiving?

    Kind of. Ours is all online only. It's not the best deals,and bots buy up all the good deals instantly.. Still some good deals to be had, but it's not as good as it used to be.
  6. CE6000 Contour Cutting Issue

    Are you setting your origin correctly? Your origin needs to be before and on the outer edge of the crop mark. If you set your origin after the crop mark feeds through... It doesn't matter if you move the head over the crop mark as itll be past the media start point, then it'll just feed itself...
  7. So.... What is everyone going to do for Thanksgiving?

    I will be taking advantage of your late (Or ours is early) Thanksgiving, and doing a ton of black Friday shopping. Building my first PC in a decade... supply chain ontop of such huge leaps in performance are making it challenging. It's taken me months to get enough parts for it to...
  8. 3M™ MCS™ Warranty for Traffic Printer question

    I can't speak for America... But I imagine it's the same. There's three big players over here. 3M, avery and nikkalite. Some cities specify only avery... Some only.3m, etc. Most of the time avery and 3m are interchangeable and works. A 360 is only certified to print on 3M material. If you...
  9. Suggestions Looking for a........................................

    http://www.yellotools.us/Cutting/Cutting-Mats/ here you go. They'll cut it down to any size... So if you need 49x96 they'll do that. Good for oversized tables, or custom ones! A lot softer and lasts a lot longer than rhino Matt's... Though we use both.
  10. Suggestions Looking for a........................................

    Check out yellow tools. They have a really thick clear one It's about twice the price, but worth it. If you have a rolls roller, it is like the healing mat on that. The Rhino brand that Grimco sells Isn't bad, but it is nowhere near as good. Yellow tools is also by the Roll. So if you have a...
  11. We have a vaccine

    I don't know why you take it so personally when a non American has a view on us politics. We may have no say in it, but that doesn't mean we don't have an interest in it (both personally and professionally), especially when whomever gets Ellected has a direct influence on our politics and...
  12. We have a vaccine

    I'm mainly taking about on S101, I'm in the west coast (And in Canada) so I don't know many other trumpers! I know a few anti vaccine people irl and they lean to the left, not the right.... I don't think people who follow trump are more anti vaccine than others, just pointing out a lot of...
  13. We have a vaccine

    I find it funny how the vaccine is coming out under trumps guidance/fast tracking... and it's mainly trump supporters who don't want it / think it's bad for them! I think everyone is skeptical of it. No one wants to be the first person to get it incase there is unforeseen consequences. It's...
  14. 3M™ MCS™ Warranty for Traffic Printer question

    unfortunately that means wasting a good 6-7 ft of material! When diamond grade is about $1800 (Canadian) a roll...thats quite a bit of waste when you're sometimes printing 1 sign. When it's a full roll I'll usually do that and keep the offcut for our screen printing side... but if I did that...
  15. 3M™ MCS™ Warranty for Traffic Printer question

    Cheapest best way is likely the 3xx series then. 3M is very picky about their certification though. You have to use a specific overlam, and only high intensity and diamond grade meet their warranty.... 3290 isn't printable on latex, and 3430 doesn't meet their warranty specs...although it...
  16. 3M™ MCS™ Warranty for Traffic Printer question

    As christian said... you generally only have 2 choices. If you're not a 3M Certified shop and are willing to use Avery, it opens up more options. Or Oracal... I'm hoping you're not doing official traffic signs with your flatbed. It's not just the Warranty you're voiding by using the...
  17. Cash N Carry vs Install

    Why not just say you sure, you can go down and measure the items, but it'll be at your standard hourly rate which is XX per hour. 30 mins there...30 mins back, 5 minutes to measure... then head out when it's convenient and slow for you. Most people will understand they cant expect you to take an...
  18. Cash N Carry vs Install

    If your customer wanted 1000 words on a van describing everything their company does.. would you do it, or would you advise them the wrap would be useless because no one would read it? Your 1000 word instructions can be conveyed much easier, and much better with 5 photos and 50 words. Then your...
  19. Cash N Carry vs Install

    Just curious...as I'm open to other ways. Whats wrong with initial placement at the top of the graphic? how else do you get it straight? If you just put it at the sides it'll sag...at the bottom, gravity will get it. usually you put it at the top and work with gravity to align it... Then...
  20. FB700 Belt Cleaning.

    Yes. I clean or belt once a month. I like you, took over the print room where the Previous guys never cleaned it. I used Methanol...it works way better and faster. But because it wasn't an "approved" solution we stick to alcohol unless we have a huge buildup that won't come off. Methanol...
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