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Shouldn't you know this? Did you do this design? Do you have the files? Also not wanting to sound rude but have you ever wrapped/printed a vehicle like this before? If not there is a learning curve. Make sure to give yourself a good bleed on the rear as you have to wrap it all the way around...

maybe don't do vertical panels but horizontal panels instead and work from the bottom up us the body lines for your seams. Also why do a partial wrap? It looks like this could be a full wrap. Honestly I think that would almost be easier. Start with the rear of the vehicle so you can match...

We recently had a similar issue with our municipality. They farm out the printing of the police vehicle every few years and take lowest bid. The problem is that they always lose the print files and ask the last company who had the contract to sent them to the whomever is awarded the new...

It's only easy if you wrap it right.

So it's the new gen 3 inks that are causing the issue? I wonder if it's creating a 'hydrophopic' type situation where the adhesive on the laminate is not able to set or bond to the printed area. Maybe add a little heat to the rollers when laminating and see if you can get the adhesive flowing...

While I understand your issue, we've all been there but is it worth it? What do you charge for design time and will this damage your relationship with the client so that they might not come back to you? How much money have they brought into your shop already what's the potential for them to...

Make sure to use the heater attachment so the material doesn't get stuck in the machine. Other than that I'm interested to see how it works I've not done it yet.

The 3290 is meant for screen printing but it will also work with solvent/eco-solvent. We thought the same thing and one day we printed a sign and used masking tape to tape a slip sheet over it so it wouldn't get scratched. When we removed the masking tape it pulled the laminate and ink right...

While the printer is important, the equally important question is material and what rip will you be using What types of material would you be printing on and whats the best printer for that. We just picked up a could of HP570's latex and it can print on almost anything and the new gen 3 inks...

So after you print, do you notice a film on the print at all? Almost like it's greasy but the print it dry? Without seeing the setup, I'm shooting in the dark but maybe look at increasing your dwell time in the heaters so go from a 8 to a 10 pass, also maybe look at decreasing the density from...

It all depends on what to project is. Each are fine but it also depends on the material as well as laminate. 3290 won't run with latex but you can with eco-sol. I also haven't had much luck with 7930 and latex either but could have just been a bad roll.

So each thing or process take a different amount of time, resources, money and experience. For example lets say a customer comes in and wants his US DOT numbers in non serif font, black gerber 220 at 2" copy. Now lets say a client comes in and wants window graphics for his office window, white...

So wrap like you would normally, for something like these you would probably want to use a punch set that's made for leather or gaskets, there's a good variety of sizes and styles and find the one that best fits the heads. So you get a nice bubble around the head and place punch over it and...

Can you post some screen shots?

Are the letters selected when you try to cut them? You also might need to select them and add a cut line an than select cut rather than print.

Sometime when I've gotten to the 'Fuck-It' stage I do my best work.

It depends on the vehicle and the material. There are a lot of variable that go into a vehicle wrap and it depends on how far you want to go. If it's a pick up are you going to remove the bed so that you can go behind the cab? Are you going to remove the lights, door handles, window seals...

Nope not anymore you just jinxed yourself, oh well better luck on #202

Duly's can be a bitch. Are you using solid color material like 3M 1080 or printed?