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You're right. I got confused when I was writing the post. It was Orafol and FDC, not Avery, that didn't have profiles for my ink setup. I'm using the Avery 1005 profile currently.

Hey everyone, I'm running a VS-540i with a CMYKcmk ink setup. I'm trying to find print profiles for VW for my printer, but Roland's profile center has next to nothing for this ink setup. The last shop I worked at ran just a CMYK setup, so this is new territory for me. So here's my 2-part...

I really like your setup. It's great you have something you could wrap, if you wanted, or leave it anonymous. I know there's lots of debate on that point. Could you give me a rundown of the gearboxes and such you've installed on it? Did you install all the racks and such yourself, or did you...

If you can do it in-house with your own equipment and save money, is it a problem to run the job in shorter segments? At my previous shop we had a Roland VersaCamm and a small 30" graphtec plotter - used both for contour cut jobs. We did need to keep the segments down to 20 feet on the graphtec...

A former employer of mine used a similar method. The basic theory was that you're looking more about total profit for a job you get versus profit per individual piece on a job you lose because you can't compete. It may not be the best method, but we made money. On the production side, we used...

I'm just getting the new printing department set up for a marketing firm. Right now, we're not making enough off the printing side to justify purchasing a software program...yet. We just don't need all the functionality for the volume and dollar amount at this time. I've used CASper before, but...

Hey everyone. I'm Trevor and I've been hired on to a marketing firm to set up their large-format printing department in the Austin, TX area. I've worked for 3 years at a small startup sign & print shop in Dallas, where I worked my way up to the store manager. My experience is mostly in vinyl...

I've recently been hired on with a marketing firm to setup their wide-format printing department. This is the first time I'm the one recommending and setting up the policies for how we'll do business with the signs and printing. What are some recommendations you have for establishing shop...