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Good advice from Castek. Start by getting media profiles that are designed for the actual brand and model # of material you're using. If you're using major manufacturers like Avery and 3M this shouldn't be a problem. You second problem is colour management. I find in most cases, U.S. Pre-Press...

Helvetica is our go to font, if the customer doesn't already have a font specified for their branding. Helvetica has such a neutral personality that it looks alright in most cases, no matter the style of the customer's logo and branding. It's old enough to look retro, it's elegant enough to look...

Assuming the clear vinyl has a white liner, you can print your registration marks on clear. I usually add a 0.5pt rectangular border outside of the artwork on both prints, then I can easily cut along that border on the white print, to line it up and apply to the clear print. Then cut using the...

Good tips. If you're spending more time cleaning the glass than you are applying the graphics, you're probably doing something right. Question though: what's wrong with using adhesive remover? If you've just removed old vinyl from the window you aren't going to get all that adhesive off with...

All of them have that ugly "90s designed by a sign shop" style. Maybe that style will get a revival one day, but thankfully not today.

It is opaque and sticky on one side if you do what I said.

Print mirror image on clear vinyl. Print regular image on white vinyl. Laminate white vinyl onto the clear vinyl.

I think sign permits are a bit of mess in most places. Here we have too many municipalities with different rules. Our city is actually divided into two separate legal municipalities, further complicating things. If the sign is big or electrical then it would be irresponsible and potentially...

Lowering the ink limit is probably the first thing you want to try, but if you don't get the quality you want after doing that, there's one other thing you can do: Set your RIP to return to return to origin after printing, then print two single passes in a row. If you're running Versaworks, you...

I'm pretty sure what I said was a "speck of dust", not a texture of dust everywhere. So we're in agreement, unless you want to continue arguing for the sake of arguing, in which case let me get some popcorn and a full-length mirror to hold up.

Gorgeous sign! Well done.

2minds, let us know how it goes with this job, whether it ended in your favour or not!

Did anyone read the original post, or did you all just jump on the bandwagon of assuming the OP is an amateur? Give the guy the benefit of the doubt. If the error is as minor as he says it is, you don't redo a job because there's a nick in the paint underneath the vinyl, or there's a speck of...

Eco-sol printers can't just print on anything. The media usually has to be compatible, and laminates generally won't be. That said, it's still worth trying, as I have found the occasional media that isn't designed for eco-sol printing but works anyway. Mactac frosted window film, for example.

Try searching the forum. I recall this problem coming up a few times before, but I don't know what the solution was.

Are there diamonds embedded in the 3M film? I would pay $38, including waste, for a 3'x7' piece of frosted vinyl.

Was it a mural or just a logo? I don't think this material is designed to be used in small pieces. Murals only. I put it up several months ago on drywall that was freshly primed, not even painted and no signs of failure yet. That said, you're right that it will definitely always stick to gloss...

The script font is pretty, but not nearly legible enough for a city logo. Unless the whole town and any potential tourists are native English-speaking aged 30+ and grew up learning handwriting, no one is going to be able to read this at a glance. Assuming that's not the case, this really isn't...

Do you mean there's banding only on the first few inches of the print? I had a similar problem and the best I could work out was that I had left some slack on the roll at the start of the print, but it was a heavy roll of material so when it caught up, it caused a slight change in the feed...

No fax here. I haven't dealt with any customers or vendors that won't accept a scanned document by email.