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Quick update. We stopped messing around. I had a meeting with everyone that even looks at the printer. We all agreed to follow every single one of the procedures canon recommends and only use their factory profiles. To a T. No exepctions. No running a profile for a vinyl that’s has the same tech...

I like polished concrete. Ultimately it seems to be the most durable. From there you can add a hardener, or just have it sealed by a commercial floor guy. Someone who does a lot of retail. It will be Pennies per sqft. We have our guy come once a year to have everything looking new again. Our...

Heat seems to be a requirement for laminating UV prints. We generally have experienced the same thing as others. Even with very soft/conformable laminates.

We have a swamp cooler set up to run automatically. We maintain around 45% all the time near the printers.

Budget matters a lot. Do you have a range? Under $100k? $200k? $400k?

Hard to beat an Xacto knife if you’re not using a cnc. Saws will mostly give you a rough, dusty edge. Is this something we could help you with? We do custom Coro all day long.

we have about 20TB across a few synolgy NAS drives. They are just wonderful and their software is great for backups. Plus no fees. I don’t think they could be beat for a setup like yours.

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I assume you are talking about a freelancer and not an hourly employee? We don't have any frelancers now, but back when we started out, we tried paying by the job. That was always difficult. If you have a really good freelance person you can rely on, pay them as much as you can and keep them...

As Z SIGNS said, adhesive is a roll of the dice. A lot of variables. Adhesives are a test of your ability to understand and prep a surface. Most of the time good surface prep and quality materials will do the trick, but even then there are outliers. I mean no disrespect and encourage good...

This looks promising. I think there is an annual fee. I also noticed that Chase ink has 2% cash back on all purchases and 2.5% cash back on purchases over $5000 with a $200 annual fee. So far, if you put less than about $50k a year on a credit card, the FNBO evergreen seems to be the best...

We do. The last 12 months we were around 2.92%. We take every single little fee they charge us, against the total revenue processes through CC and calculate that. The cost of processing depends greatly on the types of cards your customers use. Debit cards are fairly cheap, corporate rewards...

Yes. All these cost increases are and should reflect in pricing. You can use something like our shop rate calculator to figure your hourly shop rate. My guess is that many of your input costs today are 10-50% higher than they were two years ago. This doesn't necessarily mean your hourly rate...

We run graphtecs. The channel is where it’s at. We run an onyx workflow though. I don’t think you can go wrong with either, but we sold our summa after only a year and took a $5000 hit once we tried the graphtec. Workflow is everything for us though.

Our rigid and screen side has slowed a fair bit. Sticker and other vinyl decal is staying quite busy.

With how picky this printer is with its profiles, I would say you need to run onyx. Canon will build profiles for you if you send them a roll of media.

Sometimes the calibrations help. Generally when we need printheads replaced, it because nozzles have been lost. Our Durst and vanguard printer have tens of thousands more nozzles and I think we are missing a total of 5 across both machines combined. Something about our Colorado just doesn’t...

Our install was similar. Yes, we’re getting a quote on the all inclusive so the print head cost will be their problem. Banding still takes production to a snails pace though, it’s not just the cost of the printheads.