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welcome to signs101. highly doubtful anyone on here has done this, but I'll say a prayer for you and recommend simply buying a new printhead for now to keep your machine going & making money while you continue down the rabbit-hole of printhead restoration in hopes of salvaging it someday.

they connect those by screen printing "low temp solder paste" onto the ribbon, and then clamping the cable to the board and heating it up juuuuust enough to set. too much or too little solder and you're in trouble. not exactly in the wheelhouse of your typical sign guy, but a...

you'll never get a seller to replace defective printhead. they aren't exactly in the business of trying to pass off defective printheads as new, and if their response is seemingly questionable its because they're trying to find a nice way to explain to you how you may have ruined your own...

huge fan of matte or satin finishes for wall wraps, overlay with glossy text/artwork if you want to mix/match for some pizazz. if first time, avoid any sort of tiling that would force you to align crazy amounts of pixels/lines of copy. Easy to reduce the amount of effort of your install when...

1 + 1 = 2

the flexible translucent banner-like material needs to be stretched on a frame, or it will just sag/warp under its own weight & heat from the lightsource.

what were you expecting and pics of the results? are you trying to buy/make edge-lit signage or backlit signage? i'm sure plenty of people on here would be willing to suggest terminology/spec/source, but need to know the win-conditions :)

except when you do sign work at or near an airport!

its my understanding that UV inks have no VOC's, but +1 to MSDS request from ink supplier because you should be checking any & every chemical you're exposing yourself to anyways. I even have MSDS documents for my soap&water application fluids. edited to add: i've also seen people put hoods on...

pics, or it never happened. have you tried grinding up some ramon noodles and using it as filler? works on the tik toks. edited to add, the cool thing about hoods is that they can be their own separate design, if you wish to flex your newly-aquired in-house production skills then its not...

oh to be a fly on the wall when his receptionist plays their nightly voicemail.

never any issue here, aside from fine tuning my spotcolors/profile to eliminate colors that wanted to reflect a different color than intended. helpful information to include with these posts, would be your printer, your material, and pics as a reference to your "good vs. bad colors".

some things just defy gravity, sans-disfunction.

those are dings post-application. Would have nothing to do with lack of application pressure, that would show-up as bubbles under the surface of the vinyl/lam, unless someone got a bit aggressive trying to flatten them out with a hard squeegee and no relief holes for the air to escape.

i've wrapped plenty of car doors for squad cars with unlaminated printable white wrap media. its just a pita how delicate it becomes to manipulate, by comparison to a thicker laminated print, but in terms of longevity there's no issue. laminate would just make it more resistant to...

in corel, its Image > Resample

the physics of it is simple, gantry/pneumatics/lam-roller/rails/etc., but nothing on the market (yet) for this purpose. your best option is a bigsqueegee, or run a regular laminator level with the end of your table and feed panels/graphics through it. else, there's some chinese knock-offs out...

I run a 3420 on a seal 54 base on the regular, the backing does seem to peel a bit "less-rigid" I guess but never had that issue posted while laminating.

seems about right for pricing, hence why I've been replaing my own printheads and misc parts since <2005. ...and my compressor repair guy charges the same. pays to DIY, but service comes with peace of mind (and a pricetag)

smallest by biggest has always felt right, as does "x by y" but that could just be algebra/geometry/calculus influence, Hit me with either, and its no biggie unless grains and landscapes need clarification BUT say 1x10 and I'll assume all-inches or a kick in the groin. ...possibly a preference...