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Anyone else having trouble getting supplies from Canon? We've been waiting 2 weeks or more for much of what we need for our Canon Colorado 1650. I keep asking why the delay, and can't get a straight answer. UVGel Ink, Cleaning Sponges, anything takes for ever! What's worse is that it just...

General formulations 116 is double sided lam. You are looking for mounting film.

Ritrama window cal III works for this. A super opaque white and clear in the system. You can also use something like General formulations rv8 and add a double sided mounting film like General Formulations 116. Make sure the RV8 is compatible with your printer.

I have created a couple more videos for you explaining this at a basic level. Please let me know if something doesn't make sense. Happy to help!

Redundancy is sure nice to have. Sounds like you made a good choice for your company. We really do have alot of nice options as print service providers. I feel like there are better choices today than there were 5 years ago, and I'm not saying that just because the overall tech has gotten better.

ProSignTN well said!

We have the opus cam on our summa.

The main issue we have with our summa is the opus cam. It will throw an error every few jobs. In theory not that big of a deal to restart it, in practice, we run full rolls so that means we can't walk away. Could be our materials, workflow, anything. Honestly, it's probably us. Just what we...

Switching from Summa plotters to Graphtec plotters.

There is very little standardization in outdoor life testing. Most of the time frames given are estimates based on real-world experience. For example our most common screen ink is only rated for 1 year Outdoors, but we have seen it last in Sunny environments for 5 years or more. Black lasts...

So we don't really archive jobs in Filemaker. We set statuses. We have a complete and shipped status. In general, we build find requests in a script that only show "Active" statuses. When you get started, you hit the button to find all your active jobs and get started on your day. As far as...

Inconsistent banding. Well run 10ft perfectly, then banding will start for a few feet, then correct itself. Mostly shows up in colors with heavy cyan or black ink usage. It's almost as if the corrective steps the machine takes to prevent banding while printing (nozzle replacement, step...

I think we got a lemon. Have had nothing but trouble with ours. Waiting to see if Canon will do the right thing or not. I'll let you know.

I just had out Colorado rep tell me that pressure sensitive vinyl should be run in their Specialty mode, about 200sqft per hour. Any other 1650 owners seeing such slow speeds for vinyl like 3M IJ 35?

Sounds more like a vent then a request for help... ;) I know this isn't what you want to hear, but your mindset is a big part of what's holding you back here. The machine might actually suck (I have no experience with it) but automatic grommet machines, in general, take some finesse and...

Not sandbagging. 10% net on millions in sales is a pretty nice nut if we can hold onto it. That's my point on the equipment though. I don't believe one can depreciate in this business any slower than your loans are repaid. I consider net profit after we pay for equipment. For example, let's...

I am very hard on our net profit since we have no outside investors and have no intention of selling anytime soon. We always include depreciation on a 60 month scale since equipment in this business isn't really worth much after 5 years or so. (We report on taxes differently, but I don't want to...

I don't know of any of the major wholesale printers that will handle metallic large format. You might just need to find someone with Rolland. Curious if WYLDGFI can? Just for your information, we do screen print metallic ink here at FireSprint, but we really only go to about 24x36" max size.

I might just be dumb, but we have to be careful here. Gross Profit and Net profit have lots of different names and meanings. It might be fruitful to define what we are talking about here. Net profit really should be what the investors take home after all the business expenses are paid. If the...

I like signs.