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I'm looking to get an new laminator and cutter and would like some recommendations on dealers in the Northeast. I previously used Grimco for my equipment so no need to recommend them.

I tried some masking tape again, no success, I tried cutting out a registration mark from a printed sheet and pasting it over the printed mark, still no luck, I cut even more around that area to give it more white area and it still couldn't locate the mark. This is the only material I use that...

SummaCut D140. It Says its possible to do manual registration. I think I'm halfway there, but just missing some important steps. I set it to XY Adjustment, which I think is the right setting for this. I initiate the cutting through Onyx Cut Server via TCP/IP it asks to set the origin point then...

I'm not really sure I understand what you're trying to describe. Taking the registration marks which have been printed on white vinyl, which are .12" black squares for OPOS, and pasting them on the glitter? I might have 8-10 of those depending on how long my printed sheet is. I've tried putting...

I never got training on my machine. I only know what I've learned by trial and error mostly. I don't know how to set origins and stuff like that on this machine. All I know how to do is optical recognition with the OPOS.

If you're talking about this section, this is all it tells you. Otherwise it's all about OPOS that I can find. There is nothing I can find that tells you how to manually register marks. I see it tells you if it can't read them to register them manually but there isn't much in the way of...

So I have this red glitter material I print on for a customer and I've used my old Roland SP540 but I'm trying to get away from that. My summa cannot read these marks. I've tried taping over them and cutting out the reg mark, I've tried it with a yellow filter over my OPOS sensor and it might...

Welcome! I'm to the east of you in Maine. Lots of great info here!

I have a similar issue except cuts are not as deep on both of the outer edges. I have not figured out why. Otherwise if you're trying to cut all the way through I'd say pull back your blade a little bit. When I do cut all the way through I use around 285G pressure and do the test cut until the...

That material specifically has been hard to get since covid. H&H was the one place I could find it. Also the manufacturer moved their plant recently so between raw material shortage and them moving it's been very hard to find the Fantasy Films anywhere. Briteline has a 6mil holo film now in 30"...

My go to for stickers is Briteline 2203 and their shield overlaminate. Together those are about 6.4mil which I find is a decent thickness. I go by the end use of the product for my choice of materials.

It's just too thin without the overlam and people like the feel of it. So it's their choice and 99% go with lam. I do cut them on my Summa cutter. I put the perforations in a a flex cut except I set the full pressure to 0 so it doesn't cut through the backer and just the vinyl. I'll definitely...

Yeah same here. Summa told me that Flex Cut cannot be used to do complex shapes.

Great thread! I'm looking at a Graphtec FC9000 possibly. Currently I am doing an increasing number of "die cut" stickers on my SummaCut. It took a while to find a method that worked for me. I just setup two kiss cuts but run them fairly deep, just enough to break the backer. I find one just...

I used Grimco, but I also didn't really know any other distributors at the time. I got it at the worst time possible, when covid hit and everything was being locked down. So I got training over the phone on my equipment so I can't really speak much for in-person training from them.

You know I never thought of that especially when I have that tail of lam left after cutting the web. I'm definitely going to try this one! And what is a coro sled? Never heard the term before, but I'm just guessing it's a rigid piece of coroplast you use for loading up new material.

So I think my best option would be to upgrade my laminator to a roll to roll and also upgrade my cutter to allow roll-to-roll or at least auto sheet cut-off. I'm still torn between cutters as I think a Graphtec FC9000 would be better suited for my needs as I do a lot of die cut stickers (full...

It's not silvering. It just from my inexperience in doing this. This lam wasn't threaded on the machine I had cut it to size. It stopped because I didn't have the waste pulling off correctly and it tripped the finger guard and at one point, i was trying to get the guard down and it sucked some...

I ended up trying this way and all went ok until I stopped my laminator cause I wasn't prepared for how much that adhesive pulled and ended up getting bubbles through it but definitely learned a bit and never using cast anything before and trying this hinging method, I was ok with screwing up...

It's 30" x 19". I'm not even sure how to do that. A lot of these techniques are totally new to me. If I'm having this much difficulty just trying to web cast laminate I'll never get my feet into cast material and vehicle graphics.