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I guess that will mean I have to draw up a business plan for one of those. I've only been in this for 6 months now as a business which is making it difficult.

So I've been trying to finance new equipment for the last couple of months. I'm really leaning towards and Epson machine. The company I tried with gave me a rate of 24% interest rate over 4yrs with $5k down. I told them I didn't want to take it because of that rate. They kept trying to tell me...

That's what I had thought about as well but, yeah expensive to do it that way. I mean I could just laminate over the metallic vinyl and print on the laminate but kinda defeats the purpose of the laminate.

Now that you mention that. You really cannot use high heat on this material. It will tunnel like crazy.

Ah I forgot about latex. That would probably work as well.

How off are the cuts? 8ft I think is fairly long. I usually never print anything longer than I do the width if I'm doing a Print & Cut. Even then I still get variations in my SP540

UV and screen printing is the only ways I can see doing them with bleeds and not having any curling issues.

This is what I mean, the first time I tried it I was unaware of having to leave a gap. Printed some and came back next day and they were severely curled.

Yes I do mean having the print bleed off. The thing with Rtape is solvent based you have to leave a 6mm unprinted gap between the print and the cut or else it will curl right up. Yeah I can can see they probably use it to print white and/or metallic on the 80600. I'm not too concerned with...

I mainly do custom cut vinyl stickers. it's approx. about 90% of the work I do. One request I get a lot is for metallic/holographic vinyl. I've struggled with Rtape and using it on my SP-540V. Sure I can print on it but limitations of having a 6mm clear edge if it's going to be cut is rather...

I was able to get it running again. I got a syringe and pulled some ink from the hose coming from the captop, did a test print, had a little black mixed in a then it cleaned up after I printed a block of cyan. New caps are on their way and will be replaced this weekend.

I'm still looking into equipment but financing for the Epson seems to be an issue as I'm a new business and, not a homeowner and have some debt. So that's got me leaning back towards the Roland because I got a decent interest rate on that side. I really want to go with the Epson/Summa combo but...

Thank you. That's what I was hoping it would be I just need to buy one. Thought I had an extra set but don't. I also wonder I noticed that the problem side the cap is like .5mm lower than the mag/yellow side. Could this be the springs? Would there be a concern for head dry-up with it like this?

So yesterday everything was printing fine and has been for quite a while but I came in and did a test print like I do every day when I startup the machine, except the cyan was pretty much non-existent. I did a cleaning and it got a little better but it's still not coming out out it. Haven't had...

Not much. Bare minimum really. I'm on guy just starting out in this vinyl printing world.

EstiMate sounds kind of like what I'm using now. (CreateaBid) Can customize it in pretty much every aspect but as far as record keeping I can see it becoming very cumbersome for tracking/archiving management. I can export for QuickBooks from it so I suppose I'd be into using a similar setup to...

Now that I'm transitioning into a regular operating business I'm finding I need a better way to track and schedule jobs. I need some direction and tips for organization as I'm not highly organized myself and this is a whole new world learning the business side of thing. Right now for...

The local tech in my area worked on my SP-540V not that long ago. I don't see why they can't...just not covered under and kind of warranties.

I may have to try that clear option myself. Never tried that for metallic. I use R-tape metallics on my Roland but with solvent printers it recommended to leave 6mm unprinted area between the artwork and the cut.