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i've never bothered making something that I can buy for $0.50 a piece

that's a debate for solvent printing in general, which I have always sided with "better safe than sorry". although I've whipped-up printed/laminated decals in an hour and they've held up just fine. +1, however, to laminating the prints prior to coating the boards else chance your prints...

+1 all I hear are crybabies too scared to have some fun. I doubt any company would spend the time & legal resources to go after a one-off car wrap, or a man-cave, or a laptop printcover that has copyrighted material unless it is clearly generating some sort of income or unwanted attention...

I remember that thread! Boy was THAT a headache :) I always harp on people about following-up threads with resolutions, as to help those searching for similiar issues BUT it looks like I never did in that case :( overspray, for me, has been cured by printhead cleaning & flushing machine with...

not 100% familiar with your machine but: how does the printer clean the heads during its normal cycles? is it a wiper? on my jv3, it would wipe with a rubber wiper during ink cycles. So when I wanted to "scrub" the printhead, I knew I could saturate a foam swab with cleaning solution and give...

if your alignment is 100% & nozzles firing at 100%, then it could just require a media feed calibration.

i think the tech has you derailed, with the "carbon content" line. Even if this is the reason that black printheads may fail quicker than the others, its still no reason your printhead should be dead within a year of replacement. My black printhead lasted 4 years before needing its first...

If your nozzle test print is 100%, then you may simply need some better alignment. there's multiple procedures of alignment for the different print modes and your tech may have cut a corner OR you simply knocked it out of place along the way. doubtful you can fall back on a printhead...

for custom paint color graphics, we paint vinyl then cut/mask/apply before it hardens too much. for screen printing, if that's your thing, we used to just order custom colored inks... but we don't screen print anymore. Too much mess. Paint mask & paint or Painted Vinyl if we don't print it...

I make drink chips for a local bar using poker chips + IJ35/8510. they run returned chips through the dishwasher everyday, high temp, and have yet to see one fail in over 5yrs.

banner/coroplast + screw it over the existing face if its just temporary, paint is already overkill ....so is vinyl removal.

i've always known that anyone can purchase from Gemini, at catalog prices. we, however, have had wholesale pricing at x% off catalog setup through them for years.

3M's 8509/8510 is legit. No issue here in the past 5+ years. On that note, if you're using calendared materials... you can't be too picky. Its a price-war, so quality will always vary, but I highly recommend 3M/Arlon/Mactac as good brands to compare alongside orafol.

+1 to "hey, can you help me with this?" I can load full sheets of up to 1/4" aluminum onto the router table by myself, but when I have the opportunity to ask for help... I do.

how about reflective spray-paint and reusable stencil? or just spray background and screenprint your copy over it? ...its cheap, but so is that market :)

goofus has his banners, as paid for. Done deal. ...you weren't paid to become his graphics department. Great clients I'll bend-over backwards for, because the cost of artwork setup usually has been paid-for many times-over by return business & quick payment. They may own the rights to...

can't simply convince your client to wrap the neck and body of the bottle in 2-seperate pieces? much easier & cost-efficient... otherwise outsource it to someone that actually prints the plastic and THEN thermoforms the bottle to shape. I bet I COULD wrap a bottle in one-piece, but no way...

if I were stuck on a deserted island, and the only way for me to find rescue were to McGuyver a wrap lamination with nothing but vinyl application tools then I would have two ideas: option A) tape tile to the rock suitable as a worktable (can't get sand in your lamination, duh), and then...

very excited that a friend of mine was part of this: my lithuanian polka-dance partner from high school, who's fiancé I am extremely jealous of :) It's not just a new logo, but a step-forward into an ever-expanding corporate entity. (see "alphabet inc.") I'm sure most have read up on it, but...

search youtube for vector carbon fiber, and there's detailed instructions how to draw rectangles with gradients to make a pattern and then you use the pattern to tile/fill any shape you like. e z p z