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Here's an example. Have a good customer, probably 50 vehicles per year, and lots of different signs/decals. This customer really is 4 or 5 business, all different names/logos but use the same colors. Colors are burgundy light gray and black. When we got this customer 8 or so years ago, they...

But how close are they actually when holding them side by side. I totally understand that customers mostly wouldn't notice... With some test printing we can get them a much better match. Just would rather not spend the time dialing in all these colors if there is a better way.

1/2). We design in RGB and use onyx rip. I will check with the print tech tomorrow to see if the rip is honoring. This reminds me a another issue print tech brought up to me. He says that sometimes the rgb values will change on him when opening in the rip? We thought it might have something...

We have done this, but we found that the printed colors with their values don't really match up that well to the actual cut vinyl colors. With tweaking we can get them better or even an exact match. But if we are going to go through all the colors we want on a pallet and test print to our...

Looking to build a color swatch/pallet for illustrator that incorporates our go to colors for printing. Goal being easier more consistent workflow. Typically how we handle artwork is this: Any raster images: print as is, adjust in photoshop if necessary for brightness/color. Vector artwork...

So I have to very similar machines, a few years old. I was able to successfully update the slightly older one to win 10, went smoothly. The second machine, got to the checking for updates like you mentioned, and blue screen errors galore. Got it back to win 7 without data loss. Unplugged all...

Have been getting 503 errors for the last half hour. Not cool.

Could you explain in a little detail how you are setting blade depth? Are you doing test cuts at 300 grams or full force to determine if it could cut all the way through? To answer your question, we are looking to do a run of about 1,000-2,000 per week for now. When justifiable we will...

Thanks Phil, really appreciate the lengths you go on these forums to help everyone out. We tried the suggested settings of 1mm, 0.5 mm, and the cutting did seem to track better. But the finished edge of the decals are now, almost serrated knife like. You can feel and see the little ridges...

Trying to dial in the flex cutting on our summa s2 t160. We are wanting to do larger runs of die cut stickers. Mostly smaller decals, 4"x3" on average rectangles with rounded corners, about .125" radius. We have no problem flex cutting these decals if the rectangle shapes have square corners...

That's good to know. We did something similar, printed test pieces and put them on a flat roof. Was only a few months ago though. I'm not even sure if the hysteria over short life span of the red and orange ink was more of a concern with the older generation of sure colors (s70)? Or if it...

Coca cola red, what are you all using for input colors to get your best deep red like coca cola red? Having trouble hitting this on our s80 without using red ink (we don't yet trust R or O ink for outdoor applications). Can't get that deep red look. Also curious what others have found to...

Not sure if it's a garamond? Pretty close to bold condensed, but the bottoms of the letters and some of the serifs are wrong.

Anybody know this one. I know I have this but brain not working today. Thanks,

Is this with adding a clear coat or liquid laminate?

The signs and really mixed use and get installed both indoor and outdoor. We mainly use oracal 3551/290 and easily get 5-7+ year outdoor durability. We don't want to switch to a process that results in shorter outdoor life. What is the expected outdoor life printing with your Mimaki, with and...

I've thought of this as well and the short 3 year life wont work for us. Cant you print a clear uv coat with some flatbeds? Or does laminating the printed substrate get you up to the longevity of an eco solvent print/lam? What about latex flatbeds? If you cant get good outdoor life with a...

No 20 hours for (1,000) 8"x4" 040 aluminum signs.

We have an older piranha that I guess we could use. But punching holes would be much much slower on that than using the hole press, same for rounding corners. Unless newer iron workers are much different than what we have, I don't see how one would be useful?

Lately we've been doing a lot more higher volume jobs. Small signs and stickers. For example 8"x4"" 040 aluminum warning signs, and 6"x4" warning or notice stickers. Currently we only have roll to roll printers (roland and epson s80) plotters, laminators. The stickers are straight forward...