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for banners with webbing/texture, ONLY use liquid laminate. if you were roll laminating anything, using a heat gun during the process would be useless. Cold laminates are designed to be as such... basically just clear vinyl. post-heat after application, if you want to remove any...

slammed and lovin' it! ...just really really really hate training new employees in the midst of a "chinese fire-drill"

i use white lint-free gloves, the cheap throw-away kind. and then I wax-on/wax-off as the laminator runs, moving hands from center-outward to help keep the print flat/square and I get 99.9% of the dust/particles out. ...if there's a fingerprint, or some tape adhesive that needs attention, then...

nobody local? we make photopolymer signs and I outsource my rasterbraille to another company the next town over. we do a bit of back/forth on certain projects and things work out great.

yeah, sheet lamination sucks for banners. you've most likely got water evaporation from your print still sweating through your liquid lamination. maybe give the print a little extra love with a heat gun prior to spraying? or maybe after spraying? idk, either way... that humidity's gotta be...

ok, so you have an aqueous printer so you'll want solvent-based laminate... which I'd bet you do, if it comes out of a can. feel free to verify. money's on an old can of laminate and/or you're not allowing the print to fully dry prior to lamination, which may come as a result of high humidity...

i love scavenger hunts. google search'd and it pop'd right up:

how old is your can of liquid laminate? are you using solvent laminate with water-based prints? water based laminate with solvent-based prints? is it really humid in your shop? have you ever liquid laminated with success before this? where do babies come from?

don't make the "V" a negative in the design. make it an opaque shape mounted to the front of the "frosted lexan" and use that for your stud-mounting. if anything, it can just be vinyl and then you hide your studs behind that area.

watch yourself. if you gave a client layout/artwork, it's not unheard-of that they kept shopping the price while you were designing and then may have gotten a cheaper quote from some guy, using your design/quote, that was able to shave a few bucks off with minimal layout time. if they made a...

buy it!!!!!! MIMAKI ROCKS!!!!!!! p.s. fork over the extra loot and get yourself a decent rip. no point in spending that kinda cheech just to jerry-rig a workaround.

don't need water-jet. anyone with a router can tackle this. any metal shops around you? you can even buy the brass from a hardware store, since it's so small.

search for knifeless tape. easiest way to go. regardless, it is all done by hand. in this case, most likely that it was a thicker painter's fine-line tape (rubber) that is laid-down before the vinyl. The applicator then applies the vinyl over the top, and carefully cuts through the vinyl but...

image1 mats are great. nearly every sign supplier offers it, but will most likely drop-ship from image1. you'll need 2-5x8 mats. I just ordered 2-5x10's for my table, to replace the ones I've been using for the past 5 years. don't waste $$$ on the grid, you can always print/cut and place...

don't waste $$$/time on frosted vinyl. cut your acrylic, and then spray it with clear matte paint.

material is buckling. your material is either not feeding square/centered through the rollers, or you've got the pinch pressure jacked way up.

i will most likely give it a try on my hp26500 this week, setting print with "high ink levels", and my mimaki jv3160sp with double-striking the ink. if I cannot get it to work, then I'm gonna just have to suck it up and get a laser printer.... cutting/weeding rubylith has gotten old, and I'm on...

replace the head. if you need it running asap.... swap the yellow head with the magenta. you'll hardly notice yellow overspray.

if your printhead has quite a few miles on it, then it is most definitely starting to fail. you can dance around trying to solve "static" or "deflecting nozzles" but, ultimately, these heads don't last forever. the overspray will be worse and worse., there's nothing you can do to fix it...

nice share! I saw a great photo of a wrap in Europe a while back.... matte black wrap on a similiar vehicle, but with a glossy overlay of a yellow Lamborghini aligned with the tires.