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Maybe the guy just really wants 200 banners and you’re all too untrusting?

My favourite was switching to only Matt vinyls and reducing the amount of types. At one point we had 4 different types of vinyl and Matt/gloss each. Then Matt and gloss lam to go with. we whittled that down to 2 vinyls (cast and an air release polymeric) and three lams (Matt poly, gloss poly...

We just got a 3-5% increase in all sheet stock. That was nice..

If I was selling blanks to someone I would absolutely not let them go out like that. Sure it’s a minor inconvenience but it’s definitely unprofessional sending that mess to a customer.

Wont be a huge additional cost for the extra width but you’ll never regret having a wider laminator. Especially if you’re going to use it for mounting as well.

I’d definitely get one with a takeup if your budget allows. We now run a full roll of vinyls, lam the full roll then throw it in either the flexa or the summa and they tank through it. Used to do a sheet at a time. The new way is much more fun.

Contour cut the graphics then cover the whole window in a clear vinyl lol

Onyx definitely doesn’t have a Mac version so definitely +1 for caldera if you want to use it on a Mac lol

Depends what you want to do with it, pretty much all the standalone rips should be fine. We use onyx with a mimaki and an oce and everything works pretty seamlessly. Not cheap though!

I don’t own one of these so just a couple ideas; drop passes and try uni directional print? You don’t need to worry about alignment then. print as normal then flood with white after. Or, we we did for similar decals today; reverse print on clear, printing the summa cutter marks (or whatever...

I wouldn’t put anything unlaminated on a vehicle. At all. If you plan on staying in this game you don’t want people coming to you in 1-2 years time complaining about their decals fading. You want to start with quality and maintain it. As far as vinyl goes, I just wouldn’t let some of the price...

I can’t recommend our flexa highly enough. We simply would not have made it through covid without it. Easily does the work of 6 employees in half the time. Jobs that used to be huge runs or a nightmare are now a non issue. Done 2500 5” x 8” decals today in about an hour. All cut to size...

You’d have probably saved yourself a small fortune just getting (likely) a new head on the CJV. we’ll need to see test prints (nozzle checks) and can you tell us what you’ve tried? For example I’d probably start off with a nozzle wash. Start it, put the cleaning liquid in and set it to...

I would not recommend any printer under 54” but the industry standard nowadays seems to be 64”. There’s generally not much of an extra cost when going from 54 to 64 but you’ll never regret getting the extra width. Gino also made an excellent point, a laminator is an absolute necessity for...

I’ve got around the nesting problem for our flexa before. I was sending files individually that need the double marks, but sending each file with a single mark top and bottom and told the Colorado to put “x” gap between every new job. Creating double mark’s when printed after each other. Was...

I’ve noticed this on the Colorado but it’s a minor inconvenience. Maybe depends on how you’re setting up jobs and your individual workflow? The only way I could potentially think about getting around this is making it print each row at a time then turning the auto print on so you don’t have to...

You’re not going to be able to do all that for 5k. Especially business cards. Your best bet for the money would also be a printer/cutter. That way you’re not buying two machines. Stand-alone cutters new will eat your entire budget easily. If all the other business tanked it might just be a...

We buy a laminator, set it to 104 farenheit (40 Celsius) and it stays like that until we get a new laminator. Had great luck with all lams at that temp.

I’ve always found that if you’re running the machines into the ground, go after market. You’ll save a fortune. If you’re not using the printer regularly, keep with OEM. You don’t save what $40 a bag but then you have your peace of mind. We switched our mimaki to third party and even after...

Yeah I’d either make the sheets shorter and just not put a gap between barcodes. Or in the RIP go into the cutter settings and make the intermittent marks a lot closer then turn panneling on. Only trouble with doing that is if the cutter has started to go out already, when it reads the next...