• I want to thank all the members that have upgraded your accounts. I truly appreciate your support of the site monetarily. Supporting the site keeps this site up and running as a lot of work daily goes on behind the scenes. Click to Support Signs101 ...

Search results

  1. Laminating 54"x 150'....

    I'd run a few feet of scrap through to make sure you have the tension correct. If it's laying down flat and you're coming off the take-up reel core then it should run the whole roll without issue. I just find the 2mil cast lams to be a little tricky on the initial tension set-up. Once you're...
  2. Fading Issues on Gerber ION

    I'm not trying to make light of your situation as I feel your pain. There are sometimes disadvantages to early adoption of new technologies. For all the years I've been printing inkjet, the main issues tend to be related to the inks. UV inks are still pretty new in the grand scheme of things...
  3. Custom Highway Sign joke.

    Linky
  4. Hey Betsy from 3M!

    Wait until the dealer has to deal with the aftermath of somebody grabbing a low res jpeg of a logo online and using that in their online design tool. It'll look good in the proof..... You know the main thing that seems to be the benefit of using 3m is the warranty they provide. I asked...
  5. Thinking about getting a new Solvent Printer

    Every printer suggested here that wasn't latex is just another Epson DX5 head on a different chassis. I've gone through a bunch of epson printers in the past and am much happier with the JV33 I have now. Although the Mutoh's tend to be very close in quality. Epson does have Mutoh build their...
  6. Free Osama Vector Art

    Never mind
  7. Fading Issues on Gerber ION

    UV inks are usually rated two years outdoors without lamination depending on the environment they're displayed in. I'm assuming you get a lot of sun in Texas and I'll bet there's more south facing signs coming back than north facing. Sounds like your signs are just reaching their expected...
  8. Confused About Color Management

    Yeah, if I need to balance the lin scale it's usually the yellow that's out. I'm not too worried about overworking my icc, he works cheap and hasn't missed a day since he started. I'm a slave driver I tells ya. With the GCR cranked up, the gray balance stays put under most any lighting...
  9. Inside the Situation Room

    Here's a discussion branch to keep this on the main page and out of politics. The photo is credited to: Pete Souza/Official White House Photo. On their flicker page they have the following text under the photo: This official White House photograph is being made available only for...
  10. Confused About Color Management

    That's where our workflows differ. In order to create a swop gray balance I would have to reduce the ink limits to balance the CMY and I like to keep them as high as possible to get the best color depth. Straying from my workflow would also remove the additional GCR that I apply to...
  11. Confused About Color Management

    This is why I'll softproof to the printer profile when I'm "punching up" the color of an image. You can see on the screen when you reach the limits of the gamut and it starts to posterize. Using 16 bit images and 16 bit profiles helps prevent this from occurring. Even if you have to switch...
  12. Confused About Color Management

    How does printing a CMYK file without a profile produce a higher gamut than a properly profiled media? You're restricted by the media's white point and ink handling capabilities in either case. Your total ink limits define your gamut boundaries and your media can't hold any more ink in an...
  13. Confused About Color Management

    SWOP inks are a different animal. Yes they both use the same basic pigment colors and make up the colors in your images the same way, but the inkjet inks are brighter and increase the gamut size over the SWOP inks. What's accounting for your lack of a decent green is probably your selection...
  14. Totally Random Yellow Drops -jv33

    I've seen the same thing occur with a bad damper (dropping little inks drops randomly).
  15. Color Management in Corel Draw

    You need to ensure both applications are using the same profiles. eps files cannot embed profiles, if it could you wouldn't have to bother making sure the two apps are using the same settings and you could just click the include input profile button and photoshop would recognize it. If export...
  16. Malware virus targeting the Mac

    20+ years of mac use and I've still never had a virus. It took less than 24 hours when I had a PC set-up at home for it to be infected and hacked into. What me worry?
  17. Dowels for Canvas Banners

    I grab the curtain and closet rods from home depot myself. I don't go through enough of them to justify the time spent sourcing a wholesale supplier.
  18. How do you handle customers who approach you about services?

    I have clients come by my home all the time. Never had a problem once. For a 2.5 x 4' banner I'd tell the guy he pays for travel and meeting time at my shop rate or he can come and see me during my office hours. Honestly, for projects that size, I quote them and move on. I have other clients...
  19. Printing on mylar

    There is some out there that claims to be printable so I tested out their 5-7 year printable mirror finish mylar. Not so printable, lots of distortion from the solvent in the inks and it wasn't heavy coverage either. Every test surface I applied it to it curled and warped. You're better off...
  20. WTB 2002 CBR 600 F4I Template

    I've never seen anything for the street bike market. Why doesn't he want a wrap? It's the best material for the job in this case. Does he plan on tossing his bike down a gravel road on it's side like a dirt bike? Convex style materials would be overkill and look like **** on a street bike.
Top