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I can't take away from CET the fact that they have been extremely responsive in trying to resolve issues as they pop up. They have not "abandoned" us. But unfortunately, that only goes so far when the machines break down week after week and a lot of the time they don't really know what the...

Aaron, call me tomorrow, or PM me your phone number, I'd like to talk to you. And Lowen, if anybody there can speak about your current situation, I'd like to talk to you too. I'm in the exact same boat. We're in month 16 of ownership and week 18 of downtime with no end in sight. One thing after...

You shouldn't have any issues with stretching, Phototex does not stretch like regular vinyl. When you print, I've found a 1" overlap is ideal. Overlap your seams, and then double-cut them and strip them so you're left with a butt joint. Phototex is not entirely opaque so if you leave...

OK, you gotta' share how you made the clamp system. I've been wanting to print shirts for our shop on our CET but I haven't been able to come up with a decent way to hold the shirts.

That's umm... err... an interesting name for a convenience store... For material, I would be hesitant to use anything with a "removable" adhesive on that kind of surface. We've done many of these and the texture requires a fairly high-tach adhesive. Unfortunately that means they can be tough to...

I would stick with the polycarbonate laminate but I would use a high bond vinyl I stead of standard, we've had similar issues on tables with regular vinyl. Arlon DPF8000 or Convex Pitbull work great though.

I've not seen one in person but on paper the Kala laminators look like the best thing since sliced bread in that price range. If money's no object I'd say go AGL as well, but in the $12k range if the Kala is as good as it sounds I'd go that route. That will be our next laminator, just...

Exactly. To be frank, the product any of us offer in this industry, with very few exceptions, isn't rocket science, hard to find or hard to duplicate. Posting nothing but pictures of your work doesn't really give people a reason to jump out of their seat to work with you. People want an...

Best advice is use social media, especially Facebook, to show the world your company's personality and culture. People get sick of the same old "look what we made today" post over and over. Mix it up. Definitely slide portfolio type posts in there, but use it to show fun behind the scenes things...

I definitely wouldn't use it on bumpers (leaving the no calendered vinyl argument alone). It's got a more aggressive adhesive than 3751 or other true wrap films, and it's going to shrink up significantly more, so I'd guess that combination is probably pulling up the underlying paint, or the...

Pitman comes to mind but you may almost be better off looking at paper vendors who mostly service the offset sheetfed or large format screenprint industries. How's the 7600 working so far? I've been watching Facebook for a video of it in action.

+1 for SignVox. Excellent program, worth it's weight in gold.

We set ours to spray 30 times every 90 seconds overnight, and off during the day while we're using it. Be aware, when interval cleaning is on, you're going to get a relatively large amount of ink buildup on the underside of the head carriage, so plan to raise the head up all the way every...

I have no experience with the DryTac unit but we had a RS for several years and I was very satisfied with it. It takes some fidgeting to get the pressure set right initially, but once you get it dialed in it's a good machine for the money for sure. I actually regret not getting another one...

1". And it's going to pull at the seams and around the edges FYI. If it's not too late I'd highly recommend using Phototex over the vinyl, the seams/edges won't pull or shrink over time, and you can double-cut the seams and strip them so there's no overlap left.

Personally I'd use VHB. I can't recall off the top of my head, but they have one that will stick to the wallcovering you're talking about (if I'm thinking it is what you're describing). We've used VHB on that stuff many times without a failure. 3M's DualLock will stick great to it as well. If I...

From a strictly ROI standpoint, your current volume doesn't come close to justifying the purchase of a flatbed printer. You should be doing in a day what you are currently doing in a month to consider this, or close to it. Even if you are looking at this as an opportunity to expand your business...

Interesting, we get a lot of missing nozzles with our pressure any lower than -3.8, we usually keep it at -4.0.

To add to this, if they're using 3M intermediate laminate, I assume that means 8508 or 8509 laminate, which is possibly the worse intermediate laminate ever made. We use a lot of 3M's intermediate IJ35C, which is excellent (assuming you use it for the right application), but we always use Oracal...

Welcome from Dayton BTW!