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Try Scooterboard instead of PVC if you can talk them into it. It's more of a pressed wood fiber material, but we've been using it for several years for real estate signs and it works extremely well. If you're using 6mm PVC that's going to get brittle pretty quick. For the price Scooterboard is...

I love it Tim, very nice progression!

Yeah, $2800 isn't too bad here either for that. It's an easy truck to wrap so if they can install quickly I'd say there's money in it for them. If that includes design, then it's on the cheap side IMO.

Dayton Ohio?

That's actually a really good laminator, it sounds like something is just out of adjustment as others have said. A laminator is one of those things that doesn't really "go bad" so to speak, if you maintain it and keep it adjusted it'll last a very long time. Take the end caps off and check to...

If you don't want a color management argument I don't really know what to say. If you print a file that's 0/0/0/70 and you get anything but a neutral gray with no color cast to it, your color management is off, period. If your gray prints with a magenta or cyan hue, your RIP is trying to add in...

Example: I have $100,000 to spend. I can spend the $100k cash on a printer. Cool, I've got a fancy new printer. Nothing to run on it but hey whatever, I've got it and I don't owe anything on it. Or I can pay someone else $15,000 (over 5 years) to spend THEIR $100k on that printer for me. Then...

70% gray, or any gray should print neutral, not purple. Normally I'd say if you didn't specify PMS colors, it's a tossup if the printed colors are going to match your expectations because there is no way to exactly reproduce a CMYK or RGB value from one machine to another, everything from ink...

Ha! We just made new panels for one of those this week too. I have no idea who the original manufacturer is. Those are a pain to do, especially that one, the frame was really flimsy and it was nearly impossible to get the panels to line up perfectly. We just measured the old panels exactly...

After you apply the material, go back and cut the seams through both layers of material, and then strip the under/overlaying excess out so you're left with a butt joint. Phototex won't shrink and pull back at seams so when you do this the seams completely disappear.

Leasing is just a way to leverage cashflow against equipment. Done wisely it's no different than any other investment. I'd rather spend $100k on marketing than spend it on a piece of equipment. I'll spend somebody else's money on the equipment and gladly pay them interest on that. It's a cost of...

It's a glitch in 10.2. Not sure if they're addressed it yet or released any sort of patch or fix for it, but it does the same thing to use as well. Sort of a pain, you have to RIP a tiled job as one piece. Once you get used to it it's not too bad, what we do is let the whole image RIP, and then...

Onyx has a plugin for just this, and it's excellent. It's $200 or $300 I think, which may be steep for some budgets, but if you do a lot of banners it's well worth the price. You can adjust all of the parameters, including grommet locations/sizes, hem and trim marks and sizes, and you can set it...

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So you definitely want to hang this from the ceiling, or will/can this mount to the wall?

You stretch it across the media or board as it feeds into the printer, making sure wherever you connect it to the printer it's grounded to the chassis. It "soaks up" any static charge in the material and grounds it to the frame so it can't cause static overspray issues. I tried several...

+1. Their wide format string kit works wonders, as do their anti-static wipes. And raise the humidity in your print room to 50-60% at least, that's the single biggest thing you can do to help actually.

Super slow here, keeps locking up on me actually.

I've never run it on a latex printer (we don't have one) so I can't say. I can say when solvent printing it it can be sensitive to heat, so my gut tells me a latex machine may cause some issues there, but I'm not sure. Experiment with it a lot before you start running a paying job would be my...

Retail we're usually around $8-9 psf depending on the square footage, plus hourly install labor.