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Haha! Yeah. Thankfully we've never had a catastrophic head strike, but just the thought of one makes me sweat.

That I don't know. I just remember someone talking about wrapping brake calipers with high temp vinyl.

I know that high temp vinyl exists (I saw something about vinyl being used for brake calipers that could take up to 400 degrees), but I can't for the life of me remember the name of it.

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VUTEk GS3250 has 18 (maybe 20? I should probably know that) heads at around $4k a pop. Price may have gone down some recently, haven't replaced a head in a good while.

I had a distributor get upset with me for demanding square sheets of coro when we were paying extra for square sheets. You can't win 'em all.

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I think Tim's on the right track. You're looking at UV burnt vinyl. Even the yellow text appears to be a little burned on the edges. My guess is either the wrong laminate, a laminate failure, or they park that truck in a way that it's getting the sun on that one side all day, every day.

Depending on who your vendor is, your insistence may not be met with any amount of seriousness, but Gino is right. The last thing you want to do is get a head strike that takes out a head (or all of the heads). I usually won't reject foamcore or coro if it's a little warped (unless I have to...

Just an issue with your table not having enough suction or is it warped material? If it's poor suction, tape off sections of the table with pre-mask that aren't covered by material. It'll increase the vacuum enough to hold down your material (make sure you leave a little room for the vacuum to...

HA! Johnny is gonna need some salve for that burn. 10/10. Toxic masculinity is a thing.

I actually agree with you about the customers. I don't want the customers that are going to buy signs at Lowe's. They're the ones that tend to monopolize your time for one or two banners that you're probably not going to end up making any money on in the long run. Good riddance, let Lowe's have...

What are the conditions around your printer? Humidity around 50% and temperature around 70? Generally lines like you are experiencing aren't indicative of static. Static tends to create issues that aren't as localized and look more like severe overspray, as the static is literally drawing the...

I feel like I've taken a trip back to the 1860s with this pro-slavery gem. I don't feel like I'm going out on a limb here when I say slavery is bad. Across the board. It's just bad.

If it not the heads, then it's most likely static, as Brad mentioned. We always treat the media after it's already on the bed. Techspray Zero Charge (I think that's the one we use) on a poly wipe and give the surface a good wipe down right before you hit print. There are also anti-static bars...

White UV ink contains titanium oxide and has a tendency to clog up nozzles quicker than other inks. If you're not running white ink on a regular basis, your best bet is to clean the white heads real well before you print. As long as you're running lots of jobs with white ink, you shouldn't have...

The good news is that education is being gutted in a lot of states (like my own great Commonwealth of Kentucky), so in a couple generations the serfs will be too stupid to know that the lords are robbing them. Higher education is really suffering. EKU has cut something like 17 programs and laid...

If you've had no issues to date with that ink, I think you're just gonna have to bite the bullet and replace those dampers again. At least it's relatively easy!

I wish there was a way to double agree with this.

Shouldn't make a difference, but I do know that some people have issues with third party inks. Recent switch or have you been using that brand for a while? I also highly doubt that hand spooling some material would make a line like that. That's an almost textbook starvation symptom.