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I recently switched to 3M IJ35c-10 from Mactac JT5829P for our VP-540. I like the way it lays down on various substrates, but we're having trouble dialing in the media profile from VersaWorks. Good old Generic Vinyl 1 produces mottled, grainy prints. We downloaded the IJ180-10 and IJ40-10...

I only laminate if the coro sign is fairly long term or double sided. No matter how much I tell the client that if they remove the backing paper that is between the DS signs, they will stick together, they never listen. Of course, there's always the customer who needs DS signs yesterday, and...

I'm not sure if this is the appropriate place for this thread, so I apologize if it isn't. A couple years ago, I saw the name Reflex Blue, a name I had seen hundreds of times before, and I started wondering where the name came from. Ever since then, once or twice a month, I will go about...

Would a satin finish paper work better? We used to use Sihl Syntisol satin, and it was great, but they discontinued it and gave us the Trisolv.

I can't even use my take up reel for these without them sticking together. Typically, I would print them 10 or so at a time, unroll the take up reel, and roughly chop the individuals out with scissors. Then, fan them out loosely on the table to let them dry. With this paper, however, you can...

We printed 100 24x36 posters for a client last month. After trimming them out, we stacked them in piles of 50, and wrapped them in backing paper. When they opened the packages a few weeks later to distribute, the printed faces were sticking to the backs of the one on above them, which peeled...

Recently, when I've laminated runs longer than 10 feet, the center of the graphic always begins to ripple and crease. In the space of a foot or two, those creases begin to look like the Nile River Delta, and the graphic is ruined. When I look at the "good" portion, I can see faint...

It's for an appliance repair comany, and they only want to wrap from the doors back. The van is red, so I'm trying to find a color scheme that won't be visually usurped by the red front of the van. Orange and yellow go with red, but that doesn't really evoke appliance repair. Dark blue is a good...

When the top roll fills up, just use an empty media core to replace it, and put the full take up core on the bottom under the feed table to set up new lam. jobs. The reason for drifting, since your machine doesn't have tension controls on both sides, is the cut side you're feeding into the...

So, removing the cover didn't cause you any problems? That's the route I'm considering, because it doesn't seem to serve much of a purpose.

My VP 540 has been having some problems with the wiper assembly. There is a flimsy metal cover in front of the wipers that seems to get shifted out of place during cleaning. It sometimes sticks up high enough to cause a motor error when the print carriage gets hung on it. There are slots in...

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Thanks for the tips, guys...and yes, the question was about applying a 24" circle graphic to a 24" lexan cookie. I'll have to remember to try the air hose next time, though! If I were to mount and then carve out the circle with a router, wouldn't the graphic get mangled in the process? Nice...

I'll probably use the hinge method, and try to be really careful about centering everything. Do you think there are any structural issues with the method I've described? As long as the hole is drilled dead center and the customer uses the proper hardware to mount it (and I'm not exactly sure...

My customer wants a 24" circular lexan sign with a digital print mounted to the outside and a hole drilled in the center. They plan to mount it to a faceplate on a post so that it can be spun like the wheel of fortune or something. I have a guy who will create the 24" circular lexan blank with a...

Is there any way to remove or touch-up a smudge caused by a head strike on the white part of a banner? The whole banner is fine except for a 1 inch black smudge on a white stripe set inside a solid black background, and I'd hate to reprint the whole thing for that tiny flaw. I'm using a VP-540...

Kinda like what I imagine Rube Goldberg's stream of consciousness might look like.

I switched to a calendered vinyl for the reprint (since there are no curves or rivets), and about 20' into lamination, an indented line showed up in the overlaminate. It's about 6" from the right end of the roll, and it's perfectly straight. It looks like the film actually ran under a scoring...

add me to the list of Big Squeegee fans. I really COULD NOT do without this amazing tool.

The tip about disabling the paper guide's sensor worked, but the lamination is still a little iffy. I think there's just something inherently wrong with this media. Sigh.