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  1. Suggestions Adding slitters to roll laminator?

    Look at where our epson R5070 is made...
  2. Suggestions Adding slitters to roll laminator?

    That looks amazing and probably and unbelievably good price
  3. Suggestions Adding slitters to roll laminator?

    My Lefu laminator has slitters and a little adjustment knob so that the slitters can move with any skew, works well, so far has been amazing for the price. 2 kilometers laminated so far according to the laminator
  4. What laminations do you use?

    The listed price on some oracal stuff is pretty crazy but can be discounted pretty good if you ask for discount. I think these companies like fellers and grimco list some oracal high to push their house brands
  5. Weeding small labels

    Weeding goes faster with experience, I have 2 workers that have been weeding for 10 years and there is nothing they can't handle and they go pretty fast even with small stuff. This is why in most cases you see small labels printed on clear vinyl and applied as a rectangle/square instead of cut...
  6. What laminations do you use?

    For calendered I've been using substance vinyl/laminate, so far its been very good
  7. Kanban inventory system in your shop?

    I'm lucky enough to be a 10 minute drive from Fellers, Grimco and GSG, Lindenmeyr and a few others so on the rare occasion I run out of something I can get same day, but very rare I need something that fast. Visual system works pretty good for me but I probably use under 10 materials
  8. Canon Colorado

    220 sq ft/hr , pretty much same as a 60600 at comparable print quality
  9. Onyx Thrive RIP — issue with masked cut lines

    I do exactly as you have described and do not have this problem, except I don't merge the files. I just open them individually in onyx and nest/print them all at once
  10. 1640 “splotchy”

    I've seen this on some vinyl and paper for the first few feet of a roll and after the roll sits out out of the machine. It's like something happens to the first few winds on a roll from air exposure and it get splotchy like that. There is a 6 mil vinyl I use and the first couple feet on a...
  11. Canon Colorado

    Yes I expect it to last a year or two at least, unless printing Alumigraphics and similar materials goes wrong. Another advantage of the cheap printhead is I'm not scared to print on these types of materials, would never run that in the Colorado as a head strike would be very expensive
  12. Canon Colorado

    The Epson has slightly better quality/less grainy prints because of the LC, LM. I have received rare complaints for small stickers printed on the Colorado for graininess from customers that have previously purchased from companies running epson/roland solvents. Other than that the prints looks...
  13. Canon Colorado

    That's what I thought until my Colorado went down for 2 weeks, was forced to buy another printer and take a closer look at the numbers. Definitely have a back up in case a machine goes down.
  14. Canon Colorado

    Service contract is close to $700 per month if purchased on day one with 5 year contract. If you don't do a full 5 year or start the contract after warranty is up you will pay more
  15. Canon Colorado

    For the last 3 months I've been printing 20% of my wallpaper on Epson R5070L and the other 80% on the Colorado. The more I run the two printers side by side the more it pains me knowing one costs $19k, prints at 190sq ft/hr and the other costs 75k and prints at 290sqft/hr, and then there is...
  16. Canon Colorado

    Also as your printheads get older/lose nozzles you speed will go down. My Colorado is 2.5 years old, couple of nozzles missing per printhead and I'm only able to print in Matte high quality/ matte specialty mode and gloss specialty on most stuff so that it can compensate for the missing...
  17. Canon Colorado

    Be sure to take a close look at the numbers, it is an expensive machine with an expensive service contract and expensive printheads, also Canon USA can be hard to deal with. The low ink cost is not as great of a deal as it once was as other manufacturers have introduced bulk ink systems that...
  18. Cutter or Router: Colex v Shop Sabre

    No, the belt replacement is a 2 day job waiting for glue to dry. not something you want to do regularly if you could even get the belt off in a reusable condition
  19. Roland VS-540i... to trash or not to trash

    I had a very tough time selling a working VS300, had it listed for $1500 for 6 months, lots of "is it still available" but no sale. priced to basically cover the 1 year old printhead cost. Ended up taking the listing down, tired of the "is it available"
  20. How do you pack extra large decals?

    We ship out everything we make and roll it up pretty tight, 4 panels of 108" each rolled up to fit into a 4" x 4" box. No issues, key is to use transfer tape with release lines adhesion feature such as R tape 4075 RLA, the "RLA" makes a big difference for shipping
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