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I was saying printed pieces exposed to some chemicals will lift like this - the case of denatured alcohol sprayed lightly onto printed pieces from our machine (Fluid Color UV flatbed) would cause this, or flooded onto the pieces would cause all the ink to peel off. So after printing. I am not...

I was not referring to your cleaning procedure, but the chemistry that caused the adhesion failure of the printing. In other words, certain cleaners when sprayed onto the printed pieces can cause a similar effect. But it depends on the ink chemistry as to which ones will. On our printer...

Mark the wall with tape to be sure you know if it starts to walk up or down. squeegee a line down the center for a five or so feet, then go up and down from center to lay, repeat. Have a second person holding the roll of vinyl or holding one end. Tape the whole thing up in place and keep tape on...

Not familiar with Mimaki ink chemistry, but for our UV flatbed printer Denatured Alcohol would do this to the ink - in fact, we can spray/flood a printed piece and let it soak in denatured for about 10-15 mintues and it peels up completely. I would guess some overspray is hitting these or fumes...

The edges stay down just fine. Individual letters tend to move on the wax paper and then the transfer mask will pull them up before you post form heat them. We have used Arlon SLX for several years and love. Laminated, you don't use any transfer mask and it lays beautifully. I will agree that it...

We have a Roland XR 640 and it has been a workhorse. The Eco Solvent inks are not odorless but are not strong by any means. But we have never had a panel that didn't match the next panel on the Roland. That said, the Epson will hit a wider range of colors and seems to produce richer reds. We...

We have traditionally used 1-Shot for our MDOs, but have not been able to get it in white for the past year and a half and have used Ronan's Bulletin Enamel white. We notice that oils from hands are harder to clean off of the Bulletin than the 1-Shot Lettering Enamel, and this matters when we...

With supply issues being what they are, what paint is everyone using on MDO these days. We do a fair amount of flatbed UV printing onto MDOs still. Have been using Ronan Bulletin White to paint the MDOs, but 1-Shot gave us less issue with fingerprints (from hand oils). We do clean the boards...

How full of printed jobs is Versa Works? We are using VersaWorks Dual Version 1.6.11 (2015-2017) and when completed jobs stack up in the queue ours will do this. We usually only keep about 20 jobs at a time in the queue.

You are very unlikely to extend longevity to vinyl using a laminate. Best reason to laminate blank white vinyl is to match the white in printed and laminated white vinyl. Second best reason is to change or match a finish - matte. luster, gloss. Other than that I would not laminate it.

We have a CWt - no heat assist on ours. We use it to laminate, mask wide format prints, and we apply vinyl to wide things, like reverse weed translucent onto acrylic our polycarbonate faces. Love it.

the 365 is faster in all print modes - but only by a little. Same Picoliter drop sizes, but the 365 has two 318 nozzle printheads and the other has one 636 - same number of nozzles total, not sure the advantage of two printheads over one. Have never run an Arizona, we have a FluidColor and had a...

Here is an owners manual. In English on page 50... https://www.rollsroller.com/media/1121/rollsroller-owners-manual.pdf

Seems like the XR-640 cost about 16k new some years ago. Hard to justify putting that much into it. That said, we had a bad head strike a little over 4 years ago and replaced the heads. Machine is running great still. Head strike is caused by material tunneling as it feeds - often unequal wear...

One thought this morning: remeber the angle you pull the vinyl up at impacts its ability to come off in one piece and with the adhesive (to some degree). Try pulling at 45 and 90 degrees, usually 135 degrees and 180 degrees are both too much. Scrapers and Lil Chiseler are to start the vinyl, not...

Wall-paper steamer... dangerous to use heat (though sun will warm it up for you), but when you need heat on any fuel vehicle a wall-paper steamer is the way to go. Lil Chiseler scrappers help. We also have 4" Plastic Safety Scrapers (Item SRWGPO) we got off of Amazon. Some Rapid Remover to get...

Orajet 3981 RapidAir Premium Digital Eco Print Film and then there is Oraguard 289F PVC-Free Laminate to put on it. Not cheap, but 10year outdoor life and suitable for wraps. You can read a bit of it on Grimco's site, though they are out of stock right now...

We have some very OLD ones still here. Can't promise yours is the same size, but ours takes a 39.5x95.75 panel and the channel accommodates a .75" panel.

I am not familiar with this brand, but looks like what you get when your flatbed printer negative pressure needs adjustment. Sometimes an air bubble can do something similar, but consistency points to negative pressure (the negative pressure setting holds the ink in the head until printing, too...

Read the directions... used to be with Liquid Nails, you put the adhesive on one side, lay on the substrate, pull back off and wait 10 seconds (or so) and then put it back on for a better bond.