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Using aftermarket blades in a Mimaki is hit & miss, don't know why, but it is. Make sure the blade spins free, just the tip should be extended out of the holder, make sure the blade tip isn't damaged, and the correct offset is selected. Higher speeds will also cause more shifting, make sure the...

It was designed by one of our in house engineers based on what we thought it needed to make it as clean and controlled as it could be, and of course went overboard. We built the room that the HVAC equipment went into, and did all the sealing around floors, ceilings, windows, doors, then they...

I have no clue what brand it was, or where it came from, this was like 20 years ago. Looking around I did find an image of what it looked like inside, it was kinda like this, ours was about 3'wx4'h. Was in the ducting in the HVAC room with an access door, had a water line going to it with...

Don't waste your time on stuff like phone cases, or anything they sell everywhere on line for next to nothing. There's thousands and thousands of sellers on Esty, Amazon, and others for custom phone cases, starting at just a few bucks. No profit in it. Like Zendavor suggested, start with your...

The old mercury arc lamps caused the ozone issue, they also released mercury into the environment. The heat those lamps generated also caused out-gassing of substrates you were printing to. LED lamps pretty much eliminated that part, but... Modern inks are lower VOC than they once were, but not...

You talking about H-Channels? https://www.outwater.com/search?show=48&keywords=h%20channel

If there are a few over, I just throw them in with the order. If you lay out print files to try to hit the target number most efficiently, there's usually not that many anyway. Plus if/ when they mess a few up, they appreciate having a couple extra. It was hoard central station here before I...

Bottle labels are usually polypropylene films. Most are non adhesive because it's more cost effective for automated labeling of large runs of bottles, and rolls are all custom sizes, whether adhesive or not for production lines. There are sources for adhesive polypropylene from places like Like...

This is why I when we didn't get many bites on the old machine, I decided to just mothball it.... Sittin' in the back room for parts.

A lot of hand laid gold leaf had a lacquer clear coat that had to be reapplied every so many years to protect it from repeated washings, smoke & soot, salt, etc.

Yer' right on that. Did tons of printing on wood on Fuji flatbeds. We did a lot of rustic store displays, after parts were cut, more to keep wood fibers from causing ongoing issues, most of it got a quick light coat of clear sealer before it came in for printing. You could tell what was sealed...

If you're not sure about matching everything, where the letters are is in a recessed area. I'd give them this option, put a panel over the brick in that recess with new dimensional (flush mount instead of standoffs/ flat cut/ HDU or PVC for light weight) letters attached to it. Rather than...

I'd base it on it's use. If it's going to be up out in the elements longer term, or harsh environment I probably would. If it's going up short term, or indoors where it won't get much abuse, I wouldn't bother, 18oz is pretty beefy.

It can do it, but artwork generated by AI isn't concerned about anything but what you tell it, file sizes, colors used, whether they fall into a printer's gamut, editability, whether you have a computer that will handle it larger than a 3x3", none of it means anything to it. For the person...

Wow... I thought I got some terrible images to work with. Let me know if you can't find anything and I'll see if I can do something close enough at home tonight. That's insanely bad!

Just add text....

Yup, makes perfect sense. It doesn't need a lot of tension, but does need some to keep it from free spinning. If it slips the tension on the take-up will pull harder and start wrapping up like that. It's a balancing act. I've run tons of different laminators, and the good news is, once you get...

It shouldn't go that high on the roll. you need less tension on the take-up. There is no "exact way" because there are too many variables, it's all feel. There should be enough tension on the feed to just keep it slightly taught, but not too much, and enough tension on the take-up to prevent the...

I used to use clear release liners like that, they were common back when cut vinyl was the norm, before printers were commonplace, or affordable (god I feel old). If you needed outlines, drop shadows, and multi colored graphics with colored vinyl, they all needed to be aligned. One of the...