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Now you know why I really don't care to help anyone here. Now I remember why I stopped posting here 15 years ago. If I wanted to argue with a perfect stranger I'd log on to FaceBook. No more help from me... Y'all got it all figured out

You would have to be a much better salesman than I am to sell a 12,000 bus wrap with just a bunch of rectangles. Customers, especially school districts that I have dealt with for many years, want to be able to see what the finished product will look like. No offense, but for $12,000 or so, I...

I use Signlab, so I really don't know much about your interface, sorry. I'll try to make this as generic as I can. It is pretty easy to make an "array" of square marks for the summa to optically pick them up. You have to draw them yourself. No automatics here to help. With the summa plotter...

I have made bus templates like this: 1. take good perpendicular photos of each side. Use a real camera with a real lens, not a cell phone unless it has a physical and not a digital zoom lens. The further you walk away and zoom in, the less "lens/parallax/bloom" errors will be in the photo...

I regularly opus cut 150" long x 52" printed graphics on my S140T with no tracking issues. I've used and abused and worn out 3 summa plotters, starting with a T750. I've been able to order parts and repair and replace many breakdowns myself with help from their phone techs. I personally would...

For the new guys... You should consider recalibrating your plotter every time you change blades. There can be microscopic differences between blades that can affect cutting. I run through knife/blade calibration every time I change blades on my Summa T1400. Takes a few minutes but sure saves...

I have a DC3. Although it is difficult to find 50" material besides white and clear for this particular machine (only uses one size), you should be able to print on 24" u/m silver or metallic silver with a DC5. The ribbon colors are translucent so the metallic texture would be obvious. The...

Old thread, but I had to comment. I've had more than one customer get mad at me and actually cuss me when I try to tell them you don't mirror 4X4 on the passenger side, or SPORT, oh the list goes on... Bill Heishman

It is not typical for "me" to have a power supply burn out.... I've owned several.. a couple of them are around 18 years old. Ask tech support if they have or can send you the pages of the service manual that explains how to switch out the power supply. It is not a task for someone with no...

Summa Tech support Summa Tech support is always helpful and can talk you through checking for most issues. I've owned 5 Summa plotters over the years and never had a power supply fail. Does the switch feel solid when you flip it on?

I have DC3 and really love it for small and large jobs. Printing with the scratch guard though, has be a bit of a disappointment. It does not look good. Anyone have better luck with it than me? The new firmware upgrade allows 600 dpi printing just like the DC4, just still limited to the 1...

You need to make sure that the plotter is set to the same com speed as the com port on your computer. The d-750 has a menu that you can step through and set the speed and other port settings, or you can use the program that is supplied with the plotter from Summa and set it via the keyboard...

I have used an opus cutting system with my Fargo 300s printer for years. The software I use mostly is Signlab4.95. It was pretty simple for me, the secret being having a template set up that I would open first that had the proper registration marks first. The opus driver for the plotter would...

Florida sure sounds good in the winter time. I hear a lot of signs got recycled in Florida this summer. LOL Should keep you busy for a while. Welcome to the board from Texas

Welcome to the Forums Chris. I'm kinda new here too. BTW, is it cold up there? or "how do you get vinyl to stick when it's 20 below 0?" LOL

Would enjoy meeting you Dave. Your motorcycle graphics are really hot! My shop is located in the mid-cities, and we could certainly talk shop over some good Mexican food ;-)

Bubbles disappear fast in the Texas summer. The earlier advice to pinprick the holes and let the sun take care of shrining the vinyl wiill help. Fluid filled (ie water) bubbles seem to disappear faster. My theory is that the water will migrate through the vinyl and suck the vinyl back down...

I'm not really new to this forum, but have been in and out for a few years. Mostly a reader, I will try to be more of a contributer now as time allows. My shop is small and the work varies greatly from small personal window decals to tour bus graphics and designs. Since I have a...