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Thank you to each of you for your experience. Good to know it was likely just a bad paint job and not an across-the board clearcoat issue. Jackpine hit what papilio is. I can certainly go back to using solvent printing, but this was working for some specific uses. Good to know that its likely...

I started using this product called Papilio (inkjet vinyl) for some projects, and I just destroyed a client's paint. It literally pulled off chunks of paint off their vehicle. The Vehicle was not clearcoated. Is the problem the product that I used- Papilio- or is it likely to happen with all...

We've found we can cut our costs drastically on a certain sign we make by switching to inkjet printing. Our specific final print size is 11x17, the same size the papilio comes in. In addition, its white borders, so we don't have trim issues. Lastly, we do several thousand a month and each one...

excellent- Thank you all for the info. Very good to know :) Now I can do it without too much fear! Thanks!

If we print vinyl and lay a laminate over it, can we lay vinyl numbers OVER the overlaminate? Will it last? We are going for a 5 year life. Printing solvent on 3M IJ180 with a 3M 8519 luster overlaminate. Hoping to put single color cut cast vinyl over the overlaminate. Haven't read anywhere if...

alright, makes sense. I've reached out to a supplier, hoping to get pick up a few of these as samples and see what works best. Thanks again for all the help and direction. Just sad I didn't bug you all about it sooner! :U Rock::U Rock: We don't have any large format printers at the moment, but...

I'm a little confused with what this is. I did some searching and it looks like a semiridgid material, but I can't seem to figure out WHAT it is. Is it just an arbitrary substrate? or is it some sort of vinyl? or what? And semi-rigid, what does that mean precisely. Is it like plastic? I'll...

Just wanted to say this is fantastic- I've been working on some of this stuff for YEARS and in one day you all gave me 3 great solutions I've never considered before, and some other recommendations for some other products to use. I am quite frankly amazed, and I am extremely thankful for...

Wow- I didn't know anything like this existed. This could be perfect too. I'm wondering if we could throw this on the back of magnetic signs and do an "either/or" type of thing. Leave the backing on for a mag sign, peel it off for a removable vinyl. I need to find someone who supplies some of...

FYI, just ordered a sample. Looking forward to trying it out!

I currently use removable and reusable vinyl and while the adhesion is great, it deforms and tears on repeated application/removals if you aren't careful with it. I'm looking for either alternatives, OR ways to improve the durability of the oracal we currently use. I was interpreting this as a...

Wow, never heard of that before but I just researched it. I'm definately going to try it out! Thanks for the thoughts! I don't know much about laminating vinyl. Certainly I've laminated other types of signage, but I've done some research in the past and I thought laminating was done on...

Lots of Ohio Activity! Thanks for all the welcomes, glad to see some others in the Ohio, NKY area as well, although I appreciate everyone from across the rest of the country as well! A lot of "ex-Ohioans" though, you all made me look up the population numbers in Ohio. It looks like we've...

Velcro unfortunately, while making something removable, requires a permanent (or semipermanent) adhesion of the backing which we can't do! The removable vinyl works PERFECT for adhesion and durability except for its tendency to tear and stretch, which means its not an adhesion method thats...

This may work for a layering type of opportunity (layering the MacTac on top of the Oracals). MacTac has a removable, but its only 3.2-mil, the same thickness as the Oracals...

Correct. We've used the removable vinyls for years. Those two oracals work great, you can use it, reuse it, wash the sticky side if it gets dirty, and the adhesive remains durable for years. The company I work for started doing it after I illustrated that's how we used to do numbers and some...

We have a specific product that has historically been magnetic, however we are finding a number of our customers now have alloy or plastic components that magnets don't stick to. As an effort to find solutions (we dabbled with suction cup technology among others), the best solution seems to...

Good Morning! I've been in the sign business for quite a few years but in different capacities. I owned a sign manufacturing business in upstate Ohio in the early 2000s. I closed down shop in '07 to run an unrelated business in New York, when in 2009 a company down in the lower corner of Ohio...