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We have a job for a MaxMetal ACM sign 48x72", but the media price difference between 60x120" sheets and 48x96" sheets is big. I prefer not to print to the edge and risk spraying onto the belt. Is anyone printing full bleed onto the belt on their R1000 or R2000? What challenges, issues or...

For client tours, who has a standard giveaway or tchotchke that is both a demo and a takeaway for those coming through your shop? We do digital print, vinyl silkscreen, and my favorite, wide format, with our Latex 570, Latex R1000 and Colex Sharpcut. What would be something likely to be...

We have had an ongoing problem with fresh boards of Sintra, expanded PVC, PALIGHT, arriving with invsible suction cup marks that reveal themsevles when printed over. We can't see them before printing, but they ruin the print. We can flood print white underneath to hide them, at the expense of...

We use lots of this material on our HP Latex 570 (Ultraflexx DSS 12oz. blockout banner) but we're having issues with wrinkling, possibly due to heat. My operators are saying with less heat, the ink doesn't dry. How can we improve output?

I'm not getting repsonses from Colex themselves yet. They offer two router bits, T00546 and T00547, which are described as leaving a polished finish on acrylic. We use lots of .25" and .375" acrylic and don't want to flame polish of chemically polish. Are there other bits to recommend? I'd...

We are low low volume Summa users, until a handful of decal jobs came through our shop. We have 1000 cut lettering decals, 13"w x 2"h, cutting out of Avery tangerine vinyl. We can run through GoSign for the contour cutting, and even to final trim size, but how to best get them trimmed down to...

We need some suggestions for workflow -and- tools when working with acrylic .375" to .5" thick 48x96" sheets. We almost exclusively do second surface printing with this substrate. Clearly weight is a factor and the thicker it is the more it weighs. This weight problem can lead to issues loading...

I’m filling in for my operator today. I’m having a struggle with Onyx this morning. I have a file that is set up on the correct material in Onyx. It’s a window cling with an under flood of white. My white print heads are in, the machine is operational and onyx shows that the job material in the...

We bought the Colex updated kiss cut tool. However, our results are not matching my expectations. That may be a learning opportunity, so I'm not blaming the tool. We're testing on Oracal 631 and the cut result is low fidelity to the the cut file. What feedback do you have to help improve our...

We have been producing a repeat application that uses most of a 50 x 100 sheet of expended PVC. We’ve generated a lot of scrap pieces that are a good usable size but it’s getting a little bit ridiculous with the amount of storage I have. Is there any other practical use for this stuff rather...

We have had a couple recent installs for a client come back on us for one issue or another. So far we sub out 100% of our installs. Most recently, we subbed out the installation of a wall graphic, 10'wide x 3.5' tall in a retail location. A day later, according to our client contact the...

We are growing in the wide format department of our print business. We need to add a second shift operator to expand our capacity. Training is available. We operate a HP Latex R1000, HP Latex 570, Colex Sharpcut flatbed cutter/router, and Seal 62 Pro D laminator. We are located near downtown...

Our estimator regularly asks me for time estimates on CNC / flatbed cutter work. I have a speeds and feeds chart from Colex. This isn't very helpful to consider time to move from piece to piece in the layout, slowing down for rounded edges, etc. As an example: "Name Card 4.25” x 6” Quantity...

Sanity check, please. I’m estimating a 40mil styrene job, 4”x24” for 90 pieces, let’s say. I can fit 33up on a 48”x96” sheet. I don’t want to over produce, so let’s say 30 pieces per sheet I will cut out of 3 sheets. Thats 58” per piece so a total of 1,740 inches per sheet. Does my speeds and...

Just ran into an application that will be repeating, where we need some help: tiling large graphics in Onyx and pairing with our Colex flatbed cutter. In the attached graphic Onyx split up this file into panels with overlap. We trimmed manually and the installer overlapped. We're started to get...

We just installed an HP R1000 latex printer to supplement our HP Latex 570. We were doing some prints on 1/8" and 1/4" Sintra, aka expanded PVC. Our Colex flatbbed cutter cnc, yielded some not so clean edges. We had to go back and peel away the wavt, stretched edges of the print, or use a razor...

We are running a HP Latex 570 with Postershop 21. Years ago when we started with Postershop 6 and our HP Designjet 5500, there was the option to cut each sheet, say if you were printing a 36" roll, you could trim at 24" and have a stack of 24x36 prints trimmed to size right off the printer...

This is the eucaboard material from Home Depot, in 48x96" sheets: Eucaboard Info. We are simply cutting out 52 6" x 11" boards. Most do OK, but the last row sees some boards start to lose suction and move around. Then they aren't cut square. We have used Colex bits T00498 and T00535, and the...

ABCO is researching a replacement for one of our wide format printers that is no longer operational nor feasible to repair. Our EFI H1625 LED UV hybrid roll/rigid printer is 1.65m/65" wide with CMYK plus two white channels, printing onto substrates up to 50mm/2" thick. Pros: Print quality...

We had a little spare time and some extra Falconboard. Prince was honored by Pantone through a custom shade of his favorite color, purple. My wide format operator put together some white and some black Falconboard, along with our EFI H1625 LED and Colex Sharpcut, to create one oy my favorite...