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  1. Finding Mutoh Cutting Blades

    Anyone able to find Mutoh Cutter blades? Fellers is telling us they don't have any nor do they have an expected time frame for more to be received.
  2. Arlon Banner Discontinued?

    We like Arlon Banner material and Fellers has told us it is discontinued. do you know anything about that? They want us to replace it with Zeelon. However, I don't like the way Zeelon prints on our Mutoh. What have you ran into and what are you doing about it?
  3. Need Help Head Replacement kit for Mutoh

    Are there head replacement kits for Mutoh available? I know I can get the Epson heads but I'm thinking that there must be something tailored to our VJ-1324 that is prepackaged with everything that should be replaced at once. A replacement video would be helpful too. Anyone have experience doing...
  4. Dimensional lettering and 3d printer

    I've got a job for 4" tall dimensional letters on the a brick building. Would you or have you considered using a 3D printer to just make them for small jobs?
  5. Business good or bad - how will you handle the new Paid Leave law?

    Business is bad for people right now since Black Thursday a week ago. I myself am still very busy, but this new thing is throwing me for a loop. I have multiple employees and I don't know how in the world I would handle this...
  6. Need Help Need Font help...

    I've used this font before (I did not make this) but for the life of my I cannot recall what this is: Very much appreciated!
  7. New Product Affinity Designer Slices - a huge timesaver

    We've been moving towards Affinity recently with our software because it does not have the limitations that Adobe has. We still use Adobe but not as much. I wanted to give a shout out about a feature that I have not put to full use before but found it's great for large prints that are going to...
  8. Question Closest vinyl to Fire Engine Red

    We are looking in the Avery supreme wrap 900 series and would like to know what the closest, or better yet, exact match to a fire engine red would be. What would you choose? thanks!
  9. Rant What do you think? Van vinyl

    A person came to us today very frustrated by a body shop close to me. They were supposed to remove old vinyl and apply new vinyl that was provided. This is on a "classic" vehicle that has a pretty good body. The paint was black, you can see my reflection taking the picture. The person comes to...
  10. Suggestions Best LED Strip Lighting

    I've only replaced or installed the florescent lighting. I've got a customer that we are replacing the guts of an existing 3x5 box sign. I told him I think now would be the time to go to LED Strip lighting since we are having a hard time getting the lights now. What do you recommend for the...
  11. Need Help Backlit and/or Dimensional Sign - help needed

    I've got a customer looking for a backlit sign, 1 sided, that would mount to a building. This is not a standard square backlit - which is fairly easy. I'm looking for a light box sign looking like this: OHio Dentistry by brycesteiner posted Jan 23, 2019 at 9:23 PM or each piece of the logo as...
  12. Discussion making silkscreens

    This is not so much related to signmaking but the process would be. You have seen notepads and I'm sure the 3" cubes where the sides are printed of the stack of paper. I see they are done by silk screening (at least they used to be). So I would like to try my hand at silkscreening again but...
  13. Large Panels for Backlit sign

    I have a customer that wants me to redo a backlit street sign. I got the measurements today and the existing frame takes an 8'x6' panel. I'm not sure where to get panels this large. I've contacted my supplier, but I doubt they carry polycarbonate or acrylic this large. Would I be able to use 2 -...
  14. Just In Did you see WWDC?

    The new iOS12 will have a new feature for measuring objects with the camera - AR (Augmented Reality). I was wowed by watching it. If you want to see it check out at 20 minutes. I could see this being one of our top tools. I can imagine how easy it will be to measure vehicles, get square...
  15. Designs from Cricut: Cloud based could be a nightmare

    I had a new one today. A customer wanted to send me a design of their new logo from a cloud based software known as Cricut. I guess they sell vinyl cutters and that is the software you use. Nice enough I suppose. There is nowhere to export or save as that I can find of any kind of standard...
  16. Discussion Bad Printing

    I was called in to replace the sign vinyl for a small company. I got there with our new prints and the vinyl that had been installed looked like it was 3m (and based on the smell of the adhesive. With a little heat it pulled up nice and easy. BUT, the printing was horrible on it. They told me...
  17. One of my favorite tools...

    Being on a job site or even near a building does not guarantee easy access to power. I purchased a DeWalt portable power station last year because we kept running into problems and we use it on many jobs now, even when there is access to power. It's great for high up on scaffolding, It's great...
  18. Poor Cutting on Mutoh VC-1300 cutter

    Just recently I have started to have an issue with my Mutoh VC-1300 plotter cutter. The cutting is very poor, almost jittery, and is nearly impossible to weed. I can even run it through a second time and it is still really bad and difficult to weed. I've tried changing the blade, readjusting the...
  19. Question How do you cut round corners?

    So, On your metal signs, how do you round the corners if you don't have an automated machine such as a CNC? Right now I have the corners drawn and cut with a jigsaw. It looks pretty good but is not always consistent. Is there a guillotine style cutter with different radius' for these types of...
  20. Frustrated - perforated window Install

    I did a perforated window vinyl sign and it looked very good. People who were walking along the sidewalk thought it looked great and so did the traffic who were stopped at the light. It really turned eyes. it was a block long. This is actually a designer who subbed it to us and their customer...
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