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  1. Where can I get padded studs?

    Check out MidwestSign.com https://www.midwestsign.com/shop/consumables/sign-pop/adhesive-fastener/mechanical and WoodlandManufacturing.com https://www.woodlandmanufacturing.com/mounting-products/letter-mounting-products
  2. Looking for wholesaler to supply promotional pens, etc.

    Does anyone have a wholesaler that they use to get wholesale pens and promotional items? I'm with Navitor.com now and they have limited options. You all should join them. But, I'm looking for another option. Thanks for the help.
  3. Suggestions Storefront Window Vinyl - Single Words Layout

    How would you handle this layout? Should all words be the same font size or should the words be the same width? Looking for suggestions.
  4. Pantone colors chart ??

    Doesn't the Roland printers print Pantone colors? In my experience, if you save a file from Illustrator with Pantone colors specified and send it through Roland's VersaWorks the machine will hit pretty close to the swatch in the Pantone book. Make sure you select a Coated color in Illustrator.
  5. Colors Changing?

    Is the color space of the original file CMYK, and you're pasting into an RGB file? If your color palette is open to CMYK in an RGB document it doesn't mean that the color you're using is CMYK. That situation is showing a translation of the RGB formula in CMYK format.
  6. Can our Roland VS 640 print on Mat Board

    We have a customer that is asking if we can print on what he calls illustration board and I call mat board. It is about 2mm thick and has a slight texture, but smooth. The board is uncoated and I'm worried that the ink may bleed. I've advised him of this. Head damage is also a caution. I'm...
  7. Need Help Roland VS 640 - Printing lighter all of a sudden

    The group image shows the 50 series, 180 #3 is the remnant roll, and 180 #2 is the new roll of IJ180c we received last week. You might see in the 180 #2 that the black has white showing through and, if you can notice in the group photo, the yellow is a bit lighter. Any help or suggestions are...
  8. Need Help Roland VS 640 - Printing lighter all of a sudden

    I thought they were the same material. However, the right side, the lighter print we're having the issue is on the 3M IJ180c. The other left side print is 3M series 50 white cut vinyl. My coworker printed on the 50 series to save material. We did find that we are seeing different results on...
  9. Need Help Roland VS 640 - Printing lighter all of a sudden

    Printing has been normal until yesterday when we noticed the colors of a job we print daily for a local manufacturer were all lighter. I can't say there was an event that may have contributed but there may have been some build up to this result. We've been having issues where the first print of...
  10. font help asap... customer here

    If you have Flexi ... it shouldn't take any time at all. Not sure what Illustrator can do for you.
  11. Help

    Fire Truck font:
  12. Cutting Printed/Lam Reflective -- Need Tips

    Checkers, Thanks for the insight. The heater off works much better. I run the speed at 5 cm/s and 200 gram force. I works beautiful. THANK YOU. The boss doesn't want to outsource this job. He says, 'we bought this machine and it was made to print and cut this stuff.' I was about to tell...
  13. Cutting Printed/Lam Reflective -- Need Tips

    chopper, what speed are you running your cutter at? your saying you don't get any problems of bunching material when you are running at this pressure?
  14. Cutting Printed/Lam Reflective -- Need Tips

    chopper, what do you mean by the standard blade? what was your offset at?
  15. Cutting Printed/Lam Reflective -- Need Tips

    what info would you be looking for. i will try the cut with the heat off. haven't heard that one yet. had twenty sheets laying out over night and lam'ed them this morning. do you get choppy cutting with your blades with they get dull? after two sheets my cutint starts looking messy.
  16. Cutting Printed/Lam Reflective -- Need Tips

    ColorRip - SP-300 - No weed border. - Unsure of the 'right' order to cut. I'll include an image. - I have no sequence plot. The reflective bunches because of the knife pressure between the rollers. The reflective is staying centered between the rollers, the vinyl won't stay flat
  17. Custom Dirt Bike Graphics

    Getting Back to "Flame' We have been doing graphics for a few of the pro snow x teams out there. We learned this year to use a 'hi-tack' material to keep it stickin'. We have 3M and it seem to work well. Thanks for the help, everyone. I took extra time and made my own.
  18. Cutting Printed/Lam Reflective -- Need Tips

    Hello, I am cutting 100 sheets of a company's logo at 46" long. The reflective is bunching up as it goes through the cut cycle. Sometimes it can complete a sheet and other times the vinyl between the rollers bunches up and causes a motor error. This has become too much material to be wasting...
  19. Custom Dirt Bike Graphics

    Ideas? Any special techniques you use to digitize the panels?
  20. Custom Dirt Bike Graphics

    I have a customer that would like custom graphics on his klx110 dirt bike. I was wondering if anyone has heard of, or seen, any line art of the body panels for these bikes. It seems as though there is a lot of different companies doing this and was hoping there is a template I could use...
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