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When I print from Photoshop using a custom icc profile (supplied by the vendor) the image is coming out incredibly dull and desaturated. (OSX 12.12, Pshop CC) I dont always print from Photoshop so I can't pinpoint exactly when this started happening, but when I do I always use the same process...

Its...one of those days I can't figure out why our T160 can't seem to stay in alignment for this small sticker job and hoping someone on here can tell me what I should be doing differently. I ran 100ft worth of stickers last week without any issues so Im pulling my hair out trying to figure...

Anyone know of an alternative to UltraBoard/Gatorboard for basic signage that needs to be moisture resistant (i.e. sidewalk signs)? I originally started using Bubble-X for basic mounted signs as an alternative to UltraBoard because its cheaper, a whole lot easier to cut by hand, and technically...

This isn't quite "sign making" but hoping in this community can help with this... We do some fine art printing using a Canon pro4000. Before that we had a ipf9400 and have rarely – if ever– had any quality issues. Ordered a roll of Hahnemuhle Baryta FB for a specific client and the prints...

One of our major clients is a state university and they're looking to replace an existing banner on one of their building facades. They're thinking around 14x18ft vinyl (not mesh). We primarily do digital/offset/mailing as well as some basic signage (i.e. indoor signs, corro, nothing fancy) so...

I wish there was a visual dictionary for all of these old fonts... Anyone know what this is?

What are the deciding factors to determine what type of laminate needs to be used for a given material/application? This feels like a super amateur question but hey, this is Signs101 not Signs435 :p The extent of my knowledge is that you should use a lam that matches the base material; so...

Several months ago I noticed that all of the "Coated Textiles" media profiles on our HP 560 print with the magenta out of alignment/registration with the other colors. I initially called HP support in January and after about a week of back and forth and a ton of test prints/calibrations/base...

When we first switched to PrintSmith ~5 years ago we didn't have anything close to the wide format capabilities that we do now so we never really bothered setting up the wide format definitions. We hate how the platform handles everything wide format (and a lot of other things about it as well...

I've only worked with ACM a few times. Just got a sheet of MaxMetal Lite in and when I peeled the liner off the printed info on the liner seems to have migrated onto the ACM itself. I tried scrubbing it off with IPA with no luck. Is this normal?!

The Sihl 3683 profile on HP's Media Locator is giving me a 404 error code, and Im so busy right now that I won't have the time to make my own profile for a few days so I just wanted to ask if anyone on here happened to already have a profile. I'm printing bottle labels with UPCs that need to...

One of our clients asked if we could try printing on some sample rolls of upholstery fabric that they use. The fabric is 100% polyester and is marketed as "printable" but only because they're tested it with dye-sub, not direct printing with latex. I've printed plenty of other fabric but I...

Any insight on why this display film warped so badly? It's is a PP/PE display film that I printed on an HP 560. My first guess of course is that the curing temp was too high. The manufacturer profile had the heat at 230 and I dropped it to 210 thinking that would be safe but I guess not...

I'm experimenting with a personal project in my spare time and trying to use the pen tool on our Summa s2 t160 to create some drawings. There's not really much documentation on the pen tool in the Summa manual or in the software manuals (Caldera for print and cut, MacSign Cut/WinPlot for og...

Recently got a roll of transparent HTV and did a small print-and-cut job to test it out. Of course, because nothing is ever simple, our vinyl cutter (Summa s2 t160) can't read the barcode or registration marks. So far I've tried: - calibrating the OPOS to the media - putting multiple pieces...

Sorry ahead of time for how long this post is. There's also probably plenty of typos but it's Monday and I really don't feel like proof reading this lol ~ Relatively we don't do a lot of fabric printing but the vast majority of our fabric prints are on Endurafab Frontlit FR because a commercial...

I didn't have any luck trying to find this font online using image search and font id sites. I know it's a stretch but maybe its my lucky day?

This might be a stupid question but we do very little laminating so I don't have any experience to go off of, really. Does it make a difference to laminate a print before or after it's mounted to a substrate? If it makes a difference, this particular job is for small-ish dry-erase charts so...

I just started experimenting with HTV and got a 15" roll of Briteline (Grimco) 236 HTV. They have a media profile for it online but my rip (Caldera) doesn't seem to think there is an ICC profile in the media profile so the color looks like shite. Go figure, the printer needs material wider...

We've been using Endurafab Front FR for about a year now for a client who makes acoustic panels, but after running into countless quality issues Im spec'ing other fabrics. I just ran a few prints on a sample roll of TVF's DigiPanorama on our HP 560 using the profile off HP's Media Locator and...