• I want to thank all the members that have upgraded your accounts. I truly appreciate your support of the site monetarily. Supporting the site keeps this site up and running as a lot of work daily goes on behind the scenes. Click to Support Signs101 ...

foil

  1. Printing recommendations for applying foil on top of UV prints

    Hello, hope you are all doing well. I'm printing various projects on a Mimaki UCJV300 series printer and am interested in trying to apply foil on TOP of prints. I am aware that I can simply print over metallic media and just use the opacity of the ink to selectively cover & reveal areas that are...
  2. Need Help Hello from beautiful balmy Brisbane Australia

    I have joined here following a recommendation from a local decal printer who cannot solve my little dilemma. At this time I am singularly focused on learning how to, or finding someone who can already, recreate a special 1970 French motorcycle decal that involves a 3-color reverse print onto a...
  3. Need Help AlumiGraphics® GRIP - Substrate Advance Issue

    I need help please. This 53" foil based substrate prints well for ~2 linear feet until fuzziness starts happening because the advance is going out of wack. I always re-calibrate the OMAS before a job, and it starts crisp, but always seems to lose itself after a few feet into a job. It's like...
  4. Edge FX print issues

    Hi all, Been using the edge FX for quite a few years now but recently it's started printing a line of colour when the foil starts printing. For example the print will feed the vinyl through until the place to start printing and it will create a thin line of the colour before the printed piece...
  5. Foil palettes for Illustrator CS?

    Are there some foil palettes for Adobe Illustrator (mac/pc) CS that I can load to help with assigning the correct colors to the file? I have searched around and can't see to find any. I thought there used to be something like this for MacImprint. Or am I missing the big picture here...
  6. Printing on Metal Foil

    Does anyone have a solution to partial printing on top of gold or silver medal foil? After the Gerber medal foil prints and then a color or colors are printed on top the spot color foil doesn't transfer right or just some of it transfers. Going over it a second time doesn't help. Any...
Top