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ij180cv3

  1. Alignment Issues on Stairwell

    Good morning everyone. My boss is prompting me to reach out for advice concerning some issues we are having with alignment on a 35' tall stairwell mural. We are printing on IJ180cv3 with 8520 laminate on an HP700W Latex printer. Using the base 3M 40C profile with 194 degrees temp. Vinyl is...
  2. Vehicle tailgate badges/stamps

    Hey everyone, I was sent a job to install vehicle graphics by a 3rd party. I am only the installer. designer put a full wrap on the tailgate of a Tacoma and it has the stamped and black badges in each letter- picture attached. Also, there will be text that migrates this way into the T and A...
  3. Premask messing up film laminate?

    Had a weird problem come up this last week where it looks like the premask on a wrap caused the laminate underneath to bunch up and separate from the vinyl in areas. This is IJ 180cv3 with 8518 gloss lam and latex ink. I haven’t had any issues with 3M and latex delaminating before, and it’s...
  4. Need Help Lamex Overlam for Wrap?

    Our HP printer is down at the moment, so we're having to use a local wholesale printer to print for a wrap due next week. He uses IJ180cv3 vinyl with Lamex 2mil 4yr overlaminate. His pricing is good, but would our wrap job be compromised with the Lamex? Anybody use the Lamex for wraps?
  5. Color Shifting Panels Coming Off My 360/365

    Hi guys, So I'm a print tech at a wrap company and we've been have problems with color shifts in panels for a few months now while printing wraps. I've tried everything I know of to get this issue resolved with no success. We are using Onyx 12.1 and are running a latex 360 and 365 and printing...
  6. 3M IJ180Cv3 sun exposure---looks burned

    Has anyone ever seen this before? The print is 3M IJ180Cv3 w/ 8520 over laminate. Was only installed about 2 years ago. Has a good amount of sun exposure but I have never seen it actually change the color so drastically. All of the brown looking area is originally white... Any feedback is much...
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