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    3M Lamination releasing from Latex Printed vinyl. Please Help

    We are having trouble with laminate peeling off our printed vinyl. I will attach pictures for reference. We do have angles holding these signs in so friction could be an issue but we have done it this way for years and most have no problem. We are printing with HP LATEX 315 Printer onto 3M...
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    • 3m laminate 3m vinyl laminate separation overlaminate peeling problems
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    3M IJ180 delaminating on contoured areas?

    Has anyone else been running into problems with 3M IJ180 with 8518 lam delaminating? I thought 3M had fixed this on latex and haven’t had any issues for years, but all of the sudden a few wraps are delaminating in contoured areas. It doesn’t seem to be happening on flat installs, but...
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    Need Help Ice damage on new graphics - how to stop from happening again

    So I live in Oklahoma and we get ice storms pretty frequently, and the most recent one has ruined a fleet of newly applied tanker graphics for my customer. I’ve attached a few photos of the damage. The ice tears film laminate off and all the vinyl off if it was liquid laminated. We are having...

  4. HP FB550 - Ink peeling at edges on ACM signs after only 1 year...

    We took delivery of a new HP550 flatbed printer in December 2018 and were in full production with it a month later. We did a bunch of 24" x 24" ACM signs for a customer in January of 2019. They were black, full bleed signs and we laminated them with a callendered intermediate laminate (GBC...

  5. Need Images of Vehicle Wraps or Decal going Bad!

    Hey there, I am trying to create an info graphic about the reason why you should wash your vehicle with vinyl wraps. I haven't had the best luck with finding images that shows that vinyl peeling and or chipping off due to lack of care. I was wondering if you guys can help a sis out and share...

  6. Need Help Vinyle edges peeling back on decals

    Whenever I make decals of stickers the edges peel back. If i print stickers and don't use them right away then the edges want to pull away and can't make them look presentable unless I put release tape on them first. I also noticed some other signs that were done peeling at the edges and curling...
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    Decal shrinking when applied to PVC pipe

    I printed some decals on MacTac ImaGin vinyl, laminated them with MacTac ColorGard lam and contour cut them into ellipses. My customer then applied them to sections of PVC pipe that look to have been painted flat black (the pipe looks almost textured). He brought one back to me today on which...
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