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Hello everyone, I'm very new to the industry and I recently got a work order from a local blue collar guy starting his own foam injection business for concrete leveling. Its my job to produce and install his decals and I've never done it before. I'm on my own for this project so step one is...

Hey all, My job wants to start pulling our stickers in house and I was chosen to be the man to figure everything out. Someone bought us a Roland LEF2-300 for doing our polycarbonate second surface stickers which I think I have decently figured out over the last year of messing with it. The next...

Got an add a while back for Nazdar's 706 series ink that is supposed to be a direct replacement for the Lus 120 Mimaki brand ink. the specs on it seemed okay and the price was eye catching to say the least. Just wondered if anyone has had any experience with it and how durable it is, how close...

Hello, I am new here to posting but have used this site to get questions answered for quite a while. I am having trouble with our current setup as we are switch plotters to the Summa T160. Everything is good to go except for print and cut process as the OPUS system won’t read registration marks...

What problem it could be ? I want to print like green, and it prints grey or blue. made a test It seems everything is okay. Its for mug sublimation

Hi All, Anyone knows if you have to use 2 Felt Wipers and 2 wipers on Roland XR-640 ? I've bought used XR-640, currently having 1 felt wiper and 1 wiper set up and 2 empty slots for additional felt wiper and wiper. Is it supposed to be this way or I should be running it on 2 felts wipers + 2...

Hello, i have my JV33 3 years powered off. Of course everything is dried. I flushed the printhead, ink lines everything. Changed cap and cleaned cap station. Changed pump. Basically everything is cleaned. I want to power it on without inks, just to check that everything else works fine.I dont...

Hello everyone, my shop is interested in purchasing a flatbed and we got recommended Vanguard. I am just curious if those are quality machines, and which model would work best for us. We are a medium volume company, we do a lot of foam core signs and corplast signs and Di-bond. We have just...

Hello, my company is in the search of a new printer, Currently we have a HP DesignJet L26500 printer and it's near the end of it's life. We're on the hunt for a new printer but we're open to try different brands. What we typically print is barricade graphics for airports, malls as well as...

In your experience, what's the max size a DiBond/Max Metal sign face can be and still only have (2) 5 Gallon cement buckets as anchors. We don't want it blowing away/falling. Thanks!

Hello, We have a GRAPHTEC FC 8000-130 Head problem (coil?) Everything works fine otherwise. The head won't go up and down. Graphtec advises the entire head assembly needs to be replaced. If anyone has some ideas on how to fix it or has parts,please contact me . Thanks, MArk

Hello everyone, Im desiging a graphic kit for my client. His bike is called a Husqvarna and the official (Husqvarna logo) has Arial font used (See image) Am i aloud to use just the letters saying Husqvarna in Arial font still? Not the symbol at the start

Maybe a silly question but I haven't done a 2 side install like this. My plan is to use L brackets and use Cement anchor bolts and bolt the sign to the brick. using probably 6mm Maxmetal or a Whitewood. no pre cut track. Let me know if there is a better way of mounting this sign. Thanks guys.

So i've got a new ambulance in the shop and we need to cover the back in the high intensity reflective stripes. ive done a few before but not this large of a scale and never anything im happy with. My question is how do most of you go about deciding where the start, how to you keep it lined up...

Hello, We have a Graphtec FC8600. We do not have a router or substrate cutter in house. We have a customer that has asked us to cut coroplast in the shape of letters for their high school cheer-leading team. My boss asked me if we could score cut the coroplast on the graphtec. I told him I...

Looking for anyone who might use this combination of products to see if i can speed up some of my processes and ways i do things. I know it is a long shot and i have asked this question differently but i asked it with individual items. Hoping maybe someone is in the same equipment boundaries...

Hey guys just a quick question, I have been trying to do some shirts using the roland digital heat transfer media, I have been using a generic oracal profile to print on the heat transfer, I kind of noticed that the green color hardly saturated that media, I mean I can see it printed but very...

Going to order some printed Orajet Clear 0-3651 from Signs365. I am planning on installing it on some used faces (pan face I believe they are called)...with the beveled/extruded edges. My question is...will I be able to heat and shape this material around those edges? Also, what transfer...

In your opinion, what's the most important aspect of good on-premise signage? Is it the artwork/design? Is it placement? How about having a professional look? Creativity of placement mixed with design? What are your thoughts? What is the least important aspect? Thanks for the...

Hi guys A supplier wants me to buy his cast and polymer print vinyls from the brand "Profit". Does anyone have any experience with that vinyl? Usually go with trusty Avery MPI for prints, but the vinyl was so cheap it made me interested. /Jesper, 3221 Design