Have you ever?

[Proofread People]

I have media markers. I made them with .060 HIPS about 6" x 2", with foam core or ultra board sticks. The markers sit in the appropriate media roll. When a roll is in the printer so I have a 38" banner core sitting between our two roll to roll printers, and the markers go in there when the media is loaded in the printer.
I've got the same system with laminate.

I sharpie mark the inside the core, put T-shaped coroplast labels on top the core (on most). I've got not dukes, so no excuse but absentmindedness from rushing, rushing, rushing.

 

[RabidOne]

I have media markers. I made them with .060 HIPS about 6" x 2", with foam core or ultra board sticks. The markers sit in the appropriate media roll. When a roll is in the printer so I have a 38" banner core sitting between our two roll to roll printers, and the markers go in there when the media is loaded in the printer.
I've got the same system with laminate.

Same. We cap all material with the plastic base they ship in, but labeled with the specific material. Not a lot of mistakes happening that way!

 

[Proofread People]

I don't think that the 8150 has the same conformability that the 180 does, so it will probably pop back up around rivets on the truck. It also doesn't have any UV inhibitors, so you are going to need to use real laminate. If you've just taken off the laminator, your options are to go ahead and double-laminate the print with actual laminate (and risk it popping/separating over rivets, or trash it and re-print.

We have accidentally laminated prints with the wrong laminate finish and then just double-laminated with the correct finish laminate in the past with no issues.

Keep your print medias away from your laminate medias!

Ain't that the truth, I've kept them separate for all these years but recently was vetoed on that.

 

[Notarealsignguy]

Write it in the core at each end with a sharpie when you open it up. No tags to lose, nothing to mix up.

 

[Boudica]

Yeah, but then when you're locked and loaded, ripped to the gills and ready to print, how do you double check what is in the printer without unloading it? Talk about a buzz kill!

Pics.

 

[Notarealsignguy]

Yeah, but then when you're locked and loaded, ripped to the gills and ready to print, how do you double check what is in the printer without unloading it? Talk about a buzz kill!

Ya look before you load it numbnuts. Are you supposed to look at the 5 tags sitting on the table that the peons forgot to put back in the cores to figure it out? As Johnny says, c'mon man.

 

[Boudica]

It's all about the system.

 

[balstestrat]

Ya look before you load it numbnuts. Are you supposed to look at the 5 tags sitting on the table that the peons forgot to put back in the cores to figure it out? As Johnny says, c'mon man.

You are supposed to have a tag holder on the printer that only holds one tag at a time. Makes people remember to do that.

 

[Boudica]

hahaha... just now, I came "this close" to laminating a wrap for a promaster 3500 (they are huge) with Arlon 3420 Gloss. aaack. I caught it in time, and swapped the laminate out for the 8519. Close call. That would have been really bad.

 

[Notarealsignguy]

Seems like a solution looking for a problem

 

[Aleck283]

I printed and laminated a full truck wrap on ij35 accidentally instead of 1105. Received a roll of 35 that had no markings on the backer, so i assumed it was the 1105 which always has a blank backer.

 

[Notarealsignguy]

You are supposed to have a tag holder on the printer that only holds one tag at a time. Makes people remember to do that.

It's hard enough to get people to replace the paper towels when they are empty.

 

[Boudica]

It's hard enough to get people to replace the paper towels when they are empty.

Fortunately, it's just me and my boss that run the machines (mostly me). And I've got him fairly well trained.

 

[Notarealsignguy]

Fortunately, it's just me and my boss that run the machines (mostly me). And I've got him fairly well trained.

bet your paper towel holder still runs out and sits empty

 

[Gino]

Ever die-cut some vinyl and forget to tell the printer to only cut and it'll print the color, overtop of the colored vinyl and then cut it out ?? Really good on black.

 

[Boudica]

Ever die-cut some vinyl and forget to tell the printer to only cut and it'll print the color, overtop of the colored vinyl and then cut it out ?? Really good on black.

No. is that a thing?

 

[Boudica]

bet your paper towel holder still runs out and sits empty

Only until doughnut friday - then a new roll comes out.

 

[Gino]

No. is that a thing?

Okay, like this. You type out a word, say 'for sale'. On your layout, you make it red, cause it's gonna be red on the sign. You now send it to your rip. You do all the stuff and where it says, print & cut..... print only or cut only, you forget to click on 'cut only'. You load the red vinyl in and it prints out the red words first and goes back and cuts it out. Ya just wasted a step. I've done that. Not often, but it happens.

 

[Notarealsignguy]

Okay, like this. You type out a word, say 'for sale'. On your layout, you make it red, cause it's gonna be red on the sign. You now send it to your rip. You do all the stuff and where it says, print & cut..... print only or cut only, you forget to click on 'cut only'. You load the red vinyl in and it prints out the red words first and goes back and cuts it out. Ya just wasted a step. I've done that. Not often, but it happens.

I clear the fill so I don't do that because it happens. I have loaded laminated decals back in to cut and printed over them more than once. That's annoying.

 

[Boudica]

Okay, like this. You type out a word, say 'for sale'. On your layout, you make it red, cause it's gonna be red on the sign. You now send it to your rip. You do all the stuff and where it says, print & cut..... print only or cut only, you forget to click on 'cut only'. You load the red vinyl in and it prints out the red words first and goes back and cuts it out. Ya just wasted a step. I've done that. Not often, but it happens.

oh, I see. it hasn't happened to me - I typically cut colored vinyl on stand-alone plotters, not the printer/plotter. I thought you meant it was a print-cut, but you cut it first, then print it - which sounds weird.