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Hi, Signs365 is more a wholesale printer meaning they will only sell to you if you are in the sign industry and plan on reselling the banners to someone else (you’ll need to submit a resale license, proof of what your company does etc). For what you’re looking for I’m actually not sure that...

Hi, just a note on the mutoh. Maintenance wise I doubt that it will be much different. Must solvent based printers are pretty similar in that regard. We had a (still have but don’t use) vj628 which is the sublimation variant of the Mutoh. It was simple to use and well made but at least at the...

This isn't perfect but we've found that 50% of the time they actually have good art but are downloading the wrong files from Canva. We've been telling everyone to share the files with us and we open it on our Canva account (we hate Canva as well btw) and download the print ready file. Granted...

We have a 60600 and it's hands down the easiest printer we've ever owned and the image quality is amazing. We had 5 or 6 Roland's and Mimaki's before it. I'd still have no issue buying a different brand though and we like our Mimaki printers a lot but the Epson is just weirdly so low...

The printer should replace them and I can’t imagine that they would argue with you on that. It’s what we would do in that situation. Apparel is tough. I’m always amazed how hard it is to keep everything consistent and perfect especially when you’ve got a big mix of jobs and differing print...

looks pretty awesome. Did you end up installing fluorescent colors? If you ever end up getting a bigger system the mimaki txf printers are pretty awesome but they sure aren’t cheap. We have the txf300 and just ordered one more. Rock solid but it is a little irritating how often you have to...

As long as you can a clear varnish there’s no reason it shouldn’t work, don’t remember what configuration’s you can set that printer up with but if you’re only white plus colors you might be out of luck

I've never swapped to pigmented inks but flushing sublimation ink isn't too hard to do but you do want to have a good amount of patience and at least some technical abilities to trouble shoot issue. The process you mentioned is pretty much it. Flush with sublimation flushing/cleaning liquid...

Hi, I have the same cutter and it’s a great cutter but mimaki’s documentation is horrible. There are 2-3 decent YouTube videos on settings it up. I think they are doing it on a cjv150 but it’s pretty much the same. It’s impossible to find and actual instructions anywhere though We never...

It seems like they sell a ton of them so I’d think they’d have a pretty decent machine. We have zero support options in our area so we went with a mimaki. $$$$ but crazily low maintenance and dependable

Like others said the shrinking of your edges is due to lower quality vinyl or lam. We use general formulations 203 line and it’s great. We pair it with either the GF matching lam or we prefer oracal 210g over the GF if it’s available as the oracal gloss is glossier. For something a little...

a Hiker manual is night and day better than the one you have now. We started with the same press you have and still have it as a a back up but the hiker is 10x smoother. You’ll see a lot of recommendations on automatic or pneumatic machines. They are great but really consider how your work...

fwiw we’re only using cold peel film. It’s just more consistent and usually peels after just a few seconds on most fabrics. We buy direct from one of the manufacturers and even they diplomatically steer us away from the hot peel unless we really want it. We’re in hawaii so it’s cheaper to ship...

I don't think you can weld most of the sublimated poly materials you're likely looking at. You can use a heat activated adhesive, maybe a HF welding system (common in clothing manufacturing) but people usually just sew them. I'm assuming that you're looking at soft signage, fabric banners, SEG...

We usually heat transfer them, screen transfer, vinyl or DTF and a few other screen printers bring their jackets to us to print. Basically you just have to make sure nothing melts when they are in the dryer or on the heat press. And then we don't screen print in house but sometimes you might...