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  1. Need Help Summa S2 T-140 - "X-AXIS ERROR OUT OF PARAMETERS"

    Summa S2 T-140 - "X-AXIS ERROR OUT OF PARAMETER" This is new to me....... I am getting this error now when I try to use the sheet cut feature. The head travels across the machine to engage the plastic tab on the left side of the machine to activate the sheet cutting knife like normal...
  2. Suggestions Wholesale Billboard Source Needed

    Anybody have a source for a Billboard Printing Wholesaler? I fear that my usual source has had a medical issue and will not be able to continue to be a middle man for some company that all I know is, its located in NYC. This gentleman has coordinated miles and miles of billboard prints for me...
  3. Onyx Rip cut question

    if you are missing a Cut Server file, you can trick the program into recreating it. Using the same output parameters in Placement ( space between copies, size, barcode, etc. ) Then go to Configure Printer, go to Device, click on the Printer in the Physical Printer List, then hit Configure...
  4. Does all 3M have markings on the backing paper?

    Regular IJ35 does NOT have any printing on the backing paper. IJ35C does, in light redish pink.
  5. Discussion HP365 Latex Printer: Your Custom Media Profiles

    on that machine, with banner materials, you are better off to sub out the printing. Your Cost per sqft, with material, ink, banner tape and grommets, is going to be the same as subbing it out. But you dont have to use Your Time for printing and finishing the banner. latex inks are great to a...
  6. 20' Trailer wrap

    The increasing variable is definitely the carbon fiber laminate. I personally would never use a laminate rated at just 3 years, and costs $2.00+ p/sqft more than a standard 8 year gloss laminate, for a trailer wrap. You basically doubled your cost in the project by using that laminate. Its also...
  7. Premasked striping woes

    I would have done this soaking wet with app fluid, and I would not have removed the inner vinyl from the overall shape before masking it. Then would have removed the mirrors..... Its like 2 torx per side and a possible plug. I also would have probly just done it with High Performance as well...
  8. Need Help Anybody have some 3M 1170 Red Transparent DOT overlay film?

    Have a long time aviation fuel supplier client, that asked for an estimate 5/2022 for around $2000 in aluminum reflective signs..... Now 10 months later, they appear to be ready to make an order..... for Qty 1 - 12x18 :confused: Anybody have the Red Transparent DOT 1170 Vinyl that could bill me...
  9. Is it the Reflective or the Lam?

    Thats just surface rub from the manufacturing process. Usually a little bit of propane torching of those areas, Once the Film is Applied to a Surface, does the trick. The heat and flame is basically just mimicking the sun however..... Once outdoors it typically disappears in most climates after...
  10. Adobe CC pantone colors

    I just opened the ONYX sample PANTONE PDF image that comes with the software install. This then showed all the pantones in the Ai swatches palette. I then deleted any other odd swatches that were in the palette, then saved the palette as the User Defined. Now when I need pantones I just open...
  11. Question Graphtec vs Summa for sheets of stickers/which has a "better" workflow using only rasterlink?

    I never got the auto sheet cut to actually function and leave enough media before the next barcode, without tripping the media sensor. I probly need to add more space between the barcodes being printed in the RIP. Have to give it another shot though now that you mention it. But I imagine I...
  12. Cast Vinyl Problems

    If this is an RV, is this damaged vinyl on the angled Front of the RV? the angled surface will age the film like its flat....."horizontal". It maybe covered, but perhaps that end gets some sunlight in the afternoons? Also, no guarantee the roll you got to use wasn't already over 12 months...
  13. Clear Vinyl on Canon Colorado 1650?

    The smoother the Liner, the Thinner the Liner, the smoother and thinner the adhesive layer is on the Film, which translates to a smoother face surface of the film. To be "optically clear" that adhesive layer has to be very very smooth and consistent. No orange peel. This is why say 8508 cal...
  14. Question Graphtec vs Summa for sheets of stickers/which has a "better" workflow using only rasterlink?

    If you setup the Summa and use Onyx, then you will setup all of your cutting preferences in Onyx CUT-Server, then in One Job, you will setup and designate both the Kiss and the Flex cuts and send both at once to the plotter. The Summa will always first cut the Kiss info, then cut the Flex info...
  15. Seiko (Oki) W64S Orings?

    wow.....a Seiko Colorpainter. The one that kinda started it all with those print heads taken from the barcoding system for warehouses, still running. Sorta. Good luck on this one. I literally remember having a tiny box full of those O-Rings that went with the printer to its new owner, back...
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