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PirateShip looks awesome. Thanks

Thanks everyone. This is super helpful. Looking into these things now. Any tips on the shipping side? I'm thinking we need to look into an account with fedex or ups? Then we stock up on padded envelopes and boxes? Should we look into a stamps.com type of thing, or a way to produce and print our...

We already print stickers for everyone in our remote rural town, but we have the time, staff, and equipment to meet a much higher demand of stickers than our local day to day. Any tips for jumping into the online custom sticker business? I know we'll need a website that can accommodate uploaded...

We've been using Printavo for a few years. We're a wrap/sign shop, sticker factory, screen printing business, and Printavo, while specifically designed for the latter, serves our business pretty well. We use it for quotes, invoices, and most importantly, the automatic pricing matrix. However it...

Hey everyone, I have client looking to put branding on a boxing ring. Just found this thread. I'm unfamiliar with lorry canvas side material. Can anyone provide more info about what that? Any insights welcome. Thanks!

Update: The tech replaced the feed motor and the gear that the shaft for the grit roller attaches to. Fixed the issue. I've started cleaning with a toothbrush. good thing too, because since we've been doing die cut stickers, cutting through the backing on purpose, we're creating a lot more...

I reckon we will invest in a plotter as we take on larger volume sticker orders. In the meantime, I've spent the last few months fiddling around with cutting stickers on the Roland VG-3 printer/cutter and I'm pleased to report that after much trial and error, we are now getting super clean, die...

I am sensing our shop will soon invest in a good plotter to cut stickers on, as we take on higher volume orders. For now we are rocking with the Roland VG-2 and VG-3 Printer/Cutters. After lots of hours of tests and trials, different blades and pressures, exploring and later abandoning "perf-cut...

Pictures included. when advancing or pulling the sheet, you can hear a loud squeak coming from the right grit roller. The cuts are coming out all wonky. Has anyone else encountered this? We have scheduled a warranty covered tech visit, and I'm wondering if it will be a matter of cleaning or...

Interesting! The empty edge around the stickers is where the perf cut will go? And then the kiss cut is to avoid disturbing the crop marks, then weed the stickers, switch the blade, and run it again with only a perf cut? I'm going to try that, thanks! I wonder if doing just the perf cut on that...

I'm also curious about how often to replace the cut strip. How hammered is too hammered? Often after a run of perf cut stickers, there will be a small cut across the strip under the cutting area. I don't usually change it until I notice a blade tip snapped off, then I replace both, or maybe one...

Great tip for breaking down the rows. I will try that, thank you! I've been printing the single rows with crop marks just for all these tests. When I do adjustments between those, and get it dialed, I take them off and put on the job, printed with regular size space between the crop marks...

ah the mysterious Truvis bands! We used to see those a lot. This is a longshot, but if this easy trick works you'll be stoked! We had kind of similar banding issues with of VG-1 and VG-2. Tech suggested static, starvation etc. What ended up working for us was simply removing the ink cartridges...

This post is specifically focused around using the Roland VG-2 Printer/Cutter for laminated, die-cut stickers. I've been on the perf cut journey these past months. Learning a lot, but wouldn't say I've got it 100% dialed. I have more questions now than when I started, but have completed some...

Yes, if you import the same file twice, one with a contour cut and one with a perf cut, and every other setting identical, that should work. first cut the contour file, then line the media back up from the top, and do the perf cut. I had a Roland engineer here a while ago, and I asked if there...