Recent content by jharler

We shrink wrap if it's 35 stickers or more, up to 100 per stack. Less than 35 go into recloseable baggies. Small orders (20 or less) go into flat envelopes, and any orders that will fit go into a bubble mailer. The rest into boxes.

I use Onyx, so I'm not going to be able to help with the RIP, but the s80600 will remind you daily to shake the white ink cartridge, so that's how often you should do it. To be honest though, I've let it sit over the weekend and printed white on Monday without shaking it and it was fine. You...

Shouldn't be a problem between sheet and roll. Also tool positions are only about .25" off, so if you're .625" off, it's not likely the cutter in the wrong position. Perhaps your tool offset or scan sensor offset got changed? You can also try a new print and see if you still have the problem...

Running magnetic through the printer could cause problems. When I had my s80600 installed, the tech recommended not running magnetic through it. It's better to print on vinyl and apply the vinyl to magnetic stock.

For stickers, I'd recommend eco-solvent. UV stickers don't look as good as eco-solvent stickers in my opinion. You can can see the difference in ink height between different colors when viewed at even a slight angle. It's a look I don't like. For banners and wall decals, it probably isn't a...

Can you explain how it helps the manufacturers to suggest for us to wait 6-24 hours after printing before laminating? The times listed may be on the safe side, but it seems like it would be better for their business to advertise less or no outgassing than to promote more if there was no need...

I find laminating UV prints with gloss laminate unsatisfactory. I use substance vinyl and laminate, and a GFP laminator with heat assist. I find the laminate conforms a bit too much to the UV print leaving ridges and valleys that are very visible when viewed at an angle. Laminating with matte...

Yeah, I'm very happy with the colors my Epson produces and usually send RGB files to Onyx. I know I won't be able to match every print between printers, but I'm hoping I can get CMYK prints nearly the same.

I've tried them all. So far, Wide Mimaki seems to give me the closest colors to my Epson s80600 (I know I'll never achieve the same colors on the Mimaki, but it's not even close at this point).

I've used Rasterlink and have a variety of profiles loaded that Mimaki provides, but every one I've tried is laying down way too much ink. Perhaps it's a setting on the printer. The install tech was dialing all the setting in and I wasn't really watching all that closely to what he was doing...

I recently took delivery of a new UCJV330-160 and I'm in need of some color profiles. I'm using the demo version of Onyx Thrive right now and would love to continue to use it for both my Epson s80600 and the UCJV330, but I have no spectrophotometer and thus no way of generating profiles, and I...

I have an SP300V that no longer connects to the computer. I don't use it enough to make it worth the time, effort and money to try to figure it out. I haven't printed with it for months and only a few times in the past 16 months, I mostly use it for cutting. I'm in southeastern NC. If anyone...

Printing yellow on chrome works well with eco-solvent too, just make sure the chrome vinyl is eco-solvent compatible.

Definitely make sure the domain is available before you decide on a name. I recently launched Sticker Invasion and finding a good name was almost as difficult as building the website. You want something easy to remember and spell. Good luck!

If you buy used, realize it might be for sale because the current owner is tired of dealing with its problems. If this is a one-off, you may want to contact a local sign company / print shop and see if they can run your vinyl through their laminator. If it's something you're going to do...