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Digitech was out of our price range too, but Patrick and company there were awesome to speak to. I was definitely impressed with their offering, it just wasn't in the cards for us at that time.

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Axyz doesn't have anything that's a double crease wheel. I've been using third party Eco-cam wheels as they've got a full set of rounded wheels that seem to be more forgiving on the SBS. I wrote them to see if they've got anything, but it's not on the website so I doubt it with getting...

Going through the same thing with our R2000. Our drop detector needed replacement. We got a new one installed, but didn't shim it correctly so it took a little tweaking to get right. We still have issues with our overcoat levels during cleanings and the banding it's producing during anything...

Man I feel your pain. I bought a printer with bendable ink and the coatings on the paper will usually always crack, even with lamination on top for 180* turns. I've been told if you dial in your depths properly with the Colex you can have greater success, but on our AXYZ I've yet to make that...

I guess I'm hijacking, but I'm interested in info on the Apex machine line too. We have an AXYZ that's a much better router than knife cutter so we're looking for a dedicated knife based machine to cut and crease. Our AXYZ has a Tang knife so we're looking to add an oscillating cutter to this...

Is this the small format R2R printhead architecture? Looks like no cleaning station or intermediate tanks for ink delivery.

Is the fuzziness in the axis direction of the head sweep? If it is I'd say your head height was too high. If not an alignment should fix that. Anything in the X-axis sweep of the head being too high is likely misaligning because of the bidirectional printing not lining up from an improper...

Bob are you more concerned the Varnish will rewet the aqueous inks and make a mess?

We scant sizes under too, but we definitely relay that info to the customers in our quoting. If they have to be exactly to sheet ratio dims then we just upcharge for the waste in yield in fitting a lot less per sheet. That price difference is usually enough to have our clients say, we can live...

I've got a lot of those too I've collected here and there. I use a crop marks script someone made ages ago that we really like too.

Onboarding is probably going to be a sticking point. I bought a business I helped manage for years and we still did onboarding in the deal. Complete strangers or someone not in the sign world is likely going to need that and the warm handshake transitioning customers. Onboarding also means to...

We use V-carve from Vectric. I used to know flexi products and their shortcuts well years ago, but when I demo'd Enroute I couldn't make sense of the learning curve. V-carve is very simple and capable with lots of options in terms of your needs price/function wise.

I have an HP R2000 and we honestly use white vinyl to flood second surface prints 9 times out of 10 Vs running it on the HP. We do more volume than smaller quantities so that should be noted. I do like the white on here, but I feel like this thing drinks white ink even on a mid level opacity...

2024's been the best year we've ever had. Need to make a lot of changes for 2025 to grow and up production/capability for current demand. We do the bulk of our annual dollars from June-November. This year we're still busy in December and January is filling up. Traditionally we're slow from...