Recent content by MarkSnelling

In the last two weeks alone I've had price increases from 7 suppliers. I know more are coming. It reminds me of the inflation we saw after Covid and is very difficult to keep updating prices on the website and in our system. Not only are we seeing the market slow down, but it is taking a lot...

Check out www.FluidColor.com. They offer 63", 98", and 126" hybrids and you can load them with Ricoh Gen 6 or Kyrocera print heads. The Gen 6 heads are fantastic and the units have up to 3 rows of print heads available to utilize. They also have this incredible high speed 98" hybrid called...

I'm a Roland distributor in the midwest and we rarely, if ever, have issues like this...and the very few times we have had problems, we were able to lean on Roland to get them to either swap out the unit or take it back entirely. Roland has always been one of my most reliable brands in terms of...

You'd be surprised how many Handtop and Flora machines are rebranded by big "American printer companies".

The tension bar is key. You also need to play around a bit with the vacuum settings. This is a great video of loading "weak" media and around 4:00 in the video you can see the tension bar being placed. With the tension bar constantly pulling the media through, you should be in much better shape.

There might be a few SG300 printers from Roland laying around. It has been discontinued (but will still be supported) and they dropped the price big time all the way down to $9,995 (plus ink, shipping, etc). It has room for CMYK and it also cuts. Nice machine. Agree with the comment about...

What type of printer are you using? If it is solvent, are you giving it time to cure before cutting flush to the image? If you are printing (then laminating) and then immediately cutting it, this is likely the problem. It is also true of latex a bit but not as much. Giving the vinyl and ink...

There's nothing special about the HP product...and in this case, they are a distributor just like me. There's zero reason to be loyal to HP after this tariff hike.

Polar Grip. Yes.

give me a call or email me and I might be able to help send you in the right direction.

I've got a 3mil, 7 year high coat weight and high tack adhesive vinyl that sticks like grim death to everything. 54'x150' rolls are $301.00. I know it isn't 6mils but it is available and a fraction of the cost you are using now. Even if you put a matching laminate to gain thickness you'll...

I believe the Roland solution is in stock and ready to ship if you want some numbers, Victor. Depending on which shaker the whole system is either $26K or $30K. They have a shaker made in the US which is $4K more than the one from Asia.

You can get the adhesive off of the rollers by heating them up and using an industrial rubber eraser. Back when we sold hot laminators, these 'erasers' were everywhere...I haven't needed to find one in forever,, but this looks like it would do the trick...I'd buy a few of them since they are...

Who did you buy the roll from? As a distributor, you should take it back them and make it their problem, not yours. If he agrees you have nothing to do with it, then either don't pay for it or demand a replacement. I never really understood the concept of a high-tack removable. What do you...

We can cut down rolls to just about any width, but I don't believe we can sheet the material seeing it is a single release liner product.