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I spoke to the owner of one of our wholesale suppliers for dimensional letters this morning, as I was checking on the status of an order anyway. His company is 60 years old this month. He said back in the 80's, 70s, etc, with his company there was no flush drilling of any acrylic and glue on...

I see your picture, and I raise you one: While Gemini may indeed offer stud with block on thicknesses other than 1/8" and 3/16", looking in their own 2024 catalog (and at least 2023), the "standard" choice shows flush stud for 1/4" + (as I stated above). It doesn't even show an option in the...

As you said, your opinion, but glue blocks for studs on the back of acrylic are NOT the "industry standard". If true, big players like Gemini and Steel Art would be doing it and they don't. Default is drill/tap, flush stud on acrylic (except 1/8" & 3/16"). Unsure how "glue blocks" helps with...

We've done that too, using leftover series 225 liners (waterproof)

Been there, done that, have the t-shirt ;) In some cases, that worked, but not always. After a few hours of reapplying the original backer, it seems like certain vinyl/small tex/fine text/scripts wanted to re-stick to it, causing issues again. Not often, but there were cases where it happened

That was Graphitek's reason not mine, as stated above several times. Our shop liked it as an easier release liner for certain situations. Quite a few times we had a difficult job that either had very small text, thin strokes, or fancy script, that would just not want to release easily off of...

I have that too from using series 225 vinyl from Gerber/3M, but that synthetic liner is 'tougher' than the stuff I posted about and more 'stiff'. Best way I can describe it, is the 3M synthetic liner can be "creased" (and then it's hard to relax once done); this stuff I inquired about above can...

It's really nice stuff. Graphitek used to mask with clear masking, thus why they didn't want people to see the "weeded cut lines" around consecutive lines of text (or in between words) on the original vinyl's release paper. Obviously less of an issue if you're using regular white masking...

Basically it's for cut, weeded vinyl. Instead of leaving masked vinyl on the existing paper backing the vinyl comes on, you would mask the vinyl, and then remove the paper backer (exposing the tacky vinyl side). Then, you'd place the masked vinyl onto this stuff (pictured above) to take the...

Hello all, trying to locate an item we purchased about 12 years ago from Graphitek of VT, who are long out of business. It's a 15" wide roll of clear "release liner" (pictures attached). Shiny on the release side, matte (dull) on the back side. It's how they used to supply their masked cut...

Sintra only comes in one yellow color, but like you said, it's the lighter version. I believe they used to have more options years ago but that's it. Komatex looks to still have 2 colors of yellow, based on their website and (now 2 years outdated) 2021 brochure .PDF on their site...

gives new meaning to the term "balls of steel", in more ways than one! ;)

The wholesale shop that does our dimensional letters once serviced a large water ice chain for about 13 years (and this was about 15 years ago when they stopped). They never used J channel, only C channel for the menu boards. They had tons of it leftover for years after and whenever we needed...

If it's just oil and fingerprints, we've had success mixing Ajax Triple Action Dishwashing soap, specifically the Orange one into a spray bottle of warm water (about 4 tablespoons). Acts like a degreaser and doesn't do any damage to printed surfaces. Seems like sometimes that works better than...

If you like the green ones and can't get anything else, there's always Speedpress: http://www.speedpress.com/products/2/2 Only thing is the sizes are very limited. They also have the Rhino mats that others have mentioned