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Hi everyone, I am looking for some recommendations for vinyl for the front of a reefer trailer. Cut vinyl would be better, but we could print too. We put intermediate vinyl on the front of the reefer (the part that protrudes) a few months ago, had to heat it up to get it to adhere, and now it...

I would like to find out if anyone else has noticed this and if it's happening at my shop, it's got to be happening elsewhere. Over the past few months we have had some projects where we needed almost the entire 10yd roll of material and so I ordered just enough. I found on 4 occasions that the...

Commenting on the "full bleed part" of the conversation, I found that a big factor in whether the graphics curled up on the edges was how long I waited between laminating and plotting. I ran a few tests on printed calendared vinyl that had cured for over a month. When I plotted the print only...

Thanks, both of you. Now I can finally sleep easy ;) That rewinder is nifty, but I agree that $2K is way too pricey. I am going to try turning our plotter like you mentioned, Fred. Thanks again!

This is something that has been bothering me for a while, and it seems pretty trivial, but here goes anyways. We have an Edge printer and the roll holders for it. I don't understand how to use the roll holder for the vinyl that gets printed. It doesn't wind by itself around the roll, and the...

We used to get this while printing orange on our old Edge and my coworker mentioned that it was a "cat scratch". I don't know all the details, but it has to do with the temperature. In our case it was running too hot. I did find this comment in another article though "Also, if you're doing...

Mosh - there it is.

We are going to be getting a new website that has an online store next month. I want to promote this and put up a splash page on our current website, maybe use it for our Facebook cover page, etc. This is what I have come up with - any suggestions? Design isn't really what I do, so I know I'm...

What thickness are you going with?

For the less expensive custom shaped signs that go between posts we use alumacorr/alumalite. What is PVC? Is it the same as sintra/komatex/trovacil?

If you are running Illustrator CS6, do you have a dimension tool and which one is it? I have heard of BPT-Pro, which only goes up to CS5 and HotDoor, which is compatible. Any other options out there? Thanks!

I am in the process of organizing some information to make choosing and ordering vinyl easier for when it's a little more hectic around here. Before I spend too much time on this, am I reinventing the wheel? Here is what I am putting together. I am pulling the datasheets on the vinyl to get the...

Not sure which forum this belongs in (Fred, help me out!), but I wanted to discuss this with some fellow sign industry people. I just read somewhere that if you read for 1 hour every day in your chosen field, in 7 years you will become an expert. So that got me wondering, what do you all read...

Thank you SO much!

Hello and happy day after Christmas! Anyone recognize this font, or more likely, the font of the capitalized letters and the font of the lowercase part? Thanks!

Hi! I'm looking for a vector of the new 4x4 decal that is on the 2014 Ford F150. I found it on brands of the world, but it is an autocad (cdr) file. Can anyone share the vector or maybe convert? I tried opening/placing/importing the file in Illustrator and Composer, but no luck. Thanks!

That's cool! How many rolls of vinyl can you keep in there? How loosely do you unroll them?

Can you post a picture of this? I'm very curious to see it!

Yes, it's a clear glue-like substance. I would agree with you, but I just wanted to see if anyone had a compelling reason or horror story about trying to get something off that was edge sealed.

BigFish- we did talk to the vendor before ordering and they suggested the 5ml polycarb even with the curves. But I am curious about what you are saying - would a "textured coex laminate, 5 mil rigid co-polymer film" be considered a polycarb alternative?