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  1. Just removed a 4x4 decal off a brand new ford f150 and....

    Never ever have I seen this before..... I have to take off the 2 4x4 decals on the rear of the bed of a pickup and I just used a heat gun on the low setting and basically peeled the decal off in one piece ( nice vinyl too BTW). So now there is a yellow discouloring left behind...sort of like...
  2. trailer rivet question

    I am by no means a wrap guy but will tinker with partials or flat wraps. I have a trailer here and it has those rather large rivets that can be unscrewed. In the past with partial wraps I have unscrewed them where ever the graphic hit and screwed them back in. With doing practically the...
  3. Avery optically clear laminate issue

    I had first ordered a roll of this laminate last fall and when there was about 5-8 yards left on the roll there were these continuosu tears or rips right about centre of the material all the way to the end. I threw the roll aside and figured this is an isolated incident. Today I am finishing a...
  4. Dance floor graphics

    Anybody have info on what is being used. 10' x 20'
  5. I put my jv3 into a nozzle wash every night

    I do this because the sensor for the wiper is sort of malfunctioning so at night when I leave, the moment it does a sleep cleaning the wiper moves out about an inch then stops and the machine sits idel like this with instructions to hit the enter button....until then it sits on and never cleans...
  6. yet another signlab 8 dilemma

    I used to be able to import tif files but now for over 6 months everytime I try ti import one the entire program shuts the moment you hit open on the file. WTF is with that?
  7. Trying to reset a gmail password....help!!!

    We have an email associated to the accounting side of the business. I set it up for my sister who did the accounting. It really was meant to just send out invoices. She told me what password she wanted 3 or 4 years ago and in my own foolishness, I never wrote it down and she basically was...
  8. Optically clear cast laminate vs regular cast laminate

    Just curious of the members thoughts on the difference between these two options as far as durability for outdoor graphics. I don't do full wraps and really only buy wrap bundles for partial wraps and supplying good quality vehicle decals. The option when I purchase Avery now offers optically...
  9. Need help with software for printer

    I run a Mimaki jv3 and I am hooked up via firewire. 2 days ago I had a blue screen on my print computer. I rebooted and everything seemed fine. Today I go to print and I see that the file is going through really fast unlike the way it normally goes through slowly as the printer prints taking...
  10. Signlab 8 - how to unmask illustrator files

    as the tile says...is it possible?
  11. Gerber Edge LE beep beep beep

    Ya so I have the beeping happening...in the past I found it to be one loose connector on a board but this time what I found was the power supply plug can't get a full grasp on the connector as on the inside of the printer the bottom portion of the piece it connects to has released from the...
  12. Multishield galvanized composite material

    Had a customer bring me this product to apply a digital print to. I was amazed that such a product existed and find out he bought it at Grimco. They even cut it to size for him.... I am quoting a job and need this stuff but now Grimco says they won't cut it down. Anyone ever use this stuff...
  13. Bubble Cube Van layout?

    Just curious what you would do with one of thee vehicles as far as applying the graphics There is no references at all for making anything straight to the body... Use a level? Measure from the floor up?
  14. signlab 8 - cropping tool comes up as eye dropper and does not crop!!!

    I have had this happen before but have no idea why it is happening. I double click on a bitmap and normally the cropping tool comes on screen, but now it is an eyedropper and if I click on the cropping tool it is still an eye dropper and won't crop. Any ideas?
  15. What on earth vinyl does this? holy %$%$

    I have stripped off 5 trucks for this company so far and this is the last vehicle... None of them used this particular red vinyl. It is a 2ml but I also think it is one of those types with the white back. You can see that with me using a steamer and a plastic blade it leaves 100% of a grey...
  16. Mimaki printer using more cyan from one cartridge then the other?

    I have a low ink warning and when I check the cartridge I just changed it last month, yet the other cyan has not been changed since may!!!! What the heck is going on here? Prints are great and it is a 10 year old jv3 130spII
  17. how to recover cut files from Flexi

    A transformer blew up yesterday across the street from us and 500 businesses were powerless for over 3 hours. When the power came back my print comp had an issue with windows and would not start up. 6 months ago I had all the hard drives cloned and keep them for just this reason. swapped out...
  18. Is optically clear overlam as long lasting as regular 2ml overlam?

    Is optically clear overlam as long lasting as regular 2ml overlam? I ask as I bought a Avery bundle and this is the lam it came with. I always thought optically clear was much more expensive than regular 2ml overlam. Can I use it on regular decals for vehicles?
  19. Transparacy issue in Flexi

    I have matched some colours and there were 2 greys in the logo. I found after multiple tests that I could get the colour correct if I used a 90% transparency in both colours. I saved my samples and now I am setting up the files for print. What I do is set up a colour bar for all the colours...
  20. How can I fool Flexi to cut less printed graphics than the file had

    I sent out a file to print that had 10 large decals on it. I thought I had enough material but ran out. I got 8- 2 up of the decals and lost 2. They were printed on avery wrap material so I don't feel like reprinting and tossing these. Trying to eliminate hand cutting these. Normally I would...
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