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On thicker vinyl, 6mil, after it's printed and had a chance to off gas, I notice that it easily marks and with some pressure it will scratch, but it marks very easily. I don't seem to have this happen on thinner vinyl, 3mil. What can I do to prevent this?

I'm going on my second year in the vinyl printing business with things only getting busier. Which is great, however I'm finding myself getting completely burnt out mentally and somewhat physically. I find I can't say no to a job, I've been working 7 days a week 10-11hr days average for the last...

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I do a lot of short run custom cut labels on vinyl and I laminate most because I find 3mil vinyl is just very flimsy and difficult to deal with at times for labeling. Are there any other semi-rigid vinyls in a thinner thickness other than the 6mil General Formulations, Briteline and Oracal...

My business has steadily increased over the last year and I'm finding it a little harder to keep up at times when I've got a full schedule. I do a lot of die cut stickers (full cuts through the backer) on my summa (two-pass process) I also do a lot of smaller kiss cut sheets of stickers and...

I do a lot of short-run labels and recently I've been having a lot of labels with a perforation in them, to act as a safety seal on a product. However unlaminated I find it's just a bit too thin for people and I also feel like 3.4mil is a bit thin for labels on vinyl. I've used 6mil General...

It's going to be time for a new laminator. Had a tech come in a check out the rollers on my laminator and found they are warped, but in a way I wouldn't have expected. The center is tight and the outer edges are the spots with lower pressure. Anyways...it's not worth buying a set of rollers @...

I was having internet issues and reset my network setting on my laptop now I cannot connect to my Epson S40600. The setup tool doesn't detect it either. I'm stressing now as all my equipment seems to be disconnected now.

I've been having much success with doing full cut out stickers on my summa with a 2-pass setup. I've cut a few thousand and have had minimal problems. I had to change my blade, and got it back to where it needed to be and it was cutting good but I go to cut these squares with rounded corners and...

Looking for someone that can help me with holographic/metallic roll labels with perforations in the labels.

I do a lot of full cut out stickers on my Summa and I was recommended to try Clean Cut blades. And with them being much cheaper than the summa blades I figured, why not try. Well I thought it was just my inexperience with the cutting but every time I've tried them they dull out very quickly...

I've been banging my head about this the past couple days. I've got a red glitter vinyl I'm printing on (no white), which is fine it's what the customer has liked. However the problem is when I got to cut this stuff...it cannot read the OPOS marks, I've tried media calibration and it didn't say...

I've been getting some curling on one side of my prints and I've seen the roller adjustment threads, but I was just loading new material and had the rollers down and there is a visible gap on the left side of the machine and not the right. Probably why I can't get even pressure across my sheets...

Yesterday I was cutting sheets in OPOS Sheet mode and one sheet came out with the two last pieces not even cut, didn't attempt to cut them, next sheet it didn't attempt to cut 7 of the last pieces on the sheet. All the cuts were in the cut file. Today I came in and this is the same job I'm...

So i got some paper media for my printer and I wanted to get a profile that was not vinyl and Epson has one and I load it up in the Epson dashboard and in Onyx it's downloaded into the manager, When I go to update the size of the roll it asks if I want to Install the profile, if I click ok it...

This has probably been beat to death but I'm wondering how ya'll estimate/quote your jobs? I've been using Createabid.com which has been great cause it's got a lot of stuff setup but now that I'm on Quickbooks I feel it's rather redundant to use Createabid and then put that same info into QB...

Hey guys, Since I'm slow right now I've got a bit more time to think about things going on with my business. Well to say the least the past year and a half has been great and really busy, even during this COVID time, I've stayed busy. I'm finding things are slowing down, or I'm losing business...

I often do stickers with RTapes vinylEFX metallic material. It's a royal pain in the a** but a lot of people love the shiny stuff. However I find it does curl up a bit and I know it has limitations for solvent printing, like leaving 6mm clear of any cuts to prevent curling. Now even with doing...

I've been doing stickers/labels/banners for the last couple of years and it's been good and the clients I serve now have kept me very busy during the crazy time which I'm very thankful for. However I want to start offering more products. I'd like to get into doing wall/window graphic...

I've been cutting through with very little problems in the past few weeks. I just do double contour cuts on each piece and it's been great and they come out pretty easily. However I was just cutting a job and they were just rectangles but one thing that was happening is it will cut the Left...