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The proper way we were told to do it is a torch with a mix of oxygen and hydrogen. We take the pieces off our router and can polish the edges of a 4x6 sign in about 5 minutes. Other gases will work but the edges might not be as clear. It was explained to us that hydrogen is a “cleaner” gas...

if it is a Photoshop file tell them to flatten the files and send you a .tiff. We do a lot of contract printing and rarely are fonts converted to curves/outlines and the files are huge. I simply open in Photoshop flatten and send it to the printer. Files print just fine.

why not cut the shapes then print. Make a jig for the cut shapes to go into. We print on Rowmark and styrene all the time with no issues.

Anything can kink or crease. Its all in how it handled. I print rolls at a time and run them through our Zund to cut them down and don't have any issues with kinks.

I love printing posters on our HP Latex. Does not scratch and prints great. with eco solvent you may need to laminate to resolve the scratching issue.

I would say Zund. There is a reason they are more money. Talked to a lot of people that had experience with Esko and Zund and they said they would never do Esko again as the Zund is that much better. There is a plant near me that has 9 zund machines in total. That says something. I have had...

If all your doing is banners I would sub them out. You can buy them finished for $1/sqft and at that cost its not worth printing in house.

I use Gregory. $1.00/sqft with hems and grommets. Fast turn times and good quality.

Arlon 8000 or similar material will stick without flaming it. Find a material for low energy plastics.

a CMYK only printer cant do a raised spot image. You have to have a clear/varnish for that and that is only on UV printers.

What are you considering an older machine? Our 1624 is at least 8 years old and we switched about 6 months ago and have not had any issues.

Did you install the head or did a dealer install the head?

I really like the Duratex material from Grimco.

Yes in town he is by far cheaper but they have nation wide accounts and that is the going rate at a lot of places on banners. Yes he has higher payments on machines but when he can load up the three machines and run 6 rolls of 54" material at a time he can kick out banners fast. The hem welder...

retail we are at $3.50/sqft without art charges and we get beat out a lot from some of the other local shops. We have a local wholesale printer when there are larger quantities or orders I dont want to mess with who sells their banners $1/sqft hemmed and grommets. Quality material also and...

we were doing quite a bit of it then in our area it died down. I can order a lot of the stuff needed now through ASI and get it cheaper than what I could produce it for.

we used to pad print but dont anymore. We used to burn our plates. The laser plates were just coming out and at that time I was not impressed.

do you put webbing in the seams? We recommend webbing on all large banner going outdoors.

I have the EFI 24f and its a solid machine. The 30f is the newer version with the larger bed. Not sold on needing a larger bed as 98% of the substrates printing on is 4'x8'. We did beta testing with EFI and had the 24f before it was even announced. Had their first one ever out the door...

gotta learn how to do it. DO NOT do it wet use the proper material that has air egress and learn how to apply vinyl. I use the timber maxx when I need to do it. We bought UV flatbeds 7 or 8 years ago and don't apply many large pieces anymore but when needed it can be applied in about 5...