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I think 3651 is the comparable to 651, not 3165. We use quite a bit of 3651/210 for cheap signs and decals. We step up to 3551/290 if the signs are to be long term outdoor signs.

I don't follow? How long would you estimate for handling of material to get on/off the printer and laminator? I bet it's a whole lot less than sending the file to your plotter 100 different times. I understand you can be processing one decal on a table as you are plotting the next one, but...

If you have the capability to print/cut, especially at this quantity, why wouldn't you? I would print on 60" material, 2 wide, to a take up. Laminate to a takeup. Contour cut with barcode to take up (with weeding lines). So far about 30 minutes hands on labor, weeding would take about 4...

Print/cut. Will be much quicker to produce then trying to lay the red stripe in. Don't outsource, keep in house and price like johnny said, just make sure you add in markup on material and account for your waste.

old vs new style As you can see, the old style looks like a production grade piece of equipment. This new style looks and feels like a kids toy.

Ran a roll through this morning. Doesn't work that great, at least not how we had it setup. Original style slitter seems to work much better (once we changed the angle of the blade by removing bolt from back rod and letting it ride on top of bracket). Material would feed nice and flat to...

crille italic, not bold

Think I found it. Crillee Bold squished, stretched and sheared. This seem correct?

Anybody know this one?

Just received the new style slitter for the back of the kala mistral laminator. For those that know, people have been waiting on these to be released as the original style doesn't cut the best. Haven't set ours up yet, but just by looking at it it seems kindof cheaply made in comparison to the...

Looks like you need to do a magenta head alignment.

Marks would go in the bleed area which gets trimmed off top and bottom. It's not perfect because those areas don't remain perfectly flat. And the material stretches some as you apply it, so the next panel usually appears a little short upon alignment. Was suggested to us recently to trim the...

Right, but you first have to push a button to be able to use the foot pedal. Only having the machine in operation for a few days, so i'm sure we'll get more used to it. But really seems to be a pain for loading and mounting to substrates. And really has anyone ever been hurt using a...

Good points. For us right now we are getting waves of these fleet jobs. So one month we could do 0-5 units, and another month we could be doing 20+. But we could probably find someone on a part time basis.. more I think on this I like it, could train them up as time goes on too.

Boxes or trailers, typically for us both sides and rear. No cabs.

Damn that's fast. Few questions if you don't mind. Are you laying the rivets down first like in the video, or leaving a channel still and doing the rivets after the panel is rolled down? What material are you using, is it "slideable" I'm wondering if tacking the bottom down after the top 6"...

We got the Kala 1650 mistral in and setup late last week. We haven't yet done any really long runs with it so I can't give a full review yet. But one thing for sure, the safety features on this thing freaking suck big time. Everytime you trip the laser sensor by the rollers, it dosen't just...

If it had to be 1, I'd prefer a long term cast. Most of the 10'x5's we do are permanent building signs, or part of a larger, say 30'x10' building sign.

Getting more into fleet graphics and wanting to cut down on installation time. Specifically, large trailers and box trucks. I'd like to share our procedure and hope to hear what others are doing and gain some efficiency. For the example, you have (20) 27' box trucks sitting in your lot, they...

We'd be mounting with a laminator so need for bubble free, permanent adhesive is what we'd prefer. 3 grades, super cheap short term, 5 year calandered), 8 year cast.