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premium cut vinyl will for sure last longer. I give options to the customer as direct printing is faster and cheaper. Let them make the call.

We handle DTG printing and love it. Maybe I am the only one. We have 2 DTG printers and a tunnel dryer. You are limited on DTG to shirts types kind of like dye sub. With DTG to get a really good print you need 100% ring spun cotton shirts. With the tunnel dryer it has a hand feel like...

We have done some custom cut boxes. We use a Zund cutter/router.

Retail we are at $3.50 per square foot(not including art) stitched/grommets and are on the higher end in town. There is a place in town with heat welded seams and grommets selling to the public for $2.00 per square foot. Quality of print is lacking but nobody cares about that I guess.

This statement covers 75% of the workforce in the US. Nobody will ever care as much as the owners.

I don't use gloves when handling material as I would hate taking them on and off all day. We run a EFI 16H and 24F and don't get streaks or finger prints. We use 99% alcohol, we order 5 gallon containers from Stoner. The trick to no streaks is getting enough alcohol on the substrate to clean...

We have the original versions of the Mimaki 6042 and 3042. There have been some major changes with the MKII. Ours have the Ricoh heads and I believe the MKII machines switched over to Toshiba. We have had 1 service call on both printers in the last 7 years. Not sure about the MKII users, it...

I would say its not curing because the ink density is at 120%. That is pretty heavy on the ink its putting down. If the ink needs to be at 120% I woudl run more passes which slows the printer down to give it more time to cure and possibly increase the heat. I run most of our profiles at 90%...

we print/route regularly on the brushed material. Make sure your bit is sharp.

Inks for my 24f from EFI are $199.00/liter for CMYK. If you go into the super wide H5 the inks are $1365.00 for a 5 liter container or $273/liter. So the larger printers are not necessarily cheaper on ink cost.

The "semi truck sized printers" don't print that great of detail. They are for larger signage that will be seen from a distance. The ink droplet size is much larger.

I print Clear Focus Econoview all the time for short term graphics. I don't have any issue printing on our 560 with it. You need to play with your printing setting to get it right just like any other media for the latex. My guess is the heat is too high. We are at 12 pass/194 temp and 90%...

Could it be head strike or the head slightly rubbing on the substrate? I have never seen it look like that before just a thought.

I make decent money buying them from Showdown and re selling them. Its not going to make you a million but to make about $150 and have to do absolutely nothing is free money. 9' double sided sells for $339.50 and I can get it for $203.00 or single sided sells at $223 and I get it for $133...

If your not able to print then cut because the router scrapes or the ink does not adhere your not using the right equipment. I UV print thousands of 3 x 7 blanks on 040 aluminum for a company that owns storage units with full bleed ink and have zero problems with the router scrapping or the ink...

My guess would be you might have to change out boards as well. I would think that the chip readers for the ink cartridges would not recognize eco solvents cards. The maintenance station could be different as well. I have not seen the 1638 but being a die sub printer there could be a lot of...

We run EFI Pro 16H and the 24F usign the Ricoh Gen 5 heads and don't have issues with white. Simple purge every few days. I also print a 18" x 18" solid white box daily to make sure its getting used. Yes some will say its a waste of ink but I don't have clogged nozzles and don't have to...

We are lucky enough that we have a Zund cutter router that we can load a 150' roll and let the machine go at it. Before the zund we would standard cut the vinyl and weed it out then cut with scissors into smaller sheets or individual decals.

We have the Oki Pro 8432 Printer. Could not compare longevity to printed HTV as I have never used that.

We have one. It works pretty well. We use it for anything that we can not DTG print. If you have a large solid area it can feel stiff but works well. There is a pretty good learning curve to get the colors good and the right amount of white toner. They don't do on site training or anything...