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  1. One color changes depending on the file

    Are you using softproofing? What are your color settings. I would recommend you watch the recent webinar by mark rugen available from mutoh (should be on youtube now) about color settings and profiles.
  2. Question Recycling Banners

    Farmers love to use them for tarps and will usually pay around your material cost for them....
  3. 1000 masking layers

    Like bannertime said, right click unmask all, then use select by attributes ( shortcut is "d") to selct the black rectangles and delete...its not going to be fun but cross your fingers and hope it works
  4. Sponsorship Banners

    Are they local businesses or larger companies? I have found it can be worth the time (depending how many) to just quickly call the sponsor and explain what you are doing. If they are local companies and you can get their logo files to save along with a contact it could easily be enough of a...
  5. Need Help 3M Ij180mC-10 with micro Technology - reviews? Better than ..Cv3?

    I have been using the mc-10 for 10+ partial van wraps over the last year or so, no complaints about installation properties (I never used much cv3 to compare though). I did have a roll with missing spots of vinyl occuring every 4-6 feet, still waiting on warranty for that. I have also had issues...
  6. pattern making from 3d model, exactflat or alternitives

    In that case I would use a surface modeling software to model the surface and then flatten, you can use a deformation plot to see where the material needs to shrink or stretch and by how much. depending on the surface and the material used you can tweak the design to fit the needs of the...
  7. pattern making from 3d model, exactflat or alternitives

    Are you talking gaussian surfaces (compound curves) that need to have distortion in order to flatten? There are many solutions out there and most CAD packages have some functionality built in. Fusion360 has decent surface flattening abilities including deformation plots.
  8. pattern making from 3d model, exactflat or alternitives

    Pretty vague question, can you give an example of what you want to flatten? What software you have, what format the models are and the models geometry will have a huge impact...
  9. Colors

    First thing I would try is to add contours in illustrator and send directly to PM and see if it prints the same.
  10. Brazing aluminum

    With the price of import welders, it would be well worth it to get a small setup and learn (either spoolgun(mig) or tig) if you do any volume, its a great skill to learn. It will take a couple thousand in tools/materials and a few nights of practice to get the hang of it. Generally speaking...
  11. Sign company or wana be TV stars?

    But what are the signs manufacturing?
  12. Need Help Have never done this before..............................

    Just did some compliance window decals this way except for black text white background. We don't have white ink in house either so I reverse printed the black text on clear media and backed/laminated with white vinyl (clear adhesive obviously). They turned out great. Another option I was...
  13. Profiling with i1 for Flexi

    Just something to consider, keep in mind the changes from flexi 12 to 19....
  14. Electric Trimmers?

    A quick hint if you decide to go with an application table: RS sells the rollover tables, however, Rollover also sells direct in the US and at the SGIA show their price was a few thousand less than what RS told me. They look like they are built well but I have no experience using them.
  15. Suggestions Seeking an Extrusion vendor for curved front signage

    Never hurts to get quotes, sometimes you would be surprised.
  16. Suggestions Seeking an Extrusion vendor for curved front signage

    One in Russelville: https://taberextrusions.com/ and one over in Mississippi: https://aeialuminum.com/capabilities/aluminum-extrusions/
  17. Need Help Magnets for Channels

    I ran into the same problem last year, and found these guys make and sell them direct. Great to work with and about half the price elsewhere that I found. http://www.magnetsource.com/Solutions_Pages/popchannelletter.html
  18. Suggestions Seeking an Extrusion vendor for curved front signage

    I may just be fortunate to have one close. If i recall it was the cost of making the die PLUS 500 pounds of product, and I believe you then own the die.
  19. Suggestions Seeking an Extrusion vendor for curved front signage

    There are plenty of regional extrusion places that will work with you to design an extrusion and have a die made, but the quantity required is usually prohibitive. I think my local extruder requires cost of die plus 500 lb minimum of finished goods. Although that might work out to your benefit...
  20. Need Help Mottling

    As others have mentioned it looks like over saturation, I would play around with other profiles, or for sake of verifying you are on the right track, reduce the saturation of all channels and see if you can get it to look any better with the same profile. We are not using onyx so Im not sure...
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