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I hoped that wasn’t just me! I must’ve did that for a good few months before deciding the smaller laminate was necessary. Blunts the blades on my knives so quick as well!

Do you use papergraphics for any media? They’re our main supplier and we use a lot of MS20. It’s like 200gsm and great for just general posters. Works on solvent and UV. If you want me to put you in touch with our rep let me know. Stuff is all good and their prices are excellent. They have...

So up until about a year ago we used to always get in 54” rolls of vinyl and 54” of laminate. No matter how straight I loaded the laminate there would always be a little sticky bit on one side. This wasn’t a problem until we got the summa/flexa and started loading full rolls of stuff to be cut...

In AI I just saved a magenta spot colour as CutContour and saved that as a default colour. I just put that on any lines I draw and pick that colour. Doesn’t get much easier? for weirdly shaped jobs with bleeds, open up, select all, copy and paste in place, merge with pathfinder, offset path...

Depending on supplier they should be able to log cut that to two 30” rolls. Any supplier worth their salt should be able to cut down rolls for you.

your best bet is using a carpet vinyl for both (carpet vinyl is generally higher tac but will also work on hard floors no problem). We have a one step vinyl that can be used for carpet and floors but it’s a canon make specifically for the Colorado (or so I’m told) but that stuff is expensive!

No, most members join the site then wait a while and ask if the print head they’re ordering from Indonesia is ever going to arrive lol

Are there even 100 people that regularly use this? I come here and end up chatting to the same 8 people every day

Most noticeable one for me has to be bad kerning. Kerning is sneaky because most normal people don’t notice or care but I hate it.

We’ve done loads of carpet vinyls. It appears to just be a lot higher tac. Though apparently it should also remove easily in 6 months. Will report back then lol

The coloured vinyls are just for show. Guaranteed if I was anywhere within 10’ of those I’d have them all toppled over, they’d rip the power/network cables out the printers and Id definitely be on Santa’s naughty list.

What are you hoping to do with the info on this poll? Every place is different. Most places don’t need a front desk any more because everyone’s smart enough to develop an online presence. Naturally there will be the odd time that the front desk might be a better avenue for jobs but I can...

:welcome: from Scotland, UK lol

Didn’t go into enough detail in the first post, It’s possible in rasterlink. basically what happens is you have two choices when setting up the jig, you can load one file and say you need “x” copies on the x-axis, and then “x” copies on the y-axis. And it’ll print a sheet of the same file. Or...

As someone mentioned in the other thread, rasterlink has a jig function that does pretty much exactly what you want it to. It does however mean you’d have to find a way to create the jig(s) but they should also save a lot of time on layout. I will point out that as far as a rip goes, rasterlink...

I can’t remember who but I’ve seen a member on this forum with what I think he called a “china laminator”, which was literally just a manual laminator. Probably worth just looking for manual laminators and seeing how you get on. That or if you’re pretty handy, it should be fairly easy to make...

I’m guessing if you’re running 6 printers you go through a fair bit of media. Most media suppliers have a guy that can create profiles. It’s probably worthwhile just asking the question of your media supplier to see if they’ll send someone out and profile your media’s. Or at least get you some...

Before we got the Colorado and started making our own profiles I used to just use all of 3M’s profiles on our CJV-30. There was a 6 pass profile in there that NEVER gave us any banding and everything came out great no matter what media. Just the mimaki took 8 hours to print a roll! (Even on 6 pass!)

I don’t have a latex so couldn’t vouch for the tech or improvements first hand but the main issues (or the main reason people seem to jump ship) would be colour and length consistency. Two pretty big issues!

This is a great question that I’ve been pondering recently too (not quite the same reason as you, but a similar idea). Though we went for huge capacity for that we probably didn’t need at the time and have caught up with the printer now lol, though there’s not much room to go for us so we’ll...