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What job did you buy the CNC for? Assuming you had a reason/steady CNC income before you bought one? How much time does that take up per week?

A photo of a nozzle check will probably help more than any phone call. How often did you clean it prior to any problems?

Also, another helpful tip if you’re using onyx to generate the barcodes, go to file - manage cutters - s class- then you can edit the distance onyx places the barcodes to the artwork. If I remember right you can almost half it - saves tonnes of room and helped us get another copy up on the sheet...

Are all the labels the same? It doenst really matter but let me know and I’ll let you know how I’d do that too. So you’re along the right path, for me, doing say 3000 of that if set it into the sheet size you want, then load that into onyx. Say I need 300 copies. Then make a custom roll size...

The problem with a custom built printer is nobody is going to have needed to make a specific file for that printer. As much as the standard files they make the printers run off at trade shows are cliche, they’re usually pretty good when it comes to showing off gamut etc so I’d maybe try some of...

Biggest market is definitely out of warranty machines. Though at one stage on our mimaki, the savings we were making on third party vs OEM we could have bought a new head every 4 weeks and still saved a fortune so the warranty can stuff it lol

Currently we’re cutting stencils out for spray paint floor graphics. Just stuff like “keep apart” Going great. Then when the paint runs out they come back for more!

that or we just buy crappy foam board lol. I have found cutting the 5mm corrugated plastic, because we don’t have it bolted down to the table, sometimes I move the whole cutter more than I move the head lol. Really need to get that bolted down. Hate cutting that stuff

What he said. For “photo” prints you might even be better looking at a 12 colour aqueous. Our old canon IPF cost a small fortune to fill up on inks but the photo quality was immense. Then outdoor work like banners, signs etc you can get one of the two original printers you mentioned

We cut through 5mm foam board no problem (by we I mean me). But I do regularly visit the gym and lug 50m rolls about for a living so that probably helps. Whenever I see people struggling it’s because they’re putting too much weight down and not along

We also have a similar one to one of these and yeah cuts great. Though we need to change the blade a lot, you just wait until the edges start looking a bit crappy then change it out. Ours was an integra 3.1m cutter (I can find the specs if you need it). Great for one-off cuts and we use it for...

That makes more sense! I wonder how the acrylic adhesive holds up to weewee

Exactly the same here. Cheapest warranty/service contract we found for our mimaki was about 2k a year, that included x amount for parts etc excluding the print head. We end up just getting an engineer to service it 2 times a year and do any necessary parts and it’s probably less than a quarter...

Just tell the customer that’s vandalism and your reprint will be “x” amount!

When we just had our mimaki I ran pretty much everything on a single 3m profile and everything came out great. I loved that profile. now with the Colorado it benefits me to have different profiles, one because I would definitely get banding I’d I didn’t. But it also helps massively because once...

You definitely won’t have any issues with peeing. In fact I’d probably suggest a removable adhesive for when they want the graphics back off lol

It’s pretty cheap stuff. We use that sometimes for corrugated plastic signs and cheap foam boards. I don’t see why it wouldn’t work but you should probably at least get the VG2 (polymeric) as I think most anti slip laminates are polymeric so you don’t want different amounts of shrinkage. Have...

We get schools regularly asking if they can take the class round the print room etc but it’s always just hassle. Means I need to tidy and hide all my knives. I’ll maybe get them pressing tshirts next time and see if they can be useful.

Covid signage? Never heard of it! If anyone asks about it they’re trolling your shop so just send them to me and I’ll take them off your hands so you can focus on your spelling.

The ink usage just depends what you’re printing. We’ve used a LOT more cyan than anything else but that might be because we just run 30k sqft of blue Covid posters lol. odd that you’ve used a black before anything else though. We’ve probably used about 1-3 litres of black for every 10 of...