• I want to thank all the members that have upgraded your accounts. I truly appreciate your support of the site monetarily. Supporting the site keeps this site up and running as a lot of work daily goes on behind the scenes. Click to Support Signs101 ...

Search results

  1. Mimaki cleaning solution question

    I purchased 2 cleaning solvents from Advantage a while back. I just started the second bottle and they now only have one larger bottle per kit as to the 2 smaller ones. I don't remember the first bottle when I started it but this second one is like just over half full 200ml although it looks...
  2. recycling backing paper

    As I trudged out this morning with my recycling boxes I see a Tropican Juice box and a milk container and I think....wait a minute. These are cardboard with wax or whatever and they are recyclable, so why not backing paper?
  3. Canada, Ontario - Vaughan

    Signs 101 Network RegistryIn what country are you located? Canada In what state or province are you located? Ontario In what city or town are you located? Vaughan What large city is nearest you? Toronto Check all items that apply to your listingInstallations (Basic, no permits)...
  4. I cant believe it?

    My receptionist comes up to me after going online and looking at the bank account. She says you will not believe it. A customer BOUNCED a $25 cheque. WHAT? I exclaim. how the %$%# can you not have $25 in your account? Now this is not a large company but they do very well so I cant...
  5. wow the static makes lamination very difficult

    I found this morning while laminating some vinyl that I could barely get the backing paper to slide off the backing paper. It was real fight that resulted in less than desirable results. Any hints on how to reduce the static momentarilly so that the lam flows smoothly?
  6. how often do you get files for print that have mistakes?

    I guess what I really mean here is mistakes that are not obvious unless scrutinized. With many files received from customers or even resellers there can be errors in copy or spelling. If you see it and can fix it thats great, but what about issues where you have received the file and set up for...
  7. diamond grade yellow reflective.

    I have a customer that orders reflective yellow decals from me that are used for utility boxes in different minuicipalities across the province. They order 0-9 x 200 at a time. It's a really nice order and I run them on the edge using 3m vehicle grade vinyl. Now it seems one of the muni's...
  8. anyone know anything about this banner product?

    I bought a roll of this banner material for retractables and as far as printing goes it looks good. The material is similar to Decolite (not sure of spelling) and it is cheaper and the edges stay fairly straight once in the stand. It is called PET 15oz. It is very heavy I might add and almost...
  9. web host and email keep going down.

    I have experienced my e-mail going down as well as my web site 3 or 4 times in the last 2 weeks. Is this normal? (obviously not) How do you guys deal with issues like this? I feel like a prisioner to these people who you can only email to, as only they can call you if they deem it so.
  10. gloss laminate on black digital

    I recently printed a couple of 24" x 48" digital prints which were predominantly black. I usually use a lustre laminate for most laminations but this time I thought a gloss would look good and it does, except that I can see an incredible amount of scratching as the prints were moved around the...
  11. so caled customer screwing me around

    I fell into a trap of my own making about 60 days ago. I did some work for a fellow renter in my unit for a tradeshow he had coming up. Naturally because he was my neighbour I did not take a deposit but charged him in full COD when we were done and he paid. While I was in his unit the few times...
  12. registration marks for manual cutting

    Does Flexi have an option to automatically put registration marks in files? Although I use the softwear for my rip, I do not use it for file setups.
  13. ordered reflective vinyl and it is tunneling

    Can one assume that if reflective vinyl if while going through the plotter to be cut gets tunnels right accross the sheet lifting the material close to 1/2" in the air that the stock is old? I just ordered this stuff in and I could see when I loaded it that within the first 12" a tunnel had...
  14. something does not make sense here but I am still unsure

    I come from a background in signs wherby you cut your substrate and then fit the graphic to it. I cant seem to get into a habit of oversizing prints and then cutting substrates with registration marks (mostly because most substrates are not square to begin with thus problems). In any case I am...
  15. I need a rough idea how long these vehicles are

    I have to supply some striping kits for the following vehicles in reflective and wonder if anyone knows within a foot or so how long the vehicles are? 1) silverado 2)suburban 3)tahoe hybrid 4) es 350 cargo van I know I dont have much details on the vehicles but to get an idea how much...
  16. Conan speaks up!!!!

    BREAKING NEWS: Conan O'Brien won't host "The Tonight Show" if it's moved to a post-midnight slot Conan O’Brien says he won't host "The Tonight Show" if it's moved to 12:05 a.m. NBC outlined a plan last week to move the "Jay Leno Show" to 11:35 p.m in March, bumping O'Brian's "Tonight Show"...
  17. is there a way to remove all masks at once?

    I have been finding files lately that I need to unmask to be able to do anything with, but instead of it being one mask it just seems to go on forever. I have now unmasked this current file 6 times with no end in sight. I know sooner or later I may lose information on the file. How do you other...
  18. Gumby creator dead at 88 :(

    http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100109/entertainment/us_obit_gumby_creator I remember watching Gumby back when I was a kid. I remember the series when he used to walk into books or the train that created its own tracks as it went. Guy had to be on shrooms!!!
  19. printing and cutting reflective.

    Here's the scoop. I have a rather complex contour cut that I need to do for some enforcement vehicles. The door logo will be printed on 2 mlclear vinyl, then applied to white reflective that I will have cut in our Graphtec. The reason I want to do it this way is that my Summa has never been used...
  20. how digital can bite you in the a$$

    Did a 4 x 8 pvc sign for a large customer of mine that we recreated from 3 pdf files they supplied, which were no good and had to be re typset. This is where digital hurts. The sign had nothing special that required digital printing other than it would save us time and we could make it a little...
Top