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Looking for suggestions on some good printable Cast Vinyls from Avery, Oracal or even LG for High resolution printing with a good adhesive system that applies well on complex curves are smooth in finish. Will be printed on Eco Solvent/Latex. Looked at the 3M IJ180C like the pure white color of...

Have a lot of wraps which require an ultra matte finish. 3M 8915 Ultra Matte overlaminate is not available easily. Any suggestions on other Ultra matte laminate options from brands like Avery, LG or Oracal that would give the same smooth Ultra matte finish?

I have got two samples of some decals purchased online. They are 3M but unable to identify them. They are printed and laminated. Vinyl 1 : 0.25 to 0.27mm thickness including Matte Laminate. Adhesive side is Black. Liner 3M Controltac Graphic Marking System. Vinyl 2 : 0.24 to 0.25mm thickness...

We are looking to make some ultra smooth Matte finish stickers/decals in solid colors (pastel/neon etc) using 3M materials. Which 3M Vinyl and laminate would be the best suitable for this job if smooth matte finish and solid color output are very important requirements.

We have lot of artworks, almost more than two thousand, individually grouped and named for identification, which we want to convert into layers without losing their identification names. There is already a layer option to convert all groups into layers but the groups names are not getting...

We are trying to open/import an illustrator file with around 50 individual artworks into Flexi but Flexi would place all of them only as a single group (check the attached image After importing.jpg) and then when we ungroup, it ungroups everything (check attached image After_ungrouping.jpg). We...

We cut stickers/decals for phones etc and have a lots of different sticker outlines (based on lots of mobile phone models) that we need to cut in a single job. Currently we select and move each artwork as required from various master files into a single cut file into a boundary that represents...

My FC8600 started behaving strangely suddenly in between a cut job. No matter whatever what we do, it will only cross cut the material and doesn't cut anything at all. Even tried resetting the machine. Has anyone faced a similar issue with their graphtecs and any idea on how to resolve it?

We have thousands of artworks for our sticker cutting business and would like to tag them with their unique names and also put in a big text label for each of them like Artwork 1, Artwork 2 etc so that we can identify them even when we have hundreds of them together in a single cut file by just...

What will be a suitable cutting plotter software for artwork nesting? We have hundreds of outline artworks for stickers/decals that we need to cut everyday and Obviously to save as much material as possible, we try to utilize every inch of the materials by arranging manually it in the best...

Hi Folks We have got an FC8000-60 machine and no matter where we set the origin point on the material, the cutting begins only from the extreme right on the material. We have tried even the hard firmware reset of the machine but still the problem persists. Any help on what could be wrong and...

Hi Folks We have got a job which requires kind of stickers/decals to be printed and applied on phones etc like the attached image. The details of the print are not visible in this image clearly but the actual output has to be very clear and realistic. Just wondering what would be the best media...

Hi, Just wondering what blade holder and blade (angle) should we be using for cutting 8 mil (0.2mm) Paint Protection film with some intricate cutting involved? CB09U (Blue Tip) or CB15U (Red Tip) and which blade (45 degrees or 60 Degrees)? Thnx

We are planning to replace some of our Graphtec 24" width machines with the FC8600-160 (64") models. We cut a lot of intricate letters for our sticker cutting jobs and precision is very important. Just wondering if going from a smaller width to a higher width is going to affect the precision...

We got recently a Graphtec FC8600. Before every job, the plotter would make a small test cut on the vinyl thereby damaging the vinyl. A graphic of the cut is attached. We had this issue even in our FC7000 but turning off the Tangential emulation stopped this. But in FC8600, no matter what we...

We are manufacturing stickers using vinyls from a certain brand and would like to transfer them (after plotting and weeding) to another release paper that is required by our client. What is the best and most cost effective method to do this for around thousand stickers a day?

We got a FC8600-60 recently that came with a damaged pinch roller. The pinch roller got replaced but today when we tried to cross cut (Setting - Roll 1 Rear), strangely enough the head unit plunged the cutting blade holder down on the teflon cutting matt and tried the cross cut procedure whereas...

Just wondering what do folks here use for cutting 3M Di-Nov series of Vinyl (10 mil thick). I am using a Graphtec FC8000 but having a hard time cutting small letters or cuts. I am using a CB09 45 degree blade. Are there any better plotters or blades/tools to cut this kind of vinyl with precision?

We are looking to source speciality vinyls with textured finishes and surfaces like the wood grain, brushed metallic, carbon fibre finish. We know about the 3M Di-noc but its really expensive. Are there any other brands producing similar kind of quality vinyl like the 3M Di-noc finish range...

We make transparent stickers for electronic devices on a 24" wide transparent film. We currently use a guillitone paper trimmer to hand cut the sheet into individual stickers of various sizes as required. We need to semi-automate this process to a certain extent so that we can save on time as we...