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What are you putting it on, walls or floors? 3M makes a lot of textured laminates for wall wraps if you're looking for a certain feel for wall wraps.

Actually, sounds like you have one of the switches positioned incorrectly or something plugged in wrong if this is a brand new unit.

Getting an odd-shaped piece WITH a grommet on it to feed through any type of machine is going to be a problem. I'd say look into maybe screen printing them (or even a stamp?) if you're buying them with the grommet on them cheap enough. Talk to local (paper) printers and see if any of them offer...

Sounds like the bar switch. The bar's position tells the motor to turn on/off to activate the reel. Look for the position switch and see if it is dirty or loose.

It is what we used to do also before we purchased our own CNC. It's nice to not have to stock any "blanks" of anything anymore. We just route out whatever we need when we receive the order.

Look on Google at the local sign shops and metal shops near you. Check their websites and see who has a CNC router. Send them the license plate blank "cut file" that you need and have them route you out a sheet's worth of blanks. Anyone with a router should be able to make these easily.

54"/63" is a common printer width, that's why they sell that size of banner. The size of banner someone needs is the size you have in stock. ;)

It depends a LOT on what printer, vinyl, and ink you are using. Some printers are always going to be grainier (latex), and some printers that use more than CMYK inks will make it harder to see the droplets. Quality cast vinyl will also take ink much smoother than economy vinyl. Then, you have to...

A Gerber Edge printer would be great for these. You would print the black (foil, not ink) onto the yellow reflective vinyl. You would laminate them and I would expect around 8-10 years of lifespan. We print a lot of labels like this, but are not a MM here.

Sounds like you might need a newer faster RIP computer, more hard drive space, or you are setting up your art files at too high of resolution. We only have to clean out the Onyx RIP que every few months here and we have three printers running paneled truck wraps all day long. I would also...

I'm assuming you've cleaned the heads. Are you using new or at least decently new Gerber foils and quality vinyl (like 3M 220 or similar)?

No need to use a leader (besides the print itself) for small sheets of print/lam. Just cut the lam a little shorter than the print, fold an edge back an inch and remove the backer and squeegee it down. Put the lead edge in the laminator and start the backer off the lam by hand. Hit go and lift...

I had one break on a 70670 printer at one time. It is an raise/lower assembly that breaks (tech needed) when that happens and it doesn't close evenly, but check the actual lever and see if it's just something with that. Since you had two break at the same time it seems more like an operator error?

Take the finished, wound roll off of the laminator take-up reel once it finishes. Your cut marks will be going in the correct direction now for your plotter.

"Pretty much" like this link here is how you should do it. Everyone here does it slightly different though. We never use kraft paper.

Does anyone here have a template for a Mercedes Sprinter Hood that they've made? (not a PVO, etc template) I have a job where the customer wants their text to flow along the contour of the hood and be printed into it. Unfortunately, the truck is a couple hours away and the install is there...

https://www.signs101.com/threads/free-stuff-for-yall.118411/post-1492201 Our solution is here, works well for us, as we do not stock a lot of any particular substrate, but a lot of different substrates.

It can also be a setting in the file/RIP where it is set to honor CMYK profiles set in the documents, or override them in the RIP. RGB documents are going to use more "special" colors than CMYK built documents.

What type of file is it? Rasterized, I have no idea.... but Postscript can have many variables like artboards, pages, etc. Onyx occasionally just does weird stuff also. Try ripping the same file again, if it does the same thing it's the file.

We have been turning off the heat all the way on our (eco-solvent) machines recently when printing banner. Using the high heads setting helps also.