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I feel your pain, all day, every day. I'm currently dealing with an outsourced "design firm" that the large company is paying more to "design" their truck's graphics than they're paying us to print/wrap their 53' trailers... They're even having trouble zipping the files and sending through...

Sorry, I didn't know there was a different requirement for that... Looks like there are only 3 machines that they warrantee for that. https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/road-safety-us/warranties/

Any idea on this font?

We have our 3M MCS certification here and use Epson s60600 printers. We came from Mimaki Solvent (JV3s) and tried the latex route for ayear with a HP 360, but were very very unhappy and sold our machine. We are sticking with 3M and Epson EcoSolvent.

We bought a CNC router and now make our own letters. You never know everything you can make with one until you have one, we're still finding cool things every week.

I've still never found a real niche area of the "signmaking industry" that benefits substantially from a 3D printer, at least not our business. I was one of the founding members of GorillaMaker (here near you in the Cincy area) and you do make some awesome larger printers there at Cincinnati, we...

Never heard of that before with a raster image but I'm assuming maybe your rip only allows bitmaps with a certain color limit. I've never ever printed from a BMP except for separations during offset printing a long time ago... Maybe an alpha channel? IDK. Could also just be the rip processed it...

We just shake them when the machines ask us to. Hasn't been an issue, but we do not run the metallic inks anymore, just replaced it with the cleaning cart since we've never seen its value.

On the rear roll-up doors of a semi trailer, are all slats the same height? I've never had to measure one of them before, but now I need to know to scale a photo since I didn't get a measurement I needed... and all the trailers here currently are swing door trailers. (This is for a new 46ft...

We run GFP 563th laminators here and do full rolls all day long. We are also primarily a wrap shop. Everyone in the shop can run these laminators they're so easy to use. I haven't seen any issues that weren't operator error out of them. After like 3-4 years one of our heating elements went out...

In Onyx we created a custom color profile for each machine and only use this one profile for our regular CMYK printing. For the specialty colors we keep a separate profile obviously, but we rarely use that. However, we do have a couple "color bump" settings we use here occasionally and keep...

I don't know how to make that work in Onyx, but I'd love to see what the prints come out like on a black reflective if you'd care to share a photo. *Following to learn more about Onyx/Epson if anyone has an answer.

Dumb question, can you not letter them at his location? For all of our roll-off dumpster customers we always letter them on-site at their location. But, usually we are lettering like 5+ at a time and they'd have to make so many trips that it is easier for our guys to drive there and knock them...

I would wager that it prints pretty decent with that film removed on a solvent printer. I've removed the film from chrome vinyls and printed onto them with good success. Just try not to touch it and keep it clean. If you're doing a long print run you might want to remove the film with your...

Nightly backups are automatic on all modified files on our server data drives. So, once the virus encrypted/infected the files it saw they were all updated and backed them all up... Thankfully we had a backup of the backup from the week prior.

I know a lot of people here seem to use Corel, but in my 20 years in the industry mainly printing for others, I can count on one hand the number of Corel Draw files I've received.

It hit us around 6 (?) years ago at our sign shop. It got into one computer that was on the network and was able to get to every computer in the office and all storage/server space we had. It even got into our offsite backups and corrupted them too. Thankfully we have a weekly hard offline...

I didn't know it was getting installed right under the last one, but it turned out pretty good! Both of these faces are about 12" in front of the actual "wall" surface.

We have the Keencut Evolution E2 in slightly over 8' long. It is awesome and holds up to heavy use, we've had ours around 4 years now.

Vertical Sheet Materials Storage Rack. Tested and works great for materials storage for our router, and will work for flatbed printer sheets also.