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I'd go with a new Chinese laminator. You get the same warranty (none). But it's new and you can get one for under $3,000 will all the bells and whistles. By the way, we have an eight year old (also Chinese) 54" laminator. It only works properly up to 30", maybe 36" in a pinch. We keep it loaded...

We spread the unlaminated print out on a long table and use the take up roll to capture it. Our shop is organized with the printer, tables and laminator lined up at the side, so it's pretty efficient. Roll to roll is fine, except our laminator lifted the feed roll out of its holder once...And...

After reading your stories, I almost told you mine. But then I realized, we have the same customer. And for some reason, he - or she - keeps coming back.

My mistake. 170 has Comply air release, but doesn't have Controltac, pressure activated adhesive. Lettering with air release is a must for us when the lettering and logos are wide, because wide vinyl traps air. 3M 7125, to my knowledge, doesn't have air release and is (much) more expensive...

I have to letter a box truck next week. The vinyl will be all white and there are some white logos. Most of the lettering/logos are wide so there should be a lot of surface area for adherence. The box has rivets so I want to use a conformable cast material. I'd also like to use a vinyl that...

This is not really a wrap. It's just sticking contact paper on a car that will look fine from 100 feet away. If someone came to me with real artwork that could be put in the machine and printed at $2.72/ft. and our costs were 60 cents a foot, then maybe? It's a little light, because of the...

Time is money. If it's a lettering job that's easy, we usually roll in the price of design. But if it's a wrap, or partial wrap, you are darn tootin' the customer will pay. Which, gives me a chance to bloviate about a past customer. We had a fellow, a repeat customer, come in who wanted a...

We stock blue, black and red. But if the customer is using more than two colors, sometimes one color, we print it anyway. It's cheaper and more accurate to put everything down on one sheet of transfer paper. Yes, you have to laminate and put it back in the cutter, but it probably takes no more...

Seems the young folk want to be wrappers. Nothing wrong with that. It's a good intro into the sign biz, i.e. lettering and design in addition to wrapping. There's just as much profit in truck lettering as there is in car wrapping, in my opinion.

Cast overlaminate costs about three times calendared. At one point it was twice...Costs have been skyrocketing very recently, but I suppose that's another story. Anyway, it's still cheaper to laminate with the right stuff than install a wrap and have to do it again. By the way there are cast...

If you are going to print on the substrate with a flatbed, then cut on a router, you need space...We farm out most things that are best done with a flatbed - magnets, yard signs, banners too. The outsourcers are much cheaper than we could do it in-house. Don't know why latex roll printer is...

We always laminate specialty overlay vinyl within wrap. We also laminate specialty vinyl when we put it over a laminated wrap. For example, adding a reflective phone number. Reason being, we often do work for pressure washers or landscapers that spray around chemicals which aren't particularly...

Can't speak to your business plan, but an almost new, half price Roland sounds like a heck of a deal. And newer is better, given that print heads on older Rolands will cost at least $3,500 and you can bet one will be needed. Make sure you have some support from a local or close by dealer. Not...

We had similar issue with our Roland VS-540 at one time. A firmware upgrade fixed it. Hopefully you can find it on the Roland website. Your Roland distributor should also be able to provide the info you need for repair.

I wonder, if you re-create or download a logo that matched a trademarked logo exactly, and then place that logo where the original logo was placed on the product, is this a legal used of a trademarked logo? I should think this would be ok, but I could be wrong. However, I suspect your chance of...

We've never used heat to activate the SLX, but the SLX+ is a little tackier so we use that now. I could see that cold weather wouldn't be kind to SLX. We stopped using it for print and cut, not because of a failure, but it seemed there was that potential given that it's not too aggressively...

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Have you tried printing, laminating then cutting thin material, say 4 mil total. Or just using a test piece of thin vinyl, say 3 mil, printing, taking it out of the machine, then putting it back in to cut? What were your results with thinner material? If you haven't tried this, please give it a...

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If we print a logo for a company, the company owns the rights - whether trademark or copyright, I couldn't say. That's up to the company and they own it. However, if we took their logo and vectorized it so it prints clearly in large format, then we own the vectorized image, unless the company...