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Been using ArtStation for more than 10 years. It's really, really good. Nothing compares. It's very accurate.

We have a price for a pair of Truck doors, to include company name, USDOT, MC numbers and city or phone number. We probably should set a price for just a pair, like USDOT, etc., though I usually just charge the minimum for that if it's in black or white. Almost no one comes in and winds up...

The Send to VersaWorks button in Flexi 19 has miraculously reappeared. Somehow it updated itself. Perhaps when we updated VersaWorks to 5.51 through the Japanese Roland website. So...patience is the solution?

I'm interested in and will try 6. Though I'll have to find some time and make sure the upgrade doesn't interfere with our existing settings and tweaks. Since so much of our business is from returning customers, we have to make sure new material matches the old. Thank you Sean for providing the...

If you can remove the ladder, I'd say that's half the battle. If it were our job, my first go would be to mask the top (curve or hex) and the bottom hex as well, leaving the center unmasked. Cut the mask and backing close to the decal. Probably don't need to be super precise, but you don't want...

Hello All, We have a Roland VS-540, running VersaWorks 5.5.1. I recently moved VersaWorks from our old Windows 7 machine to a Windows 10 machine. To move the program, I used our VersaWorks 4.5 disk, then updated through the Japanese location within the VersaWorks program. (The US update...

Thank you Victor Bogdanov for sharing the information about Japanese Roland providing updated software. I was in a similar position to the OP, and never would have figured out how to update without your post. For those who also find themselves in the same predicament and need to update their...

Hello All, We run a Roland VS-540 with VersaWorks 5.1 along with Flexi 19 Design. (Apparently, we're not eligible for any further VersaWorks upgrades). For the past year or three, we've resisted putting VersaWorks on our Windows 10 box, turning drawings from Flexi to .eps and networking (or...

For color change, 3M Economy wrap (black only) is inexpensive, but not for a lot of curves. (It's calendared.) For easy and good and not cheap, I like Avery SW 900.

Sure. It's not something we'd do every day on a sheet of vinyl, and certainly not on a large sheet of vinyl, but it works. Of course you might see the seam up close, but if the image is 20 feet from the road, you won't see it. We wouldn't run it back through the laminator. Instead we'd use a...

It certainly depends on the pickiness of the customer....But if I had to finish up a realtor sign, I would cut a piece of laminate to fit, flood the remaining part of the sign with slightly soapy water and float the laminate up to the already laminated sign, creating a butt seam. I will be...

Do the cleaning and (easy replacement parts) maintenance on the machine; do the test print; and then print something that you would regularly print. (We have a VersaCamm VS-540.) If the print isn't acceptable, you can sometimes improve the output by changing the print profile. For example, we...

751 should be ok, but you might have to fight it a bit, because it's sticky and you might have to remove the adhesive left behind. If you really want something that's easy to remove, cut your logo/lettering from Avery wrapping film. It's not super sticky (best not to apply small letters when...

We have a similar US TECH 55 inch laminator. It would laminate just fine up to about 36 inches (until we tried to fix it - ug), but anything wider was a mess (not just silvering). I suspect it's a common problem with these, as others have had similar issues. Would like to know how to fix it, but...

JPG Save it as a jpg and copy paste into Word or a Word equivalent. (Never tried it with a Tiff as suggested above, but a jpg will work and should be easier/faster to open than a large file.) At least you are sending the Word file, rather than receiving. I hate when customers send me Word...

Heat from the Crease Out 3M suggests heating from the crease on out. Arlon suggests heating away from the crease then pushing into the crease. This way, the crease isn't stretched. Instead, the flat area, where there is more surface area, gets stretched and there is more surface area to handle...

Encoder Strip Before you go spending money on the heads, try cleaning the encoder strip. Please do a search here on Signs 101 first, but I believe the strip should be cleaned with rubbing alcohol. Our previous machine was an SP 300 and the encoder strip was the bane of our existence (though it...

Agreed....Maybe 40 C, which is a tad cooler than 110 F.

Advice, not Advise I want to give advice. That is, I want to advise others on the best way to make signs. We are sign men and women. At the end of the day, we only have a limited space and a few words to get our points across. It behooves us to spell properly. Otherwise, how can we expect...

Here's an idea...In a pinch, you could try spraying the edge or over the decal with clear Acrylic (Krylon) spray paint - or if able, removing the decal and spraying the area first. Now, if it was a beautifully painted drywall wall, you might not want to do this, but this could work for...