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  1. Startup Business QUESTIONS?!

    I am sure you have the skills, or can gain the skills to run a sign or wrap shop. Not only that, you know the sign/wrap business, even though you may or may not know everything about the business. So, if you want to start a business, do it. Now, here is my advice: Starting, running and most...
  2. Nursery Walls

    Roland Products Receive GREENGUARD Gold CertificationEco-Sol MAX®, Eco-Sol MAX®2 and WallFlair™ Removable Fabric Meet RigorousUL Standard for Low VOC EmissionsIrvine, Calif., June 11, 2013 – Digital Printing leader Roland DGA Corp. has announced that three of itsproducts – Eco-Sol MAX ink...
  3. coldest winter ever!

    DC Near Washington, DC: 2 degrees C / 35 F and nearly a meter of snow. But the roads were cleared swiftly, so business as usual.
  4. Printed vinyl application in cold temperatures.

    If it were me, I wouldn't think twice - Face Mount ! I like to work where it is warm.
  5. Air bubbles while laminating 48" prints

    Same Problem We have the same problem with the same laminator, almost the same age. We printed on 36" for a several month stretch, then found the same problem (tiny bubbles - not silvering) with 54" vinyl. I also started a similar thread here several months ago, but really haven't found a...
  6. 1968 car "wrap"

    Sold ! Sold for $1.76 million. http://fortune.com/2015/12/11/janis-joplin-porsche-356/
  7. Pricing this job...unreasonable?

    Tell them take it or leave it...In the (almost) words of the former Governor of California, "They'll be back."
  8. Roland sp300v versacamm. Print problems!

    I think keeping a bit of slack between a heavy roll and the platen is a good idea.
  9. Help with sp 300 Roland please.

    Our experience printing with vinyl cling material was not good. We tried it once when we had an SP300 and found the material would not lay flat, resulting in head strikes, smudges, etc. It is possible you can print this material on a machine that allows you to raise the head (our SP300 wouldn't...
  10. Phone calls

    Texts !!!! Arg. E-mails are fine. Customers who text, but won't e-mail and are unavailable by phone drive me crazy !
  11. Looking for real world experienced opinions of quality laminator

    Engine Hoist Pro Tip: Rent an engine hoist to set it up. Use nylon straps, available at Harbor Freight or the rental center, to secure the machine. Makes for an easy one or two person job. No stress or strain.
  12. Getting a soda bubble effect when laminating, not sure why

    Same Problem with 54" Might as well chime it. I stared a post a couple weeks ago when I found our laminator was generating silvering and sometimes bubbling with 54" wide materials only. 30" and 36" worked fine. My guess is that we re-shaped the rollers for the narrower materials as we had been...
  13. Help with correct spelling

    A child is God's greatest gift. Next to horses. (I think your customer likes his horses more than his children !)
  14. Everyone is a designer these days

    Get a Piece on Every Leg "Get a Piece on Every Leg" So this is a professionally drawn logo for bubblegum flavored chicken ?
  15. how can i make this bigger and not look like crap?

    Mess Around With It Don't see why you can't play with the kerning and tracking to bring it across the hood. If you interfere with the vent, just print the letter in that place on wrap material and cut out the vent area. It will still be readable. (Ok, my attachment is a bit ugly, but it shows...
  16. Laminator Out of Whack

    Solutions We don't leave the rollers down (or not to my best recollection...I check at the end of the day, but my memory might not be perfect.), but apparently running 36" material regularly caused the rollers to take the wrong set set. I called UStech and they answered right away (should...
  17. Laminator Out of Whack

    We have a USTech, 54" laminator and for the past two years, it has been great. We laminate everything from 30" to 54" on it, but for the past couple of months or so, have been using it for 30" and (mostly) 36" cast materials. Yesterday, immediately after laminating a 36 inch sheet of cast...
  18. Reproducing Old Graphics and Copyright

    Fair Use Generally speaking Fair Use allows you to use an image because the public has a right to know and/or to speak out to power. For example, you can often (but not always) in a news publication, publish someone else's photo of a disaster or a photo of a politician in a funny hat (like...
  19. I see the ad and had to ask..

    Video Seems to Include an Arlon Clip They offer a great price and we are going to have to try it... Interestingly, the section of the video where someone is smooshing bubbles with their fingers looks just like a clip from an Arlon video. This stuff, according to the specs, is thinner than...
  20. Poor quality prints. Trying to find out why

    Design Program / RIP / Profile Just a thought. The printer might be perfect, but the design program / RIP and or profile might be the source of your problems. You can print a really bad image with a really good printer if you don't have your settings adjusted correctly. It seems that your...
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