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  1. 20 mil vinyl

    20 mil is the final thickness after laminating. Convex is the main player in the helmet decal supply business. http://www.convexvinyl.com/helmets/
  2. Suggestions Best substrate for ballpark fences.

    I don't think your customer would like paying for .063 or .080 aluminum. I think sheet aluminum is more likely to be dented, and besides, how many times will a sign get hit in a season? Try putting a piece of the material on a fence and throwing or hitting baseballs at it. Most ballfields around...
  3. Recognize this? Script Font Help

    Just so you know, that's not a legal boat license number, at least not here. And I imagine all states have the same rules. The rule says block letter of good proportion and stroke in a contrasting color to the hull.
  4. Font Help Font Help

    Kind of hard to be precise from that photo, but I'd start with Eurostile Bold Extended/Square 721 Bold Extended or Vipnagorgialia
  5. Plucked Chicken Background

    123rf.com and canstock.com have photos of chicken skin close up.
  6. Selling To California

    Personally, if I had to put a Prop 65 sticker on something, I'd go overboard and add that the sign will also kill you if it falls on your head, the decal will kill you if you inhale it and it blocks your airway, or if you stick it over your nose and mouth, or if you eat the whole package of them...
  7. Opinion Opinion on First Flatbed printer

    Interesting. We just had a Fuji Acuity salesman drop by. I was curious if anyone here had any experience with them.
  8. Mounting acrylic to brick wall options

    We didn't add construction adhesive, but VHB will not stay stuck to red brick. We ran into this with a church room sign job where a few of the signs had to go on what had once been an exterior brick wall. The VHB only stayed stuck a few months, then fell off.
  9. Avery Dennison failing over and over

    Given that Avery is in California, I wonder if this has to do with Proposition 65.
  10. Night Pictures are printing to dark

    Since it's a photograph and you're using Photoshop, forget making a pdf file. Just save it as a photo file like a jpg or a tiff. Your RIP software will do a better job of handling the colors that way. Your end result has a lot more wrong than just being too dark--it's entirely different colors...
  11. Mounting 4' x 4' panel sign on parking lot light pole?

    If it's the city's street light along a road, you can't put anything on it. If it's a shopping center's light in a parking lot, they can.
  12. Onyx And Slow Startup Times

    I just opened Onyx to see how long it took until the printer was initialized. 24 seconds. Is that slow? I have buffered jobs going back to 1/2/18.
  13. Generel font suggestions for carving?

    Many of the blackletter fonts look good v-carved, especially the Germanic ones, which tend to have more of the straight verticals. The classic Roman letters also look great, such as Trajan.
  14. FC8600 Contour Cut Off

    I think on basic colors like red, blue, and black, if you had the vinyl on hand you'd find you use it up quickly. So much faster for basic lettering jobs. But that's OK, keep printing simple lettering and I'll continue taking the customers after their red logo on their truck door fades in only 2...
  15. Hanging 2'x3' Corrugated Plastic Signs

    You never sell banners? Grommet machines a re a good investment for a sign company. The one we use costs $138 from our sign supplier.
  16. FC8600 Contour Cut Off

    My question is why are you print/cutting solid red, blue, and black letters? Just buy some red, blue, and black vinyl, forget the printer, and just cut it. It will actually look better, cost you less, and last longer.
  17. Mimaki UJF-30421 issues

    I don't know anything about that particular printer, but that looks like ink vapor deposition. On our printers, that can happen with too-low humidity in the room, or excess static electricity in the substrate.
  18. Estimates, Taxes, QBooks

    Sales tax should be just your own city---the city it's being sold from.
  19. New Generation Epsons

    We have an S70670, which we got when they were first introduced. It's good enough that when it wears out or starts having problems I am likely to continue with Epson. I used Mimakis before (and Summa and Roland before that). Unless the new inks are a lot different from what I am using, I don't...
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