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  1. Kid Proof

    Solid aluminum warterjet cut dimensional letters bolted to a stainless steel metal plate?
  2. Mimaki JV33 "Special Firmware"

    BOTH are different. JV33 and CJV30 firmware and PRM files are not compatible with each other. While the machines use many common components and you can technically load the firmware and prm from one to the other, the machines will probably malfunction in some way if you load the firmware for the...
  3. Hp latex 315 or Mimaki cjv150

    Many here know I'm not an HP fan. That being said, the only time I've seen a color variation due to the nature of the heads wearing was on very large wraps, like a 54' trailer or 40' bus. On those I have seen it, take the first panel printed and put it next to the last panel printed and there...
  4. Question Back-Layed graphics on Clear Acrylic

    Yes, very visible and second surface graphics on acrylic look great!
  5. Laminator Issues

    Might need to pull the side cover (control panel side) and adjust the upper roller to get it as level as possible. I've had to do that to ours a couple of times over the past couple of years. Overall I'm really happy with it though. I did modify the other side on ours as well to make the takeup...
  6. How Do You Find Out What Your Area Competitors Are Charging?

    If you are a new at this or trying to create a business plan to get into this then yeah, you will need to get an idea of what the area pricing is. Aside from that if you have been doing this for more than a few years, at least us, I really dont care. We charge what we need to and what we feel...
  7. New Generation Epsons

    I really wanted to go with one of these. I was between the Epson, Mutoh, and Mimaki at SGIA in New Orleans. Ended up going back to Mimaki which was frustrating to an extent. At the show Mimaki who had the largest booth did not even bother to bring their current solvent printers. They were all...
  8. Rant Help Make Our Lives Better: Reform Illustrator's Canvas Size Limit

    Flexi Production Manager (the RIP itself) can run multiple threads by the way.... Aside from that and back on topic. I have been trying to get Adobe to do something about the artboard size since 2012. I've even had one of their developers and senior engineers get in touch about it at one...
  9. Question Better way for making a template??

    I'd also pitch in on when photographing something like that, rather than the rudimentary perspective tools in Photoshop that a good lens distortion tool be utilized. I know Photoshop has one but I've been using PTLens from ePaperpress for years. Works great and easy to use and very low cost. The...
  10. SGIA Product of the Year

    Congrats!
  11. Question ICC profile service question for Signs 101 users

    Personally I'm not sure that it matters with fluorescent colors because you cannot print them anyways. Well unless you have a Seiko and that special inkset but that is a very very narrow specialty market. i1 Pro here but we use the profiling built into Flexi which works with the i1 and our pro...
  12. Suggestions Cut Vinyl Layers

    Agree with asd. In general that saves no time installing but actually makes for a lower quality install because you get a line of air around each layer and you end up spending time trying to get the thin line of air out from around the layer edges. There is no way around that either, there will...
  13. Need Help Diffrence between MimakiJV33-160 and JV150-160????

    About 6 years..... JV150 is much newer and still a current model. The JV33 is a workhorse of a machine and they are still excellent choices if you find one in great perfect working order. We ran two of them for years. We now have two new JV150 machines... So far the JV150 seems to have about...
  14. Paying to Play

    A LOT of major hospitals have gone to these setups as well. One of the biggest is GHX Vendormate. I despise it and have refused to pay. Interestingly the main one we do work for still does business with us. They just make an exception and pay us directly. Sorry but I'm not going to pay for the...
  15. Flexi is eating my hard drive

    As dirt cheap as hard drive space is I mean cmon' a smallish (by current standards) 2TB hard drive is only about $75 and that will hold a massive amount of RIP files. Even SSD's are really getting down with TB ones getting under a couple hundred bucks. We have ours set to hold/archive in case we...
  16. Suggestions Best Vinyl and Lam for lots of Direct Sun light

    My opinion but the best lam is either going to be 3M 8528 followed by 3M 8548G. They seem to have the highest UV and acid dew resistance of any out there with essentially the only horizontal surface warranty as well (only a year or two but better than zero). The 8528 is particularly expensive...
  17. UPS for 220v

    I doubt you will find any at your local Best Buy store if that is what you are asking. You will likely need to order one. There are literally tons of options for UPS's with high voltage outputs and inputs. We have three Eaton 9130 UPS's in a rack (along with 9 extended battery modules) which all...
  18. Computer Upgrade suggestions

    Dan has it right on drop shadows in Illustrator (or anything besides Photoshop). I tend to just turn off any blur on them (and write a note in text to notate this in case someone else opens the file or I forget) until I'm saving out as a new file for production or a client proof. On the...
  19. Question Parameter Mimaki Cjv30 160 ink ss21

    Yep - the parameters for another machine will not be correct for YOUR machine. Even if its the identical model. Each machine has certain things that vary from machine to machine and the factory sets the parameters after testing everything with specialized tools to get the correct values for each...
  20. Anyone Using 27" Monitors?

    We have a 30" NEC PA301W at each design station. These are professional grade monitors with 2560x1600 IPS panels that we color calibrate with our i1 Pro. :) The major plug with a professional graphics monitor like the NEC, Eizio, some of the Dell ones, etc are far more precise color, usually...
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