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I have a customer that wants me to redo the green vinyl band on their boat. I've attached a picture. How would I go about re-creating something like this? How would I calculate for curve and all that accurately? Thanks for your help! Andy

Hello! I'm having some problems with my Mutoh Outdoor Falcon 46" This morning I can't get my registration marks to show up very well. My nozzle check is great, and it's printing everything else just fine, but my registration marks show up faded as in the attached picture. I've tried...

Why would cleaning make missing nozzles worse? This last week, if say I have a couple nozzles missing, I'll do a clean(power or standard), and it will make it way worse! I'll go from a couple to half of the nozzles missing on some colors. It's very frustrating. Basically, to get full nozzles...

When I do a large print, often times my printer will include these marks here and there throughout the print. Ticks me off. Almost makes my current print worthless unless I can figure out a way to hide it. But if I do another print, it will happen again. Any advice on how to fix this problem...

Hello! So, I have a customer that wants to do a clear rocker panel "wrap" on his pickup truck. We thermal printed some logos on high performance clear. He wants to install it himself, he's in another state. I can't make up my mind if I should mask this clear wrap to help him install though...

This happens everytime I try and print a solid color. See how the print has a constant wave of light to dark? What is that? I've tried messing with my temperature settings in the past and it does not seem to make a difference? What should my temperature settings be at? And what causes this...

I've noticed that I've been getting some weird banding on my prints lately. It's not the worst I've seen, but on some jobs it's quite noticeable. I've attached some pictures. Seems worse on dark colors such as blue and black. I don't notice it that much with lighter colors. I've tried...

I just replaced the heads on my Mutoh Falcon Outdoor last night. Went great! Even updated the head ranks. Also, I adjusted and all the heads seem to be lining up well. However, now the color profile that I had previously been using for just about everything doesn't seem right. The color comes...

Hey Guys! I'm messing around with some wrap designs for my truck. Here are 3 I made up last night. My question is that in all of these, how do you keep the pattern consistent, going from one side of the truck to the other. It's not like I could design the right side to the left side of the...

Who has the best life of the cast wrap vinyl? I want to provide my customer with the best wrap vinyl out there. I've gathered that 3M is the best, but 3M states 8yrs while Avery and Oracal state 10yrs. To make matters more frustrating, you have vinyls that say they last 8-10yrs, but all...

I'm giving a bid to wrap some utility boxes. The utility boxes are oldish and the paint isn't anything like the nice coat that would be on a car. Is that an issue? I plan on getting the boxes all nice and prepped with some good cleaner, remove any loose paint, etc... but other than that, should...

This printer has been printing like a dream all weak. My last print was last night. However, tonight, I get ready to do another print, and the nozzle check shows the whole left head missing. How can this be? I've tried several cleanings and I can't seem to get black, cyan and light magenta to...

Well, I did my first partial wrap yesterday. Pretty fun. The tailgate went great, turned out amazing. The side of the truck bed, however, was a pain in the but. Constant stretching to conform to the grooves along the bed and the fender flare at the same time. How do you deal with fender...

Take a peak at the picture. This happens often that my printer does this, and it's always at the left end of the printer. I almost always use 30" media. Any recommendations? Should I raise the head when I'm printing on the 3mil calendered? Thanks!

We did a large interior vinyl install for a customer today. I've never had such a problem with large interior vinyl before. We used Oracal 631 like we normally use. We wiped down the walls (though the walls were only painted a few weeks ago). During the installation, the edges kept coming off...

This last spring I bought my Gerber Edge 2 and Envision plotter. It was a great upgrade to just doing cut vinyl with my Copam 2500. In the last month, I've upgraded to a Summa D140 cutter, and a Mutoh Falcon Printer. Now I'm wondering if I need to keep Gerber setup. Since I've had the new...

This is my first time doing a tailgate wrap that needs high resolution photos included in the graphic. The High resolution pics will be in the background, and will have text laid over the top. Do I do everything in Photoshop? Or do I bring the pics into Illustrator and do my work there? Thanks!

I print a lot of decals for automotive companies with my Mutoh Falcon. What is the difference in life span between a laminated decal and a non-laminated decal?

How do you guys go about keeping your roll of print and laminate tracking together through the laminator. Seems like I always start off good, but somewhere down the line, the laminate starts tracking off of the roll of graphics. Do you initially line it up and keep it lined up?

Are removed ink cartridges bad? For instance, can I replace my black cartridge and then put the old one back in a week later?