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Yep as much as our 25500 was a huge workflow advantage in the day, our 560 is light years ahead in refinement. Proof how far HP has taken the same basic print engine and kept it relevant.

Political Alert - don't read if you are like me and exhausted with politics being introduced in seemingly every thread. However, this is one area I feel it is appropriate. Disclosure, I'm generally Libertarian leaning and have a healthy distrust of the government trying to fix anything. But...

Hopefully someone with experience will weigh in - interested in doing the same on my 560.

Just a note - I started business life with a large print firm that taught us to think in terms of Gross Margin not markup. So correcting my previous comment we shoot for minimum 35% GROSS MARGIN on this type of job which is much more profit than 35% markup. Any business should focus on GM and...

Except the 10% part. We change kerning, font, line spacing but never stretch. And if you do those things you might want to leave a note in the design file in the event you have to replicate the job or do something else that mimics the same design.

Your mistake was letting them know who is supplying the faces and having them pick up. I agree with the others except I would look at 35% plus for markup. I have a similar arrangement with a local fabricator for cabinets and faces, but pick up and deliver the product ourselves. So as far as...

You can feed two or 3 feet extra while loading and wind it on an empty roll the other direction to undo the 'memory' of enough material until you can attach to the take-up reel.

2d graphics processing is all about CPU power and their ability to do the math to render 2d graphics.. Shouldn't need much more than the vastly improved integrated graphics on the latest i7 and i9 if you are not a serious gamer. Xeon are usually similar spec to the higher end i7/i9 variants...

Mactac Bfree prints and installs wonderfully. Wouldn't laminate if applied to interior surface of glass as is most frosted material.

Or, raise your prices by 15%. Seriously, if for example you have sales of 500,000 and take out $150K as the owner, lose $100k of your least profitable business and increase net margin of the remaining 400K which is now $460K, you can now net around $159K with fewer headaches and room to grow...

Have used Shieldz but found that your process adequate in most situations - except we use 25/75 denatured alcohol/distilled water to work best. Sometimes use scotchbrite pad to roughen surface first then clean. It is remarkable the difference alcohol makes removing the film that surfaces on...

It sounds as if by having a 'checkout portal' you are creating some sort of web-based business. If that's the case, it would seem there would be very few service-related differences that would make an operational/cost difference whether business or not; if you need it quicker and are willing to...

We will often peel the 'matrix' off the front of the decals which makes removing decal from liner easier. The matrix can be removed easily by attaching the first inch of the material to be removed across the sheet width to a large steel ruler to control the material, and just pull it off at a...

A good read (2009) on China manufacturing: https://www.amazon.com/Poorly-Made-China-Insiders-Production-ebook/dp/B004G5Z2A8 I noticed recently 3M shifted manufacture of our go-to 35c from US to Brazil. Quality went to crap, poor ink saturation and different white point. Getting harder to buy U.S.

Late to this party, but my 2 cents; I'm somewhere between the two schools of thought. Definitely need to recover cost plus maximum profit that the market will bear. If profit is a dirty word to you, you need to work for the government or a social service. However, simple items like banners...

Great idea but vaporware - From 2016 Mashable article on Scribble Pen: https://mashable.com/2016/02/28/scribble-pen/ "The Scribble Pen launched as a Kickstarter project in 2014 and received $366,566 after asking for $100,00. The project, however, was canceled by Kickstarter after Scribble (the...

I avoid weeding whenever possible. In the early days, my wife would come in and weed because she actually enjoyed it (opposites attract). As we've grown, I can hire someone to do something I detest. We literally stock only four rolls of colored vinyl. Now if I could just figure out a way to...

I've had mixed success. We have a state university which has a Bachelor of fine art program and also a BS in Mass Media and I stay connected with staff at both. The Mass Media folks tend to be more technically oriented such as game design, video etc. There are a lot of artistic types in the...

Nice, color change requires a whole different level of expertise. Where did you learn?

Beginning of Panofilm perf project on inside of untinted glass - additional 15 sets of windows will be added. The wide section is two vertical panels butted together. Printed Latex 560 with spray UV. Mounted optical clear tape DS top/bottom of each panel.