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From time to time we get customer supplied art that are raster images ... when printing these the often print dark and or have a greenish tint to them. Today I am printing alot of banner like this so i want to get it looking good. I have printed tests after saving as .jpeg , .tiff , and .eps as...

I have a job for 4 38" x 150' banners and I am wondering if I will have any issue using the take up reel for the entire roll of banner maybe to much weight for the motor? 8oz banner Roland xj540

My xj540 is only 2yrs old but i think the black print head is starting to go on it i had one print a few weeks ago that the black printed with terrible banding but all the other colors were fine. I did a test print and found the black to have some miss fires I have since given the printer a good...

I'm running a few jobs through my xj540 today and when I was printing this one I got this yellow "patch" as seen in the first picture so I stopped and ran it again in hopes it was just a bad spot in the material, as seen in the second picture it happened again in a different spot. The media is...

Tried the font id sites and cant quite narrow it down, anyone want to enlighten me?

I have an order for 5000 6x3" static cling decals. Last week we Printed off a batch of 350 on clear static cling from kapco that has been in our shop for almost a year, it printed good. When we got the go ahead from the 5000 we order a roll of solvex and I cant get it to print good at all...

anyone have any tips or tricks to cutting small objects without the vinyl lifting i am having no luck with this i have my speed all the way up and that seems to help but not much. roland gx500

I have a trailer wrap coming up 20' enclosed landscaping trailer I have a few Qs on. How do you set up for printing? in the past I have always done the tiling in photoshop with the marquee tool and the rulers, but the design is a vector and im thinking maybe i should just do it in .ai with...

Ok so I have a customer that has sent me over a bunch of files for posters and the background all have a light blue to light brown gradient and on the screen I can see the steps in it and it's worse when printed. I made a new gradient in PS and changed to 16bit and added 2% noise, but when I got...

I am looking to cut some flames to mask off for a hot rod I don't think the normal paint mask will work here. Will I be okay using a calendered vinyl with clean removabilty for this with no issues?

Thought it was impact stretched but the e and r are right?

Got a request for an interior sign to be hung from a ceiling that is to be 3 12'x6' panels attached to eachother to form a triangle. How do I go about making this? Not sure on the budget or materials, thats up to us but we have to put a quote together but not to sure where to start. It needs to...

After updating to the latest version of VW, I have decided to print out some pantone color charts and books. When in VW I get the little caution symbol on some of the colors as seen in the picture. What does it mean and how do I fix it? Is or has anyone else experienced this? I am not the...

looking for the font for the text not the logo should be pretty easy but I cant get it

We bought a roll of OCE Outdoor poster paper 212gsm to print a few posters for one of our customers, but have never print on poster material before. What profile works best for this material in VW? I tried photo semi gloss paper profile but it printed like crap.

have a sign for a customer that we are doing and we normally use 7125 satin gold from 3m but we are printing this one and was wondering if anyone has a good match using cmyk values?

Normally when we do a job that requires layering vinyl we do the layering on site on whatever the vinyl is being applied to. The reason we do it this way is because whenever we have tried to layer the vinyl in the shop and apply the layers together on a car or substrate, we get bubbles in the...

what is the font used on euro license plates

We have an arbor press for rounding corners but there is no avalible die to notch the corners. What do other shops use to notch the corners of signs say 3/4"-3" of radius that don't have routing tables? In the past I have used a hole saw but cant do it to a 4x8 sheet with the hole saw, and a...

Have a customer that requested their print to be royal blue and i am having a hard time figuring out what pantone color to use or CMYK values