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Question, I sell media for digital printing. If you as a potential customer have the choice of buying the same raw banner stock from me or Fellers and Fellers is $ 20.00 per roll less expensive. Who do you buy it from ?

Yes, but if you can excel because of equipment advantages, lower material costs, better management, etc. that makes you potentially better at your craft than others. So, if you decide to lower prices to your customers because of your advantages well that's your business. If you decide to lower...

In " Wealth of Nations " , Adam Smith talks about individual companies becoming specialists in areas and being able to charge less while maintaining a good profit margin because they excel at their craft. This is the basis of capitalism. I see the question here as this, are you diminishing the...

The material needs to stand up to the chemicals associated with car wash interiors, which would be soaps, mild solvents, and other chemicals. I have a customer that does quite a bit of that work for a car wash unit manufacturer. The most important thing is making sure the adhesive can stand up...

Various products have different UL ratings for different situations, that needs to be identified. Flexcon carries many UL rated vinyls, but just asking for a UL rated product alone isn't information enough. Are you looking for a UL rating for flame retardance ? If so there are over eight...

Try Melissa Cox at Hexis Media, great company. 888 284 3947 She can help with pressure sensitive products.

Oops, missed that you said you use a solvent printer. KimotoTech has a new film they believe might work with solvent. I haven't trialed it yet. I believe it's their SC-4 or UC-5

There are three companies producing the films right now that I know of: Mitsubishi Films, Kimototech, and MacDermid Autotype. Depending on what ink you use and whether or not it's dye or pigment based determines what type of film you use.

I'm in the middle of a big project right now for a national shoe company. In order to get this contract the company asked me to lower my material price to them. They promised to give me the next three releases of their roll out if I gave them the pricing they needed. I went in very thin on...

10 pt is considered 220 gram paper, I believe 16 pt would be around 300 grams plus, very heavy stuff. Most people just using 220 gram for posters and such.

Bantex Distributors http://www.herculite.com/Digital%20Printing/Bantex_Distributor3.09.pdf

Take this for what it's worth because I distribute Bantex for a living. I've worked with other's banner material and while Bantex is more expensive it is a very well made material with a great matte surface that results in sharper print. It's made here in the USA. Finally, I sell alot of this...

Try the Nikkalite Nippon Carbide brand, I have a customer who uses it on police vehicles and loves it. Prints it on a Mimaki JV-3.

I've got a customer in Wisconsin who put one in late last year. They love the machine, did have some initial issues but Agfa quickly resolved those and machine is running great. Agfa has traditionally been a manufacturer of film and printing plates for consumer and the offset printing...

I sell Hexis in the Midwest and it's really a great product line. Contact Melissa Cox at Hexis and I'm sure she'll help you out. They are a great company that's starting to make inroads in the marketplace. I'm replacing more and more Oracal and Gerber material with their products...

I sell plastics primarily to the digital market. The printers I see the most in the UV arena are Vutek, Fuji ( coming on fast ), Inca, Agfa, Gerber and DuPont. The new Mimaki LED UV sounds very interesting but don't know much about it. It would seem that one of the drawbacks of some of the UV...

Interesting question. I have a friend who owns an independent BMW auto repair shop. In the original artwork for his advertising he used the BMW Roundel ( logo ) on his advertising. Within one month he received a letter from BMW North America telling him it was illegal to use their Roundel (...

Palight and Simona are both great materials with the masking. The issue can be the static and I don't know of anyone who has effectively figured out how to deal with it. Talk to Agfa and see how they feel about putting static tinsel or rope onto the feed table and grounding it to something...

You're going to have a tough time finding the Fat Head brand vinyl. It's my understanding that they have an exclusive on the adhesive system being used. There are a few people out there claiming to make the same material but I've yet to see anything that equals Fat Head. People are very...

Good Evening, My name is Steve Werner and I am in sales and marketing for a distributor of graphic arts products named Armstrong Specialty Films. I've been in the inkjet/sign industry for the past nine years and have been in printing for over twenty. I hope to learn more of what issues affect...