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Not that familiar with ceramic coatings (other than golf with a guy who does it professionally) but we use 3M 960 Pro Gloss PPF all the time at the shop on trucks/cars/buses/etc. In past if we got anything with a slick Liquid Glass or other weird coatings we would try to wipe them off with...

We don't use heat for normal laminating anymore...it can reduce silvering of the laminate but also causes problems applying a stretched heated laminate that wants to shrink back to normal size which causes peel up the edges. Unless its an actual "encapsulating laminate" like old drivers licenses...

I have been using an electric or air powered hand held metal shear for thinner acp...works good on 2mm but gets hard with 3mm... no dust but it trims 1/8" strip out of middle as it goes...makes a nice crimped edge tho with no dust...can run it down a clamped edge for straight cuts or even do...

Roland user for years from SolJet 2 through Pro 1 and 2 and now have a VG540 and VG640...the VGs are beautiful machines...they finally brought back orange for better reds and the light black ink helps give untinted greys...had good luck with service. Getting a new roll of 3M 40c vinyl out of the...

Considering the op is looking to buy a rotary attachment, sending pics of a giant new laser with no rotary prob wasn't very helpful...

Laminates and Vinyls have to be paired properly so they expand and contract at the same rate or you will run into de-lam problems. Adding a painted clear coat on top of that only adds to a three layer sandwich you are trying to hold together with glue. If your clear coat doesn't expand/contract...

Has to be done, it almost always lifts if just heated down over a Transits Body lines. Customer only knows about it as they had to replace their graphics before. If it is just a vertical red stripe that only crosses horizontal body lines where you can apply it over the horizontal body lines...

Good news and bad news...its pretty easy to do photos in lightburn...has a photo mode where you set no power for white and a max power value for black and it wil ramp the power up and down depending on shade of photo at that point...works great and good detail/shading is possible with wood and...

Was going to add a 63" Graphtec to my Roland VG540 but they were having a sale on Roland VG640s...They quoted me over $12,000 for a 63" graphtec plotter but had Roland VG640s on special for under $20,000CAD tax included so now I have two Print and Cut solvent machines...they work great, no...

Sometimes you can find a higher resolution version of the customers picture just by searching google image with the picture and seeing where its being used online... it also sometimes shows you where the pic came from so sometimes you can just buy the high res version if its on a clipart site...

I got a 50 pic/month years subscription from Shutterstock to get lowest price per pic and set reminders to make sure I download/use the 50 pics/month...bit expensive but got a half decent catalogue now after a couple years, turned off autorenew and will likely get smaller package next year...

This has nothing to do with profile, I never use the "correct" profile and my vinyl doesn't fall off even with full bleed black...this is mis-matched laminate shrinking at different rate and overpowering the cheap low-tack vinyl... Like others have said, get some 3M IJ-40 with some 8509...

Maybe you should try using the middle rollers so the sides dont have to press so hard? I always use all the rollers and avoid the streaks by not advancing material through the machine until printed...you cant run the material back and forth through machine to see if its going straight (like you...

I got the same setup on our VG3...got the VG2 with orange just for the reds and havent looked back...can even get pretty close to a viper red paint...love the Light black as well to get a good neutral untinted grey... Only downside is I noticed there are less media profiles for the CMMYKltKOG...

My bad, guess tiff does have layers but it still sounds like your tiff export doesnt have transparency turned on... We don't use any layers, we export to single layer PNG with transparency and the rip recognizes the white, color and transparent sections automagically from a one layer bitmap...

Pretty sure that converting to TIFF kills any spot layers you set up as it flatten everything to single tiff bitmap...dont think tiff has transparency so you are flattening everything to large single layer bitmap with white background. Our DTF prints right from transparent background PNG files...

Work great but I still mostly use mouse even on my Cintiq...the mouse will wiz across multiple monitors but on a Cintiqu you have to do a screen switch thing if you want to draw on your other monitor...plus your hand/arm can block a bunch of screen real estate as you lift it all the way up to...

Ya I know what the manuals are intended for but in practice the ones the dealerships have are almost always old and out of date. Corporate makes changes all the time and it costs money if they reissued manuals every time so they don't. Even the brand asset websites are not always complete and up...

Kinda seems like you are trying to go above your customers head...might annoy them... Make sure to get your layouts signed off and approved by them before producing but it is their job to get these things approved internally not yours. I have found that very few people at dealership level even...

3M 180, 1080 or 2080 for vehicles...stretches/conforms with air release adhesive and stays removable for 7-9+ years. 3M 40C for most indoor...air release, repositionable, etc... Used to dread 3M removals but had good luck with it for last 15+ years...Used lots of Arlon as well but the 3M vehicle...