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I've used some metal sigb support straps - forgot what they are called at the moment - for signs that are large on the pole in heavy wind areas (Fontana). They bolt to the center and sides of the sign. A highway sign fab shop will have them.

Duh! yep I'm blind. Went back and took a look.oops. Looks like a bad roll/old material.

It looks like a bad roll or old material. Call me blind, but I don't see ink on the material? Are your pictures "after" or before printing?

3M 2080 Series, or Avery Supreme wrap series color change vinyls. Fellers and Grimco carry both.

What are the elevator dimensions on that wall. It would reason that you will have seams. Perhaps you wrap it horizontally, hiding the seam under that rail, and notching the vinyl at the bracket to wall sections?

Call HP, buy the year warranty on monthly payments. You might ask them first if they service Bermuda? Just a thought.

We have a school district that is printing and wrapping their student restrooms. They are asking for a recommendation for a cast vinyl, and "anti graffiti" laminate. Can anyone reccomend an antigraffiti laminate that will work with 3M IJ180cv3 cast vinyl? I appreciate your help and...

That post was in June of 2022. Since then we've turned up the passes to 16 Turned down the heaters to 190 so the material doesn't curl. Last we put the material on the take up reel asap possible.

We looked at the specs on the signburst design computers. Then my 16 year old ordered the parts and now has built 3) 8 core 32mb computers for our shop and remote designer. Did the same for our network server. Each total cost of parts was about $1200 for hardy fast computers. It's not...

Outsource guarantees you the product. If you do it yourself is the time and profit (or not)worth the learning curve? Have a sign supplier that has a Vutek that can print a "double strike print" on acrylic or polycarb. Works well.

If you used Ij180 and 8518, why would you clear coat it? Why automotive clear on a wood sign?

We use SignElements.com. it is a yearly subscription fee of somewhere around $250 or so. Has all sorts of vector clip arts, background images and such, but also has all vehicle wrap templates as well. Comes in handy.

Run all your cleaning and test plots. Look at the results, especially your yellow/magenta test plots. Check how many ml you've put your print heads. I would start with my print heads and make sure they are good, before I went any deeper. Balsterat knows his stuff though, just make sure all...

$825 all day. $650 good friend price. Not a penny less than $500 if I just really needed to work.

Here is the job. I was wrong about the amount of vinyl shrinkage. Looking at my wip again, I see that we lost 3.5" for every 50 inches of vinyl. So again we took a 50" piece (because it was an easy number to calculate when doubling to a 100" for this 300" wide graphic. Add 7 inches for...

We did this for a school logo on a corrugated steel press box. Took a 50" strip of vinyl and applied it. The vinyl shrunk to 48.5". So for every hundred inches, we stretched the final art file 3". Original measurement was 300" + the stretch it came out to 330". Install from centerpoint...

Same story here. Learned a lot burning rolls of perf. We run an HP360. Here's what we do and it is working well. Heat 194 max Optimizer 24 Vacuum 35 300dpi/16 pass On any perf job we figure in about 4' into the job. Then we feed it out almost to where it touches the take up reel for the...

Buy 1/2" MDO, one side painted, one side primed, from your sign supply warehouse. It is usually a stock item. Saves lots of time and labor $.

Administrative and ownership are salary and both worth their take. Other employees are paid hourly, designers are paid either hourly or by design when working remotely. The hourly wage is based on your best asset, whether that be experience, knowing the details, hustle, just plain wanting to be...

I often wonder the order of the process in taking a .rar or .nef photo from the raw photo to large format print. I has the same issue with a client recently and could use thus education. Printing in vectors, not a problem. Full size raster/pictures always seems to be a problem. Anyone who...