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Vinyl wraps on the shells don't really have a noticeable effect, the wrap just needs to be trimmed back far enough from the bearing edge so the heads seat properly, and the hoops hide that. My kicks all have mic ports in the head anyway, so adding decals doesn't really affect that much either...

Hmmmm... Now I'm curious about wrapping one of my drum kits with this, and creating a "toxic camouflage" star decal for the kick head :rock-n-roll:

Wow... Just wow.

Uh oh...

Make sure the scan cable, drum, scan motor motor are all running freely, not binding, no gunk on the drum, and that the carriage tool screw is tight and not allowing the tool to slip a little on the cable. Remember having that issue a couple times on an old SC540, if it's the same setup it just...

It's been years since I played with Rolands... I know that whenever the env match didn't work, or made it worse there was another one I did that printed a pattern, ran cuts on it , and you had to manually enter values. They probably were two different things, but I usually ended up doing both to...

When you did the env match, did you do the automatic, or the manual adjust? The automatic doesn't always do the job. Used to have to do the manual one on all the Rolands I've run in the past to get it right whenever it started deviating.

Oven cleaner is what body shops used to get vinyl off of cars back in the day. Was one of the easiest ways to get all that fake wood grain off factories used to slap on cars back in the 60's & 70's, it worked great. Now it won't even clean an oven...

Yup, you can use waxes and ceramic coatings on wraps. Two things to keep in mind, one is with wax, use a non abrasive, non petroleum base. The other is they work well on gloss, but can cause problems on matte or flat finishes. Vinyls today are pretty resilient until they age out, and you can...

If alcohol won't take it all off, you need something mildly abrasive. A guy I know who does detailing does this, makes a paste by mixing baking soda and alcohol, dips a rag into it and rubs it out. He uses all kinds of weird stuff, even sometimes toothpaste to get marks and inks off of paint.

What would be the purpose for this? Curious...

Maintenance and cleaning is very important. Dampers hold ink for the head, and have a tiny filter to keep contaminates out of the head. Not replacing them periodically is akin to not changing the oil filter in your car, eventually it'll either fail and not filter anything, or plug up. If you...

Just hang on to it for him... How much free money interest will it earn you over the next 20-30 years?

Vinyl on untreated wood will usually fail pretty quick outdoors. If the wood gets wet it wicks under the vinyl, stays wet longer, and either the vinyl releases, or the wood delaminates from it. If it's a temporary application there's a good chance it'll pull wood fibers when it's removed...

Test print doesn't look bad other than a little halo and that black getting into the cyan. The overspray seems to be all going the same direction, that could just be static, you'll find a ton of posts about that here. What's the humidity in your print room? The black getting into the cyan...

There's a lot of things that could cause it. I'll assume you do proper cleanings and maintenance... What do test prints look like, are they blurry too? Post some pics of those, they tell a lot. Did it just start doing this? Are you using the correct print profile for the material? The encoder...

The problem could be the lam on it, might not be right for that application. If it's all cast it should lay good with a little pre-stretch & heat to let the memory do it's job, if it doesn't do what it's supposed to, it's whatever lam they used. If you can, try a scrap piece of laminated cast...

Fire & EMS are specific use safety/ emergency vehicles with specific standards. All a police vehicle needs by law to be legit is lights and a siren, they don't have to have any identifiers, and even the lights can be hidden when they're not in use. They can even use any year, make, model car...

Most local law enforcement agencies have no set guidelines for graphics on their vehicles, you just design & do them to the specs they give you.

Supply vendors and wholesalers can only sell to resellers, contractors, etc, not to end users, which is what an NPO is classified as in most cases. Not just in this industry either, same with lumber, paint, or hardware if you're a contractor, brand suppliers if you're a retailer, food service...