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One of my customers called me today and told me they have an issue with a job I did six weeks ago. When he sent me the picture, I was stumped. I've never seen anything like this before... Notice the brown discoloration on the white striping on the rear cab door. He said the exact same...

My Summa D75 has been a workhorse since I got it. It has been dead accurate and not had a single problem... until today. I cut one small job (printed 3M 680CR) with no issues. I loaded up the next job, about 4' long, and noticed something wasn't right about how it scanned the media, but I...

I go through a 10 yard roll of 680CR about every week. After trying a bunch of paper premasking I settled on Grimco's Briteline. It doesn't hold on to the air release liner all that great, but I haven't found anything that does. Today I ran some really big graphics (compared to what I normally...

I spent about 3 hours today designing a fire department patch. It had a couple cutout images imported from Corel Draw and a few effects but nothing too crazy. I was saving throughout the project, but when I clicked save for the last time Flexi crashed. I opened it back up and went to open the...

I used 2/3 of a roll of 680CR today, and I noticed there was what appeared to be dirt on the vinyl as it was coming into the printer on the last print of the day. I only saw it in one spot so I went ahead and laminated, but then I noticed it's all the way across the width of the vinyl in this...

The brown truck dropped off my new to me Summa D75R today. I bought it from a Signs101 member, he was great to work with and shipped it quickly. UPS was not kind to this thing, the box looked like it had been ran over by a bulldozer, but luckily there was very little damage to the cutter, all...

I use Grimco as my main supplier for my large format materials, and I go through quite a bit of 680CR. When I called in a couple weeks ago to order more 680, they told me 3M had this awesome new reflective out, which is the 780. They sent me a sample roll of it, I haven't really had much time to...

Some of you may have seen all of my posts about my L25500 printer. I finally got it back up and running the other day after several weeks and a lot of money. I printed the first job on it and laminated, and when I loaded it into my Mutoh SC-850D the cutter started acting up. I have been having...

This site has helped me with about every sign related problem I've had in the last couple years, so now that I have a big decision ahead of me I figured I would try to absorb some more knowledge! This isn't the same old "which printer should I buy" thread, but I am possibly in need of a printer...

Well, keeping this printer going is turning into a full time job. I finally got my color issues fixed, now I think my trailing cable may be bad. The printer started giving the "replace printhead" error again, and it was printhead #3, which is the same thing it was doing a few months ago when I...

So, today was a great day. I ran 10 yards of 680CR through my L25500 and then realized the colors were off from the same job I did a few months ago. A picture comparing the two is below. I went back in the job log and compared the settings, and as far as I can see they are identical. All the...

I opened up a new roll of 680CR this morning, and when I loaded it in the printer I noticed these odd diagonal bands. I've never seen a roll like this before. It doesn't seem to wipe off... any ideas? The roll is brand new, just delivered this morning.

If it's not one thing it's another. I've been playing with settings and profiles to dial in my colors. I finally got all that pretty close, and ran a long print on reflective (7' long). At the last 8-12" of the print the black began dropping out and you can see banding. It seems like I read...

So I decided to work on my profiles today to see if I could dial in a better red. Long story, but I worked on it all day and got nowhere. I know I need more ink, but for each pass setting in flexi there is either a "high ink" or "low ink" option. The high ink gives me nice reds, but the ink...

I have another thread detailing my problems with my L25500. I am replacing the carriage cable assembly, which is all of the printhead ribbon cables. Apparently the top ribbon cables that go into the slots on the board that have the little brown locks are not making a good connecting because the...

It is apparently just one of those weeks here... my L25500 is down, I ordered the wrong part to fix it, the one I need is backordered, and now my Edge quit working. It worked fine the other day, then today I sent a job to it and it started printing as normal (but didn't warm up first, it just...

Has anyone found a template for the new 2017 Superduty? I normally use Art Station but they don't have it yet and Ford has completely re-engineered the new Superduty so a 2016 template isn't even close.

Several months ago when I was placing an order with Real Gold they told me their materials no longer require edge sealing. I verified this later when I was placing another order just to make sure the warranty is still valid without the edge sealing. I just don't know how I feel about it...

I purchased a CE5000-120 a while back thinking I was getting a good cutter for a good deal. When I first set it up I had a lot of problems trying to get it to read registration marks and then I had an issue trying to update the firmware, so I just gave up on it for the time being and went back...

Has anyone printed on the VinylEFX outdoor durable "printable" matte silver? It looks like you could produce some neat effects with it, and they claim it is printable even with latex. I just wanted to see if anyone has any experience with it before I order a roll.