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  1. To cling or not to cling...that is the question...

    Got kind of in interesting request from a potential customer. Curious about what medias others would use. Customer is in NY city and runs a business that critiques restaurants. When they feel the restaurant is a good one they want to put a cling in the window that gives it their rating, so that...
  2. What's Your Method of Color Registration

    Just curios how others register a two color vinyl job together when applying to a vehicle. We use stars for registration marks that are cut in place for each color -- just curious what others do. We install dry on the vehicle. So for this example I would put the black down first and then put the...
  3. Time to Invest in Second Graphtec Cutter

    Due to our workload I need to purchase another cutter. I currently have a Graphtec FC7000-130. The thing is a work horse and the tracking is awesome. Bought it used...was the best used tool I've ever bought. 95% of the work we do is 24" cut vinyl jobs. The other 5% is an occasional print/cut...
  4. Who's Doing Web 2 Print?

    Is anyone out there taking orders online through an commerce shopping cart? I have been researching different web 2 print solutions where customers could design their own banner and then order it online. Anyone using anything like this? If so...what are you using?
  5. Keencut Evolution Cutter

    Just got my brand new 84" Keencut Evolution cutter mounted to my table -- and have started cutting.... Wow.. what a great solid tool. No more crooked cuts from my employees.... LOVING IT!
  6. Having Hard Time Making Profile for PhotoTex in Onyx 11

    Hi guys, I have been working on profiling PhotoTex for my Epson 9900 AQ printer. I go through all of the settings and make a profile. The ink restrictions swatches and the ink limits look good when I'm going through the process. Images look good. I am running into an issue when I print a job...
  7. Ink Restrictions In Onyx 11

    Made two profiles so far and they seem to working great. Profiles were for a Satin poster stock we run. Made profiles for my Epson 9800 and Epson 9900 and now both devices are matching very well! Yeah! I have a question about the ink restrictions of the Color Profiling Wizard. When going...
  8. Scanning Color Charts with iOne in Onyx 11

    Working on creating my first color profiling project in Onyx. When I try to scan the color charts with my iOne Pro as a strip it keeps reading the color rows incorrectly. The only way to read the chart is individual patches. When it reads the strips its filling in the color values on the wrong...
  9. Time for Payroll

    Our business has been steadily growing. Met with our accountant last night and now that we are ready to start bringing on help we have been discussing how to do payroll. For those of you who have employees -- do you do your own payroll, or do you use a payroll service that does all of the...
  10. Ricoh is getting into the Wide Format Latex Market

    Here is an article with the details. http://whattheythink.com/news/67417-ricoh-introduces-new-latex-wide-format-printers-outdoor-indoor-signage/ What you all think?
  11. Looking for a good straight edge cutter

    I'm looking for a good straight edge cutter. I have done some searches here on signs101 and it seems like some are talking about the keencut. Just curious if anyone has any other brands that they really like. I have have been looking at a mondocutter and US Cutter Trim master on the US cutter...
  12. How do you guys heat your shops in the winter time?

    Our shop is a 1000 square foot space above the garage at our home in Wisconsin. When we remodeled it last summer we had a heating and cooling company come out and spec everything thing out. They recommended that we put in a Lennox heat pump/air conditioner unit. Over the last several days the...
  13. Does anyone have a source for a cloth shopping bag

    I have a customer who would like a similar shopping bag. Would be printed in CMYK on a cloth material. Washable (if possible). Locally produced in the USA (if possible). Attached a picture of a sample that they had. Anyone have any ideas or possibly a merchant member who does something like this?
  14. Where to purchase Epson 9900 Print Heads

    I recently had the opportunity to purchase two Epson 9900 printers. Both printers fail cleaning and I believe that they need new print heads. Does anyone have a source where I can purchase the print heads from? Found instructions on-line on how to replace and does't look too bad...just need the...
  15. Split Banner

    I've got a customer who sent me a note asking for a quote on a split banner. What is a split banner?
  16. Onyx Quick Sets

    Running Onyx Production House 10.2.5.45 Have been using this for about 1 week and I want to make some Quick Sets now. According to some youtube videos on the subject I should be able to highlight my printer and press the Configure Printer button. In the video they show having 6 tabs in this...
  17. FC7000-130 Onyx Contour Cutting - Need Help - Check Out My Video

    Working on installing Onyx this week. Trying to get contour cutting to work. Brought graphic into Onxy and have cut line created and named ContourCut. Print out graphic with marks - contour cut path is showing up in Cut Server. Send the data over to the cutter. Cutter has me position the blade...
  18. Installing Printers on Onyx for the First Time

    Bought Onyx and now I'm working on setting up printers on the RIP. Running Windows 8 and having a tough time getting the RIP to recognize my Epson 9900 printers. I have the IP address from the printers loaded into the configuration setting for the RIP and its set to <9100> for the mode. The RIP...
  19. Onyx Production House on a Mac?

    I have decided to purchase Onyx Production House. For those of you who use it....do any of you have it running on a Macintosh with Parallels? If so how has that been working for you?
  20. Onyx Production House VS. Caldera

    I know...this is a loaded question, kinda like Mac vs. Windows...but...I'm going to ask it anyway... We are currently running Flexi (Mac version in our shop) It's time to move to a different RIP and I have been looking at Onyx Production House but my sales rep is trying to sell me on Caldera...
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